Star Tribune Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:48:14 GMT
Sustainability is everyone's job, but some get paid for it
Employees whose sole job is to improve "ecofriendliness" are popping up at colleges and businesses in Minnesota and elsewhere. Years ago Suzanne Savanick Hansen helped restore a wetland on the University of Minnesota campus while pursuing her Ph.D. Now, she's applying that experience to her new job as the sustainability manager of a private college wedged deep in a bustling city. Savanick Hansen starts her job at Macalester College this week, becoming the newest member of a fast-growing club of professionals who are charged with working across departments to streamline, improve and beef up environmental friendliness. "In some ways, sustainability has to be everybody's job," Savanick Hansen said. "The college students in school now, when they get out, no matter what their field is, they're going to have to deal with these issues of environmental change and global warming." Those efforts can include everything from switching to ecofriendly sources of office paper to building a wind turbine on campus to changes in a college's curriculum.
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