Go Green?

Since "green" is the new buzzword, it begs the question of whether the college- or university-bound student should be thinking green when choosing where to spend four years.

This space has been watching a couple developments north of the border (Canada, eh?), where they call it "university" as opposed to "college."

UNBC. University of Northern British Columbia. They maintain that they are "Canada's Green University."

But they have a little bit of a battle on their hands in the form of Thompson Rivers University -- which has becoming the "university of choice" in several areas, including "environmental sustainability" as part of its strategic plan. (You can see the rest of the neat stuff about TRU at the President's welcome page here.

Both have one advantage in the race toward environmental sustainability, oneness with nature and those sorts of things that "green" kids might like -- they are actually NEAR NATURE.

UNBC is in the outpost of Prince George, British Columbia. It's sorta close to Alaska.

TRU is in Kamloops, which is closer to Washington State in the US than any other state.

There are other schools, of course, who maintain "greenness" as part of their mission. But these two we found pretty interesting.