Awards & Achievements


2012 CU Student Government facilities achieve carbon neutrality
2011-12 EPA Green Power Partnership College & University Green Power
Challenge award
2011 Environmental Center begins offering Sustainable Practices Program
professional training courses


2011 CU Boulder grounds are Next Generation Certified by International
Society for Land Care Emissions

2011

  Colorado Carbon Fund Offset Now award



2011 CU Boulder's Green Labs program wins national freezer competition
for science lab sustainability


2010 CU Boulder first campus to achieve Gold certification in AASHE
Sustainability Tracking and Rating System (STARS)
2010 Boulder Chamber annual award recognizes CU Boulder's sustainability
programs


2009 CU Boulder Sustainability Award for Ralphie's Green Stampede


2009 CU GOLD Leadership Program recognition as one of the Student
Organizations of the Year


2008 Honorary Proclamation by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter to make
September 18, 2008 Ralphie's Green Stampede Day
2006 Boulder County Commissioners issue Resolution 2006-126 in support of
Blueprint for a Green Campus


2006 Colorado Daily Readers' Choice runner up for Best Student
Organization


2006 CU Recycling receives American Forest and Paper Association School
Recycling Award
2004 Colorado Environmental Leadership Award
2002 Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education Award
2001 Wirth Chair Community Leadership Award
2001 Green Power Leadership Award
2000 EPA Climate Protection Award for Blueprint for a Green Campus
1999 Model Campus Recycling Program Award, White House Task Force on Recycling
1997 EPA Way to Go Award for student bus pass
1995 Outstanding School Recycling Program award by the National Recycling Coalition
1993 CU recycling earns PLAN Boulder County award
1992 UCSU receives EPA Administrator's Award for its CUPPS mug Program
1992 CU Recycling receives the Governor's Pollution Prevention award
1990 CU wins national campus recycling contest sponsored by MTV
1986 CU Recycling wins the “State Recycler of the Year” award from Colorado Recycles