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Business View Magazine
Grand Valley State University
Office of Sustainability Practices
Norman Christopher, Executive Director of the Grand
Valley State University (GVSU) Office of Sustainability
Practices, is fond of invoking the ethos, as well as the
very words of former cultures that were wont to treat
the earth with reverence, and whose wise ones well
understood humankind’s role in helping to preserve,
in perpetuity, the beauty and resources of the natural
world.
“There’s a Native American proverb,” he says. “‘We
do not inherit the earth from our fathers; we borrow it
from our children.’ That’s a pretty good one from over
One of the nation’s pre-eminent college sustainability offices
Photos provided by Grand Valley State University
