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Allegheny College is once again featured in The Princeton Review’s annual guide to the most environmentally responsible schools.

The “Guide to 375 Green Colleges” highlights schools with exceptional commitments to sustainability and includes profiles of each school’s admission requirements, cost and financial aid, and student body, as well as detailed “Green Facts” for some schools.

The Princeton Review chose schools for this eighth annual edition of its “green guide” based on data from a 2016-17 survey of school administrators that asked them to report on their school’s sustainability-related policies, practices and programs.

Allegheny has been included in each of eight editions.
“We are honored to once again be recognized by The Princeton Review,” said Kelly Boulton, the college’s sustainability coordinator. “It is a good reflection of what we do here. We are constantly making the effort to become more efficient, more sustainable and to reduce waste, and students are constantly involved, pushing that progress.”

The Princeton Review noted many of Allegheny’s efforts and accomplishments in the green movement, including the generation of all campus electricity through wind sources (purchased Renewable Energy Certificates) and on-campus solar arrays; a robust composting program; an on-campus garden that incorporates local, organic produce into the dining halls; and rain gardens, permeable paving solutions and wildflower plantings that help minimize stormwater runoff. Allegheny also is a charter signatory of the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment with a climate neutrality goal of 2020 and a participant in the White House’s Better Buildings Challenge to increase building efficiencies by at least 20 percent across campus.

“Students help drive campus sustainability through research in classes, independent studies, senior comprehensive projects and student organization campaigns,” the guide noted.

The full guide is available online at www.princetonreview.com/green-guide.

The honor follows similar recognitions earlier this year. The Sierra Club, the nation’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization also included Allegheny on its annual list of top colleges and universities in the nation for green initiatives, institutions that the Sierra Club calls “America’s coolest schools.”