The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded $3 million in grants last week to universities under its Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability (CNS) program. The funds will be used to study how communities can develop sustainable practices without hurting their economies.
Projects were funded in two areas: Communities and the Built Environment and Industrial Ecology and Organizational Behavior. According to George Gray, assistant administrator for the Office of Research and Development at the EPA, it is necessary to study human behavior related to sustainable practices, because sustainable development requires a change in thinking.
He says projects on behavior will attempt to identify specific obstacles to the implementation of sustainability and ways to surmount them. Other projects will help predict the impact of housing development on nearby lakes and streams, and devise methods for urban planners to build sustainability into land development and transportation in cities.
Awardees included the following universities that received grants ranging from $200,000 to $300,000: Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, N.J., Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, $300,000, University of Maine in Orono, Maine, University of California in Irvine, Calif., University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass., University of Maryland in College Park, Md., University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., and University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn.
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