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Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change (Urban and Industrial Environments)

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This is a collection of very helpful stories about attempts to green university campuses around the U.S. The authors include faculty, staff and students who found themselves muddling through, learning and finally leading campus sustainability efforts at their own institutions. As a faculty member about to embark on a class on campus sustainability, I found the stories gave some invaluable insight that I used immediately in designing our course. The diversity of stories and experiences-- all of which include honestly portrayed problems and failures, as well as successes--give a succinct source of information and inspiration for anyone who aspires to move their own campus toward sustainability.

This book is a respectable collection of case studies of sustainability/greening activities on college and University campuses in the 1990s and early 2000s. Each group of case studies is accompanied by a lesson or narrative for how to begin similar activities on your campus. Although each case study is instructive, the movement has gone far beyond the lessons contained in this book.