SN Conferences & Workshops

Second Nature workshops are always tailor-made to reflect the specific needs of the particular audience. At the same time, what distinguishes almost all SN workshops is their unique inclusion of case studies of innovation and best practices from other academic, business and public institutions. As a result of twelve years of designing and delivering EFS workshops, we have developed groundbreaking and state-of-the-art events.

Since 1993, Second Nature has worked with over 4,000 faculty and administrators at more than 500 colleges and universities to help make sustainability the foundation of all learning, practice, and collaboration with local communities, including:

• 32 On-site Workshops at colleges and universities involving 650 leaders



• 14 Partnership Workshops involving a total of 750 leaders from 150 higher education institutions



• 8 Regional Workshops involving participants from 12-15 institutions per workshop, for a total of over 500 leaders from 100 institutions

SN Workshops focus on concerns or projects specific to an individual institution or association of schools. Second Nature and the client school/s co-design and facilitate the workshops to serve specific identified needs, including topics as wide-ranging as teaching sustainability across the curriculum, reducing the ecological footprint of the institutions, and strategies for helping to improve local communities. They provide and encourage information-sharing of proven models implemented by educators, administrators, and operations departments.

Our most effective workshops extend over a multi-year period, with content deepening through the duration of the relationship, and they are often designed to equip leaders from client school(s) with the practical skills and resources to catalyze and accelerate sustainability programs at their institutions.

Two particularly successful workshops are:

• Emory University: Nurturing a Green University, March, 2001



• University of Alaska Anchorage 4 day consultation, April 2004

The following partial list of workshops is not only an indicator of their success, but also illustrates the geographic reach of our efforts:

2005

• SN/EFS West Workshop for 8 universities in the Puget Sound, UWTacoma, Washington, March 4-6, 2005



• Wentworth Institute of Technology: “Sustainable Campus Workshop”, April 26, 2005



• “Making Sustainability the Foundation of Education and Practice for Planners, Engineers and Architects”, presentation/consultation with design and building professionals and academics on a strategy to make sustainability a foundation education and practice, Portland, Oregon, February 8, 2005

2004

• First North American Conference on Education for Sustainability, Portland, Oregon, October 21-24, 2004



• SN/EFS Workshop “Integrating Sustainability into Curriculum and Operations” for 8 colleges and universities of Puget Sound, Washington, June 17-18, 2004

2003

• Pacific Lutheran University, Workshop and Consulting, June 2-3, 2003



• Kennesaw University, Workshop on Sustainability, October 24-25, 2003



• Participation and Co-Founding of Campus Sustainability Day 1.0, downlinked to 7500 people at 175 colleges and universities, October 9, 2003

2002

• SN/EFSWest Curriculum Development Workshop, Eugene, Oregon, October 24, 2002



• SN/EFSWest Sustainable Design Workshop, Claremont, California, November 25, 2002



• University of Massachusetts: “Institutional Transformation at the University of Massachusetts”, May 16, 2002



• University of Cincinnati: "Integrating Sustainability Into the UC Curricula", April 26-27, 2002



• University of Massachusetts: "Teaching Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development", January 26, 2002

2001

• New England Campus Environmental Leadership Summit, Brandeis University, November 9-10, 2001



• United Negro College Fund (UNCF): "Building Environmental Stewardship Annual Conference", Tuskegee University, November 6-9, 2001



• Northern Kentucky University: "Integrating Sustainability into Curriculum", October 12-13, 2001



• Ball State University: "Greening of the Campus Conference IV: Transforming Campus Systems Workshop", September 22, 2001



• Wingspread Conference: “How can the Architects Contribute to a Sustainable World”, Racine, Wisconsin, August 24-26, 2001



• SN West Coast Regional Retreat, San Francisco, California, July 20-22, 2001



• SN Midwest Regional Workshop: "Shaping a Sustainable Future: Best Practices in Higher Education", Morgantown, Indiana, June 7-10, 2001



• Keene State College: "Integrating Sustainability into Curriculum", May 10, 2001



• Eastern Kentucky University: "Sustainability in Your Syllabus", April 12, 2001



• Emory University: "Nurturing a Green University", March 22-23 2001



• Berea College: Indicators Workshop, January 5-6, 2001

2000

• Presidents' Meeting: Oberlin College, November 16-17, 2000



• Boston-Area Campus Environmental Leadership Summit, Harvard University, October 27-28, 2000



• SN Northeast Regional Workshop: "Shaping a Sustainable Future: Best Practices in Higher Education", West Cornwall, Connecticut, October 12-15, 2000



• Northern Kentucky University Faculty Development Workshop, September 15-16, 2000



• Rhode Island Sustainability Coalition, Providence, Rhode Island, April 15, 2000



• Associated Colleges of the South, Winter Park, Florida, April 7-9, 2000



• SN Southeast Regional Workshop: "Shaping a Sustainable Future: Best Practices in Higher Education", Mableton, Georgia, March 17-19, 2000

1999

• SN Northeast Regional Workshop: "Shaping the Future: Best Practices in Higher Education", West Cornwall, Connecticut, November 5-7, 1999


• University of Florida, October 28-29, 1999




• Ball State University “Greening of the Campus Conference 111”, September 30-October 2, 1999



• North American Association for Environmental Education, Annual Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 27-September 3 1999



• New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability, New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 11, 1999



• Associated Colleges of the South Environmental Fellows Workshop, Austin, Texas, April 16-18, 1999



• National Environmental Education Advancement Project, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 12-18, 1999



• Dominican College, April 9, 1999



• Oakwood College, April 8, 1999



• United Negro College Fund / Building Environmental Stewardship, Augusta, Georgia, March 26-28, 1999



• University of Hawaii, Manoa, March 5-6, 1999



• University of Massachusetts, Boston, January 29, 1999

1998

• Fisk University, November 19, 1998



• SN Southeast Regional Workshop, Perryville, Arkansas, November 6-8, 1998



• North American Association for Environmental Education, Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia September 4-8, 1998



• University of Rhode Island, August 27, 1998



• United Negro College Fund / Building Environmental Stewardship, Atlanta, Georgia, August 10-13, 1998



• Keene State College, June 29, 1998



• Ramapo College, April 23-25, 1998



• SN West Regional Workshop, Red Lodge, Montana, March 27-29, 1998



• United Negro College Fund / Building Environmental Stewardship, Seabrook Island, South Carolina, February 26-March 1, 1998

1997

• SN Northeast Regional Workshop, West Cornwall, Connecticut, November 6-9, 1997



• Ball State University “Greening of the Campus Conference”, September 20, 1997



• North American Association for Environmental Education, Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 14-19, 1997



• SN Southeast Regional Workshop, Stone Mountain, Georgia, May 29-June 1, 1997



• Spelman College, April 26, 1997



• Worcester State College, March 27, 1997



• Bridgewater State College, March 21, 1997

1996

• Montana Consortium, Missoula, Montana, August 1-4, 1996



• The Natural Step One-day Workshop, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, June 12, 1996



• Montana Consortium, Red Lodge, Montana, March 21-24, 1996



• The Natural Step One-day Workshop, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, March 16, 1996

1995

• North American Association for Environmental Education, Annual Conference, Portland, Maine, September 15-17, 1995



• Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions Environmental Technology Consortium, Tuskegee, Alabama, July 24-26, 1995



• Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions Environmental Technology Consortium and Brazil Consortium, Miami, Florida, January 23-25, 1995

1994

• Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions Environmental Technology Consortium, Flagstaff, Arizona, June 14-18, 1994



• Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions Environmental Technology Consortium and Brazil Consortium, Atlanta, Georgia, May 21-27, 1994