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SUSTAINABILITY:
A WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH
Going green is more than choosing paper with a high recycled content. Here are three colleges that are integrating sustainability into every aspect of campus life.
By Amy Milshtein
SUSTAINABILITY is not something
that gets checked off a list and forgotten about. Colleges today are integrating green practices into everything from coursework to campus life to the town beyond the campus walls. The practice helps attract students, save money and meet carbon footprint goals. College Planning & Management profiles three schools that eat, breathe and sleep green.
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY Taking It to the Streets
Sustainability is woven into Colorado State University’s (CSU) very DNA, according to co-chair of the president’s sustainability committee, Tonie Miya- moto. “Eighty-six percent of our students and 83 percent of our staff and faculty say that sustainability is important or very important to them,” she reports.
As a result, the university offers majors and minors in the subject at
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