We believe the long-term solutions to the troubles faced by our environment lay in our youth, the “fabric” of our society. It's imperative that we work to educate responsible citizens of a changing planet, who recognize and perform their duties and responsibilities as members of the larger human and ecological communities in which we live.
We can help faculty and school administrators to demonstrate a commitment to the environment in every aspect of what they do in school. Schools can reduce their carbon footprint, their energy consumption and their operational costs immediately, if they so desire. A sustainable campus is a healthier environment, which will also result in happier and more productive students and staff. We are living in a pivotal time in the history of our planet, and NOW is the time to act to ensure we have a future.
* Sustainable Campus Pioneers *
Allegheny College Center for Economic and Environmental Development
Antioch College's Green Council to Advise the Vice President
Bates College - Dining Services Environmental Initiatives
Bowdoin (has signed on to the Maine governor’s Carbon Challenge, committing
to reduce its emissions to 11 percent below 2002 levels by 2010. a sustainability office
has been established to fulfill the obligations of the College’s environmental mission
statement and is run by a sustainability coordinator and staff of student workers.)
Clackamas High School, Oregon
College of the Atlantic (Pledges to be FIRST college to go Carbon Neutral!)
Cornell Sustainable Campus
Darrow School
Dartmouth Sustainability Initiative
"Green" Smith
Fossil Ridge High School, Fort Collins, Colorado
Harvard University (has one of the most comprehensive campus sustainability
programs in the country. The Harvard green Campus initiative has a staff of 16 full-
time professionals and approximately 40 part-time student employees.)
Lawrenceville School, The
Middlebury College (Carbon Neutral by 2016!)
Millbrook School
Oberlin College (Voted #1 in Campus Sustainability by Sierra Club 2007)
Phillips Exeter
Punahou School
Sidwell Friends School
Southern Connecticut State University
Stanford Initiative on the Environment and Sustainability
Third Creek Elementary School, North Carolina
Tufts Climate Initiative
University of New Hampshire
Warren Wilson College
White Mountain School
Williams College
Willow School, The
Yale Office Of Sustainability
* Educational Events/Resources *
March 7, 2008 - Sustainable Construction: A Perspective to the year 2013
March 11-13, 2008 - NESEA Building Energy 08
March 27-28, 2008 - Sustainability in Our Community: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Public Spaces
April 11, 2008 - 4th Annual Symposium on Energy in the 21st Century
Through Spring, 2008 - USGBC Carbon Reduction Webinars
American College and University President's Climate Control Commitment is a high-visibility effort to address global warming by garnering institutional commitments to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions, and to accelerate the research and educational efforts of higher education to equip society to re-stabilize the earth’s climate. Presidents signing the Commitment are pledging to eliminate their campuses’ greenhouse gas emissions over time
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) is a network which includes resources for syllabi and profiles of institutions which are infusing sustainability in education.
Campus Ecology Program is a program of the National Wildlife Federation which supports and promotes positive and practical conservation projects on campus and beyond.
Children and Nature Network - Building a Movement to Reconnect Children to Nature
Children's Environmental Literature List
Clean Air Cool Planet (CACP) is an organization which partners with businesses, communities, campuses, and science centers to identify and promote solutions to climate change.
College and University Recycling Council is a network of campus-based recycling professionals, sponsored by the National Recycling Council
Composting with Worms
Cornell - Composting in Schools
Eco-School Designs
Edible Schoolyard
Edutopia - Go-Green Database
Energy Hog Guide for Students
Energy Hog Guide for Teachers
EPA Educational Resource for Teachers Interested in Recycling and Composting (basic)
EPA's Recycling Guide for Schools and Groups
GLOBE: Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
Green Hour - Discover the Wonders of Nature
Green Power Partnership is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program that provides advice and resources to prospective green power purchasers as well as publicity, to green power leaders.
