Filed Under (Education) by admin on 29-07-2008
A great new energy saving program was announced today designed to improve the use of electricity in schools. I’m all for any time the government wants to save the tax payers money.
TCP, Inc. announces its exclusive partnership with CBS Corporation and EcoMedia, an environmental media company, to serve as the official lighting sponsor for the groundbreaking “Green Schools Initiative,” a program designed to work with U.S. mayors and local municipalities to “green” schools in cities across the country. MarketWatch
Elements might include an energy efficient lighting retrofit, solar panels, green roofs, and tree planting.
Filed Under (Education, Trees) by admin on 29-07-2008
In a new article by the Princeton Review, they have rated the top environmental schools in the country. No shocker, not a California school on the list, even with those Berkley guys hugging trees on the way to class.
Here is the list of top environmental schools according to the Princeton Review.
The list’s top scorers for the 2007-08 school year:
Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.
Bates College, Lewiston, Me.
Binghamton University, Binghamton, N.Y.
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Me.
Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H.
University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore.
University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
