New generation of 'green' activists at US colleges

By Deborah Zabarenko

WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) - The new face of the U.S. environmental movement might well be Thomas Hand, who studied economics and auto repair at Vermont's Middlebury College, the better to refit cars to run on used vegetable oil instead of fossil fuel.

Or it could be Maura Cowley, who organized a 25-hour sit-in at Penn State University's administration building to press the school's president to talk with activists about cutting greenhouse gas ...