The 2014 Presidential Summit on Climate Leadership hosted by Second Nature
October 1–3, 2014 | Boston, MA TURE SECOND NA Education for Sustainability
2014 CLIMATE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT ACUPCC STEERING COMMITTEE WELCOME LETTER
Wim Wiewel, Chair Jonathan Gibralter Michael Miller Dear Summit Participants, President, Portland State President, Frostburg State President, Northland University University College We warmly welcome you to the 2014 Climate Leadership Summit! We are Paul Ferguson, Vice Chair Jean Goodnow Scott Miller particularly pleased that you are able to join us this year in Second Nature’s President, Ball State President, Delta College President, Bethany College home town of Boston. As a capital of higher education, and a city that is University at the forefront of designing municipal sustainability efforts, we feel it very Nancy Oliver Gray John Mills appropriate that we are able to meet in this historic and also future-focused Bryan Albrecht President, Hollins University President, Paul Smith’s city. President, Gateway College of Arts and Technical College Divina Grossman Sciences Chancellor, University of From the release of a brand new U.S. National Climate Assessment, to the John Anderson Massachusetts, Dartmouth Juan Olivarez launch of the Alliance for Resilient Campuses (ARC), to new signatories of the President, Millersville President, Aquinas College American Colleges & Universities Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) University of Pennsylvania Dianne Harrison and a wealth of innovative approaches being taken across the network, this President, California State John Sbrega Esther Barazzone University, Northridge President, Bristol has been an exciting year of progress and opportunity. And never has there President, Chatham Community College been a more opportune and necessary time for higher education to continue University Mark Huddleston to lead us forward. We have crossed a threshold in the last year or two, from a President, University of Jake Schrum national dialog of doubt, to one of action. Because of the ACUPCC and your Michael Burke New Hampshire President, Emory & Henry commitments, higher education is poised to lead the next wave of innovation President, Milwaukee Area College Technical College Jacqueline Johnson and positive change around a more sustainable, equitable, and climate-ready Chancellor, University of William Shutkin society. Michael Crow Minnesota-Morris President, Presidio President, Arizona State Graduate School This summit aspires to give you new tools, insights, ideas and energy for University Elizabeth Kiss your own commitments. We hope you find that the agenda reflects common President, Agnes Scott Mariko Silver Debra Derr College President, Bennington interests, promotes intellectual vitality, and inspires collective action. There are President, Mt. Hood College many opportunities over the next three days to hear from exceptional speakers Community College Steven Knapp and leaders, and to participate in sessions that focus on innovation, progress, President, George Greg Smith and leadership around climate change and sustainability William Destler Washington University President, Central President, Rochester Community College Institute of Technology Gloria Larson We are honored that you have taken the time to attend this summit. Thank you President, Bentley Harry Williams for all the work that you do. We look forward to an exciting learning experience John Dunn University President, Delaware State as we work together to build our collective capacity for climate leadership. President, Western University Michigan University Jonathan Lash The Second Nature Team President, Hampshire Paul Zingg Paul Fonteyn College President, California State President, Green Mountain University, Chico College Linda Lujan President, Chandler-Gilbert Community College SECOND NATURE Education for Sustainability
2014 CLIMATE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2014 CLIMATE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Welcome Letter
4 Summit Standing & Host Committees
5 Host Welcome Letters
7 Event Sustainability Highlights
8 City of Boston Maps
10 Summit at a Glance
12 Hotel Summit Layout
14 Keynote Speakers
18 Program Agenda
31 Climate Leadership Awards
35 Implementation Liaison Leadership Circle
36 Sponsors and Partners
Photo credit, front cover, top to bottom: Aquinas College students sorting through waste at the 2013 solar array installation at COA’s Peggy Rockefeller “Mt. Trashmore” event (October 10, 2013). The event was Farms in Bar Harbor, Maine. Photo courtesy of College organized by students to raise awareness of “wasteful of the Atlantic habits,” in support of the college’s 2014 zero waste goal. Photo courtesy of Aquinas College/Josh Weiland Bike Fix-It Stations installed on CSU Fullerton’s campus. Photography Photo courtesy of Matt Gush EMU dining hall’s fresh, local produce comes in large Academies Students at the Solar Strand Opening on part from the five campus gardens, begun years ago by Earth Day at University at Buffalo. Photo courtesy of: a professor hoping to give students a practical exercise Douglas Levere in sustainability. Photo courtesy of Lindsey Kolb, Eastern Mennonite University
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Bryan Albrecht Jonathan Lash Mary Spilde President, Gateway President, Hampshire President, Lane Community Technical College College College It is my pleasure to welcome you to the City of Boston and to the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Debra Derr Mariko Silver Wim Wiewel Leadership Summit. President, Mount Hood President, Bennington President, Portland State Community College College University As a proud, longtime signatory to the Climate Paul W. Ferguson Commitment, I am excited to host a forum in which President, Ball State synergistic connections will be developed among campus University leaders, in the service of moving forward the teaching, research, and modeling of sustainability on college campuses. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.
