Ecological Footprint
The Sustainable Campus Initiative undertook an environmental assessment of the Twin Cities Campus. This project originally began as an ecological footprint, which is an accounting tool for ecological resources. Categories of consumption are translated to area of productive land required to provide resources and assimilate waste products. This interdisciplinary project worked with students to collect some data on the environmental impacts of the university, in areas such as energy, water, waste, grounds, and environmental policy.
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