Cool Campus! A How-to Guide for College and University Climate Action Planning

Walter Simpson is a major force in campus sustainability. Working from content on a Wiki set up via the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), he has produced a how to planning manual in book format, Cool Campus! A How-to Guide for College and University Climate Action Planning. It's free, a downloadable PDF of about 120 pages in length: "But who will lead the CAP effort? The leader or chair could be your sustainability director or energy officer, if he or she has enough experience and the right credentials, or a prestigious faculty member who is given release time to take on this project, It could be a special assistant to your school's president. . . . An undertaking this large could have co-chairs. Whoever is selected to lead should be enthusiastically committed to climate action, have strong technical background in relevant areas, be engaging, fair, well-liked, and be able to motivate others and build a strong team."