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The Sustainable Endowments Institute, which is based in Cambridge, has published its second annual College Sustainability Report Card. The Institute issues grades for schools in several green-friendly fields: Administration, Climate Change & Energy, Food & Recycling, Green Building, Transportation, Endowment Transparency, Investment Priorities, and Shareholder Engagement. The endowment and investment fields are crucial to the report because they indicate whether or not a school is putting its money where its mouth is and investing in... more ›

No, it’s not just you who thinks that living in Boston isn’t cheap. A new report proves that it is hard to make ends meet here in the city; “The Housing Report Card” released by the Boston Foundation and the Citizen's Housing and Planning Association, announced today that Boston is indeed an expensive place to live, in fact the most expensive in the country. Yes, the city who ranked second in "Best for Singles" by Forbes Magazine this past year, has again beat out New York City, San Francisco and Washington D.C., but now it's in housing costs. A family of four in Boston needs over $64,000 to cover the most basic costs to live. (In comparison, a family of four in NYC needs $58,000.) The report points to Boston housing prices, which have increased so much that people’s incomes and housing production cannot keep up. Massachusetts is home to the highest housing prices and has been for the last 25 years; these high prices keep out younger would-be-buyers like Bostonist from ever being able to buy their own place. The report warns that younger residents blocked out from buying will start to move out-of-state in order to afford real estate. more ›