by Rebecca Walker — August 6, 2010—Eighteen U.S. colleges and universities made The Princeton Review’s 2011 Green Rating Honor Roll for maintaining the most sustainable practices, policies and course offerings among all campuses rated for their environmental friendliness, said the company that created the popular “best colleges” guides.
This year 703 schools, the most thus far, submitted environmental information that was scored on a scale of 60, the least possible score, to 99, the highest possible score. The schools on the honor roll received scores of 99.
Honorees include:
- Arizona State University, Tempe;
- College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine;
- The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Wash.;
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta;
- Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.;
- Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.;
- Northland College, Ashland, Wisc.;
- State University of New York — Binghamton University;
- Unity College, Unity, Maine;
- University of California, Berkeley;
- University of California, Santa Barbara;
- University of California, Santa Cruz;
- University of Georgia, Athens;
- University of Maine, Orono;
- University of Maryland, College Park;
- Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC;
- West Virginia University, Morgantown; and
- Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
In 2008, when The Princeton Review began its green rating and honor roll program, more than 500 colleges and universities submitted information for profiles that appeared in the company’s 2009 edition. Eleven schools were named to the honor roll, Soto said.
In 2009, the number of green-rated schools grew to more than 600 and 15 made the honor roll. Eight of them made the list again this year: Arizona State University, the College of the Atlantic, the Evergreen State College, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Northeastern, UC Berkeley and Yale.
