How green is your alma mater?

A new list will tell you

Posted by Geoff Dabelko (Guest Contributor) at 11:50 AM on 24 Jan 2007

Mine are only fair -- Duke got a B and Maryland a C. The Rockefeller-funded Sustainable Endowments Institute just released its College Sustainability Report Card 2007 (PDF).

They rate the schools in the categories of administration, food & recycling, green building, climate change & energy, shareholder engagement, investment priorities, and endowment transparency.

Don't see any failing grades but definitely the odd D at Boston U., Lafayette College, Indiana, Princeton Theological Seminary, Rockefeller University (some ironies there!), Trinity University, University of Chicago, Nebraska, Pitt, USC, University of Tulsa, Virginia, Wake Forest, and Yeshiva University (the only D-).

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Syracuse U

got the nod for Campus Sustainability Leader, but averaged only a C+. Much like my own experience there.....

by kmp at 12:40 PM on 24 Jan 2007

In the UK

Student group People and Planet has been running its Go Green Campaign to get universities to improve their environmental performance since 2004 (which I researched and developed). It recently published a table of how green British universities are at

http://peopleandplanet.org/gogreen/goinggreentable/

by Parmesan at 6:16 AM on 25 Jan 2007

Harvard beats Yale!!!

I was happy to see that my grad school, Harvard (A-), beat our eternal rival Yale (B+). Ha!

I wish, though, that my friend Scott Sandberg could have lived to see this. He was a major force for environmental stewardship at Radcliffe. He was killed in an avalanche a few years ago and all of his friends and colleagues miss him terribly. Here's a link to an article about him. He was an amazing guy, always positive and warm and funny besides.

http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/01.16/25-sandberg ...

by Roz Cummins at 7:13 AM on 06 Feb 2007

I am confused ...

Not only Kaela's Syracuse, but a number of other schools have grades lower than A-, and yet are included in the "A list." What am I not getting here?

In fairness, schools should be "handicapped," according to advantages and disadvantages of their locations and physical plants. It seems difficult to compare such pretty, small-town campuses as Wesleyan and Bowdoin with urban campuses such as Georgetown and Penn. NYU does not even have a campus, really; it is just a network of buildings in lower Manhattan, growing up weed-like amidst all the other densely packed real estate.

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