'It's about leaving behind a legacy of clean air, clean water, healthy soil and a livable planet for the generations to come,' one professor told Newsweek
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"There's a lot of neat technology there, but it's also a huge behavior change, where we're trying to get people not just to sort their waste appropriately but be more conscious consumers so that ultimately, over time, we hope that not only is the waste going in the right place and not to the landfill but that we can be more mindful, be more conscious producers of waste," Bleveans explained.
"That distinction between the guts of running a campus...whether it's recycling or energy efficiency or clean energy, the way we buy stuff, those are all really important and often provide amazing teaching and learning opportunities for students," said Joshua Skov, a senior instructor at the school."But then...what goes on in the classroom is going to be directed toward a thousand other things going on, not just on campus or in the community but in the world.
"It's not just innovation for the sake of innovation—where you get a meal ticket so you can go to your fancy restaurant at the end of the day—it's about the planet.
"The faculty passed a resolution last fall asking Dickinson to become part of this initiative with Second Nature, but students are very much involved in the actual implementation and work," Leary explained.
"Being small has its disadvantages as a college, in terms of economies of scale," College of the Atlantic President Darron Collins told,"but it's also absolutely crucial to the pedagogy of the whole place. This is a community of very, very serious and inspired teachers and learners, and the thing that unites all of us together is a commitment to a better ecological future."
College of the Atlantic students leading a regional climate strike at the nearby Bar Harbor Village Green in Maine. Many COA students are actively involved with local and global environmental advocacy, often working together as part of the student-led COA Earth in Brackets environmental group.The student-led Campus Committee for Sustainability meets weekly to discuss on-campus sustainability projects. The school's Zero Waste Club also meets weekly to address improvements in waste reduction.
"I think the secret to the university's success has been the coalition that the students, faculty and staff have woven over the last 53 years since the Environmental Center was started on Earth Day of 1970," Dave Newport, director of the CU Environmental Center, toldStudents sort through recycled material in the Recycling Center at the University of Colorado Boulder.The CU Environmental Center has programs on zero waste, sustainable transportation and sports sustainability.
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