If you're a true devotee of biodiversity, a believer in the inherent worth of all species, not just iconic ones like the soaring eagle and the cud-dly koala, then logically you would have to appreciate the importance (and the improbable beauty) of even the humblest crea-tures. That's the unspoken premise of the work of New York photographer and video artist Catherine Chalmers. In a recent short video called Safari, Chalmers strives to see the world through the eyes of an insect, "to try to understand what it is not to be human." Hungry predators lurk in the foliage, stag beetles lock horns in mortal combat, flesh-eating plants envelop hapless flies. The lives of bugs, she says, involve "things that we consider amoral, horrifying, and really bizarre." Like walking unsuspecting into the waiting jaws of this pygmy chameleon.

From major league batting averages to the blogger's 50 All-Time Greatest Guitar Riffs, we are a nation obsessed by rankings. It was probably inevita-ble, then, that we should end up applying this obsession to the environment. Each week seems to bring a new list or table. Top-selling hybrid: Toyota Prius. Most sustainable city: Portland, Oregon. Few surprises there. But here's a list that is less predictable, and one that may have even greater relevance to our future. Net Impact, a San Francisco-based organization of MBAs, graduate students, and business professionals, recently evaluated ethical and socially responsible leadership in U.S. business schools. In the category of environmental sustainability, the top five MBA programs were offered by:

1. Bainbridge Graduate Institute,
   Bainbridge Island, Washington
2. Presidio School of Management,
   San Francisco
3. Ross School of Business,
   University of Michigan
4. Johnson Graduate School of
   Management, Cornell University
5. Yale School of Management,
   Yale University (above)