Universities are getting increasingly green, both from an infrastructure standpoint of building green, buying gree and improving efficiency, but also from an educational standpoint, as students clamor for greener courses in greener settings.
The Sierra Club has just released its rankings for the third annual Cool Schools study, which looks at the performance of universities along eight categories, with a ninth “bonus category” for miscellaneous green deeds. The categories are: Efficiency, Energy, Food, Academics, Purchasing, Transportation, Waste, and Administration.
The top schools according to this year’s results are the University of Colorado at Boulder, with a final score of 69 points and an A+ grade; the University of Washington at Seattle, with 68 points and an A+; and Middlebury College in Vermont, also with 68 points and an A+.
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