Sustainability: How to Pay for It

Scott Carlson reports on a conference session featuring creative ways for community colleges to find dollars to fund sustainability initiatives:

Most community colleges depend on local or state governments for money, and so those colleges should inform local officials about what they are doing in sustainability. And if a college gets a lawmaker on board and gets money for a sustainability project, organizers of the conference said, the college should be sure to bring the lawmaker to the photo op to share any glory.

But colleges have to think beyond support from local governments. “You have to think about being entrepreneurial,” said Peter Bardaglio, a former provost at Ithaca College who is now a senior fellow at Second Nature, a group promoting sustainability in higher education.