It’s Easy Being Green: Sustainable Learning

It’s Easy Being Green: Sustainable Learning: “The fight against global warming on college campuses is continuing to generate steam. There are now 514 signatories for the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, almost 600 U.S. and Canadian schools organizing around clean-energy solutions as part of the Campus Climate Challenge, and competitions such as RecycleMania challenging schools to see who can reduce the most waste. . . .”

“Middlebury College: The board of trustees at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT approved a student-driven proposal to make the school carbon neutral by 2016, which is only one of the school’s many eco-efforts. Students, along with scholar and climate crusader Bill McKibben, organized the national Step It Up 2007 campaign to protest global warming, which led to hundreds of rallies in all 50 states. The school is currently building an $11 million biomass plant and has exchanged more than 2,000 incandescent light bulbs for energy-efficient equivalents.”