College Sustainability Report Card 2009: Middlebury receives highest grade: Inside Higher Ed

College Sustainability Report Card 2009: Middlebury receives highest grade: Inside Higher Ed: “Colleges have made significant strides in campus-based sustainability initiatives, with a growing number purchasing local food, adopting green building policies, and committing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Comparatively, however, colleges have lagged in using their shareholder status to push pro-environment corporate policies and in being transparent about their endowment holdings — although there are notable gains in those areas as well, according to the latest College Sustainability Report Card, released today.

“Middlebury received an A-, the highest grade given for 2009. Last year, Middlebury was one of six A- schools. This year, there were 15 who got the top grade, in addition to Midd: Brown, Columbia, Harvard, and Stanford universities; Carleton, Dartmouth, Dickinson and Oberlin colleges; and the Universities of British Columbia, Colorado, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington.

“Also being unveiled today is a new Web site for the report card, including a number of functions allowing students to compare green practices across institutions.”