Students in Canada are now giving much attention on greening the country to make it more environment-friendly, just like many other countries. Despite the fact that Canada is among the most progressive countries of the world, students also find the good thing in blending progress to environment. Just recently universities and college all over the nation have observed that students now seriously consider schools that love to care for nature and how the school implements environmental stewardships, the Forbes Magazine reported.

To implement this concern on greening campuses there is now the presence of school rankings in the country as to which are greenest schools. In fact, the Sustainable Endowments Institute recently released its list of the 200 schools largest endowments. The card is called “College Sustainability Report Card” which you can find schools that are being graded on sustainability and other concerns in regard to protecting the environment. The report card records the largest endowments of schools in Canada and the US on categories like energy-related policies, investment priorities and sustainability programs. There were six schools –namely Carleton College, Harvard, University of Vermont, Dartmouth, Middlebury College and the University of Washington – as schools with the highest ratings for 2008.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through its “Green Power Partnership” program has also released the list of colleges and universities in the country that are top purchasers of renewable energy. The GPP program encourages schools, governments and businesses to patronize in buying renewable energy. Topping the list of schools include New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Oregon State University and Penn State.

The report that Forbes released came from these rankings so that it was able to come up the list of top 10 schools that are massively campaigning for green environment in many colleges and universities all over the country. There are also plans for the Princeton Review to include the list of schools that implements greening programs to encourage more participation from other campuses in Canada. There is now a reporting system on what the schools do in regard to the greening program that is being developed by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). Based on the report released recently those schools that are implementing the program came from the North and Western part of the country. They were private schools with large endowments for green initiatives program.