William And Mary, And Environmental Justice

The College of William and Mary was the second college to be founded in the American colonies, in 1693 to be exact. But there is nothing colonial about its current thinking on the environment.

In its classrooms, the college has worked to put together a highly interdisciplinary undergraduate green major, called Environmental Science and Policy. Its faculty has focused their research on ecology and conservation, environmental geology/geochemistry, environmental justice, and international aid and policy.

But some of its professors have taken those concerns well beyond the classroom. Emmett Duffy, a professor of marine science at the college's Virginia Institute of Marine Science runs a blog called "The Natural Patriot". In it, Duffy argues for a new form of patriotism grounded in environmental stewardship. He brings a sharp mind and even sharper writing to green scholarship, and that's before you even get to his blogroll and resource links. Very definitely worth a read.