Cool Campuses

Sept. 1, 2009
The Sierra Club has compiled its list of "cool schools" — the college campuses with the greatest commitment to sustainability.

The Sierra Club has compiled its list of "cool schools" — the college campuses with the greatest commitment to sustainability. The environmental organization surveyed higher-education institutions in eight categories: efficiency, energy, food, academics, purchasing, transportation, waste management and administration. The results were published in the September/October 2009 issue of Sierra magazine.

SchoolScoreUniversity of Colorado at Boulder 100 University of Washington at Seattle 98 Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. 98 University of Vermont, Burlington 97 College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine 97 Evergreen State College, Olympia, Wash. 96.5 University of California at Santa Cruz 96 University of California at Berkeley 96 University of California at Los Angeles 96 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 95

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