Campuses Nationwide Take Creative Approaches to Climate-Change Event

By Beckie Supiano

Some participants displayed electric cars; others heard music played on recycled instruments. In one way or another, more than 1,750 colleges and other groups highlighted climate change on Thursday as part of a nationwide project called Focus the Nation.

"We're talking about the possibility of losing one out of every two creatures on the planet," said Eban S. Goodstein, the event's creator and an economics professor at Lewis and Clark College, in Oregon. "If you're a smart and