May 9, 2007—The US Environmental Protection Agency has crowned the Ivy League as the overall champion conference of EPA’s College & University Green Power Challenge for 2006-2007. The Ivy League beat out 15 other collegiate athletic conferences. New York University won individual school honors for purchasing more green power, 118 million kilowatt-hours (kWh), than any other school in the competition.
Leading the Ivy League was the University of Pennsylvania, followed by Harvard and Yale. The collective total purchase of these three schools ranked the Ivy League first among all conferences, with a total of more than 140 million kWh of green power purchased.
EPA also recognized 16 individual conference champions with the largest green power purchases within their respective conferences. The champions are: University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Pennsylvania State University, Duke University, University of California at Santa Cruz, Connecticut College, Western Washington University, University of Utah, University of Central Oklahoma, Syracuse University, University of Washington, The Evergreen State College, Oberlin College, University at Buffalo, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Rowan University.
EPA’s Green Power Partnership encourages organizations to buy green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with fossil fuel-based electricity use. The partnership is comprised of a diverse set of organizations including Fortune 500 companies, small and medium businesses, and government institutions, as well as colleges and universities.
For more information about the 16 school champions, visit EPA’s Web site.
