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UC Is Tops in Green BuildingSierra magazine has named the University of California one of the United States' Top 10 "coolest" schools for its efforts to stop global warming. The UC system ranked No. 4 on the Sierra Club magazine’s inaugural listing of the nation's greenest campuses.
UC was the highest-ranked public university — and the only California institution — on the list, which was led by Oberlin College. Harvard University was second and Warren Wilson College was third. The University’s sustainability policy officially began covering green building design and clean energy standards in 2004 and expanded in 2006 to include sustainable transportation practices and greenhouse gas emissions reductions. This year, climate protection practices, green building renovations, sustainable operations and maintenance, waste reduction and environmentally preferable purchasing were added to UC’s menu of green business strategies. Sierra highlighted UC actions to make itself greener, from campus efforts to the system's pledge to generate 10 megawatts of renewable power by 2014, increase use of low- to zero-emission vehicles by 50 percent by 2010 and achieve zero waste by 2020 systemwide. |
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