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Excerpt from Warmer Bulletin e-news, 4 September 2009
'University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has scored ninth in a top-20 ranking of the "coolest" schools in the nation environmentally, according to an article in Sierra Magazine, a publication of the Sierra Club, the nation's oldest and largest grassroots environmental group.
UCLA reports that this matters to 67 per cent of students applying to college, according to the magazine staff, which published the rankings."This is a new measure of prestige for colleges," said Avital Binshtock, lifestyle editor for Sierra.
"In researching the article, we talked to college admissions strategists and people who specialize in getting students into top schools. They all found that students are very interested in going to schools that have green practices."...
The rankings were based on total scores assigned to universities after adding up points for sustainability efforts in eight categories - academics, administration, efficiency, energy, food, purchasing, transportation and waste management.'
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