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August 25, 2008, 02:03 PM ET
Middlebury Gets Top Marks From Sierra Club
Step aside Olympics. Which campus gets the green medal for being the most environmentally sensitive in the country? According to the September/October issue of Sierra magazine, that honor goes to Middlebury College. Sierra staffers ranked colleges and universities using 10 categories such as buildings, curriculum, energy, and investments. Middlebury distinguished itself, according to the magazine, by generating much of its own energy and recycling 60 percent of its waste.
The other top schools were the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Vermont at Burlington, Warren Wilson College, Evergreen State College, Arizona State University at Tempe, the University of Florida at Gainesville, Oberlin College, the University of Washington at Seattle, and Tufts University.
The magazine also singled out five campuses for scoring the worst in its rankings: The College of William and Mary, George Washington University, Howard University, Texas Tech University, and Valdosta State University.
The rankings noticeably skipped over community colleges, some of which are distinguishing themselves with their environmental initiatives. The Los Angeles Community College District, for example, will produce close to half of the energy at one campus with a major solar project. And Kathleen Schatzberg, president of Cape Cod Community College, has helped lead the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment.
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