The Princeton Review has released its third annual green ratings list of colleges: a measure of how environmentally friendly the institutions are on a scale of 60 to 99. The company tallied the rating for 703 institutions based on its institutional surveys of colleges in 2009-10 concerning their environmentally related practices, policies and academic offerings.
Tags: · 2011 green ratings list of colleges, Arizona State University, College of the Atlantic, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard College, Northeastern University, Northland College, State University of New York - Binghamton University, The Evergreen State College, The Princeton Review, Unity College University of California – Berkeley, University of California – Santa Barbara, University of California – Santa Cruz, University of Georgia, University of Maine, University of Maryland – College Park, Warren Wilson College, West Virginia University, Yale University
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
As debates about climate change — does it exist and how serious is it? – rage on, many scientists continue to uncover more and more evidence that atmospheric pollution is having negative effects on Earth, right here and now, climate change or not.
Scientists studying the chemistry of lakes reported in a study published this week that atmospheric nitrogen released from the burning of fossil fuels and the widespread use of fertilizers in agriculture is altering the makeup of even remote bodies of water.
Green Lake 5 in Colorado (Photo: James Elser/ASU)
Tags: · alpine lakes, Arizona State University, Colorado, James Elser, lakes polluted with nitrogen, nitrogen phosphorus balance, nitrogen pollution, Norway, phytoplankton, science, Sweden
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
The Sustainab
le Endowments Institute released the 4th edition of its annual College Sustainability Report Card 2010, also known as the Green Report Card on Wednesday.
Founded in 2005 and supported by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the Institute supports the advancement of sustainability in higher education. It boasts that its college ranking project had a response rate of 96 percent in 2009, giving the Green Report Card the highest response rate of any college sustainability ranking or rating service.
Tags: · Amherst, Arizona State University, Brown University, Carleton College, College of the Atlantic, Dickinson College Harvard University, Luther College, Macalester College, Middlebury College, Oberlin College, Pacific Lutheran University, Pomona College, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Sustainable Endowments Institute, The Green Report Card, University of California-San Diego, University of Colorado, University of Minnesota, University of New Hampshire, University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
The U.S. Green Building Council, started 16 years ago, has 20,200 members and more than 50,000 LEED registered and certified projects around the world (80 percent are in the US).
And the group plans to get even bigger as it turns its attention to college campuses and enlists the help of students.
The USGBC is helping universities across the country to establish sustainability courses and USGBC student organizations, and of course, to build green. The Washington-based NGO estimates that there will be 4,300 LEED projects registered (underway) and certified (completed) on college campuses at the end of 2009.
Tags: · air quality, Arizona State University, campuses, colleges, environmental impact, green building, LEED certification, S. Richard Fedrizzi, U.S. Green Building Council
College-bound hig
h schoolers looking for an environmentally conscientious college should have no shortage of guidance this year. The Sierra Club has joined the Princeton Review in assessing the green creds of U.S. universities.
Actually, the venerable environmental group was first out with the idea, launching a “Cool Schools” rundown in 2007. Their second annual review, in the group’s Sept./Oct.Sierra magazine, settles on list of the top ten campuses — Ten That Get It — that includes colleges of all sizes from the East to the West.
Tags: · Arizona State University, green colleges, Middlebury College, Oberlin College, Princeton Review, Sierra Club, University of Colorado
By Nima Kapadia As college students make their way to campuses across the nation for the fall semester, many are thinking ahead to future careers in business, teaching, technology or sustainability. Sustainability? Yes, says Arizona State University graduate student Brigitte Bavousett Hill, who hopes to use her Master’s Degree in Sustainability to help other countries [...]
Tags: · Arizona State University, Dominican University, Michigan State University, sustainability
Barbara Kessler
Andrew Winston
Danielle Nierenberg
Anthony Swift