Today students take into consideration how green their school will be, here is a list of the 25 Greenest Colleges in the United States, in alphabetical order according to the Kaplan College Guide:
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Bates College, Lewiston, ME
Berea College, Berea, KY
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Duke University, Durham, NC
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Penn State University, University Park, PA
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Tufts University, Medford, MA
University of California, UC system
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Any of these schools familiar to you? Is there something you do/would look for in a university? Let us know!
Dean said,
December 2, 2008 @ 8:53 pm
They have not earned a spot yet, but Ohio University is doing a lot to try and get there — easier said than done in a region of the country that is behind the curve in going green. I blogged about what the school is doing here http://blog.stalkmarketproducts.com/2008/10/12/ohio-university-goes-green-with-stalkmarket.aspx
Jeff Benanto said,
December 2, 2008 @ 9:02 pm
With over 40,000 students, and close to 150,000 fans on hand for football game days, Penn State does an excellent job keeping the campus as green as possible. The University always makes a big pitch for the importance of recycling (particularly the campus’ ubiquitous student newspaper), and a lot of praise should go to the work done by the PSU Center for Sustainability.
And speaking of green transpo, one of the campus’ CATA buses is powered by hydrogen…
Waylon said,
December 2, 2008 @ 11:01 pm
How’d you decide who was greenest? What’s your source, or criteria? Here’s a little post we did on CU: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2008/10/cu-ranked-second-greenest-campus/
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