2006Oct5: New York University announces its plans to purchase 118 million kW/hrs of wind power. Weeks later, the College of the Atlantic in Maine becomes the first campus to vow to offset all of its greenhouse gas emissions by cutting GHG emissions and investing in emissions-cutting projects elsewhere (Wikipedia. 2007).
Reference: Wikipedia. Retrieved 2007June. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_and_political_action_on_climate_change
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