Minnesota Schools Cutting Carbon

HCC recently joined 55 other colleges and universities across the US and Canada in becoming a charter member of the Sustainability Tracking and Assessment Rating System (STARS). STARS is a voluntary, self-reporting framework for gauging relative progress toward sustainability for colleges and universities. This tool is an effort by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

STARS is designed to:
1.Provide a guide for advancing sustainability in all sectors of higher education.
2.Enable meaningful comparisons over time and across institutions by establishing a common standard of measurement for sustainability in higher education.
3.Create incentives for continual improvement toward sustainability.
4.Facilitate information sharing about higher education sustainability practices and performance.
5.Build a stronger, more diverse campus sustainability community.