AMS Climate Studies Course To Reach 100 More Minority-Serving Institutions

Second Nature is partnering in the coming months with the American Meteorological Society (AMS) on a 4-year project to promote the importance of basic climate science education at all colleges and universities, particularly those that are minority-serving and signatories of the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). This national network involves more than 670 [...]

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2011 ACUPCC Northeast Regional Collaborative Symposium Summary

By Sarah Brylinsky, Program Associate, Second Nature (Download the symposium agenda, or a PDF version of this summary here.) The first American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) Regional Collaborative Symposium – the 2012 Northeast Regional Symposium – took place at Bunker Hill Community College November 3-4, 2011. The Regional Symposiums focus on fostering collaboration among [...]

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Heartland Community College hosts 6th Annual Sustainable Universities and Colleges Symposium

By Adrienne LaBranche Tucker, Ph.D., Associate Director of The Green Institute @ Heartland Community College On October 28th, Heartland Community College in Normal, IL hosted the 6th annual Governor Quinn’s Green Government Coordinating Council Sustainable Universities and Colleges Symposium. Around 350 attendees from all across Illinois joined in a day of higher education sustainability best practice sharing. [...]

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One Institution’s Journey to Sustainability

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5 Years to Avoid Run-Away Climate Change

A new report, released yesterday by the International Energy Agency provides a stark reminder of the urgency of the climate crisis – we have 5 years to avoid irreversible, run-away climate change that will lock us into a scenario where it will be impossible to keep global average temperature increases under 2 degrees.  This article [...]

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New Report Finds Higher Education Has Critical Role in Adapting to Changing Climate

Human society is facing an unprecedented rate of change due to a very rapidly shifting climate.  This is resulting in already-documented vulnerabilities to human communities,” said Dr. David A. Caruso, President of Antioch University New England.  ”As this report makes clear, higher education institutions are well-positioned and ready to leverage the best of our faculty and students [...]

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Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative – October and November 2011

By Peter Bardaglio, Senior Fellow, Second Nature Welcome to the October/November 2011 issue of the TCCPI Newsletter, an electronic update from the Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative (TCCPI). Students Help Launch “Get Your GreenBack” Campaign Six hundred student volunteers from Cornell University visited over 8,000 households in Tompkins County on October 29 to hand deliver [...]

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CAP Planning Process at Rochester Institute of Technology

By Witold Bujak, Sustainability Manager and Enid Cardinal, Senior Sustainability Advisor to the President, RIT (This article appears in the November, 2011 issue of The ACUPCC Implementer) Preparing the first Climate Action Plan (CAP) can be a difficult task.  With this in mind, Witold Bujak, Sustainability Manager at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) offered to approach [...]

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CA-CP Collaborates to Develop a Web-based Calculator

By Claire Roby, Carbon Accounting Manager, Clean Air-Cool Planet (This article appears in the November, 2011 issue of The ACUPCC Implementer) At the recent 2011 AASHE conference, Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) unveiled the next phase of the Campus Carbon Calculator™ evolution: we’ve partnered with Sightlines, LLC, to redevelop the Campus Carbon Calculator as a dynamic, web-based [...]

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Measuring Sustainability Performance at the University of Maryland

By Sally DeLeon, Sustainability Measurement Coordinator, UMD College Park (This article appears in the November, 2011 issue of The ACUPCC Implementer) To lead in the transformation to a sustainable society, institutions of higher education need to clearly articulate their own sustainability objectives and show progress toward meeting their goals. A set of regularly updated sustainability metrics [...]

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