In Search of the Sustainable Campus: With eyes on the future, universities try to clean up their acts

"Across the country, conscientious professors, business leaders, student activists, and grass-roots organizers are driving the sustainability movement with the urgent sense that humanity is facing a series of crises — among them, climate change, a growing divide between rich and poor, energy shortages, the collapse of various ecosystems, and the pressures of a world population that may reach nine billion by mid-century."