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Texas Tech Fail to be Green09-16-08 | News

Texas Tech Fail to be Green




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Texas Tech, one of five universities the Sierra Club claims are not eco-friendly, made the list because it has no unified water conservation plans for its fields and grounds. Photo: www.sports-logos-screensavers.com


The College of William and Mary, George Washington University, Howard University, Valdosta State University and Texas Tech University have all been called out by the Sierra Club for not being eco-friendly.

The group targets Texas Tech for having no unified water conservation plans for its fields and grounds.

The College of William and Mary interim president W. Taylor Reveley III refuses to sign the presidents’ pledge and has no climate plan. Administrator Anna Martin told the campus newspaper, “Signing it would be making promises we aren’t sure we can keep.”

George Washington University doesn’t offer its students incentives to use the D.C. Metro and lacks a green building policy, on top of failing to take any steps to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

Howard University does not recycle and has no green design or procurement policies.

Valdosta State University has a number of less-than-green projects, but campus protests can occur only with administrative approval in a “free-expression area” during two nonconsecutive hours each day.

Source: myfoxlubbock.com, sierraclub.org

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