Arizona has the ideal climate for solar panels --- lots of intense sunlight with minimal cloud cover. Arizona State University, piloted by its School of Sustainability, has installed more solar panels than any other college in the country. The Tempe, Arizona, campus (just outside Phoenix) also offers free bike rentals and special parking spaces for carpools.
College of the Atlantic has established a thriving organic garden, used for teaching and food production. In addition to teaching sustainable agriculture, the garden also provides food for the campus, local schools, and even the community food bank. Like the solar panels at ASU, the organic garden is only one part of a bigger green movement, including widespread recycling, composting and an academic plan that includes sustainability as a theme to every discipline taught at the college.
Yale pursues green goals in several different areas. First, the campus is partially powered by both wind turbines and solar panels. It also sponsors the Yale Sustainable Food project, which manages organic farms and provides Earth-friendly food for on-campus dining. Additionally, Yale is extensively involved in research on climate change, environmental education and other environmental research.
UC Berkley is embracing the concept of a green campus in a big way. The university has pledged to reduce its greenhouse emissions to the level it produced in 1990 by 2014. This is six years earlier than the rest of the state of California has allotted itself to do the same. It was also the first university to offer organic food in its dining halls. Like the other schools in the state, it also offers a plethora of degree programs devoted to environmental topics.