Sustainable Development - programs in (and/or campus commitment to)
General resources:
Try a search on the College Navigator with the word "environmental" in the program search field (http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/)
Eco League (www.ecoleague.org), a unique consortium of green-friendly colleges stretching from Maine to Alaska.
Check out the Green Report Card: http://www.greenreportcard.org/
Information on "green" colleges courtesy of the Princeton Review: http://www.princetonreview.com/green.aspx
The US Green Building Council's green campus campaign information: http://www.usgbc.org/campus
The American Society of Landscape Architects has a full listing of accredited programs here:
http://www.asla.org/FullListofAccreditedPrograms.aspx
Possibly related: Shaun McElroy's post on Fairtrade universities: http://www.internationalcounselor.org/?p=499
Colleges celebrating Earth Day in 2011 in interesting ways: http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/slideshows/colleges-get-creative-for-2011-earth-day
Information on the website of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education: http://www.aashe.org/
Colleges with Potentially Relevant Academic Programs:
Appalachian State University
University of Arkansas Main Campus
Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
Arizona State University http://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/
Columbia University has an interdisciplinary concentration
Cornell University
Dickinson College (PA) has an environmental science/sustainability program that includes a "watershed" semester (on campus, Chesapeake Bay and Miss. River)
Green Mountain College:
http://www.greenmtn.edu/academics/aos_sites/be/programs.asp#cert
Heidelberg College
Water Resources
The National Center for Water Quality Research
New Brunswick (in Canada) - Environmental Studies major has a strong sustainable development element
Philadelphia University offers a BS in Environmental Sustainability. For more information, see http://www.philau.edu/environsustain/index.html
Prescott College (AZ) - http://www.prescott.edu/academics/adp/programs/scd/index.html
Rice University: http://eesi.rice.edu/development.cfm
Sterling College (VT) offers a self-designed major in sustainable development. Information on their self-designed major may be found online at
http://www.sterlingcollege.edu/MR.selfdesigned.html They also have a summer program in sustainable agriculture, info here: http://www.sterlingcollege.edu/AD.summerfarm.html
Stony Brook University
Unity College (ME--"America's Environmental College") claims to have the most environmentally related majors of any college: http://www.unity.edu/
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs has a minor -- not sure about a major
Washington College (MD): http://georgegoesgreen.com/greenpledge.php
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA): http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/SSPS/Undergraduate/epd.html
(Original "seed" information for this list compiled by Gunnar Olsen at Indian Springs School (AL) in September, 2007)
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