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 CSE
and NAU's Campus Sustainability Plan featured in New York Times
"The Greening of America's Campuses"
For the second time this season, the Center for Sustainable
Environments has garnered praise from the New York Times. On
January 9, 2006, the Times featured NAU as one of twelve
campuses leading the way in greening America's universities, and
praised the inclusive process that the Campus Sustainability
Committee developed to gain
broad participation in implementing a campus-wide sustainability
initiative.
Rather than attempting a top-down approach to campus sustainability,
CSE's Director Gary Nabhan explained that "We let the people on
campus come up with ideas about how to use less, and we listen to
them." The deputy director of CSE, Dr. Gary Deason, has found
"ambassadors for sustainability" in virtually every constituency at
NAU, from students, to professional staff, to groundskeepers,
faculty and administrators.
The New York Times article also noted Nabhan's observation
that "A huge portion of our student body is motivated to be engaged
in environmental issues [and] wants to live on a campus that
reflects their values." Nabhan was alluding to Outside
magazine's rating of NAU being among the top ten schools in the
country for students seeking to integrate outdoor adventure and
field studies into their undergraduate experience. The Grand Canyon
Semester and the Center's own field courses are but two of NAU's
many nationally recognized programs in this domain.
Read the
New York
Times article
More about the NAU Campus Sustainability Plan
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