Green Colleges

Happy Earth Day. Read this in USA Today this week that sustainability is alive and well on college campuses.

Princeton Review, in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, is out this week with its 2012 Guide to 322 Green Colleges and finds in a separate survey that 68% of more than 7,000 college applicants told them that a college's commitment to the environment would play a role in their decision to apply to or attend that school. The guide can be downloaded at princeton-review.com.green-guide or centerforgreenschools.org/greenguide.

An example from the USA Today article:

“Ball State has constructed a system that pumps water 400 feet below the ground, where it reaches equilibrium with the temperature at that depth and then gets circulated back to the surface.

Thus far, the university has drilled about 1,800 boreholes around campus, and the system is providing cooling to the entire campus and heating to about half.”

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