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No.339 SIM音読用英文

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American Colleges are Going Green
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The nickname of sports teams

at Tulane University in New Orleans

is the Green Wave.


North Texas University's squads are the Mean Green.


Once called the Indians,

Dartmouth College's teams are now the Big Green.


Green is in

in college sports.


But there's an even bigger green wave

in the classroom.


Last year alone, colleges and universities across the country created

more than 100 major or minor programs

in energy, sustainability, environmental studies

and other so-called green subjects.


Two reasons for this:


Even in a tight economy,

green industries are offering good jobs

to graduates.


And students and their parents are pressuring colleges

to train them for these jobs.


So college architecture, agriculture, and engineering departments
are launching

green-studies programs

to do just that.


According to the USA Today newspaper,

the Obama Administration estimates

that opportunities in energy and environmental occupations will grow

by 52 percent by 2016,

compared to just a 14-percent increase in other fields.


Ten years ago at the University of California-Berkeley,

just 40 students enrolled

in an introductory class

on the subject of energy.


This year, 270 students are taking the class.


There are energy clubs on campus.


The one at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

has 1,700 members.


And at Arizona State University,

600 students have declared sustainability

as their major.


Not long ago, even top college students would likely have had trouble

defining sustainability.


Now, a lot of them are specializing in it.


I’m Ted Landphair.
by danueno | 2010-04-28 11:23 | SIM音読用英文


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