January 18, 2008

Small Colleges Worry About Cost of Sustainability

By SCOTT CARLSON

While students clamor for it, many presidents of small colleges believe that achieving carbon neutrality on their campuses would be too expensive.

In one of a number of sessions devoted to the topic at a meeting of the Council of Independent Colleges this month, Anthony Cortese, president of the nonprofit group Second Nature, and Ray C. Anderson, chief executive of Interface, a billion-dollar carpet company committed to sustainability, tried to convey that the concept was not just

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