Comment on: Colgate University a Green Leader
Colgate University is a small school in central New York that features big time academics in a small town setting. The school is abounded on all sides by farmland, and with the Great Lakes just a few hundred miles northwest, lake-effect weather causes the quiet campus to be under a blanket of snow from October to April. As part of what Newsweek deemed the "New Ivy League," the prestigious school has decided to begin a huge undertaking: Going green. Although the Colgate has always been environmentally conscious (its location in the middle of vast tracts of farmland and forest make it difficult not to be), recently, professors, administrators, and staff have converged to form the Environmental Council to facilitate the University's widespread environmentalism.