We are so excited about UW Oshkosh's moves to lessen their emissions as well as becoming a Fair Trade University! These are the exciting changes we love to hear about and look forward to following their plans as they unfold in the coming years. So everyone, tip your glass and send a "Cheers!" to the students, faculty, and administration that made this possible!!!

Top Green Colleges

#1 Warren Wilson College: Amazingly this school has worked in the Green life into every aspect of the school. Not only do they have an amazing recycling program, but the school is self sufficient (sustainable farms and forest), and they even have soy fueled chainsaws and bio-diesel fuels!!

#2 Oberlin College: Oberlin college boasts a slew of Green programs and has made an active effort to reduce waste as well as educate. The campus has a car sharing program, supports locally produced food in its cafeteria, uses a ton of solar electricity, and their graduation ceremonies are completely eco-friendly including bio-degradable utensils and programs.

#3 Middlebury College: Not only does the Green activist Bill McKibben teach here, but this school has been very active in climate change. They have even put forth a plan to make the school carbon-neutral by 2016 as well as a state of the art recycling center. They even have energy saving competitions between dorms!!

#4 Harvard University: Harvard usually tops everyone's academic and sports lists, but now they can add Green rankings to their impressive resume. Harvard has recently changed all school vehicles over to veggie fuel from the cafeteria, they have the MOST eco-friendly buildings certified by US Green Building Council, and is one of the largest purchaser of Green and Renewable energy.

#5 Duke University: Duke has now required all new buildings to be certified by the US Green Building Council and is making an active effort to improve their green energy through wind and hydro-power projects. They are also pushing a biking campaign and discouraging its students to use cars.

#6 University of New Hampshire: UNH located in Durham, NH boasts an Office of Sustainability and in 2009 80-85% of their energy will come from a landfill source. They have also developed an organic dairy farm and a Sustainable Horticulture department, where they work with children in the area on developing a new Green Generation.

#7 Tufts University: Tufts was the first university in the country to pass a green initiative and won the US Climate Change award in 2005. They are committed to meeting the demands of the Kyoto target for emmissions and continue to develop solar panels! Also, this is one of our Alma Maters!

#8 Universities of California: Ok. We realize this includes 10 schools, but if we evaluated all ten separately they may have taken over the list! Every campus in this system has made efforts to use renewable power by 2014, increase use of low- to zero-emission vehicles by at least 50 percent, and achieve zero waste by 2020!! Also each campus has their own initiatives they are focusing on: UC Davis (our other Alma Mater) has sustainable and organic agriculture programs, UC Berkeley has an all organic cafeteria, and UCLA has really pushed the bicycling movement.

#9 Yale University: Yale has developed a superior alternative energy plan including: solar, wind, and geothermal energy produced on campus. They also promote using biofuels in cars and have incentives to employees who use a carpool system. And lastly they have developed a new school of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

#10 Evergreen State College: This public school hosts a large organic farm complete with composting facility. On top of this, the school purchases only 100% clean power, is in the process of switching to electric cars, and is building Green Buildings for future use.

Bummed that your school didn't make the cut??  Well then take matters into your own hands!  It is after all the power of the student body itself that can have the most influence over university administration, so start talking to your professors and university staff and start making positive changes on your campus today!

If you are a vegetarian or vegan and care where your school ranks in providing options for you, we have just the list for you! A year or so ago, PETA2 polled its college members and put together a list of the Most Vegetarian Friendly Colleges. These schools were nominated by their students and have amazing choices for their veggie friends that range from Soy Yogurt to Vegan Pizza and even Tempeh Cacciatore(SUNY Purchase). We have re-printed the list here for you to see! If you are in college see how your school matches up and if you are in the choosing stage, use this list to help guide you if choosing veggie is as important to you as it is to us!

USA:

#1 Indiana University-Bloomington

#2 Humboldt State University

#3 University of Puget Sound

#4 Yale University

#5 SUNY Purchase

#6 Oberlin College

#7 New York University

#8 University of California-Berkeley

#9 University of Pennsylvania

#10 University of Florida

CANADA:

#1 McMaster University

#2 University of Victoria

#3 University of Waterloo

#4 Simon Fraser University

#5 Mount Allison University

If you don't see your school on the list we suggest you make them change! Check out PETA2's Guide to Veganizing Your Cafeteria. This is not only for college students, if you are in high school and want to make a difference in your school cafeteria, we suggest you take a look at the guide as well. So good luck this semester and remember to study on a full stomach!

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• Stanford University [CA]
• Harvard Business School [MA]
• Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University [IL]
• The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
• MIT Sloan [MA]

I will try and get more information on these :)

•  Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad [IIM A]
• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta [IIM C]
• Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore [IIM B]
• Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow [IIM L]
• Indian School of Business, Hyderabad [ISB]

I will continue increasing this list as and when I get time and keep you updates if any one of you know any other add this your self. As awareness is gained by spreading more.

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There is no such thing as $10,000 cowboy boots, no matter what this story says.  I hate to say it, but I hope that God forgives this commandment breaker, because anyone claiming a pair of boots is worth that deserves to be ripped off.

A tape measure is a better  barometer as to whether you'll suffer heart disease than a scale...Interesting article here.