University of Maryland is GREEN
Posted on August 4th, 2010 by Daniel
As former students of UMD, we’re not trying to toot our horn (Go Terps!), but we’d like to share with you some fabulous news about universities going green. The University of Maryland got a perfect score on the Princeton Review “Green Rating Honor Roll.”
The Green Rating looks into the school’s initiatives and performance on environmental awareness and responsibility. The key areas examined are 1) whether students’ campus life is sustainable and healthy; 2) how prepared graduates are for work in the clean energy industry, and the quality of their citizenship towards environmental challenges; and 3) how eco-friendly the school’s policies are. The study was conducted in partnership with ecoAmerica.
The remaining schools on the Green Rating honor roll are:
- Arizona State University (Tempe)
- College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor ME)
- The Evergreen State College (Olympia WA)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
- Harvard College (Cambridge MA)
- Northeastern University (Boston MA)
- Northland College (Ashland WI)
- State University of New York — Binghamton University
- Unity College (Unity ME)
- University of California — Berkeley
- University of California — Santa Barbara
- University of California — Santa Cruz
- University of Georgia (Athens)
- University of Maine (Orono)
- Warren Wilson College (Asheville NC)
- West Virginia University (Morgantown)
- Yale University (New Haven CT)
Here are a few examples of UMD going green: the university recently installed solar hot water heaters, pictured above, that will generate about a third of the hot water used at one of its dining halls. This investment is scheduled to save $1.7M annually! And although we’re not big fans of the metered parking costs (a bit too pricey for our liking), UMD’s parking meter booths run on sun-tracking solar panels, now that’s cool!
For more info about what UMD’s green initiatives, check out their sustainability page. In conclusion, GO TERPS!
(via UM Newsdesk)
As always, if you are interested in being part of the solution to the environment, feel free to conduct a zipcode search to find green contractors near you. We recommend an energy efficiency audit as the first step towards going green. Find out how efficient you home or business is doing by requesting a FREE quote through the zipcode search on our homepage.
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