The McHenry County College added a custom bike rack to their campus to promote bicycle commuting over car driving
There's a quiet movement taking place on college campuses across the US that will have a tremendous impact on changing attitudes in the future about our planet's resources.
That movement involves the creation of sustainability departments on nearly every college campus these past 10 years and their efforts to implement and promote best practices to reduce our impact on the Earth.
Sustainability, according to a definition created by the United Nations and adopted by many organizations is basically: "Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their own needs."
In other words, don't grab up resources today so there's nothing left for our children tomorrow.
Some of the ways that colleges accomplish this is by focusing on activities such as:
Constructing "green" buildings