During the 2007-2008 academic year, EPA has tracked the green power purchasing of colleges and universities across collegiate athletic conferences. These conferences and their representative schools are displaying environmental leadership by buying green power to reduce the environmental impacts associated with their conventional electricity use. To take part in the Green Power Challenge, a conference’s member schools must be purchasing a combined total of at least 10 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power.
The leaders listed below have been recognized by EPA as award winners of EPA’s 2007-2008 College & University Green Power Challenge. EPA presented two categories of awards for its 2007-2008 College & University Green Power Challenge:
Schools interested in taking part in the 2008-2009 College & University Green Power Challenge can start by purchasing green power and partnering with EPA. For more information please visit the Join Us Web page, or contact Blaine Collison (collison.blaine@epa.gov) at 202-343-9139.
The following colleges and universities were recognized for their individual green power purchase among all respective schools in their conference. EPA applauds these schools for taking a leadership role in their conference and in supporting a better environmental future:
| Individual Conference Champions |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
Conference (kWh total) |
| University of Pennsylvania |
192,727,000 |
Ivy League (221,583,000) |
| New York University |
132,000,000 |
University Athletic Association (147,000,000) |
| Pennsylvania State University |
83,600,000 |
Big Ten Conference (133,600,000) |
| Oregon State University |
66,680,400 |
Pacific-10 Conference (84,024,400) |
| Colby College |
17,428,000 |
New England Small College Athletic Conference (61,890,000) |
| University of California, Santa Cruz |
57,000,000 |
Association of Division III Independents (59,400,000) |
| Western Washington University |
40,000,000 |
Great Northwest Athletic Conference (42,841,400) |
| University of Utah |
36,666,000 |
Mountain West Conference (40,103,466) |
| Southern Oregon University |
17,622,000 |
Cascade Collegiate Conference (33,828,000) |
| University of Central Oklahoma |
26,000,000 |
Lone Star Conference (26,000,000) |
| Syracuse University |
22,000,000 |
Big East Conference (22,000,000) |
| Southern New Hampshire University |
12,000,000 |
Northeast-10 Conference (16,000,000) |
| St. Mary’s College of Maryland |
15,000,000 |
Capital Athletic Conference (15,000,000) |
| University at Buffalo |
13,300,000 |
Mid-American Conference (13,300,000) |
| Oberlin College |
10,856,240 |
North Coast Athletic Conference (12,806,240) |
| Duquesne University |
12,500,000 |
Atlantic 10 Conference (12,500,000) |
| Lewis & Clark College |
4,432,000 |
Northwest Conference (10,518,400) |
| Rowan University |
10,433,673 |
New Jersey Athletic Conference (10,433,673) |
At more than 220 million kilowatt-hours, the Ivy League conference topped the list with the largest total purchase among all conferences, and earned EPA recognition as the 2007-2008 Collective Conference Champion. The contributing schools for this honor included:
The Final 2007-2008 College and University Green Power Challenge rankings are available to view and print:
The following are the athletic conferences that participated in the 2007-2008 College & University Green Power Challenge.
