Chatham ranked (again) as one of the twenty most sustainable colleges in North America

Chatham University has been ranked #17 out of 312 ranked schools in the nation for the 2020 Sierra Magazine “Cool Schools” ranking. 

In the 14 years since Sierra started ranking colleges according to their environmental commitments, this year a record 312 institutions participated in the annual Cool Schools ranking. All the schools ranked in the top 20 display a deep and thorough commitment to protecting the environment, addressing climate change, and encouraging environmental responsibility through their curriculum and on-campus operations.

Highlights of Sierra’s recognition for Chatham include:

“The alma mater of none other than Rachel Carson (Class of 1929) boasts an academic community (Eden Hall Campus) designed expressly to model sustainable living and management techniques through rain-water capture systems, aquaculture labs, and more. Chatham has also achieved a campus-wide net-zero energy footprint, thanks largely to wind and photovoltaic power. (Student interns manage and control one of the microgrids.)

Read more about the rankings, Chatham and the Top 20 listing at https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/cool-schools-2020/top-20-coolest-schools-2020.