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Jul 22, 2008 11:21 am US/Mountain

Colorado State Starts Environmental School

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4/AP) ― Colorado State University is creating a new school to prepare students for the emerging green economy.

CSU president Larry Penley announced plans for the School of Global Environmental Sustainability in Denver on Tuesday.

The school will include professors and researchers from many university departments. CSU will spend $350,000 to launch the school but hopes to raise $100 million for an endowment over the next decade.

Penley said Dr. Diana Wall, a soil ecologist at CSU, will serve as the school's founding director.

"We talk about an energy economy, but for environmental sustainability, we need to think also about how all these environmental problems are going to create solutions," Wall said. "And were are going to have students prepare for an environmental economy in the future."

(© 2008 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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