Green school

"Green School"

How green is your school? This is the main question presented in the article "How Green is your campus?" (2009) found in Nature Magazine, by Amanda Leigh Mascarelli. Universities are working on bringing sustainability to their schools and can serve as a model for many other affiliations.  

Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia, is the "heart of the conservative deep south." This university starts each school year with teaching their students about sustainability by serving them food locally sustained, and handing out reusable water bottles and toting around reusable shopping bags. Emory University makes it known to their students from day-one that sustainability is key on their campus. Emory University is a part of a Go Green enactment and 650 U.S educational instiutions have claimed to make the pledge to become "climate neutral."

Such schools that are claiming the go green pledge is a great example for other business, schools, and even cities in hopes of decreasing environmental impacts. Some of the early starters that have implemented the go green pledge has helped decrease its carbon footprint and improve efficeny.

Northern Arizona University, one of the 600 plus Universities to pledge Go Green.

Reference

Mascarelli, A. (2009, September 9). How green is your campus? Nature, 154-155. Retreiveed 2014,  Novemeber from http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090909/full/461154a.html. doi:10.1038/461154.