SUMMIT HOST COMMITTEE It is critical that today’s students graduate from college with having had an immersion in sustainability, as it must serve as a framework for all future Lisa Lobel Eric Van Vlandren Jamie Jacquart endeavors. As leaders in higher education, we have the unique opportunity Director, Colleges of Campus Sustainability Assitant Director of to nurture future generations of thinkers and doers, whether they enter the the Fenway Center for Coordinator, Emerson Sustainability and Sustainability and the College Residential Initiatives, nonprofit world, communications, the arts, government, science, business, or Environment UMass Dartmouth education. Michael Orr Shaun O’Rourke Sustainability Coordinator, Paul Piraino While on campus, be sure to take a tour of Emerson’s Engagement Lab, Sustainability Liason, Lesley University Energy & Sustainability where innovative digital tools and media are created to foster transformative Boston Architectural Manager, Umass Lowell College Kathy Driscoll social change. Thank you for joining me in this movement. The world is Sustainability Liason, MA Divina Grossman counting on us. Lea Lupkin Maritime Academy Chancellor, University of Interim Sustainability MA Dartmouth M. Lee Pelton, President Manager, Brandeis Fenna Hanes Emerson College University / GreenerU Sr. Dir. Professional & John Hoey Resource Development, Chief of Staff, University of Kali Cofield New England Board of MA Dartmouth Asst to the President, Higher Education Bunker Hill Community Melissa L. Lucas On behalf of the Boston Architectural College, It is my College Ezra Small Sustainability & Energy great pleasure to welcome you to Boston. It is an exciting Sustainability Manager, Manager, UMass Medical John K. Pitcher UMass Amherst School time of year in the City as the fall semester has begun at all Vice President, of the regional Colleges and Universities and the energy Administration and Aditi Pain LeeAnn Pasquini is high. We hope that you have a chance to explore our Finance, Bunker Hill Manager, Office of Director of Budget and innovative, historic, and diverse city during your stay. If you Community College Recycling & Sustainability, Planning, University of find yourself in the Back Bay neighborhood we hope that Campus Services, UMass Massachusetts President’s Karen Norton Boston Office you will stop and say hello to us at the BAC. Executive Director, Bunker Hill Community College Jackie Jenkins-Scott Julia Halevy President, Wheelock President, Boston Architectural College College
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Welcome to Boston! Existing Sustainability Initiatives for The Revere Hotel We at Bunker Hill Community College are pleased to • Replaced fluorescent with LED’s for a 70% increase in lighting efficiency welcome you to our city for the 2014 Presidential Summit • All equipment purchased during remodel are energy star rated, saving on Climate Leadership. Boston is where the American $50,000 in 1.5 years, as well as reducing energy consumption by 30% Revolution began, and I think you will agree that we are in • Waste water pumps with high efficiency motors, 70-80% more efficient. the midst of another and equally far-reaching revolution • Comprehensive recycling program throughout the property today. It is increasingly urgent that we commit ourselves • Low-flow toilets are included in all guest room bathrooms to the actions needed to preserve our planet for future • Towel and linen reuse program throughout the hotel generations. • Filtered water dispenser located in Fitness Center for refilling water bottles • Skoah bath and skin care products are supplied in refillable dispensers Please take the time to visit Boston’s famous and inspiring • Paperless check-in/out, folios, and QR code enabled daily specials historic sites. And if you signed up for our campus tour, you’ll see the beautiful LEED-Gold building of which we are so proud. It is just one way we are dedicating ourselves to a greener future for our community.
Pam Y. Eddinger President, Bunker Hill Community College The Energy Offset project purchased by The Revere Hotel through Native
Energy, offsets the foregoing CO2 emissions by helping build the Green Dream Farm Manure Separation Project in Vermont.
