An energetic graduate of Wesleyan College, class of 2013, no longer proud of her achievement-packed résumé, cuts off contact with her mother, flies to Hawaii, lives in a hut, and survives on plants from her small garden. She has traded a promising position in the global economy for a reclusive, ascetic way of life. That way of life—
Sustainability.
“The Concerned Asian, Black, Latin@, Native, Undocumented, Queer, and Differently-Abled students at Dartmouth College” storm President Phil Hanlon’s office with a list of seventy counts of “racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism,” of which, they claim, the college is guilty. They demand immediate redress. A white, straight, male, and “ecologically-conscious” student risks extending a hand of friendship to the activists. That hand—
Sustainability.
