College Sustainability Report Card: Green Buildings
College Sustainability Report Card provides in-depth sustainability profiles for hundreds of colleges in all 50 U.S. States and Canada. See the results. There are several categories of sustainability used in their report card. The Green Building category 51 schools earned “A” grades in the green building category, which looks at schools’ adoption and use of high-performance green building design. Most of them have numerous LEED certified buildings on campus. The average grade for the green building category was “C+.”
Click on the green building leaders listed below to view report cards.
New “green ratings” for colleges and universities
Princeton Review has begun a green rating system for colleges and universities (534 of them). Colleges and universities are rated on a scale of 60-99. Here’s a look at a few schools that received a Green Rating of 99 this year:
College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, ME) — All of COA’s electricity comes from renewable hydropower; new buildings and some old are heated via renewable wood pellets. A new student residence village has composting toilets, triple-paned windows, metered showers.
Emory University (Atlanta, GA) — All new buildings constructed to LEED standards (with an emphasis on energy and water conservation); alternative transportation with a shuttle fleet that is 100% alternatively fueled; recycled waste stream (65% by 2015); and local and sustainably-grown food.
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) — Institutional programs that embrace green cleaning, solid waste recycling, drought-tolerant vegetation, and storm water capture and reuse.
University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH) — In January 2009 UNH will become the first university in the U.S. to use landfill gas as its primary (80–85%) energy source. UNH also runs an organic dairy farm and education/research center.
University of Washington (Seattle, WA) — UW purchases power that is 100 renewable. UW’s food services emphasize local organic foods and are working toward a zero-waste goal, composting postconsumer waste, and offering compostable dishware and to-go packaging.
Yale University (New Haven, CT) — Yale has one co-generation power plant and is building a second to maximize fuel efficiency. Energy conservation measures include setting thermostats higher in summer and lower in winter, using biofuels in vehicles, and giving incentives to employees to live near campus or carpool.
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