To try and thank everyone who contributed to this project would be impossible. Many people affected my thinking and gave me ideas for this project; I could certainly never remember all of them. Such is the case when a study consumes the majority of a career, and my educational tenure at Tulane has been unmistakably interwoven with this study, either explicitly since 1996 or implicitly since 1994. The following are those who explicitly helped me. Of course, any deficiencies are my own.

Special thanks to Timmons Roberts, Michael Zimmerman and Charles Reith, the Tulane thesis committee for this study; their comments, encouragement and criticism helped me many times. Drafts of chapters of this study (or the entire work) were read by the following Tulane affiliates: Christine Murphey, Alicia Lyttle, Randy Broz, John McLachlan, and Ernie Edmunson. Melissa Vernon and Kristin Traicoff both made extensive editorial suggestions on the entire study, and Kristin contributed much work to the appendices. Laura Robson is especially deserving of thanks; she graciously provided many astute comments and much editorial assistance on the entire work.

The following participated in the first round of reviews of the Executive Summary: William Hochstin (Dartmouth), Anne Tazwell (New College, University of South Florida), Joe Strahl (Lund University, Sweden), Jennifer Hazen (Middlebury), Alyson Prude (Pomona), Victoria Sylva (University of Kansas), Andrew Robson (Southeast Oklahoma), Russel Henderson (Dillard), Larry Levine (Yale), Renell Carter (UT Austin), Horace Muncie (United States General Services Administration), and James Pittman (National Alliance for Green Education). The following Tulane affiliates also participated: Scott Cowen, Eamon Kelly, John G. Weinmann, Teresa Soufas, Yvette Jones, John McLachlan, Joan W. Bennett, Judy Zwolak, Oliver Houck, Jerry Speir, Dana Thomas, and Ford Graham. Teresa Soufas and Yvette Jones both took time out for very helpful and extended discussions on the conclusions.

Tulane affiliates participating in extensive interviews were: Eamon Kelly, John McLachlan, Teresa Soufas, Penny Wyatt, Yvette Jones, Daniel Nadler, Martha Gilliland, John Weinmann, Mary Konovsky, Oliver Houck, Charles Reith, Michael Zimmerman, Joan Bennett, Amy Koritz, Ernie Edmunson, Jennifer Casebere, Keith Hook, Sylvester Johnson, Dionne Picard, Judy Zwolac, Brian Fink, Alicia Lyttle, Emery Myers and Jeremy Shaffer. Their time and insights are much appreciated; they contributed much to this study and to my thinking.

The following participated in interviews, meetings and discussions during the research for this project: Kurt Teichert (Brown), Anthony Cortese (Second Nature), Rob Gogan (Harvard), Tom Parris (Harvard), Polly Berman (George Washington), Ivan Urlab (George Washington), Mark Starik (George Washington), Jon Miller (Georgetown) and Anthony Cummings (Tulane).

Colleagues at the Schumacher College course "Reclaiming our Culture: Redesigning the University" in Devon, England, during the summer of 1998 heard a presentation on this study and provided many helpful criticisms and comments. They include the instructors David Orr and David Ehrenfeld, and the participants Sidsel Lyderson, Masaki Sugita, Trileigh Stroh, Irina Shmeleva, Stanislav Shmelev, Francis Meynell, Maite Mathes, Laurette Rogers, Nick Wilding, Andreas Schelakovsky, Carl Frankel, Deborah Bausemer, Elena Camino, Emily Cost, Joanne Clarke, Judith Varley, Philip Harris, Marc Sutton, Ike Isaksen, Ana Maria Duque-Aristizabal, Martina Kornerova, John Thomson, Jocylin Bascug, and Hans van Willenswaard.

I used this study in a Tulane class, which I co-designed and co-taught with Dr. Charles Reith, entitled Ecological Design in the spring of 1999. The students in that class, as well as Dr. Reith, provided excellent comments and feedback on the study. They include Dan Au, Stuart Carlton, Brian Fink, Betsy Franke, Jini Koh, Jessica Lunsford, Danielle McCarthy, Peter O’Farrell, Bill Schleizer, Seth Willey, and Naomi Worth. Also, Henry Fry (Tulane Physical Plant), David Orr (Oberlin College), and Professors Timmons Roberts, John Klingman and Eean McNaughton (Tulane) all contributed to the course in some way. Tulane President Scott Cowen took time out to view the poster presentation of the class project.

I gave an extended workshop on this report at the National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology Training Clinic in Washington, D.C., during the summer of 1998. The participants and trainers involved provided excellent commentary and feedback on the study. They include: Julian Keniry, Lydia Wicker, Molly Chisdey, Catherine Estes, Dave Heeks, James Sharp, John Burton, Addison Dalton, Amy Fisher, Justin Francese, Jeffrey Huxmann, Courtney McIntyre, Kim Thurlow, Katie Tobin, and Darlene Walter.

The website for an early draft of this study received hundreds of visits in its first week, and many of the above reviewers submitted comments from it. Members of the email listserves "recyc-l" and "greensch-l" (both operated by Brown University) provided many insights and reflections from the field of campus environmental stewardship. Additionally, I presented brief talks on the study at the following events: the National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology Clinic "The Campus and the Watershed" (Xavier), the National Recycling Coalition’s Campus Recycling Series, the TuLead Freshmen Leadership Symposium, Sustainable Campus Development Clinic sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation and the Associated Colleges of the South, Stetson University, the Environmental Leadership Conference for the Environmental Action Group at the University of Florida, and in Professor Timmons Robert’s Environmental Sociology class (all at Tulane).