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PROJECT CASE STUDY

The Aldo Leopold Legacy Center

LEED PLATINUM

The Aldo Leopold Legacy Center near Baraboo, Wisconsin was the first building recognized by USGBC as carbon neutral—an exceptional achievement that helped the project earn points in the Innovation category. The project team prepared a greenhouse gas emissions budget based on the requirements of the World Resources Institute Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Conservatively accounting for carbon generation and sequestration in metric tons of CO₂ equivalent (a measure of greenhouse gas emissions that combines multiple heat-trapping gases, such carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide), the activities of the center will result in the net reduction of CO₂ emissions each year.

Projected annual greenhouse gas emissions from Aldo Leopold Legacy Center

	CO₂ equivalent per year (metric tons)
Total emissions		13.42
Offset from renewable energy	–6.24
Onsite forest sequestration	–8.75
Total emissions reduction		–14.99
Net balance of emissions		–1.57

More information about the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center is available at aldoleopold.org/legacycenter/carbonneutral.html.

©The Kubala Washatko Architects, Inc./Mark F. Heffron

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