# SIERRA magazine reveals 2011 Top Greenest Schools!

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2011/08/sierra-magazine-reveals-2011-top-greenest-schools/
- Published: 2011-08-18T03:15:51-04:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

According to the 2010 Princeton Review, 64% of prospective college students take
auniversity’s commitment to environmental issues into consideration to go into college!
You Colleges my company can help ya go green!!  Anyway, _**Students**_ care deeply
about green issues and are attracted to institutions that are working hard to solve
environmental problems.

In its fifth run, _Sierra_ magazine of the Sierra Club did the rankings on their
review of all the data.  They chose the greenness and determined the schools, programs,
students, professors and courses showing a _**true commitment to immersive learning,
greening their campuses and practices environmental responsibility.**_

_In 2011, the University of Washington and 40,000+ students, rose to the top of 
the rankings due to their:_

 * hyrdropowered campus
 * use of Energy Star rated appliances
 * extensive recycling program
 * and conservation-research hotbed Pack Forest.

**The 2011 Top 10 Coolest Green Schools are:**

_**1.    ****University of Washington (Seattle, WA)  **_

_2.    Green Mountain College (Poultney, VT)_

_3.    University of California, San Diego (San Diego, [CA](https://greenlivingguy.com/2017/10/2017-energy-efficiency-indicator-survey-interest-and-investment-in-energy-efficiency-and-renewable-energy-continues-to-increase-globally/))_

_4.    Warren Wilson College (Asheville, NC)_

_5.    Stanford University (Stanford, CA)_

_6.    University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)_

_7.    University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)_

_8.    [University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)](https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-ranks-among-sierra-magazine-top-10-greenest-colleges)_

_9.    Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA)_

_10. Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)_

_Source: Sierra Magazine_

_Courtesy__** of [UC](https://greenlivingguy.com/2011/10/largest-net-zero-complex-at-uc-davis-going-green-living-express/)
San Diego. UCSD’s cogeneration plant provides up to 85 percent of the school’s electricity
and heats more than 6 million square feet of building interiors. It earned the Tritons
the EPA’s 2010 Energy Star award. Above, solar panels shade the campus’s Hopkins
parking structure.**__ine.  They wanted me to add::_

_**What school banned plastic water bottles?  Which University intends to be carbon
neutral by 2016?  Check out [www.sierramagazine.com/coolschools](https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/coolschools-2017)
for the full rankings.**_

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