Montclair State as a LEED Community

The framework provided by LEED for Cities and Communities credibly tracks progress toward overall sustainability objectives and allows for comparison by and among communities around the world. The platform serves cities and communities of all shapes and sizes and at all phases of their evolution. Participants can be public or privately managed, new or rapidly developing places, mature or fully built-out places, neighborhoods or districts, counties or even small states or countries. Learn more.

Anyone in Facilities can tell you that Montclair State’s campus operates like a small city. For that reason, we wanted to measure our impact as a community.

We registered as a LEED Community in the Arc Performance Platform and began collecting and inputting data in the following areas to calculate a score out of 110 total possible points. Check out our score!

• Energy
  • Greenhouse emissions per capita
• Water
  • Domestic water consumption per capita
• Waste
  • Municipal solid waste diversion rate from landfill
  • Municipal solid waste generated per year per capita
• Transportation
  • Vehicle miles traveled per day per capita
• Human Experience
  • Health & Safety: Median air quality index
  • Health & Safety: Air quality days unsafe for sensitive groups (days/year)
  • Health & Safety: Violent crime (per year, per capita)
  • Education: Population with at least a high school diploma (%)
  • Education: Population with at least a Bachelor’s degree (%)
  • Equitability: Gini coefficient (for income distribution)
  • Equitability: Median gross rent as (%) of household income
  • Prosperity: Median household income
  • Prosperity: Unemployment rate

Now that the data prerequisites have been met, we will continue to work on the required documentation and policies which must be submitted if we choose to pursue certification.

Learn more about Sustainability in University Facilities.