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UC Irvina Tops Sierra’s Annual College Ranking

August 13, 2015August 13, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The University of California, Irvine, for the second year in a row tops Sierra magazine’s ninth annual “Cool Schools” ranking of America’s “greenest” colleges and universities. UCI took the top spot for diverting more than 80 percent of campus waste from landfills and using clean energy. The UC system has ... Read more »

Farmers Fight Coca-Cola Over Groundwater

October 10, 2014October 9, 2014 by Ken Jennison

In Mehadiganj village, Uttar Pradesh state, India, the lack of groundwater has set farmers against a local Coca-Cola bottling plant, as both vie for the dwindling resource, according to Bloomberg. In August, Coca-Cola abandoned a $24 million expansion plan for the site, citing delays in permits to extract more water, ... Read more »

University of California to Keep Fossil Fuel Investments

September 12, 2014September 24, 2014 by Ken Jennison

The University of California announced a set of climate change initiatives this week to make the system more sustainable, but stopped short of divesting fossil fuel investments from its $91 billion portfolio. The recommendation not to divest was one of the findings of the president’s Task Force on Sustainable Investing. ... Read more »

Study: Calculating the True Cost of CO2 Emissions

September 2, 2014September 1, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Taking into account the full amount of carbon dioxide that power plants generate during their lifetime instead of tracking annual emissions could be a more helpful way to look at the impact of power plant emissions, according to a paper by researchers at University of California-Irvine and Princeton University. The ... Read more »

UC-Irvine Tops Green Colleges List

August 13, 2014August 13, 2014 by Ken Jennison

The University of California – Irvine jumped from no. 3 to no. 1 in this year’s Sierra Club ranking of green schools, knocking last year’s winner, University of Connecticut, out of the top spot. This was the eighth year for the “Cool Schools” ranking, with more than 150 schools participating. According to ... Read more »

Princeton Review Announces Green Honor Roll

August 14, 2013August 14, 2013 by Leon Walker

Stanford University, Cornell University, Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles are among 22 colleges nationwide listed on Princeton Review’s 2014 Green Rating Honor Roll, which measures the environmentally friendliness of the schools. Princeton Review, known for its college test-prep and education services, tallied the scores for 832 ... Read more »

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