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Fast Company Web Site Launches Series of Articles by Second Nature
President Anthony Cortese and Senior Fellow Georges Dyer publish on need for complete transformation in higher education.
January 28, 2010 | New York, NY
Green Building Kresge Fellowships Available to Help Under-Resourced Colleges and Universities
Second Nature seeks applications for Kresge Fellowship Program 2010, created to address some of the challenges faced by under-resourced schools to "build green" on their campuses.
January 26, 2010 | Boston, MA
Second Nature President Anthony Cortese Speaker at The National Council for Science and the Environment’s Annual Conference
Cortese joins EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson among other well-known speakers for focus on “The New Green Economy: aligning science, education, and markets.”
January 20, 2010 | Washington, DC
Second Nature Signs Joint Letter to Senate Opposing Amendment to Limit EPA’s Clean Air Act Authority
Thirty-eight major organizations signed letter registering deep concern for Senator Murkowski’s proposal.
January 8, 2010 | Washington, DC
Second Nature Announces New Mini-Grants Available for Under-Resourced Schools to Train Contractors in ‘Green Building’
Colleges and universities in states with low numbers of 'green building' projects invited to apply for technical assistance grants of up to $2000 each. Schools will use the funds to send external building professionals (i.e. construction contractors, architects, designers, etc) who work with their schools to attend green building training opportunities. The deadline to apply is February 12, 2010.
January 11, 2010 | Boston, MA
Second Nature Board Chair David Hales Publishes Article on WashingtonPost.com Planet Panel
David Hales, President of College of the Atlantic, says Not enough, Mr. President, not nearly enough in regards to President Obama’s speech and commitments in Copenhagen.
December 18, 2009 | Bar Harbor, ME
Second Nature, AASHE, and ecoAmerica Receive Prestigious Award
Founding organizations of ACUPCC presented with US Green Building Council’s 2009 Leadership Award.
November 17, 2009 | Boston, MA
Second Nature Fellow Jim Elder Receives the Conservation Award of the National Wildlife Federation
Elder, Founder and Director of Campaign for Environmental Literacy, receives Conservation Achievement Award for Education for his work to advance sustainability education.
November 13, 200 | Washington, DC
Second Nature and UNCF Announce $1.8M Kresge Grant to Boost 'Green Building'
United Negro College Fund, with support from Second Nature, receives grant from Kresge Foundation to help minority-serving colleges and universities build and renovate sustainably.
November 12, 2009 | Fairfax, VA
Financing Sustainability on Campus Book Now Available
Written, edited, and introduced by Second Nature Staff and published by National Association of College & University Business Officers.
November 6, 2009 | Washington, DC
Second Nature Launches Web Portal to Help Colleges and Universities Build 'Green'
Campus Green Builder free, interactive portal provides hundreds of links to green building-related web sites, directories of experts, and resources for training and funding opportunities.
November 3, 2009 | Boston, MA
Second Nature Editorial Published in Sustainability: The Journal of Record
A New Era in Higher Education (PDF) written by Second Nature's Peter Bardaglio and Andrea Putman
Posted with permission of Sustainability: The Journal of Record.
October, 2009 | New Rochelle, NY
Several College and University Presidents Urge US Secretary of Education to Ensure that President's FY2011 Budget Requests At Least $50 million for University Sustainability Program
September 23, 2009 | Washington, DC
Climate Neutral Campus Report Released by ACUPCC, Second Nature, and Kyoto Publishing
14 August 2009 | Boston, MA
President Clinton Presented Keynote at American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment Summit Aug. 13-14
August 13, 2009 | Chicago, IL
Nearly 250 leaders in higher education attended Climate Leadership Summit and heard President Bill Clinton’s remarks. Other speakers included: Martha J. Kanter, US Undersecretary of Education; S. Richard Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chairman of the US Green Building Council; Peter M. Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline and founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning; and Janine Benyus, biologist and author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature.
Second Nature and Several Colleges & Universities Join the UN's Climate Neutral Network
July 23, 2009 | Nairobi, Kenya
Six universities from the US, UK, Spain and China have become the first academic institutions to come on board the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net) - an initiative led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote global action to de-carbonize our economies and societies.
More than
150 College and University Presidents Tell Senators that Education is the Missing Link in Federal Climate Legislation
July 21, 2009 | Boston, MA
Presidents send letter calling on the Senate to help prepare the American people for a clean energy economy by including in the climate bill funds for education - at all levels - to help Americans make well-informed decisions as consumers, workers, business-owners, and investors.
Presidents who would like to add their name to the letter should contact Second Nature by email at policyalert@secondnature.org.
Second Nature Takes Lead in Managing Support of American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment
July 8, 2009 | Boston, MA
Second Nature has taken the lead in managing support of the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment as the ACUPCC expands its bold and vital activities to make US higher education sustainable and climate-neutral.
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