Top Green Colleges
May 6, 2008 – 5:55 am by Nick
The Ivy League has retained the crown as being the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2007-2008 College & University Green Power Challenge. The EPA ranks 40 green colleges and universities by their cumulative annual purchase of green power.
For a school to enter the EPA ranking, it must buy at least 10 million kWh of green power. Green Power is made from wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, biogas and low-impact hydro. The EPA has also enlisted Fortune 500 companies, government institutions and small businesses.
The top green schools are the following:
- Univ. of Pennsylvania Pa. 192,727,000 kWh
- New York University N.Y. 132,000,000 kWh
- Pennsylvania State Univ. Pa. 83,600,000 kWh
- Oregon State University Ore. 66,680,400 kWh
- Univ. of Calif., Santa Cruz 57,000,000 kWh
- Western Washington Univ. 40,000,000 kWh
- University of Utah 36,666,000 kWh
- University. of Central Okla. 26,000,000 kWh
- Syracuse University 22,000,000 kWh
- Southern Oregon Univ. 17,622,000 kWh
- Colby College 17,428,000 kWh
- St. Mary’s College of Md. 15,000,000 kWh
- University at Buffalo N.Y. 13,300,000 kWh
- Duquesne University Pa. 12,500,000 kWh
- Southern N.H. Univ. 12,000,000 kWh
- Oberlin College Ohio 10,856,240 kWh
- Rowan University N.J. 10,433,673 kWh
- Lewis & Clark College 4,432,000 kWh
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