Sustainability Students Collaborate to Work on STARS Rating for UMaine

SSI researcher Tim Waring’s undergraduate Sustainable Development class is working with the UMaine Sustainability Coordinator to help assemble data needed to complete a submission to the Sustainability Tracking and Rating System (STARS), a project of the American Association of Sustainability in Higher Education. Many leading “green” campuses are already rated by STARS. This ongoing collaboration, supported by UMaine’s President Ferguson, has led to a process of steady improvements towards sustainability for the UMaine campus. Waring hopes the campus will be able to submit its first report this year as a result of these efforts.