Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
The Green Launching Plan for New Hampshire’s Environmental and Economic Future
by Ross Gittell
June 7, 2010
Economic vitality and environmental protection have long been linked in New England, and will be again with efforts to address climate change in the region. There is an emerging body of literature to support the potential economic benefits of a so-called “green economy” in the region and the nation. In New ...
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After Five Warm and Stormy Years, Higher Ed Leaders Keep Commitment to Confront Climate Change
by Georges Dyer
May 21, 2012
Photo: Presidents who signed the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) seen gathered in 2007. (Courtesy of Second Nature.)
Preparedness. Opportunity. Innovation. These words capture the essence of higher education’s critical role in creating a healthy, just and sustainable society.
Leaders in higher education are standing up to the greatest challenge of our time by ...
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