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A Lighting Audit of Vassar’s Academic Buildings
To complete a lighting audit of Vassar's academic building, we gathered data from a random sample of 10 academic buildings, and in each did a weekend nighttime and weekday daytime audit. From our data, we then calculated the electricity usage and…
Paths of Fire: Identifying Wildfire-prone areas in relation to major population centers
Climate change is exacerbating many weather phenomenon that negatively affects us all but to people living in the Western United States, the greatest threats to their way of life are droughts and wildfires. Wildfires are incredibly hard to predict as…
Campus Energy Sub Metering and Sustainability Project Financing and Approval Analysis
Vassar has spent over $100,000 and seven years trying to sub meter the College’s energy use, but has not been able to complete the project. As a result of subcontractor error, redundant systems, and expired IP addresses the College energy building…
Where is it All Going? Government Agricultural Spending in the U.S.
Government spending for agriculture in the U.S. is incredibly high, as the farming system the country currently runs on is based on large monocrop systems that grow commodity crops dependent on huge government subsidies. These maps display the…