Role of campuses in Environmental protection
             Environment protection is one of the most burning issues these days with
             people complaining about the negative effects of various business and
             social activities on ecology. In this connection, green movement activities
             and environmentalists around the globe are urging people to pay closer
             attention to the consequences of many activities with may even appear
             harmless on the surface. Urban areas are the special victims of
             environmental destruction. Orr (19991) writes: "It is becoming increasingly
             apparent that our present environmental crisis is evidence of a prior
             failure of mind and perception- which is to say, a failure of education.
             The loss of species, topsoil, rain forests, and impending climate change are
             not primarily technological problems or even economic ones. They are first
             and foremost about how we think about the world we inhabit". However while
             we do know how cities are contributing to destruction of ecology, we simply
             fail to understand how colleges and universities could also be playing an
             influential role in this connection. Noel Perrin in his article on the
             issue helps us understand this. The author conducted a research on the
             environmental policies of 1100 universities and colleges and discovered
             much to his surprise that only few universities are aware of their role in
             preservation of ecology. In his research he found that out of 1100
             colleges, only 11 were doing anything serious for environmental protection
             while others were blissfully ignorant of their responsibility. However
             universities and colleges can play as significant a role in this connection
             as any state-level policies and programs. Highlighting the significance of
             the role of universities in environmental protection, strategic plan of
             "Universities should play a leading role in instigating and facilitating
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