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Sustainability: Cool School
| The Patel Center for Global Solutions
How cool is this? USF rocketed up the rankings to No. 47 on Sierra Magazine's list of "Cool Schools" for bringing sustainable practices to daily life.
Sierra Magazine ranks American colleges and universities according to their environmental practices, green initiatives and the caliber of sustainability-focused education. The annual list is published in Sierra Magazine's fall issue. Schools fill out a lengthy survey in order to be ranked, and after two years of aggressively implementing green initiatives on campus, the USF Office of Sustainability made the list.
Christian Wells, director of the Office of Sustainability, is excited to be recognized as one of America's greenest campuses.
"Our ranking, 47 out of 118 schools, is confirmation that we are on the right path toward sustainability. Last year USF didn't even make the list at all, so our first appearance in the top 50 is impressive, to say the least."