Universities Hiring Administrators to Green up Campuses

摘要

According to the chicago tribune, administrators and students are uniting at colleges and universities nationwide to cultivate environmentally friendly campuses. Many schools are expanding their existing green programs, and some are developing full-time administrative positions to manage such environmental endeavors.rnFor example, Tom Kelly is the University of New Hampshire's (UNH) chief sustainability officer. On UNH's Web site, students can virtually tour a green dorm room. The school also has constructed a pipeline between campus and a nearby landfill to harness power from the landfill's methane gas. This renewable power source will, by 2008, cut UNH's greenhouse gases by 60 percent from 1990 levels and will save UNH millions of dollars as energy costs continue to mount, Kelly said.