Goshen commits to ‘climate neutral’ campus

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GOSHEN, Ind.—Goshen College plans to sharply reduce and eventually eliminate all the college’s global warming emissions and is supporting more research and educational efforts to help stabilize the earth’s climate.

President James E. Brenneman made that pledge last month on behalf of Goshen College by becoming a charter signatory to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment. In doing so, Brenneman joined leaders of 175 other higher education institutions that also have agreed to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions—the point at which carbon-dioxide emissions are offset by the use of renewable sources of energy and the oxygen released from trees and other plants on campus.

“We are very concerned about life on this planet,” Brenneman said. “This is one more way we can heal and care for the world.”

Goshen becomes the second higher education institution in Indiana (after Ball State University) and the first Mennonite college or university to sign the landmark climate commitment, which is aimed at reducing emissions that scientists say are changing climates, threatening the planet’s ecosystems and its economy and threatening many lives.
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