“It’s not easy being green,” sang Kermit the Frog more than 30 years ago.

But it seems to be getting easier for these colleges and universities.

In the recent College Sustainability Report Card, two out of three colleges improved their efforts at going green.

Here are some numbers from the report:

• 70% buy food from local farms
• 64% serve fair trade coffee
• 59% have high-performance green building standards for new buildings
• 45% have cut carbon emissions
• 42% use hybrid or electric vehicles, and
• 37% buy renewable energy – with 30% producing some of their own, using wind or solar generators.

Top marks went to: Harvard, Dartmouth, University of Washington, Middlebury, Carleton and University of Vermont.

Those receiving low marks were: Juilliard School, Howard University, Regent University and Samford University.

Has your institution made strides toward going green? Let us know in the comments section below.

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