NAU named among 'Sierra' magazine's coolest schools

Northern Arizona University has earned an honorable mention in Sierra magazine's listing of the nation's "coolest schools" for its efforts to stop global warming.

A publication of the Sierra Club, the nation's oldest and largest grassroots environmental group, Sierra magazine's November/December issue honors schools that are taking dramatic steps to curb global warming.

"A new trend is sweeping the country—American schools are going green," said Bob Sipchen, Sierra's editor-in-chief. "When schools take such significant steps toward addressing global warming, it will have a huge impact on hundreds of thousands of students. And if young people take that passion into their communities and careers, it will reverberate globally."

Sierra's Top 10 "Coolest" Schools of 2007 are:

1. Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio: 2,800 students)
2. Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.: 20,000 students)
3. Warren Wilson College (Swannanoa, N.C.: 850 students)
4. University of California System (10 locations: 214,000 students)
5. Duke University (Durham, N.C.: 12,800 students)
6. Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vt.: 2,400 students)
7. Berea College (Berea, Ky: 1,600 students)
8. Pennsylvania State University (24 locations: 83,700 students)
9. Tufts University (Medford, Mass.: 8,800 students)
10. Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pa.: 10,000 students)

In addition, honorable mentions went to:

• Northern Arizona University
• Arizona State University
• Bowdoin College
• Carleton College
• Emory University
• Northwestern University
• Stanford University
• Yale University

For full descriptions of each winning school's green efforts, as well as a direct link to the honorable mentions, visit Sierra magazine online.