Schools are about the future, learning skills and gaining knowledge to broaden our horizons. So you would think that this forward-looking perspective makes educational establishments a perfect place to study sustainability, which is all about protecting our environment for present and future generations.

You may think that schools would have sustainability high on their agenda, but Mark Orlowski found that this isn’t necessarily the case when he started examining how green and socially responsible college and universities are. He’s head of the Sustainable Endowments Institute, which issues an annual College Sustainability Report Card.

Listen to the full interview here which was broadcast on Sea Change Radio.

Co-Host Kelsey Flynn then chats with Josh Stoffel, the new Sustainability Coordinator at the University of Massachusetts, and Monty Archbald, chair of the Green Campus Committee at Greenfield Community College.  And finally, Bill talks with Neil Drobny of the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University.

So if schools are preparing our children for the future is enough covered in the curriculum about protecting the future via sustainability? How far does your school/college support sustainability? What do your kids learn about this in their school/college?