More and more schools are focusing their curricula on worldchanging matters. Even those bugbears of the Leftist imagination, the MBAs, are competing to create social ventures and (like our new friends at Triple Pundit) launching do-good blogs. But it's one thing to talk about changing the world, it's another to actively engage in worldchanging. Can campuses not only teach a bright green future, but manifest it?

That's starting to happen with increasing frequency. Smart administrator are recognizing that not does greening their campus look good in the brochures and save them money, it actually better prepares students for the future in which they'll be living.

How much momentum does this campus greening movement have? This overview takes us back to school:

Rob Gogan, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was startled by what he found while accompanying his son on college-campus tours. Sparkling dorms with wireless Internet in every room? Of course. But guides bragging about geothermal energy and furniture made of conscientiously harvested wood? "Unbelievable," Gogan says. He claims such innovations would not have existed even five years ago. ... 91 percent of people ages 16 to 25 say the environment is important to them, according to a poll by Look-Look Inc., a research and marketing company specializing in youth culture.

The examples cited are inspiring. the Yale Sustainable Food Project features "menus based on local, seasonal, and organic ingredients"; CMU's New House Residence Hall is eco enough to be a Green Building Alliance case study; Clemson students are tigerish about recycling; while Colorado State's students are ponying up a small extra fee to completely power their dorm rooms with wind energy (presumably they're also using some of that windpower to download music, thus saving even more energy.) A glaring, though oft-hyped, omission is the Oberlin College Center for Environmental Studies, which folks say is about as worldchanging a campus building as has yet been built in the U.S.

(Got an example to add to the list? Is there a cool program at your alma mater that Worldchangers should know about? Share it in the comments section below!)