America's Greenest Colleges 2014: The Top 10

The colleges at the top of our annual "Cool Schools" ranking have sustainability woven into their very culture.

By Avital Andrews

July 25, 2014

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Cool Schools 2014 Full Ranking

Stanford’s decision to divest its $18.7 billion endowment of coal stocks is a narrow response to the Fossil Free movement, but it carries a lot of clout.

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Samuel Wohns, Cambridge, Mass.; co-coordinator, Responsible Investment at Harvard Coalition
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Taking Harvard to Task

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August 25, 2014

The carcass of the abandoned Moran Municipal Generation Station, on Burlington's lakefront, inspired Tad Cooke (left) and Erick Crockenberg. Their charge: Turn the cavernous interior into an "innovation space."
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Senior Project

How two college students are turning a coal-era relic into a cultural center

By Andrew Nemethy

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Students in a greenhouse.
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Where Ideas Get Schooled

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July 25, 2014

A detail of Pam Longobardi's 20-foot-long Economies of Scale (2013), made from plastic debris the artist found in oceans from Greece to Alaska.
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Can Art Schools Save the Planet?

Art professors and students lit fires under the civil rights and antiwar movements. Can they do the same for environmentalism?

By Amy Westervelt

July 25, 2014

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