Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.01
Liaison Katie Koscielak
Submission Date May 8, 2013
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.2

Cal Poly Humboldt
OP-5: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.78 / 14.00 TallChief Comet
Director, Office of Sustainability
Facilities Management
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Scope 1 and 2 gross GHG emissions, 2005 :
14,429 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

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Off-site, institution-catalyzed carbon offsets generated, 2005:
0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

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Third-party verified carbon offsets purchased, 2005:
0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

None
On-campus residents, 2005:
1,256

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Non-residential/commuter full-time students, faculty, and staff members, 2005:
5,917

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Non-residential/commuter part-time students, faculty, and staff members, 2005:
1,891

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Scope 1 and 2 gross GHG emissions, performance year :
13,671 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

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Off-site, institution-catalyzed offsets generated, performance year:
0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

None
Carbon offsets purchased, performance year:
0 Metric tons of CO2 equivalent

None
List the start and end dates of the GHG emissions performance year:
July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012

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On-campus residents, performance year:
1,911

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Non-residential/commuter full-time students, faculty, and staff members, performance year:
6,064

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Non-residential/commuter part-time students, faculty, and staff members, performance year:
1,493

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Time period for weighted campus user (list the consecutive 12 month period that most closely overlaps with GHG performance year):
July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The specific GHG calculations used to generate information for STARS were made to match the time period of the performance year (July 1, 2011-June 30, 2012), so the CSU wide GHG reports may not match the emissions numbers exactly. Like many campus activities, the emissions inventory involved student participation and the calculations presented were compiled by graduate students in an Environmental Resources Engineering course (532). The full presentation and report is captured in their project: GHG Inventory for Humboldt State Academic Year 2011-2012, ENGR 532, Humboldt State University, Fall 2012, by Travis Mitchell, Kenny Osia, Mark Severy.Their report found 13,671 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) were emitted due to electricity, natural gas, vehicle fuel, solid waste disposal, and emergency generator fuel use. This represents a 5.3% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions when compared to the baseline 2005 academic year of 14,429 MtCO2e emissions. Electricity and natural gas consumption contributed over 88% of the greenhouse gas emissions. Per direction from the CSU, the fraction of biomass generated electricity in the electricity purchased was treated as net-zero emissions.

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