Guiding Sustainabililty at Harvey Mudd College

HMC-Physical Plant & Campus Planning Committee of the Board of Trustees- Sustainability Clinic Physics/Engineering, 2007-08

Liaison(s): Malcolm Lewis ’67, Robert De Pietro ’69, Jon Roberts ’93
Advisor(s): Dan Petersen, Donald Remer
Students(s): Nathaniel Lyons-Smith (TL), Anthony Hutain , Maddalena Jackson, Kevin Byram, Alexandra Simoni (F)

The team was asked to systematically evaluate a broad range of possible conservation-themed projects to improve campus sustainability at HMC. The team developed a set of metrics that prioritizes and compares the performance of diverse projects such as real-time monitoring of electricity usage, solar photovoltaics, and improvements to landscaping. The metrics will also be used to evaluate future HMC sustainability projects.