Sustainability
This fall Sierra Club鈥檚 magazine named CU Boulder the top 鈥済reen鈥 university in the nation, a jump up from its No. 2 ranking last year.
Like more than 900 cities, Boulder has voluntarily committed to meeting the Kyoto Protocol鈥檚 greenhouse gas reduction targets. And, like all but two of those cities, it is failing to meet its goals.
<p>In the United States we import about two-thirds of the oil used to fill the tanks of our vehicles.</p>
<p>Mike West, director of education for CU Biodiesel, has taught everyone from postgraduate students to second-graders how to brew their own biodiesel, showing how simple it is to create cleaner, more sustainable fuel from waste.</p>