| School | Project | Website | Lessons for Stanford or Contacts |
| Tufts University | Tufts Climate Initiative | http://www.tufts.edu/tie/tci/ | Tufts just did what we want Stanford to do! |
| Whitman College | Whitman Campus Greens | contact: Juliana williajm@whitman.edu | these leaders came to the Focus the Nation conference. Although Whitman is much smaller than Stanford, they've been innovative in using New Student Orientation to create an image for incoming students: "Whitman students ARE environmentally responsible." |
| Yale | Yale Project on Climate Change | http://environment.yale.edu/climate | Also has a Sustainability Director and and an Office of Sustainability |
| Harvard | Harvard Green Campus Initiative | http://www.greencampus.harvard.edu/cerp/climate.php | "This page recommends some of the most authoritative climate change resources." |
| Brown | Brown University: Environmental Change Initiative | http://www.brown.edu/Research/ECI/env_chng.php?tid=2 | "ECI is an interdisciplinary research and education program linking faculty and students from a number of departments and centers at Brown University. The initiative allows faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduates to use an interdisciplinary team approach to tackle significant problems in environmental change." |
| Brown Is Green | http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Brown_Is_Green/ | Climate Change Action Plans: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Brown_Is_Green/ccap/index.html |
| Oberlin College | American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment | http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/ocreview/2006/11/17/news/Dye_Makes_Pledge_Climate_N.html | "Oberlin College President Nancy Dye recently pledged her support for the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, which commits Oberlin College to developing a comprehensive plan aimed at achieving a climate neutral campus as soon as possible. Signatories to the ACUPCC commit to developing a comprehensive plan to achieve climate neutrality that includes a target date and interim goals. Signatories also commit to taking some short term actions to reduce emissions and to report publicly on their progress toward achieving climate neutrality." |
| University of California | Policy on Green Buildings and Clean Energy | http://www.ucop.edu/facil/sustain/welcome.html | Sustainability Efforts on UC campuses: http://www.ucop.edu/facil/sustain/documents/stu_sus_efts.pdf |
| University of California, Berkeley | Cal Climate Action Partnership | http://sustainability.berkeley.edu/calcap.html | The Cal CAP is conducting a feasibility study of climate neutrality at Cal; the person in charge is Scott Zimmerman. Like the Stanford Climate Crew, the Cal Climate Action Partnership is part of a larger sustainability organization at Cal |
| University of California, Santa Cruz | Student Environmental Center | http://www.ucscsec.org/blueprint_and_summit/blueprint.html | |
| University of Waterloo,Canada | WATgreen | http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infowast/watgreen/ | Committee that includes faculty, staff, students, administration. An educational initiative. |
| University of Colorado at Boulder | Environmental Center | http://ecenter.colorado.edu/index.html | Successfully implemented "Blueprint for a Green Campus, a comprehensive campus sustainability program |
| George Washington University | George Washington Green Initiative | http://www.gwu.edu/~greenu/ | |
| Princeton University | Campus Earth Summit | http://www.princeton.edu/~rcurtis/earthsum.html | |
| Connecticut College | Green Living at Connecticut College | http://greenliving.conncoll.edu/ | The College is operated as an Environmental Model. Among many other programs, they have an energy conservation fund and a renewable energy program. |
| University of Buffalo | UB Green | http://wings.buffalo.edu/ubgreen/ | Climate Action Initiative: http://wings.buffalo.edu/ubgreen/content/programs/cai/main.html |
| Michigan State University | The Office of Campus Sustainabilty at MSU | http://www.ecofoot.msu.edu/ | Committee for a Sustainable Campus, course based environmental assessment. |
| University of North Carolina | Sustainability at UNC | http://sustainability.unc.edu/ | Vice Chancellor's Sustainability Advisory Committee. |
| University of Virginia | Green Grounds Group | http://www.student.virginia.edu/~grngrnds/ | Similar programs to Students for a Sustainable Stanford |
| Portland State University | PSU Focus the Nation Organizing Committee | http://focusthenation.org/actionmap/?type=sing&id=29 | Portland State has committed to climate neutrality and has signed on to Focus the Nation |
| University of Notre Dame | Students for Environmental Action | http://www.nd.edu/~sea/ | |
| Cornell University | Cornell Sustainable Campus | http://www.sustainablecampus.cornell.edu/ | |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | Institute for the Environment | http://www.ies.wisc.edu/ | |
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