Green Options » sustainable higher education http://greenoptions.com/tag/sustainable-higher-education Posts tagged 'sustainable higher education' Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:42:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en The Ten Coolest (and greenest) Colleges in America http://sustainablog.org/2008/08/25/the-ten-coolest-and-greenest-colleges-in-america/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/08/25/the-ten-coolest-and-greenest-colleges-in-america/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:42:07 +0000 Tom Schueneman http://sustainablog.org/2008/08/25/the-ten-coolest-and-greenest-colleges-in-america/ Cool students at Colorado State, Boulder. Ranked one of the ten \

This is a guest post by freelance environmental writer Tom Schueneman, publisher of GlobalWarmingisReal.com

Sierra Magazine has recently announced its list of the ten “coolest schools in America” for 2008.

For our purposes here “cool” doesn’t refer to the level of party, but to the school’s efforts to address climate change and sustainability.

Until recently, that sort of cool remained largely the domain of small, private colleges, but no more. The colleges ranking in this year’s list represent a diverse range of institutions, from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina with 850 students, to Arizona State, the country’s second largest, with 51,500 students. Being cool is in.

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