Posts Tagged ‘boulder’

So Cool Sierra Names Colorado Top “Green” College

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

We’re not biased, but mighty proud of our hometown school here in Boulder. BGM

Back in the day, high schoolers looking at colleges (and U.S. News and World Report) were mainly concerned with three things: prestige, location, and whether the place had a rockin’ social life. These days, however, applicants look for something more: a school with green credentials.

“Ten years ago, I don’t remember any student asking me about green campuses,” says Steven Roy Goodman, a college admissions strategist at TopColleges.com. “Now it’s quite common for students to be keenly interested in how environmentally responsible colleges are.”
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10 Greenest Cities in the U.S.

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Good on all the eco-friendliest, but shame on Boulder for not making the list…AGAIN — BGM

Written by Tom Schueneman

The Mother Nature Network has just published their list of the ten greenest cities in the United States.

There is as yet no official criteria set by the EPA for determining a city’s “greeness,” MNN considered key areas to measure the effectiveness of a municipality’s efforts at carbon footprint reduction, including air and water quality, efficient recylcling and management of waste, percentage of LEED certified buildings, acres of land devoted to green space, use of renewable energy, and easy access to green products and services.
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