Investment Data
FY 2018 | FY 2006 - FY 2018 | |
Climate Action Plan | ||
Central Energy Plant | -- | 7,447,057 |
Renewable Energy | 48,564 | 838,165 |
Energy Conservation | 1,900,469 | 2,607,647 |
LEED Buildings - added cost * | 293,387 | 2,008,770 |
Renewable Energy Credits | 16,920 | 384,855 |
Facilities Conditions Assessment - energy projects | 653,331 | 653,331 |
Miscellaneous Projects | -- | 275,726 |
Subtotal: Climate Action Plan | 2,912,671 | 14,215,551 |
Academic Programs ** | ||
Environmental Studies Program | 853,392 | 8,573,946 |
Center for Sustainability Education | 475,492 | 4,621,677 |
GIS Lab | 128,092 | 1,165,456 |
Global Sustainability Programs | 315,427 | 2,956,146 |
Subtotal: Academic Programs | 1,772,403 | 17,317,224 |
Living Laboratory & Outreach | ||
Dickinson Organic Farm | 530,518 | 3,792,652 |
Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring | 201,867 | 1,743,238 |
IDEA Fund | 799 | 29,342 |
Subtotal: Living Lab & Outreach | 733,184 | 5,565,232 |
External Grant Supported Programs | 217,394 | 3,927,656 |
GRAND TOTAL | 5,635,652 | 41,025,663 |
NOTES:
* The estimate represents a percentage-based financial investment in sustainable building features and components, not the cost of acquiring LEED certification.
**The investment data for Academic Programs are expenses associated with sustainability education only for the specific programs listed. Not included are expenses for faculty members who are integrating sustainability learning across the Dickinson curriculum. The wider sustainability curricular initiative has developed Sustainability Connections and Sustainability Investigations courses that are taught by faculty in academic departments. Each semester approximately 55 sustainability courses are offered. Participating departments include, for example, Anthropology, American Studies, Biology, Earth Sciences, East Asian Studies, Economics, English, Environmental Studies, International Business and Management, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sociology, Russian, Spanish & Portuguese, and Women & Gender Studies.