Green Schools Alliance
* NEW * Green Schools Climate Commitment
Greening America's Schools, Costs and Benefits
Harvard Green Campus Initiative's Green Building Resource
Let's Go Green.biz - Fundraising with Eco Friendly Products
North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)
Orion Society - Connecting Children With Nature
Orion Society - Curricula and Classroom Materials
Reduce, Reuse, Recylce Curricula, Grades K-12
Rethinking School Lunch
Stone Barn Center for Food and Agriculture - Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is a farm, a kitchen, a classroom–an exhibit, a laboratory, a campus. The mission of this unique, nonprofit, member-driven collaboration is to celebrate, teach and advance community-based food production and enjoyment, from farm to classroom to table.
The Talloires Declaration - a declaration of sustainability that university presidents can sign that has already been signed by over three hundred presidents.
The Quick and Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools
The Value of a Garden
University Leaders for a Sustainable Future database also contains links related to curricula, sample syllabi and listservs.
USGBC's New Build Green Schools Website
* Funding *
Toyota Tapestry Funding for Science Teachers - Deadline January 28, 2008
* Information *
11.17.07 - NYT - U.N. Report Describes Risks of Inaction on Climate Change
2007 - College Sustainability Report Card
American College & University President's Climate Commitment *
Center for Ecoliteracy: Green School Design: Cost-Effective,
Healthy, and Better for Education
DSIRE - Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency
Global Environmental Options (GEO)
Green Investment Green Return
K-12 Green Building - U.S. Green Building Council
Role of Environmental Coordinator on Campus
Science Panel Outlines Roadmap for Reducing Risks from Climate Change
The Higher Education Sustainability Act of 2007
UN-Sigma Xi Climate Change Report
United Nations Foundation, Confronting Climate Change
* Sustainable Campuses in the NEWS *
1.18.08 - Greener by the Campus
1.18.08 - Higher Education in a Warming World, the Business Case for Climate Leadership on Campus
01.17.08 - Hotchkiss School - Making Reasonable Choices to Counteract Rising Energy Costs
1.11.2008 - Oakland Tribune - School's solar project brightens up gloomy day -
Sun panels on gym roof to provide 35 percent of power at Head-Royce in the Oakland hills
12.13.07 - Dutchess Day School of Millbrook, NY, in the news!
November/December 2007 - North Dakota High School Champions Education, Environment Over Aesthetics
11.07.07 - * BBC News - Humanity is our Greatest Challenge *
11.07.07 - Eco Reps Covered in USA Today
11.07.07 - Oberlin Receives $4 Million for Environmental Stewardship
11.07.07 - $5 Billion in Financing Made Available for Campus Retrofits
11.06.07 - UNH Makes the Grade on Sustainability Report Card
November/December 2007 - Six Ways to Green Your Alma Mater
11.03.07 - Letter from Students at William & Mary College Re: Climate Committment
11.07 - Sierra Club Names Top 10 Green Campuses
11.02.07 - Dow's Presence Triggers Berkeley Campus Protest
11.02.07 - Green Thumbs Up to the Planning Team for Campus Sustainability Day 2007
11.02.07 - Campus Sustainability Day at UT Austin
11.02.07 - UM System Receives "C" in Sustainability
11.02.07 - Campus Receives "D-" for eco policy
11.02.07 - Calvin Part of Sustainability Conference
10.31.07 - University Graded on Green Outlook
10.30.07 - Duke to Dedicate Two New Green Buildings
10.30.07 - First LEED Certified Building at University of Texas, Austin
10.29.07 - Community Farm Garden Gets Started at Hamilton
10.29.07 - Engineering and Design Institute Receives $1.5 Million for Pennsylvania Green Growth Partnership
10.28.07 - Campuses Celebrate Campus Sustainability Day
