Making A Difference Guides

Thinking about college? About what's best for your student? For our future?

If the truth be told, higher education in the U.S. is a major contributing factor to much of the environmental

degradation, injustice and social dilemmas being experienced throughout the world today.

It is so-called "educated" people wreaking havoc in our communities and across the planet; "educated" people

who build polluting chemical plants and create genetically engineered food; "educated" people who are responsible

for destruction of our forests; "educated" people who make the policies that hurt the poor, children, women

and indigenous people, and in fact, that ultimately hurt most of us.

Those are "educated"people destroying our health care system. Those are highly "educated" people in the

World Trade Organization and International Monetary Fund who are funneling ever increasing amounts of

money to wealthy elites, while destroying the environment and lives of poor and native peoples worldwide

with "structural adjustment " policies in the name of helping them!

So, if your student wants to make a better world, they don't want a "business as usual" education: they want a

college or grad program that shares their values, and gives the knowledge and tools to make a difference

as well as a living. S/he wants an engaging education based on interconnectedness, compassion and vision.

A relevant, practical and often innovative education based on critical thinking that will lead to meaningful work. An

education where s/he istreated as a thoughtful human, not just another number or a cog in service of mindless globalization and greed.

Where can such an education be found? You'll find America's greenest, most idealistic and relevant colleges, and

even travel programs in the pages of Making A Difference Colleges, the only guide dedicated to distinctive

colleges for peace, social justice and the environment.

You'll find plenty to chew on in the Guide as well, with it's thought provoking essays from seminal thinkers

such as Matthew Fox, Jeremy Rifkin and David Orr. You'll see why teens pass this book from hand to hand.