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This 3 page paper provides an overview of the issue of the greening of the college campus. This paper relates the idea that recycling, polution control and other enviornmental efforts that have been achieved on college campuses must be considered as a part of the college campus dynamic, not necessarily representative of the type or speed at which changes that can occur in the larger society.
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a very small scale approach to addressing environmental issues and often lack a correlation with larger environmental causes. What may give a few students a sense of success may
in fact relate a false sense of accomplishment towards the larger picture of environmental change. Singular efforts like those to clean up the University of Rochesters coal-fired power
plant, which was initiated by the actions of a single undergraduate student, provided the campus with a sense that environmental change was just that easy. The development of natural
habitat restoration and sustainable agriculture projects at St. Olafs in Minnesota suggest that there is a large degree of ease at which these types of environmental projects can be developed
and maintained both in the college environment and in the outside world. Unfortunately, colleges are not microcosms of the large society; they exist as separate, contained and controlled societies
that may reflect some of the larger social values but do not respond in the same way. The University of Rochester project is an interesting one to consider.
Legislative efforts and measures supported by the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up coal-fired plants throughout the country have had limited success. Over more than a decade, legislative
action directed to control the spread of contaminants from industrial plants has waxed and waned. In 1992, the International Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro resulted in the development
of protocols within the industrial sector for countries like the United States and Canada, because of their large-scale contributors to the issue of acid rain from coal-fired plants. The
Earth Summit defined some generalized goals and immediate protocols for reducing the influence of negative environmental factors like acid rain, but also set the goal of developing a more analytical
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