The University has recently been recognized as an environmentally responsible college in the 2017 edition of “The Princeton Review Guide to 375 Green Colleges.” 
LSU assistant director of communication and grants Tammy Millican said Princeton looks at the sustainability and the green things the University is attempting to do. The University was considered for the first time in 2011.
Millican said the ranking is based on the University having electric vehicle charging stations and recycling construction waste. The ranking is also based and on the University being named the Environmental Protection Agency’s game day challenge winner in the Southeastern Conference two years in a row.
The University was granted three electric vehicle charging stations in 2011 from Entergy.
The University has received five Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality leadership awards since 2011, and received some grants from Keep
Louisiana Beautiful to reduce waste, Millican said. For the past five years in a row, the University has been recognized with Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation. Millican said that has to do with how the University cares for the oak trees around campus.
“All of these programs and our effort to operate more energy efficient…lead them to include us in the guide,” Millican said.
Millican said the University tries to look for creative ways to engage students and to increase awareness. The Litterati Campaign was started by Jeff Kirschner. Kirschner started this campaign when he and his daughter were walking in the woods and saw a plastic tub of cat litter. This one piece of trash sparked the idea for the campaign. Campus Sustainability started #LSULitterati and got students to locate trash and take creative pictures of it before they threw it away or recycled it. The most creative photo was displayed in the LSU Art Gallery. Kirschner started an Instagram page where you can upload photos of trash students pick up. Millican said it becomes like a digital landfill.
“The real thing is that we had over 200 entries,” Millican said. “When you think about it, if we have 30,000 students and everybody picked up one piece of trash everyday, it would make a huge difference in keeping the campus cleaner.” 
Millican said to keep the status of an environmentally responsible college, students should stay involved, volunteer and give Campus Sustainability suggestions. Millican said doing small things everyday like turning the light off when you leave your dorm or apartment or picking up a piece of trash can make a difference.
“It’s really about the facts that even with small things, you can make a difference in reducing our carbon footprint and recycling, and just being good stewards with the resources we have,” Millican said.