• Princeton Review and the U.S. Green Building Council list GVSU as a Green University

• Princeton Review and the U.S. Green Building Council list GVSU as a Green University

• GVSU ranked 15th in world by the UI GreenMetric in sustainability and environmental-friendly management

• Seven electric vehicle chargers were installed on the GVSU Pew and Allendale campuses

• GVSU Housing Project received LEED gold certification

• The Connection on Allendale campus received LEED silver certification

• January 2010 - GVSU Climate Action Plan

2009

• GVSU is the only Michigan school cited in the Kaplan College Guide of "cutting-edge green" colleges and universities.
   
• Grand Valley earns top rankings from the Princeton Review.
  Upcoming: The Princeton Review will do another examination in 2010.
   
• Peterson's "Green Jobs for a New Economy: The Career Guide to Emerging Opportunities" listed Grand Valley and the University of Michigan as the two Michigan schools among what editors called "top 50 four-year schools with great green programs."
   
• Grand Valley received national merit recognition in the Sustainable Endowment Institute’s 2010 Campus Sustainability Report Card.

• The Mackinac Hall renovation is completed and receives a LEED certification.
   
• The Laker Turf Building is completed and receives a LEED gold certification.
   
• The Kirkhof Center addition is completed and receives LEED certification.
   
• The Mackinac Hall addition is completed and receives a LEED silver certification.
   
• The new Frederik Meijer Honors College and the Glenn A. Niemeyer Learning and Living Center is completed and receives LEED silver certification.
   
• The Bicycle Factory is completed and receives LEED silver certification.
   
• GVSU receives Sustainability Award and national recognition for Sustainability Innovation in the 2008 Campus Report Card developed by the Sustainable Endowment Institute.

• Recipient of the U.S. Green Building Council’s 2008 Recognition Award

• Mark A. Murray Living Center was given an Energy Star designation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — the first university student-housing unit in Michigan to receive such a designation

• GVSU introduces the new Glenn A. Niemeyer Learning and Living Center, a LEED designed building

• GVSU selected by the Michigan Student Sustainability Coalition to host the ReGeneration 2009 summit
   
• GVSU receives USGBC Excellence in Green Building Curriculum Recognition Award.
• The West Michigan Business Review's Deals of the Year winner.
   
• President Haas signs the Talloires Declaration
   
• President Haas signs The American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment further establishing GVSU’s dedication

• The John C. Kennedy Hall of Engineering is completed and receives LEED certification.
   
• Campus Dining introduces “tray-less dining” significantly cutting down on food and water waste

• GVSU introduces the John C. Kennedy Hall of Engineering, a LEED designed building
   
• The Sustainability Initiative changes its name to the Sustainable Community and Development Initiative (SCDI)

• In reaction to the results of the TBL report, GVSU creates the Sustainability Initiative (SI) within the College of Interdisciplinary Studies

• The SI collaborates with the West Michigan Strategic Alliance in the development of the regional indicator report

• The initiative hosts the first Campus Sustainability Week, which now occurs annually and grows continually

• Grand Valley State University, City of Grand Rapids, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids Community College, and Grand Rapids Public Schools found the Community Sustainability Partnership (CSP)

• The City of Grand Rapids and CSP were designated the first U.S. Regional Center of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development.

• Lake Ontario Hall is completed and receives a LEED Silver certification.
   
• The TBL indicator report is created through the assessment of campus operational and administrative data

• GVSU adopts sustainability guiding principles and emphasis of the triple bottom line (TBL) to administration and the Seidman College of Business

• MAREC facility is completed and receives a LEED Gold certification.

• Groundbreaking for MAREC begins

• The idea for the Michigan Alternative Energy Center (MAREC) is proposed by GVSU faculty and Muskegon business people