Green Jobs (Everybody Wants One)
I’ve served as a campus sustainability professional since 2004, and my observation has been that each year brings with it a new initiative or buzzword or idea that sweeps through sustainability offices in higher education. For example, 2004 was the year that green building and LEED seemed to reach a tipping point on university campuses, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The Start-Up Guide for the Campus Sustainability Professional
We’re now over a week past the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE’s) 2008 conference and my mind has not stopped racing. With numerous presenters providing ideas, insights, and lessons from leading campus sustainability programs, I feel like my to-do list doubled in three short days. We’re understaffed and overworked, right? [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )A Movement Reaches Adulthood (AASHE 2008, Opening Night)
In the spring of 1990, Oberlin College Professor David Orr launched a movement.
Students graduating from Arkansas College (now Lyons College) in Batesville, Arkansas in 1990 may never know that their commencement speaker that year delivered an address that literally changed higher education. Dr. Orr, in posing the provocative question “What is Education For?”, challenged the [...]
