I’m usually not one to take college rankings too seriously as I believe there are a lot of excellent schools out there, but I came across a list in a Sierra Club newsletter that I read top to bottom: Sierra magazine’s Top 20 Coolest Schools 2019.'

This list ranks colleges in the United States and Canada according to which schools offer the best sustainability-focused courses, eco-friendly cafeteria provisions, carbon-neutral land and energy policies, and opportunities to engage with the environmental movement.

As many of my students are interested in STEM fields and careers, and young people in general are understandably concerned about the health of our planet, from global warming to plastic in the ocean to the burning of fossil fuels, I thought I’d share this list.

​The Top 20 Environmentally Conscious Schools

The top 10 are Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia; University of California, Irvine; SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry; University of New Hampshire; University of Connecticut; University of California, Merced; Colby College in Maine; Middlebury College in Vermont; Colorado State University; and Arizona State University.

Rounding out the list are Sterling College in Vermont; Dickson College in Pennsylvania; Seattle University; Chatham University in Pennsylvania; College of the Atlantic in Maine; University of California, Berkeley; University of Calgary; Santa Clara University in California; University of Dayton in Ohio; and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

These schools boast LEED-certified dorms and buildings, energy derived from solar panels, sustainability programs, community gardens, zero-waste programs, composting, renewable energy, fossil fuel divestment, and water conservation.

If you’re interested in majoring in environmental studies, check out these colleges:

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2019-5-september-october/cool-schools-2019/top-20-coolest-schools-2019?utm_source=insider&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter ​

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