Sierra's annual list of schools doing the most for the planet. Plus: The best profs, classes, and extracurriculars.
AVITAL BINSHTOCK AND KYLE BOELTE
At the University of Kentucky, dirty energy smudges sacred basketball. Elsewhere, students blow the whistle on Big Coal with flash mobs, die-ins, and aerial surveillance.
DELLA WATSON AND BRIAN KEVIN
University researchers are creating a cleaner future from cow-poop fuel, synthetic trees, turbo-charged batteries, and fuel from muck.
EDWARD HUMES
Pastoral dreams take root in the South Bronx.
TALI WOODWARD
Hooking kids on trout in Colorado.
JEFF GALBRAITH
DEPARTMENTS
º Life's a Beach
º Spout Extras
Beyond Petroleum
º What beer experts drink
º Skateboarding's organic ripper
º Sustainable school supplies
Mr. Green on e-books vs. dead trees
Reverend Billy's sermon: Stop shopping
Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Wyoming
Flash flood! Now what?
º Poison rubber duckies
º Petal-pushing bee
º Up to Speed
Space-based power plants
Aggressively passive home
º Bill McKibben's climate arts and letters
º Werner Herzog's plastic angst
º On tour with Ben Harper
º Mountaintop healing
º World's best internship
The Tea Party's over
Movable feast