ecoAmerica | The Green Economy Post: Green Careers, Green Business, Sustainability

Green Marketing Should Focus on The People

By Nathan Schock on September 15, 2011 Comments Off on Green Marketing Should Focus on The People Climate Change, communications, ecoAmerica, environmental, environmental community environmental marketing, Green Marketing, Nathan Schock, Nature Conservancy, Peter Kareiva

Summarizes new report from ecoAmerica that maintains that the environmental movement has not been successful in achieving its goals because it has not connected with the people. By focusing too narrowly on government regulation and intervention many environmental groups lost touch with most regular folk. Environmental organization should put greater focus on social solutions that are built around people.

Princeton Review Rolls Out List of The Greenest Colleges

By Tracey de Morsella on July 28, 2009 1 Comment 2010 Green Rating Honor Roll, and ecological agriculture, Arizona State University, Atlanta, Bar Harbor, Bates College, Beech Hill Farm, beekeeping, Berkeley, Binghamton, Binghamton University, biodiesel, biomass gasification, Boston, buildings, CA, Cambridge, campus, campus sustainability, car-sharing, carbon dioxide emissions, carbon emissions, carbon neutral, carbon offsets, Carlisle, carpool, Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education, Center for Sustainable Entrepreneurship, certification. organic landscaping, CO, co-generation power plant, College of the Atlantic, colleges, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, compost, compost. solar PV, compostable, compostable dishware, compostable paper cup, composting bins, composting toilets, compressed natural gas, CT, curriculum, Curriculum for the Bioregion, Dickinson College, Durham, ecoAmerica, EcoGastronomy, ecology, electric cars, energy conservation, energy consumption, energy use, environment, environmental issues, environmental studies, environmentally friendly, ethnobotany, Evergreen State College, facilities, fluorescent lamps, food, forest ecology, GA, Georgia Institute of Technology, green college, Green Majors, green products, Green Rating Honor Roll, Green Ratings, green university, greenhouse gas emission reductions, greenhouse gas emissions, Harvard College, human ecology, hydropower, International Village, Kroon Hall, landfill, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, LEED Gold certification, LEED Platinum, LEED Silver, Lewiston ME, Local, MA, ME, Middlebury, Middlebury College, Nature Preserve, New Haven, NH, Northeastern University, NY, Olympia, organic agriculture, organic certification, organic garden, organic produce, PA, Project Clean Plate, recycle, recycling, renewable electricity, renewable wood pellets, Robert Franek, school of Forestry & Environmental Studies, School of Sustainability, Seattle, self-ventilated, socially responsible, socially responsible business program, soft drinks, solar panels, State University of New York at Binghamton, sustainability, Sustainable agriculture, sustainable commencement, sustainable dining program, sustainably produced wood, The Princeton Review, trails, Trans-Atlantic Food Systems, university, University of California Berkeley, University of New Hampshire, University of Washington, Used fryer oil, van pool, VT, WA, Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education, wetland, wind, Yale Sustainable Food Project, Yale University, zero-waste, Zipcar

The Princeton Review, today released its second annual Green Ratings of colleges. In this measure of how environmentally friendly the institutions are on a scale of 60 to 99, the company tallied its Green Ratings for 697 institutions based on data it collected from the colleges in 2008-09 concerning their environmentally related policies, practices, and academic offerings. The Princeton Review also named 15 colleges to its “2010 Green Rating Honor Roll” – a list that salutes the institutions that received the highest possible score – 99 – in this year’s rating tallies.