Outdoor Academia

摘要

Receiving a D- at TRINITY UNIVERSITY in San Antonio could instill the fear of flunking in any ambitious un-dergrad. But that's how low the school scored on last fall's College Sustainability Report Card, a comprehensive evaluation of campus operations and investments published by the academics, philanthropists, students, and financiers at the Sustainable Endowments Institute. In less than a year, Trinity completed its first campus-wide audit of greenhouse-gas emissions, switched to printer paper with recycled content, and committed to using LEED standards for a new science building. It even ranked among the top five schools in the EPA's Recycle-Mania competition.