Editing Ithaca College (section)

==Sustainability==
[[File:Peggy Ryan Williams Center, Ithaca College.jpg|thumb|right|The Peggy Ryan Williams Center is [[Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design|LEED]] Platinum Certified.]]
Ithaca's School of Business was the first college or university business school in the world to achieve [[Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design|LEED]] Platinum Certification alongside Yale University, which had the second. Ithaca's Peggy Ryan Williams Center is also LEED Platinum certified. It makes extensive use of day light in occupied spaces. There are sensors that regulate lighting and ventilation based on occupancy and natural light. Over 50% of the building energy comes from renewable sources such as wind power. The college also has a LEED Gold Certified building, the Athletics & Events Center.<ref name="New ">{{cite web |title=New School of Business Building An International First for Highest "Green" Standard |publisher=Ithaca College |url=http://www.ithaca.edu/news/release.php?id=2501 |access-date=2009-06-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625221910/http://www.ithaca.edu/news/release.php?id=2501 |archive-date=2009-06-25 |url-status=live}}</ref> The college [[compost]]s its dining hall waste,<ref name="Compost Facility to Be Expanded">{{cite web |title=Compost Facility to be Expanded |publisher=Ithaca College |url=http://www.ithaca.edu/ithacan/articles/9812/03/news/compost.html |access-date=2009-06-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625205654/http://www.ithaca.edu/ithacan/articles/9812/03/news/compost.html |archive-date=2009-06-25 |url-status=live}}</ref> runs a "Take It or Leave It" Green move-out program, and offers a [[sustainable living]] option.<ref name="Sustainability at Ithaca College">{{cite web |title=Sustainability at Ithaca College |publisher=Ithaca College |url=http://www.ithaca.edu/sustainability/campus_reslife.php |access-date=2009-06-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618131153/http://www.ithaca.edu/sustainability/campus_reslife.php |archive-date=2009-06-18 |url-status=live}}</ref> It also operates an office supply collection and reuse program,<ref name="Office Supply Collection & Reuse">{{cite web |title=Office Supply Collection and Reuse |publisher=Ithaca College |url=http://www.ithaca.edu/sustainability/campus_reslife.php |access-date=2009-06-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618131153/http://www.ithaca.edu/sustainability/campus_reslife.php |archive-date=2009-06-18 |url-status=live}}</ref> as well as a [[sustainability education]] program during new student orientation.<ref name="Sustainability Education for Orientation">{{cite web |title=Sustainability Education for Orientation |publisher=Ithaca College |url=http://www.ithaca.edu/remp/events/orientation/ |access-date=2009-06-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625223429/http://www.ithaca.edu/remp/events/orientation/ |archive-date=2009-06-25 |url-status=live}}</ref> Ithaca received a B− grade on the Sustainable Endowments Institute's 2009 College Sustainability Report Card<ref>[http://www.greenreportcard.org/report-card-2009/schools/ithaca-college Green Report Card 2009] Ithaca College {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224092338/http://www.greenreportcard.org/report-card-2009/schools/ithaca-college |date=2009-02-24 }} Sustainable Endowments Institute</ref> and an A− for 2010.

In 2017, Ithaca College was listed as one of [[Princeton Review]]'s top "green colleges" for being environmentally responsible.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings?rankings=green-colleges |title=Green Colleges {{!}} The Princeton Review|website=www.princetonreview.com|language=en|access-date=2017-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304041416/https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings?rankings=green-colleges|archive-date=2017-03-04|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Commitments to action on climate change===
In the spring of 2007, then-President [[Peggy R. Williams]] signed the [[American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment|American College & University President's Climate Commitment]] (ACUPCC), pledging Ithaca College to the task of developing a strategy and long-range plan to achieve "[[Net zero emissions|carbon neutrality]]" at some point in the future. In 2009 the Ithaca College Board of Trustees approved the Ithaca College Climate Action Plan, which calls for 100% carbon neutrality by 2050. In 2009, the Ithaca College Board of Trustees approved the Ithaca College Climate Action Plan, which calls for 100% carbon neutrality by 2050 and offers a 40-year action plan to work toward that ambitious goal.<ref name=Ithaca.edu>{{cite web |title=Ithaca College Sustainability |url=http://www.ithaca.edu/sustainability/campusops/cap/ |access-date=2013-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006190133/http://www.ithaca.edu/sustainability/campusops/cap/ |archive-date=2014-10-06 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Energy profile===
The college purchases 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. Including offsets from a solar farm, the college's overall energy usage is 45 percent carbon neutral.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://theithacan.org/news/ic-transitions-to-using-all-clean-energy/ |title=IC transitions to using all clean energy {{!}} The Ithacan|last=Waite|first=Krissy|website=theithacan.org|language=en|access-date=2019-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927195529/https://theithacan.org/news/ic-transitions-to-using-all-clean-energy/|archive-date=2019-09-27|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Energy investments===
The college aims to optimize investment returns and does not invest the endowment in on-campus sustainability projects, renewable energy funds, or community development loan funds. The college's investment policy reserves the right of the investment committee to restrict investments for any reason, which could include environmental and sustainability factors.<ref name="Green Report Card">{{cite web |url=http://www.greenreportcard.org/report-card-2011/schools/ithaca-college |title=Ithaca College |year=2011 |website=Green Report Card |publisher=Sustainable Endowments Institute |access-date=2013-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126122121/http://www.greenreportcard.org/report-card-2011/schools/ithaca-college |archive-date=2013-01-26 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Community impact===
While the Ithaca College Natural Lands has issued a statement that Ithaca College should join efforts calling for a moratorium on horizontal drilling and high volume ("slick water") hydraulic fracturing, or [[fracking]],<ref name="Ithaca College Natural Lands">{{cite web |url=http://www.ithaca.edu/naturallands/icnl/fracking/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130626175927/http://www.ithaca.edu/naturallands/icnl/fracking/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-06-26 |access-date=2013-04-01 |title=Natural Lands: Fracking |publisher=Ithaca College}}</ref> the college as a whole has refused to issue a statement regarding the issue.