If a new tool takes root, expect to see much larger – and perhaps more competitive – rankings of the nation’s most sustainable colleges and universities. Two of the biggest publishers of educational rankings, the Princeton Review and Sierra Magazine, have joined with the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) to promote the Campus Sustainability Data Collector, a free tool that aims to make it easier for any education institution to report its environmental impacts. Among the data points collected are education and research practices, including green-focused curricula, new student sustainability orientations, and faculty working on sustainability research; operations practices, including greenhouse gas emissions reporting, green dining hall efforts, transportation, waste and water management; and administration practices, ranging from campus diversity to socially responsible investing to on-campus farmer’s markets. [Read this article]
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