[5] The EIS provided the foundation that was to become the public Campus Metabolism site and continues to aid decision-making regarding improvements and facilities management to reduce use of electricity, natural gas and chilled water.
[1][6] The Campus Metabolism site was opened to the public on May 15, 2008 as a student project to measure and encourage responsible energy use by building occupants.
[6][7][8] It expanded with the help of many organizations with an interest in reducing energy use on the Arizona State University campus[1][6] including the Global Institute of Sustainability, The National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations under the direction of Dr. Jay Golden, the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, the ASU student chapter of Engineers Without Borders, and APS Energy Services.
[12] The Campus Metabolism website begins with animated graphics that relate the function of living organisms to economic processes of urban areas including growth, energy, and elimination of waste.
The home page displays overall statistics of campus energy systems, provides links to news and events while cycling through real-time readings from individual buildings.
Individual building displays include historical data in the form of time-based graphs that compare current use to the previous day, month or year.
The site has been featured in the State Press, an independent student paper, in October 2008,[7] and referenced as a case study by APS Energy Services.