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July 28, 2008, 01:13 PM ET
Shop Talk: Green News About Colleges
Green news abounds this week. First off, The New York Times features a story about greening colleges and the Princeton Review’s sustainability ratings. (A Chronicle article raised questions about those ratings, and the Times article touches on the issue, too.) A number of colleges will announce their presence on the rating system’s “honor roll” this afternoon.
Colorado State University has established its School of Global Environmental Sustainability, which should start offering classes in 2010. Diana Wall, a well-known environmental researcher who has been the director of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at CSU, will direct the school.
The Chronicle gets all kinds of press releases on individual actions that colleges are taking in environmental areas, like handing out water bottles to reduce waste at Lafayette College and filling campus lawn mower with biodiesel at Stetson University. (Here’s an idea, pursued by Cape Cod Community College: Don’t mow the lawn. Plant a meadow instead.) But holistic approaches to sustainability are few and far between. Middlebury College has taken a broader view with the release of a master planning document that places sustainability at its core. The document discusses the plans and goals that Middlebury has for achieving sustainability in emissions, transportation, landscape, and building.
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