Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take
Melissa Ezarik
Franklin Pierce University
While campus sustainability efforts have steadily grown over recent decades, COVID caused a pause at many institutions.
On the one hand, closures had a positive impact on energy usage. “You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. “The solar on the rooftop of one building generated so much power, we...