Guest Blogger: An Imaginary Letter About Design and Sustainability

From the Chronicle's "Buildings & Grounds" blog from Gretchen Schneider:

Thank you for turning your campuses into classrooms, for including students in your decision making and discussing with them what, why, and how you are building. Even more important than all the landscape and architecture students on your rosters are those economics and sociology and political-science and journalism majors (to name only a few). These students will go on to decide the future of our buildings and neighborhoods; they’re the ones who will set the agendas; they will someday hire architects — and they’re the ones most likely not paying attention to this stuff right now. By teaching them that their decisions do affect the built world they live in, and by demonstrating to them that the built world of the future can be better than the one they come from, you will change the shape of our country.