Comments on: ASU named one of nation’s ‘greenest’ universities http://azsustainability.com/2008/08/04/asu-named-one-of-nations-greenest-universities/ Arizona Sustainability, Green Blog, Community Forum, Environmental Action. Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tracy http://azsustainability.com/2008/08/04/asu-named-one-of-nations-greenest-universities/comment-page-1/#comment-884 Tracy Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:33:17 +0000 http://azsustainability.com/?p=264#comment-884 "The criteria for the rating (which ecoAmerica helped formulate along with the rating's data collection survey and methodology) cover three broad areas: 1) whether the school's students have a campus quality of life that is healthy and sustainable, 2) how well the school is preparing its students for employment and citizenship in a world defined by environmental challenges, and 3) the school's overall commitment to environmental issues." .."initiatives to deploy solar power on all four campuses, create highly efficient buildings, launch a first-of-its-kind School of Sustainability, and support a transdisciplinary research federation dedicated to finding sustainable solutions for issues of energy, water, urbanization, and climate change" While these initiatives might be less visible to students not involved in the research itself or interested in the ASU School of Sustainability or affiliated majors (geoscience, environmental science, engineering, geography, etc) the efforts are being made. This is a good point though, that it is not visible enough to most students and perhaps this article is not a big enough effort to let people know how ASU is making changes but hopefully it is a start. “The criteria for the rating (which ecoAmerica helped formulate along with the rating’s data collection survey and methodology) cover three broad areas:
1) whether the school’s students have a campus quality of life that is healthy and sustainable,
2) how well the school is preparing its students for employment and citizenship in a world defined by environmental challenges, and
3) the school’s overall commitment to environmental issues.”

..”initiatives to deploy solar power on all four campuses, create highly efficient buildings, launch a first-of-its-kind School of Sustainability, and support a transdisciplinary research federation dedicated to finding sustainable solutions for issues of energy, water, urbanization, and climate change”

While these initiatives might be less visible to students not involved in the research itself or interested in the ASU School of Sustainability or affiliated majors (geoscience, environmental science, engineering, geography, etc) the efforts are being made. This is a good point though, that it is not visible enough to most students and perhaps this article is not a big enough effort to let people know how ASU is making changes but hopefully it is a start.

]]> By: Eric Taylor http://azsustainability.com/2008/08/04/asu-named-one-of-nations-greenest-universities/comment-page-1/#comment-883 Eric Taylor Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:20:54 +0000 http://azsustainability.com/?p=264#comment-883 What exactly is it that makes ASU so green? I went there for a year and it didnt strike me a America's Greenest University. What exactly is it that makes ASU so green? I went there for a year and it didnt strike me a America’s Greenest University.

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