Green colleges: Who’s No. 1 nine years in a row?
The College of the Atlantic was the first college to achieve carbon-neutrality in the U.S. University Business reports on the accomplishment.
By Matt Zalaznick, University Business
To be at the top of the green colleges list for the ninth consecutive year, it takes steps such as offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees in human ecology—exclusively—and striving to become fossil-fuel free. That greenest of institutions, according to the Princeton Review, is the College of the Atlantic in Maine.
The College of the Atlantic has long-established green credentials: In 2007, it became the first college to achieve carbon-neutrality in the U.S. Leaders there also intend to free the school of fossil fuels by 2030.
“We are seeing substantive interest among college applicants in attending green colleges,” said Rob Franek, editor-in-chief of The Princeton Review.