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Green Mountain College: An Eco Tinge to Every Major

High school and college students are more ecologically aware than ever, but a desire to help the earth doesn’t have to mean giving up your passion for art, literature, education and psychology to focus on traditionally “green” careers. More and more colleges are tying the environment to every program of study, including Vermont’s Green Mountain [...]

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Colleges Greener than Ever Despite Economy

Rotten economy? So what?! Colleges around the nation are still going green despite declining endowments, according to the new 2010 College Sustainability Report Card results, compiled by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.
Twenty-six out of 332 schools evaluated for the report card got the highest possible grade of A-minus, determined by a number of criteria in areas [...]

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Green College Spotlight: Pomona College

Pomona College, a small private college located in Claremont, California, stands out even in a state with a large number of impressively green schools. Though this college has had an environmental policy since 2003, renewed dedication and enthusiasm for sustainability has led to a wide array of programs and initiatives that take their commitment to [...]

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Green College Spotlight: University of Calgary

Not all of North America’s sustainable colleges and universities are in the United States – far from it, in fact. Canada has quite a few of them, with the University of Calgary among the most impressive. This public university with over 24,000 students has made great strides toward inserting green values and practices into virtually [...]

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Green College Spotlight: University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota is among the nation’s most sustainability-dedicated institutions of higher learning, with green projects and practices extending into all areas of campus activity. Becoming a sustainable university is a tough goal to reach when you’ve got over 60,000 students, and UMN definitely deserves some major props for all of their hard work.
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Sustainability Degrees Growing in Popularity

The world is about to welcome a whole new generation of sustainability experts, bigger than ever before – and it couldn’t have come at a better time. College students are flocking to sustainability programs in droves, graduating with the knowledge they need to help guide the world to a greener, more sustainable way of life.
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