How green is your alma mater?

A new list will tell you 4

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-).

Geoff Dabelko is director of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He blogs here and at New Security Beat on environment, population, and security issues.

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  1. kmp Posted 5:40 am
    24 Jan 2007

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

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  2. Parmesan Posted 11:16 pm
    24 Jan 2007

    In the UKStudent 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/

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  3. Roz Cummins Posted 12:13 am
    06 Feb 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 ...

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  4. caniscandida Posted 3:34 am
    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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    So are other sensitive animals!

    Enough is enough!

    No more factory farms!

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