New York/D.C.-based Juice Energy released an interesting analysis this week showing what various colleges represented in the NCAA tournament are doing to reduce their environmental impact.
Juice environmental analyst Kevin Berkemeyer summarized how schools from different conferences are trying out different sustainability measures.
In the ACC, for example, Duke emerges not only as a number 2 seed but as the U.S.’s fifth largest university buyer of green energy. Duke’s renewable power purchases, Juice reports, makes up 31 percent of its total energy use.
Meanwhile, in the Big Ten, Wisconsin is singled out for its “We Conserve” campaign, which aims to reduce the college’s per-square-foot energy consumption by 20 percent by 2010.
Other highlights of the Juice analysis: Georgetown’s 300-kilowatt solar array, which is the longest-running installation of its scale in the U.S.; Oregon’s significant use of carbon-neutral energy (22 percent of all its consumption); Mississippi State’s 15-kilowatt solar array, which provides the university with 25,000 kilowatt-hours of clean energy every year; and Cornell’s success in reducing energy consumption by 10 percent through a system that uses cold lake water to cool buildings on campus.
