THE NINE ELEMENTS OF A SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS Mitchell Thomashow Mitchell Thomashow is the President of Unity College. He is the author of two books, Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist (The MIT Press, 1995) and Bringing the Biosphere Home (The MIT Press, 2001) and he is a Steering Committee Member of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). From the Whole Earth Catalog to a Sustainable Campus Forty years ago, in the late 1960’s, I was a college student in New York City. Every Friday afternoon I would hop on the subway, get off at Bleecker Street, and wander through the record stores and bookshops. It was an exciting time to be a student given the profound social, cultural, and political changes. Every week there would be new books, magazines or records in the shops and I wanted to read and listen to all of them. One day I spotted an unusual, oversized paperback book with a stunning picture of the earth on the cover. Laced across the top in a familiar 60’s San Francisco style font was the title: The Whole Earth