What are the sustainability-related engaged living and learning communities?
Each year many freshmen apply to the Environmental Community of Students (ECOS), and fifteen are selected to live together in a residence hall. They share a faculty mentor and take two classes together (EES 21 Environmental Science and First Year Seminar Sustainability of Natural Resources). The students also perform three hours of environmental community service each week on campus. Additionally, sophomores, juniors, and seniors can apply to be a part of the four lakeside residential cottages making up the Greenbelt Community. The cottages have been renovated to green standards, and the community provides a model of civic and environmental residential responsibility.
