The Impact of CO₂ - Part I

Spring 1999

The class produced a report that detailed Rice's CO₂ output per year with an emphasis on information needed to comply with the standards set in the Kyoto Protocol.

View a Summary of the 1999 Report

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The Impact of CO₂ - Part II

Spring 2000

The class produced a report describing and analyzing Rice's organizational structures as they relate to efforts to reduce the university's total annual CO₂ emissions.

View a Summary of the 2000 Report

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Environmental Issues: Rice into the Future

Spring 2002

After meeting with President Gillis, the class drafted a proposed Environmental Policy for Rice.

View the proposed policy

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Spring 2003

The class continued to encourage adoption of the policy proposed in the previous year and also suggested that the University create an environmental standing committee to help enforce the policy.

Spring 2004

The class divided into nine groups, which worked on a variety of projects: performing a campus attitude audit, working with the SA Committee and College Environmental Committees, reducing solid waste in the academic departments, investigating transportation on and off campus, developing a composting program using the Earth Tub, performing an audit of recycling on campus, conducting an audit of food waste in the serveries, creating a database of people who have met with the class, and performing an audit of campus energy use. The groups' final reports can be found on the course website.