I notice that my alma mater, Hampshire College, isn't included in this list.
I think it would actually rate fairly highly.
They developed a sustainable campus plan with high levels of student and community input.
More imprssively, they have a working farm with a CSA that provides vegetables to over half the campus. The cafeteria has many shares, and most of the on-campus apartments have them as well. The cafeteria service (which feeds half the campus) focuses on using local vegetables and milk, as a result of a sustained student campaign around local food sustainability. All food waste from the cafeteria and most of the on-campus apartments are composted. The farm itself is primarily staffed by students.
I would guess that their endowment isn't large enough -- again, the Report Card focused on the colleges and universities with the largest endowments.
Indeed. I love Hampshire and it would have been great to include them in the Report Card. However, the threshold for the 100 largest endowments was about $550 million and the Hampshire endowment is approximately $31 million.
Where I go to grad school (a state school) is definitely NOT sustainable. They will have 3 guys standing their with gas powered leaf blowers FULL blast.....to get a whopping 6 leaves off of the sidewalk. This is done on a weekly basis at least.
I continually see a complete waste of water for sprinklers. Not only is this unnecessary, alot of times they aren't even installed properly and only water the cement sidewalk.
They also feel the need to mow twice a week, even over dirt.
I have also seen 3 guys stand around blasting chemicals at one tree.
I am all for making the campus look nice but there has GOT to be a better way.
The waste at the student union and cafeteria is a whole other story too...
I just don't understand why they refuse to level and concrete over an area in its entirety when designing a college campus. Leaving all those trees and that green grass is such a waste. Don't they realize that maintaining the grounds requires the use of trucks, lawn equipment, and fossil fuels which are the underlying causes of all our problems? Those guys need to be a little more far thinking instead of worrying about aesthetics.
Don't get mad. I was only having some fun. 
Oh, I understand completely... it is a problem. My grad alma mater, UNLV, finally did the right thing after I left: tore out the lawns and went to a desert landscape...
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