The Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network (GPSEN), established in 2013, is a nonprofit institution declared by the United Nations University as a Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) in Sustainable Development in Education. This makes it one of 138 worldwide and only one of three located in the US. Specific values of GPSEN include education, the […]
The College Sustainability Report Card
The College Sustainability Report Card was a program from the Sustainable Endowments Institute that ran from 2007-2011. It was the first comprehensive list of sustainability profiles of institutions of higher education and it assessed the 300 schools in the US and Canada with the largest endowments along with around 20 other institutions who chose to […]
STARS Version 2.1
This past January, two years after the introduction of STARS 2.0, AASHE released a new update to the sustainability assessment system. This is the fifth update to the assessment and contains more minor changes compared to a brand new version. It is also not yet in effect, but listed as the forthcoming edition. The biggest change […]