Green Honor Roll

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The Princeton Review has released its 2009 “Green Rating” Honor Roll, and 11 colleges received a perfect score:

Arizona State University at the Tempe campus
Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, ME)
Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
State University of New York at Binghamton
University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH)
University of Oregon (Eugene, OR)
University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Yale University (New Haven, CT)

Read more from green.msn.com.

The Environmental Working Group

The Environmental Working Group developed ratings for cosmetics and shampoos (mostly over the counter stuff - not salon stuff). 0-2 products are low hazard, 3-6 products are moderate hazard, and 7-10 products are high hazard.


Aveda products are largely low or moderate hazard, minus a sunscreen or conditioner here or there. That's only slightly less hazardous than the TreSemme giant bottle I'm using, but I guess every little bit of toxicity counts.

Aveda adopted a "Green Ingredient Policy" in 2006, including "soil to bottle" and "cradle to cradle" clauses. Check out more on their website.