GreenPRO news

From time to time, I run across information that — while interesting — doesn’t genuinely fit in the GreenPRO database. Tonight, I came across an effort by a nonprofit organization that intersects with several California universities: The Alliance to Save Energy’s “Green Campus” program.

Here’s some brief information from their website:

Our nation’s institutions of higher education spend a significant portion of their annual operating budgets on utility services, diverting funds from valuable programmatic and community-building activities. The Alliance to Save Energy’s Green Campus Program is leading the way towards campus sustainability by bridging the divide between students and institutional energy costs. Through Green Campus, students are working to save energy on campuses by building general campus awareness, incorporating energy conservation and efficiency into course curricula, and implementing projects targeting energy use, student purchasing decisions, and operational changes.

Learn more about the Green Campus Program.

The Green Campus Program currently serves twelve University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) campuses: Humboldt State University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CSU Chico, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, CSU San Bernardino, UC Irvine, UC Merced, UC San Diego, UC Santa Cruz, San Diego State University, and Cal Poly Pomona. In January 2008, Stanford University will become the thirteenth Green Campus.

~Trey, GreenPRO Senior Researcher~