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Widespread green efforts at BU lauded
7/30/2009
BU was one of fifteen universities in the United States to garner a perfect score in the Manhattan-based education service company's 2010 Green Rating Honor Roll.
Widespread green efforts at BU lauded
Princeton Review gives school a perfect rating
By Debbie Swartz
VESTAL - Composting and recycling programs, solar-powered and LEED- certified buildings, a 187-acre nature preserve, and police officers peddling bicycles - all combined to make Binghamton University one of the nation's greenest campuses, according to The Princeton Review.
BU was one of fifteen universities in the United States to garner a perfect score in the Manhattan-based education service company's 2010 Green Rating Honor Roll. Princeton Review contacted 2,200 colleges and universities throughout the country and 697 replied with enough information to perform a rating, said David Soto, Princeton's director of college ratings.
Participating schools were graded on their replies regarding their environmental policies, practices and academic offerings. For BU, environmental stewardship isn't a fad.
The university was the first higher- education facility in New York to win an award for its LEED-certified Mountainview College residential community, said Vice President for Administration James Van Voorst.
The campus's recycling programs and residential community energy-use contest, awarding the dorms with the least usage, have become popular with students, he said.
Along with green building practices, the campus collects about 18,000 pounds of compostable material each week, said Environmental Services Manager Juliet Berling.
"For Binghamton University, it's a community-wide effort," Van Voorst said, "This isn't new to us. We work hard at it."
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