Posts Tagged ‘Second Nature’
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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Chillin? American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment to Mark Fifth Anniversary
by NEBHE Staff
March 27, 2012
The American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) will hold its fifth annual Climate Leadership Summit at American University in Washington, D.C., from Thursday, June 21 at 4 p.m. to Friday, June 22 at 4 p.m.
In 2006, 12 college and university presidents agreed to become founding members of the ACUPCC. Today, nearly 700 institutions ...
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Among Comings and Goings, UVM and Carsey Institute Name Interim Chiefs; Former Unity Prez Seeks Sustainability Leaders at Second Nature
by John O. Harney
July 29, 2011
University of Vermont trustees named former Provost A. John Bramley to serve as interim president, beginning Aug. 1. He will succeed Daniel Fogel, who is resigning the presidency after nine years in charge and will join the UVM faculty. Bramley, himself a longstanding member of the UVM faculty, served as acting president in 2006 when ...
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Linking Top-Down to Bottom-Up for Sustainability
by Rick Reibstein and Sarah Brylinski
February 28, 2013
It is now a commonplace to assert that education institutions have some responsibility to contribute to the effort to remake our world so civilization will be sustainable into the future. A history of this idea would capture the many programs of environmental research and teaching that have taken place at universities and colleges, going back ...
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