10.24.07 - College Switches to 100% Green Electricity With Student Funded Initiative
10.24.07 - Center for Energy and Environmental Innovation Launched at UC Berkeley
10.16.07 - Case Western Reserve: David Cooperrider appointed first Fairmount Minerals Chair in Social Entrepreneurship
10.24.07 - Duke University Launches New Corporate Sustainability Initiative
10.24.07 - University of NC at Chapel Hill 2007 Campus Sustainability Report
10.23.07 - Kansas State University Launches Center for Sustainable Energy
10.23.07 - SCU 2007 Sustainability Assessment
10.20.07 - 10kW Solar Array Installed at Harvard Forest
10.15.07 - Middlebury to Open Hilcrest Environmental Center
10.05.07 - Bottled Water on Campus Contradicts Sustainability
10.05.07 - Vassar kicks off New Local Food Partnerships that will Benefit Local Farmers
10.05.07 - The City of Paris and the Clinton Foundation Join Forces to Fight Climate Change
10.05.07 - Keen: Sustainability Should Be Accessible to Everyone
10.05.07 - $15 Million Committed to Sustainable Business Incubator
10.05.07 - Young Applauds U Sustainability Efforts
10.04.07 - Sustainability Office Opens at "U"
10.04.07 - Go Green For Fall
10.03.07 - Students Take Sustainability in Michigan into their Own Hands
10.03.07 - Center for Sustainability Seeks Award Nominees
10.02.07 - Sustainability Grant will Fund Student Proposals
10.02.07 - "GIVE" Inroduces Green Scholarship Program
10.01.07 - Green Cleaning: Positive Support
10.01.07 - Going the Extra Green Mile
10.01.07 - Clean Energy & Transportation Expo at Clarkson University October 4
09.30.07 - Lynchburg College students living out ecological experiment
09.28.07 - Colleges Increase Sustainability Efforts
09.27.07 - Students help MITEI 'walk the talk' on energy
09.27.07 - Community Design Center's Campus Planning Wins National Design Award
09.27.07 - UCF Releases Report on Emissions; Measures to Conserve Energy Under Way
09.27.07 - Success of alternative transportation program reveals commitment to sustainability
09.27.07 - Portland State: a sustainable future -
Administrators hope to further extend PSU's reputation for sustainability this year
09.26.07 - Senate passes resolution in appreciation of UF sustainability efforts
09.26.07 - Rush Hour | Campus Commuter Challenge encourages university employees to travel to work in creative, environmentally friendly ways with prizes
09.25.07 - Drury to Install Geothermal System in Stone Chapel
09.25.07 - Sustainability Fair Will Showcase Local Farmers
09.25.07 - U of M Institute on the Environment’s first Environment Roundtable to explore campus sustainability
09.24.07 - The Higher Education Sustainability Act of 2007 (HESA)
09.21.07 - Earth to Oberlin - SEED House Rules
09.21.07 - A Challenge To Eat Local
09.21.07 - Students the Greening Force on Campus
09.21.07 - Gift Boosts Williams Reach for Sustainability
09.20.07 - Williams College Letter from the President
09.20.07 - Harvesting a Healthy Campus
09.20.07 - Students' Interests Spawn Sustainable Dining Eateries
09.20.07 - Time Magazine - Little Green Schoolhouse
09.20.07 - Campus Goes Green with New Flatware
09.19.07 - Feature: Trashed: President Michael Crow is re-branding himself the green president. So why is recycling at ASU still garbage?
09.18.07 - NY Times - For New Center, Harvard Agrees to Emissions Cut
09.18.07 - Sustainability: Full Throttle
09.18.07 - New Sustainability Awards for US Colleges
09.18.07 - Making a commitment to a greener university
09.18.07 - SG, PepsiCo Inc., Alligator to split cost of campus recycling-bin project
09.18.07 - USC Hopes Grass Will be Greener with New System
09.16.07 - University of California, Davis Chooses Sustainable Lifetime Lumber For Riding Arena Wall
09.15.07 - Energy Efforts
09.14.07 - Listen to Student's Voices...
