Two Washington St. Universities Top Green List
by Electric Elliot
Grist.com has come out with a Top 20 list featuring the most environmentally friendly colleges in the nation. High on the list at #2 is the University of Washington in Seattle:
The UW holds new campus buildings to a LEED Silver standard, strives for a local, organic focus in its food services, and is currently the pilot site to test the first compostable paper soft drink cups.
At #6 is the good ol’ Evergreen State College in Olympia:
The college purchased a fleet of electric vehicles and runs a sustainably managed farm where it teaches courses in organic agriculture. With the help of students’ self-imposed clean-energy fee, Evergreen is on its way to meeting its goals of being waste-free and carbon neutral by 2020.
Absent from the list is my alma-mater the University of Puget Sound which actively promotes its sustainability. Better luck next year UPS.
August 24th, 2009 at 8:29 am
What year did you graduate? Devon Turner was a major reason the sustainability program at UPS functioned and made so much change that the city of Tacoma hired him. He is currently at the Bainbridge Institute for a “green” MBA.
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Electric Elliot Reply:
August 27th, 2009 at 10:28 am
@Jay Colingham, I’m your year, Jay.
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Jay Colingham Reply:
January 27th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Hey Elliot! Glad to see you at work on such a fun website. Perhaps UPS will get some more LEED once they finish dealing with the cost over runs of the new Thompson Hall.
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