Is your school part of the “cool” list? Sierra Magazine has taken the time to take a look at the country’s schools and check which ones have been engaging in efforts to help the Earth. The criteria they used takes into consideration the schools’ activities which contribute to the stopping of global warming. More so, it also takes a look at whether or not the schools operate in a sustainable manner.
So which schools are the coolest? (Drum roll, please!)
1. University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, Colorado)
2. University of Washington at Seattle (Seattle, Washington)
3. Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont)
4. University of Vermont (Burlington, Vermont)
5. College of the Atlantic (Bal Harbor, Maine)
6. Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington)
7. University of California at Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California)
8. University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, California)
9. University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California)
10. Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio)
11. Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
12. University of New Hampshire (Durham, New Hampshire)
13. Arizona State University at Tempe (Tempe, Arizona)
14. Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
15. University of Florida at Gainesville (Gainesville, Florida)
16. Bates College (Lewiston, Maine)
17. Willamette University (Salem, Oregon)
18. Warren Wilson College (Asheville, North Carolina)
19. Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania)
20. New York University (New York, New York)
If your school is in that list, good for you! If not, you may want to start an initiative that will get your school to do its part in the fight for conserving and preserving the only home that we all have.