Nov. 9

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $3 million in grants to cities, universities and other groups to study ways to grow the economy without harming the environment.

The grants fall under the agency’s Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability program. The program enables local governments, nonprofit groups and universities to collaborate on projects to maximize economic and environmental benefits of growing the economy while staying green.

The EPA is funding projects in two areas: Communities and the Built Environment and Industrial Ecology and Organization Behavior. Studying human behavior is important because sustainable development requires a change in thinking, said George Gray, assistant administrator for the EPA Office of Research and Development.

The groups receiving grants, ranging from $200,000 to $300,000, were: Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.; the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife; the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, N.J.; The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio; the University of Maine in Orono, Maine; the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass.; the University of Maryland in College Park, Md., the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.; and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn.

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