"One of the penalities of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." - Aldo Leopold

In 2002, Slippery Rock University received a grant of $24,944 from the West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund  for Development of Campus Sustainability Indicators. Grant funding allows for support of two Graduate Assistants for research of environmental performance monitoring and measurement of resource use and impacts on campus.

Sustainable Progress Indicators serve to track campus activities and efforts supporting campus greening, standardize accounts and streamline monitoring, communicate progress to teh campus community, compare our efforts with other universities, and facilitate recommendations and support change.

A series of public charrettes will coordinate activities and provide extension and outreach to other universities interested in campus greening. Campus greening initiatives are clever, cost-effective means to provide participatory and experiential learning opportunities across the campus community.

-Source: Steven Doherty Alternator Article