Four colleges and universities have received the 2007 Campus Sustainability Leadership Award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
The winners, who were honored at the Greening of the Campus conference at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., were Michigan State University, East Lansing; Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.; Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vt.; and Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Chandler, Ariz.
The awards recognize schools that have made substantial commitments to sustainability in governance and administration, operations, curriculum and research, campus culture and community outreach.
Michigan State received the award for four-year schools with more than 7,500 students. Among the university's efforts: Developing an expanded recycling center; incorporation of LEED design practices into campus construction standards; using design strategies for parking lots to reduce storm water run off and frequency of mowing; switching all farm equipment and university-owned diesel trucks on campus to bio-diesel fuel; adding 15 hybrid vehicles to the campus fleet; opening a full-time bike center; updating its campus plan to call for a coordinated bicycle system that includes convenient and appropriately sized storage facilities, bike lanes within roadways, and pathways where appropriate.
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