Facility-Level Greenhouse Gas Management:
Strategies for Energy Efficiency and Carbon Neutrality
TIME: October 24th, 2005; 5:30 to 7:00pm
LOCATION: Physics Building, Room 114
SPEAKER: Joel Swisher, PhD, Managing Director, Rocky
Mountain Institute
link
to bio (.pdf) >
Dr. Swisher's presentation summarizes the strategies that an organization can use to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions at low cost. The specific strategies include energy efficiency, distributed power, carbon trading, and financial innovation. A description of the Rocky Mountain Institute's work to devise a carbon neutral strategy for Oberlin College provides an example of the use of these strategies at an educational institution.
A report on carbon neutrality at Oberlin College can be found here (.pdf) >, a report on corporate carbon strategy here (.pdf) >, and Dr. Swisher's textbook on energy efficiency and integrated planning here (.pdf) >.
See slides of Dr. Swisher's presentation here (.pdf) >
