niversity students, this can be an awesome and liberating realization (good news!). But putting it into practice, or even just into theory (i.e., preaching it, which is always easier than practicing), can be very trying and difficult (bad news!).
So we do our best to make the good news bits more attainable, by linking the teaching to the practice in an evolving culture of eco-social sustainability. (And, fortunately, living in a place like Burlington, Vermont, helps to make that culture seem real. In a Jon Stewartish sorta way.)