1. Ivy League
(221,583,000 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Pennsylvania |
192,727,000 |
46 |
| Harvard |
17,681,000 |
6 |
| Yale University |
11,175,000 |
6 |
| Brown |
- |
- |
| Columbia |
- |
- |
| Cornell |
- |
- |
| Dartmouth |
- |
- |
| Princeton |
- |
- |
|
|
2. University Athletic Association
(147,000,000 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| New York University |
132,000,000 |
100 |
| Carnegie Mellon |
15,000,000 |
15 |
| Brandeis |
- |
- |
| Case Western Reserve |
- |
- |
| Emory |
- |
- |
| University of Chicago |
- |
- |
| University of Rochester |
- |
- |
| Washington University |
- |
- |
|
|
3. Big Ten Conference
(133,600,000 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Penn State |
83,600,000 |
20 |
| Northwestern |
40,000,000 |
20 |
| Iowa |
10,000,000 |
3 |
| Michigan |
|
|
| Illinois |
- |
- |
| Indiana |
- |
- |
| Michigan State |
- |
- |
| Minnesota |
- |
- |
| Ohio State |
- |
- |
| Purdue |
- |
- |
| Wisconsin |
- |
- |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| 4. Pacific-10 Conference (84,024,400 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Oregon State |
66,680,400 |
74 |
| Washington |
14,956,000 |
6 |
| Oregon |
2,378,000 |
4 |
| Stanford / Synergy House |
10,000 |
11 |
| Arizona |
- |
- |
| Arizona State |
- |
- |
| California |
- |
- |
| UCLA |
- |
- |
| USC |
- |
- |
| Washington State |
- |
- |
|
|
5. New England Small College Athletic Conference
(61,890,000 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Colby College |
17,428,000 |
115 |
| Connecticut College |
15,000,000 |
100 |
| Bates College |
13,187,000 |
96 |
| Bowdoin College |
12,570,000 |
66 |
| Hamilton College |
2,705,000 |
10 |
| Wesleyan University |
1,000,000 |
4 |
| Amherst College |
- |
- |
| Middlebury College |
- |
- |
| Trinity College |
- |
- |
| Tufts University |
- |
- |
| Williams College |
- |
- |
|
|
6. Association of Division III Independents
(59,400,000 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| University of California, Santa Cruz |
57,000,000 |
100 |
| Green Mountain College |
1,200,000 |
60 |
| Milwaukee School of Engineering |
1,200,000 |
7 |
| California State University, East Bay |
- |
- |
| Chapman University |
- |
- |
| Clarke College |
- |
- |
| Colorado College |
- |
- |
| University of Dallas |
- |
- |
| Finlandia University |
- |
- |
| La Sierra University |
- |
- |
| Lincoln University |
- |
- |
University of Maine,
Presque Isle |
- |
- |
| Menlo College |
- |
- |
| Meredith College |
- |
- |
| Mills College |
- |
- |
| Mitchell College |
- |
- |
| Mount Mary College |
- |
- |
| Nebraska Wesleyan University |
- |
- |
| College of New Rochelle |
- |
- |
| Newbury College |
- |
- |
| College of St. Elizabeth |
- |
- |
St. Joseph's College
(Brooklyn) |
- |
- |
| St. Joseph's College (Maine) |
- |
- |
| Salem College |
- |
- |
| Southern Vermont College |
- |
- |
|
| |
|
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|
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| 7. Great Northwest Athletic Conference (42,841,400 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Western Washington |
40,000,000 |
100 |
| Seattle University |
2,841,400 |
16 |
| Alaska Anchorage |
- |
- |
| Alaska Fairbanks |
- |
- |
| Central Washington |
- |
- |
| NW Nazarene |
- |
- |
| Saint Martins |
- |
- |
| Seattle Pacific |
- |
- |
| Western Oregon |
- |
- |
|
|
8. Mountain West Conference
(40,103,466 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Utah |
36,666,000 |
15 |
| Colorado State / Housing & Dining Services |
3,437,466 |
27 |
| Air Force |
- |
- |
| BYU |
- |
- |
| New Mexico |
- |
- |
| San Diego State |
- |
- |
| TCU |
- |
- |
| UNLV |
- |
- |
| Wyoming |
- |
- |
|
|
| 9. Cascade Collegiate Conference (33,828,000 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Southern Oregon |
17,622,000 |
54 |
| Evergreen |
16,206,000 |
100 |
| Albertson |
- |
- |
| Cascade |
- |
- |
| Concordia |
- |
- |
| Corban |
- |
- |
| Eastern Oregon |
- |
- |
| Northwest |
