Word of
MWCC’s sustainability story continues to spread. The college’s
wind turbine project and energy initiatives are being showcased in three national venues
this summer.
The American College
& University Presidents’ Climate Commitment included MWCC in its report, "Celebrating Five Years of Climate Leadership." The
article, submitted by MWCC President Daniel M. Asquino, recaps the turn-around the
college has made over the past decade in renewable energy and energy
conservation.
Business Officer,
the monthly magazine published by The National Association of College and
University Business Officers, included MWCC in its June feature article,
"Bending the Carbon Curve." For more than a decade, higher education institutions have been steadily adding
to the collective body of sustainability knowledge, Karla Hignite writes in the article. Commitments to climate neutrality are reversing the trajectory of
campus greenhouse gas emissions, while the greater challenge remains of leveraging
this success for other sectors.
“Since the start of the Great Recession, concerns about
energy security and stability have once again wakened the notion about “Made in
America” energy. Colleges like MWCC are not only showing that energy independence
is possible, but are modeling what clean and renewable energy security looks
like.”
College Planning &
Management magazine also featured MWCC in its June issue, in the article "Working with the Wind," about
colleges and universities that have incorporated wind energy on to their
campuses.
The returns for MWCC on its two turbines “have been
outstanding,” notes writer Dr. Anthony Cortese, president of Second Nature, the
lead supporting organization of the ACUPCC. “The project also fits into the
college’s historic commitment to support alternative energy and sustainability through
conservation, education and institutional support. In the past decade, this
commitment has seen Mount Wachusett cut its electrical energy consumption by
almost in half to approximately 5,000,000 kWh annually.”
