It’s Getting Hot In Here

It’s that time of year again: the College Sustainability Report Card 2010 has launched. Released on the brand spankin’ new GreenReportCard.org website by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, the annual publication provides school profiles and grades along with exclusive insights about sustainability in higher education.  What grade is your school taking home to the folks?

The report reveals that despite budget-breaking investment losses and widely fluctuating energy costs, many schools became greener during the last year, earning higher grades on the College Sustainability Report Card 2010. The average overall grade was still a “C+”, but 53 percent of schools earned an overall grade of “B-”, compared to only 38 percent in last year’s Report Card.

Now in its fourth year, the College Sustainability Report Card covers the colleges and universities with the 300 largest endowments in the United States and Canada, as well as 32 additional schools that applied for inclusion.  The profiled schools have combined holdings representing more than $325 billion in endowment assets, or more than 95 percent of all university endowments.

Features on the website include:

• Compare Report Card of rival schools
• Overall College Sustainability Leaders
• Access to over 1,100 surveys responses
• Interactive map
• Endowment Sustainability Leaders

Continue reading ‘The Grades Are In! Green Report Card 2010′

The grades are in, folks. It’s the time many students dread, as we imagine teachers and professors reveling in the maniacal joy of evaluating our performance and effort.

Oh, how the tables have turned.

The College Sustainability Report Card 2009 has been released by the Sustainable Endowments Institute. The new interactive report card reveals sustainability trends at 300 leading schools. Of all the schools profiled in the latest version of the report, just 15 schools received top marks, and the average grade was a “C+”. How did your school make out? How does it compare to others? Check out the sweet new website to find out, which now offers the ability to compare schools to each other, and even compare to the previous report cards.

From the 9/24 press release:

“The interactive GreenReportCard.org website reveals that two out of three schools have improved their grades from last year in the new College Sustainability Report Card 2009.

The website, launched today, provides interactive sustainability profiles and grades from the Report Card for 300 schools with the largest endowments ranging from approximately $150 million to $35 billion. The combined total is nearly $400 billion.”

Another intriguing feature of the website is the the google maps function, where you can see the geographic grade distribution in the US East, US West, and Canada.

The Report Card provides a resource for high school students to integrate college sustainability into their search for schools, and for current students to encourage (demand, if you will) their schools to make the grade. We work hard for our grades; so should they.