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sustainability

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Webpages:

Beech Hill Farm
www.coa.edu/farms/beech-hill-farm/
Environmental Commitment
www.coa.edu/about/environmental-commitment/
Peggy Rockefeller Farms
www.coa.edu/farms/peggy-rockefeller-farms/

Stories:

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College of the Atlantic Ranked #8 in The Princeton Review’s Top 50 Green Colleges

Robert Franek, Senior VP of The Princeton Review: “We strongly recommend College of the Atlantic and the other fine colleges in this guide to the many environmentally-minded students who seek to study and live at green colleges.”
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For one Maine college, it’s easy being green [Mainebiz]

College of the Atlantic is the nation’s #1 green college for the seventh year in a row, according to the Princeton Review’s Top 50 Green Colleges.
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IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if world is to stave off climate disaster [The Guardian]

The world can still hope to stave off the worst ravages of climate breakdown but only through a “now or never” dash to a low-carbon economy and society, scientists, including COA professor of global environmental politics Doreen Stabinsky, have said in what is in effect a final warning for governments on the climate.

Courses:

Faculty:

Gray Cox

Faculty, Philosophy, Peace Studies, & Language Learning
Jay Friedlander

Faculty, Sustainable Business
Reuben Hudson

Faculty, Chemistry

Residences:

Kathryn W. Davis Village