Why I Work

By Judy Groleau, Vice President of Development, Second Nature (This post is part of a weekly series by the Second Nature team about why we do what we do.) In retrospect, very early on in my life, I can recall two constant themes that arose in almost of all the communication in my home as [...]

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Journal of Sustainability Education

Second Nature is happy to share the following announcement from our friends at the Journal of Sustainability Education: ENJOY SOME GREAT SUMMER READING The 2011 Edition of the Journal of Sustainability Education Interviews Jaimie Cloud on Education for Sustainability in our schools Stephen Sterling on the origins of Sustainability Education Opinions Dave Tomkins and Peter Tsigaris on [...]

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Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative – May 2011

By Peter Bardaglio, Senior Fellow, Second Nature Welcome to the May 2011 issue of the TCCPI Newsletter, a monthly update from the Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative (TCCPI). TCCPI Backs Plan for Sustainability Center on the Commons Members of the Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative at a recent meeting strongly endorsed the concept of a [...]

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Creating New Spaces for Connecting in New Ways

By Peter Bardaglio, Senior Fellow, Second Nature (This post is part of a weekly series by the Second Nature team about why we do what we do.) “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas,” John Maynard Keynes has observed, “but in escaping from the old ones.”  Nowhere is the truth of this observation clearer [...]

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Tracking Your Travel Emissions

Through the ACUPCC, institutions agree to reduce and eventually eliminate their net greenhouse gas emissions from specified sources – including some indirect “Scope 3” sources, specifically: regular commuting to and from campus, and air travel paid for by the institution.  These Scope 3 emissions can be tricky to measure, and in fulfilling the ACUPCC schools [...]

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Finding Why We Need to Ask Why

By Vanessa Santos, Intern – Advancing Green Building Initiative, Second Nature (This post is part of a weekly series by the Second Nature team about why we do what we do.) As a recent college graduate with just one year of experience in the “real world,” I have a lot of questions I tend to [...]

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What makes go-karts go round

By Al DeLuca, Web Applications Developer, Second Nature Growing up there were two things that influenced why I work: books and go-karts. This might seem an odd mix, but it’s how things were for me. Go-karts were part of my nurturing, while books spoke to an innate nature in me, expressed as a predisposition towards [...]

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University of South Carolina, Aiken Represents ACUPCC in Taiwan

By Mike Jara, Assistant Dean of Facilities, University of South Carolina Aiken In January, 2011 I was invited to Taiwan to speak about the ACUPCC and to provide examples of how U.S. colleges and universities are working towards carbon neutrality. As the ACUPCC Implementation Liaison (IL) at the University of South Carolina Aiken (USCA), a public [...]

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The Department of Energy’s ‘Energy Literacy Initiative’

By Matthew Inman, Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow, U.S. Department of Energy (This article appears in the May, 2011 issue of The ACUPCC Implementer) To better educate Americans, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is leading a collaborative effort, the Energy Literacy Initiative (ELI), to define and promote energy literacy. If more people had a basic [...]

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AASHE and the Sustainability Curriculum

By Paul Rowland, Executive Director, AASHE (This article appears in the May, 2011 issue of The ACUPCC Implementer) Despite the progress being made to ensure that campuses reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, we still have far too many students leaving our campuses not understanding that they need to envision climate neutral professional and personal lifestyles. Even [...]

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