The Princeton Review Gives 697 Colleges “Green” Ratings

The Princeton Review is known for its education services helping students choose and get into colleges. On July 27 it reported its second annual Green Ratings of colleges: a measure of how environmentally friendly the institutions are on a scale of 60 to 99.

Green Ratings for 697 institutions based on data it collected from the colleges in 2008-09 concerning their environmentally related policies, practices, and academic offerings.

The criteria for the rating cover three broad areas:
1. Whether the school’s students have a campus quality of life that is healthy and sustainable.
2. How well the school is preparing its students for employment and citizenship in a world defined by environmental challenges.
3. The school’s overall commitment to environmental issues.

The institutional survey for the rating included ten questions on everything from energy use, recycling, food, buildings, and transportation to academic offerings (availability of environmental studies degrees and courses) and action plans and goals concerning greenhouse gas emission reductions.

15 institutions (eight private and seven public colleges) that received the highest possible rating score of 99.

The Princeton Review’s 2010 Green Rating Honor Roll:

(in alphabetical order)

Arizona State University at the Tempe campus
Bates College (Lewiston ME)
Binghamton University (State Univ. of New York at Binghamton)
College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor ME)
Colorado College (Colorado Springs CO)
Dickinson College (Carlisle PA)
Evergreen State College (Olympia WA)
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
Harvard College (Cambridge MA)
Middlebury College (Middlebury VT)
Northeastern University (Boston MA)
University of California – Berkeley
University of New Hampshire (Durham)
University of Washington (Seattle)
Yale University (New Haven CT)

The Princeton Review (http://www.princetonreview.com/green) developed its Green Rating criteria and institutional survey in 2007 with ecoAmerica (http://www.ecoamerica.org), a non-profit environmental organization that continues to participate in this project.

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