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University of New HampshireUniversity of New Hampshire Scholars' RepositoryMedia Relations Administrative Offices10-7-2009UNH Scores Top Grade On "Green Report Card"Beth PotierUNH Media RelationsSara CleavesUniversity Office of SustainabilityFollow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/newsThis News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Administrative Offices at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It hasbeen accepted for inclusion in Media Relations by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For moreinformation, please contact nicole.hentz@unh.edu.Recommended CitationPotier, Beth and Cleaves, Sara, "UNH Scores Top Grade On "Green Report Card"" (2009). UNH Today. 217.https://scholars.unh.edu/news/217UNH Scores Top Grade on "Green Report Card"http://www.unh.edu/delete/news/cj_nr/2009/oct/bp07green.cfm.html[8/24/2016 2:14:40 PM] UNH Scores Top Grade On "Green Report Card"Media Contact:  Beth Potier 603-862-1566UNH Media Relations Sara Cleaves 603-862-0172University Office of SustainabilityOct. 7, 2009DURHAM, N.H. –The University of New Hampshire has received the highest score on theCollege Sustainability Report Card 2010 of the Sustainable Endowments Institute, earningUNH the overall college sustainability leader distinction. UNH is among 26 other universitiesnationwide to receive a top score of A-minus on the report card, which was released today. UNH received A grades (on a scale of A through F) in five categories – administration, climatechange and energy, food and recycling, endowment transparency and investment priorities –and B grades in green building, student involvement and transportation. As evidence of UNH’ssustainability leadership, the Sustainable Endowments Institute (SEI) singled out theuniversity’s integration of sustainability throughout its curriculum, operations, research andengagement; its efforts to purchase and serve local food in its dining halls; and the EcoLine™landfill gas-to-energy project.“We are proud of the awards and recognition UNH has received recently for the hard workadministrators, faculty, staff and students have done across campus to advancesustainability,” said Tom Kelly, UNH’s chief sustainability officer. “But our job is ongoing. Withglobal challenges – and opportunities – growing, we will be taking next steps to respondduring the coming months.”Other New England schools recognized as overall college sustainability leaders for theiraverage grades of A-minus are Amherst College, Brown University, College of the Atlantic,Harvard University, Middlebury College, Smith College, University of Vermont, WesleyanUniversity, and Williams College. The complete College Sustainability Report Card is availablehere: http://www.greenreportcard.org.Now in its fourth year, the College Sustainability Report Card covers the colleges anduniversities with the 300 largest endowments in the United States and Canada, as well as 32additional schools that applied for inclusion.  The profiled schools have combined holdingsrepresenting more than $325 billion in endowment assets, or more than 95 percent of alluniversity endowments.For more information on sustainability at UNH, go to www.sustainableunh.unh.edu ordiscoversustainability.org.The University of New Hampshire, founded in 1866, is a world-class public research universitywith the feel of a New England liberal arts college. A land, sea, and space-grant university,UNH is the state's flagship public institution, enrolling more than 12,200 undergraduate andUNH Scores Top Grade on "Green Report Card"http://www.unh.edu/delete/news/cj_nr/2009/oct/bp07green.cfm.html[8/24/2016 2:14:40 PM]2,200 graduate students.-30-

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