- |
- |
| Oregon Tech |
- |
- |
| Warner Pacific |
- |
- |
|
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|
|
|
|
| 10. Lone Star Conference (26,000,000 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Central Oklahoma |
26,000,000 |
100 |
| Abilene Christian |
- |
- |
| Angelo State |
- |
- |
| Cameron |
- |
- |
| East Central |
- |
- |
| Eastern New Mexico |
- |
- |
| Midwestern State |
- |
- |
| Northeastern State |
- |
- |
| Southeastern Oklahoma |
- |
- |
| Southwestern Oklahoma |
- |
- |
| Tarleton State |
- |
- |
| Texas A&M-Commerce |
- |
- |
| Texas A&M-Kingsville |
- |
- |
| Texas Woman's |
- |
- |
| West Texas A&M |
- |
- |
|
|
| 11. Big East Conference (22,000,000 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Syracuse |
22,000,000 |
22 |
| Cincinnati |
- |
- |
| Connecticut |
- |
- |
| DePaul |
- |
- |
| Georgetown |
- |
- |
| Louisville |
- |
- |
| Marquette |
- |
- |
| Notre Dame |
- |
- |
| Pittsburgh |
- |
- |
| Providence |
- |
- |
| Rutgers |
- |
- |
| St. John's |
- |
- |
| Seton Hall |
- |
- |
| USF |
- |
- |
| Villanova |
- |
- |
| West Virginia |
- |
- |
|
|
| 12. Northeast-10 Conference (16,000,000 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Southern New Hampshire |
12,000,000 |
100 |
| University of Massachusetts – Lowell |
4,000,000 |
13 |
| American International |
- |
- |
| Assumption |
- |
- |
| Bentley |
- |
- |
| Bryant |
- |
- |
| Franklin Pierce |
- |
- |
| Le Moyne |
- |
- |
| Merrimack |
- |
- |
| Pace |
- |
- |
| Saint Anselm |
- |
- |
| Saint Michael's |
- |
- |
| Southern Connecticut State |
- |
- |
| Stonehill |
- |
- |
| Saint Rose |
- |
- |
|
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|
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|
|
| 13. Capital Athletic Conference (15,000,000 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| St. Mary's (Md.) |
15,000,000 |
100 |
| Gallaudet |
- |
- |
| Hood |
- |
- |
| Marymount |
- |
- |
| Mary Washington |
- |
- |
| Salisbury |
- |
- |
| Villa Julie |
- |
- |
| Wesley |
- |
- |
| York |
- |
- |
|
|
| 14. Mid-American Conference (13,300,000 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Buffalo |
13,300,000 |
6 |
| Akron |
- |
- |
| Ball State |
- |
- |
| Bowling Green |
- |
- |
| Central Michigan |
- |
- |
| Eastern Michigan |
- |
- |
| Kent State |
- |
- |
| Miami |
- |
- |
| Northern Illinois |
- |
- |
| Ohio |
- |
- |
| Toledo |
- |
- |
| Western Michigan |
- |
- |
|
|
| 15. North Coast Athletic Conference (12,806,240 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Oberlin |
10,856,240 |
44 |
| Allegheny |
1,950,000 |
15 |
| Denison |
- |
- |
| Earlham |
- |
- |
| Hiram |
- |
- |
| Kenyon |
- |
- |
| Ohio Wesleyan |
- |
- |
| Wabash |
- |
- |
| Whittenberg |
- |
- |
| Wooster |
- |
- |
|
| |
|
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|
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16. Atlantic 10
(12,500,000 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Duquesne University |
12,500,000 |
28 |
| Charlotte |
- |
- |
| Dayton |
- |
- |
| Fordham |
- |
- |
| George Washington |
- |
- |
| La Salle |
- |
- |
| Massachusetts |
- |
- |
| Rhode Island |
- |
- |
| Richmond |
- |
- |
| Saint Joseph's |
- |
- |
| Saint Louis |
- |
- |
| St. Bonaventure |
- |
- |
| Temple |
- |
- |
| Xavier |
- |
- |
|
|
| 17. Northwest Conference (10,518,400 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Lewis & Clark |
4,432,000 |
29 |
| Pacific Lutheran |
3,444,000 |
20 |
| Whitman |
2,642,400 |
24 |
| George Fox |
- |
- |
| Menlo |
- |
- |
| Linfield |
- |
- |
| Pacific |
- |
- |
| Puget Sound |
- |
- |
| Whitworth |
- |
- |
| Willamette |
- |
- |
|
|
| 18. New Jersey Athletic Conference (10,433,673 kWh) |
| School |
Green Power (kWh) |
% Green Power |
| Rowan |
10,433,673 |
25 |
| Kean |
- |
- |
| Mont Clair State |
- |
- |
| New Jersey City |
- |
- |
| Richard Stockton |
- |
- |
| Rutgers- Camden |
- |
- |
| Rutgers- Newark |
- |
- |
| The College of New Jersey |
- |
- |
| William Patterson |
- |
- |
|