Wabash College

College Sustainability Report Card 2008

Wabash College has no known policy relating to campus-wide sustainability initiatives.

The college utilizes a central heating and cooling plant and benefits from the efficiencies inherent in that type of system. Over a decade ago, Wabash switched the central campus boilers from coal to natural gas and now maintains boiler efficiencies over 80 percent. The college has installed an exhaust-air energy recovery system in the HVAC system of one building. In a campus science building, the HVAC system reuses tempered office air as supply for the lab space that must then be 100 percent exhausted. While there is not an energy recovery system in the building, the dual use of the air reduces energy expenditures.

The dining services department provides cage-free eggs from a local farmer and fair-trade, organic coffee in campus cafeterias. The college facilitates the recycling of office waste and contracts with GreenDisk to recycle technology products. Used fluorescent lamps, batteries, fouled motor oil, and other controlled wastes are removed from campus by a controlled waste contractor.

The college has no known green buildings or a green building policy.

Students for Sustainability, a student-run campus group, maintains a bicycle rental program. The college has not made public any programs or practices that encourage or facilitate the use of other alternative forms of transportation.

The college has no known policy of disclosure of endowment holdings or its shareholder voting record. Therefore, there is no known ability to access this information.

The college aims to optimize investment return and has not made any public statements about investigating or investing in renewable energy funds or community development loan funds.

The college aims to optimize investment return and has not made any public statements about investigating or investing in renewable energy funds or community development loan funds.