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Colleges, Now 9: Finding Information
By: Katie Koenig Finding Information Data dashboards are incredibly helpful to check out what institutions are doing when it comes to energy efficiency, renewable energy, and waste diversion. Still, not every institution offers these convenient web pages, like Emerson (yet). If the institution doesn’t publish that data, there’s very little you can do to find…
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Weigh the Waste: a Year in Review
By: Sustainability Coordinator, Jacqui Moy Throughout the year, Emerson sustainability has weighed diners’ waste in the Dining Center during a dinner period on a monthly basis. We do this to collect data, increase awareness about food waste, assist with waste sorting, and gain feedback from diners about the causes of food waste. Since 2022, we…
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Colleges, Now 8: Visualizing BU’s Climate Action
By: Katie Koenig Data Dashboards If you’ve scrolled through college websites, you’ve probably encountered a dashboard before. The most common is probably a breakdown of student demographics. Arizona State University, which I covered in my last post, created a Campus Metabolism dashboard to present live data on their buildings’ energy and pollution outputs. Although that…