09.14.07 - College honored for activist stance on environment
09.14.07 - Langdon Woods featured on NPR
09.14.07 - Campus Sustainability Fee
09.14.07 - Sustainability is Flashy
09.13.07 - Students to Guage Sustainability
09.13.07 - Explorer West Sustainability Initiative, Year Three
09.12.07 - Dining Services adds Ozone Layer to Sustainability Efforts
09.12.07 - Sustainability Center Aims to Unite C.U. Researchers
09.12.07 - Campus Environmental Groups Band Together
09.12.07 - RIT Launches The Golisano Institute for Sustainability
09.11.07 - CNN MONEY - How Green is Your Campus??
09.11.07 - Construction begins on new Collaborative Research Center
09.11.07 - Crabtree Announces Plans for LEED Building Policy
09.10.07 - Roberts Wesleyan Opens Green Library
09.10.07 - The University of Alberta Makes Environmental Commitment "Cleaning for a Healthy U"
09.10.07 - $140,000 grant to fund environmental initiatives at Skidmore
09.07.07 - AASHE Awards Campus Sustainability Leaders
09.07.07 - Catawba College's New Waste Reduction and Recycling Coordinator Promotes Green as "the Color" of the Institution's Future
09.07.07 - Middlebury Car-sharing program to help reduce traffic and pollution
09.06.07 - Groundwater Energy to Make Okanagan Campus Emissions-Free
09.06.07 - Carleton Announces Composting, “One Stream” Recycling Programs
09.05.07 - Bates partners with Zipcar to bring car-sharing to campus
09.05.07 - University of Maryland
09.05.07 -Deconstruction of houses reflects Rice's sustainability efforts
09.05.07 - First-Year Students Encouraged to Live Sustainably
09.05.07 - Ball State University's Greenining of the Campus Conference
09.05.07 - Going Green, Community College Campus Leads the Way
09.05.07 - CCU Gets input for strategic planning
09.05.07 - Sustainability and Safety Priorities for Williams Summer Construction Projects
09.05.07 - Swarthmore College Online
09.04.07 - Back to School, Eco Style
09.03.07 - University of Arizona - Student Government Goals: Ecology, Book Costs
08.31.07 - Car Sharing comes to Carnegie Mellon!
08.31.07 - Class of 2011 Encouraged to Adopt Greener Lifestyle
September, 2007 - Scholastic.com - Future Schools: 8 designs to inspire your next campus
08.28.07 - Campus Takes Steps to Becoming Greener
08.28.07 - Duke University - Food & Bikes
08.28.07 - Sustainability at the UA: off to a decent start
08.28.07 - Carnegie Mellon University, Zipcar Partner to Bring Car Sharing to Campus
08.28.07 - It's Getting Hot In Here, The New Development
08.28.07 - Promoting Campus Sustainability with ART
08.27.07 - Auburn University transit system goes GREEN
08.27.07 - Rocky Sustain helps WIU Campus Community Save the Planet
08.27.07 - University of Vermont Celebrates opening of long awaited student building
08.25.07 - Chicagotribune.com - "Class of 2011 Encouraged to Adopt Greener Lifestyle"
08.25.07 - Princeton University Garden Project aims to educate campus about food choices and sustainability
08.24.2007 - AASHE.net - Energy Conservation and Green Landscaping at McGill
08.23.07 - Emory Opens New "Green" Freshman Residence Hall
08.22.07 - Flexcar Now Available to 500,000 College Students Across the U.S.
08.21.07 - NYU Gives New Life to Old Bikes!
08.20.07 - Newsweek - American Campuses, Greener than Ever
08.10.07 - Grist - 15 Green Colleges and Universities
08.03.07 - Community College Times - Colleges Must Take the Environmental Lead
08.2007 - Time Magazine - Getting Schools to Think and Act Green
07.31.07 - United Nations - Climate Change as Global Challenge
3.2007 - Green Schools for Better Education
2.2007 - Schools could save money and Raise Educational Standards by Going Green
10.10.06 - Washingtonpost.com - "The tiny College of the Atlantic in Maine has vowed to offset all of its greenhouse gas emissions, making it the first college in the nation to seek to fully mitigate its impact on global warming."