As chancellor of Boston’s public research university, I am pleased to invite you to the University of Massachusetts Boston as part of the 2014 Presidential Summit on Climate Leadership campus tour. UMass Boston, an award-winning Students from Emerson College are part of the support crew working with sustainable campus, is a leading signatory of the ACUPCC Second Nature to provide essential logistical, administrative, and clerical Climate Commitment since 2007, and the only public help throughout all Summit programs and events. They are available to help university in Massachusetts to sign the international participants navigate between sessions, assist with logistical needs, and answer Talloires Declaration. Environmental stewardship and questions about individual sessions and special events. sustainability guide our mission and master plan. I hope you will enjoy our beautiful harbor location, and engage A group of environmental studies students at Emerson College are tracking with the inspiring faculty, staff, and students who are the Summit’s carbon footprint throughout the event. Measurements include committed to building a sustainable future for our campus. data on the volume of greenhouse gases generated by the waste, food, transportation, and energy associated with the Summit. Students will present J. Keith Motley findings on the CO impacts resulting from travel to the Summit, energy use on Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Boston 2 site, food, and recycling, along with ways to communicate this information in real time through social media and on the hotel’s chalk walls.
6 2014 CLIMATE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2014 CLIMATE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 7 CITY OF BOSTON ADDITIONAL POINTS ADDITIONAL OF INTEREST Newbury Street, shopping and dining Courtyard Marriott 1a. Downtown Boston to directions Walking The from Revere The Marriott Courtyard 5 min Time: Walking Exit the Courtyard hotel and Marriott Tremont on left head Stuart towards Street Street. At the intersection of and Stuart, Tremont turn left. down straight Proceed passing Street Stuart the intersection of and Charles Street Street. Stuart Hotel will Revere The be on your right. 1a
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Lobby Level: Mezzanine Level: 6th Floor: 10/2 THURSDAY Space 57 Carver Ballroom Gallery Theater The Emerald Lounge Loft 1 7:30am Gallery Check-In Open Hotel Lobby Loft 2 7:45am Gallery Continental Breakfast
FLOORS The Atrium Studio 1 7:45am Studio 3 Invitation Only Breakfast, hosted by Cenergistic Studio 2 8:00am Loft 2 ACUPCC Town Hall Studio 3 9:00am Loft 1 Track 2: Higher Education’s Climate Leadership Imperative 10:20am Gallery Coffee Break 9/30 TUESDAY 10:40am Gallery Track 2: Higher Education’s Climate Leadership Imperative 12:00pm Gallery Volunteer Training 11:45pm Carver Ballroom Break 2-4:30pm Gallery Check-In Open 12:15pm Carver Ballroom Keynote and CLA Luncheon 4-6:00pm 216 Tremont Street, Welcome Reception hosted by Emerson College 2:00pm Gallery Break Union Bank Building 2:30pm Loft 1 Track 3: Creating a Campus Culture of Sustainability 10/1 WEDNESDAY 3:15pm Gallery Coffee Break 3:45pm Gallery Track 3: Creating a Campus Culture of 7:00am Gallery Check-In Open Sustainability 8:00am Space 57 Sustainability Showcase Load-In 6:00pm Downtown Boston Dinner on Own 8:00am Studio 3 Minority Serving Institutions Breakfast and 6:00pm Departs from Lobby; Invitation Only Dinner, hosted by Altenex Workshop The Atrium 8:30am Departs from Lobby Three Campus Tour – Check-In Required 8:00pm Emerald Lounge Informal Implementation Liaison Meet and Greet 8:30am Departs from Lobby UMass, Boston Tour – Check-In Required 9:00am Studio 1 World Energy Game Simulation 9:00am Studio 2 Second Nature R&E Comm. Meeting 10/3 FRIDAY 10:00am Studio 2 Second Nature Exec. Comm. Meeting 10:00am The Atrium Media Newsroom and Summit Orientation 7:00am Gallery Continental Breakfast 11:00am Studio 2 Second Nature Steering Comm. Meeting 7:00am Gallery Customer Service 12:00pm Downtown Boston Lunch on Own 7:15am Gallery Unfacilitated Breakfast Breakouts 1:00pm Loft 1 Welcome Address and Keynote 8:15am Gallery Break, Move into Sessions 2:00pm Loft 1 Track 1: New Science and Solutions for a 8:30am Loft 1 Track 4: Investment Strategies and Institutional Changing Climate Values: How, Why and at What Risk? 2:30pm Loft 1 Coffee Break 8:30am Studio 3 Track 5: Corporate Partnerships for Climate 3:00pm Loft 1 Track 1: New Science and Solutions for a Leadership Changing Climate 10:00am Loft 2 Alliance for Resilient Campuses (ARC) 4:30pm Hotel Lobby Break for Hotel Check-In Engagement Session 5:00pm Theatre 1 MomentUs Plenary Presentation 11:00am Gallery Break 6:00pm Space 57 Sustainability Showcase and Reception 11:15am Loft 1 Presidential Reflections and Summit Conclusion 7:00pm Downtown Boston Dinner on Own 12:00pm Loft 2 World Climate Game Simulation 8:00pm Space 57 Load Out Sustainability Showcase 12:15pm Studio 3 Invitation Only Luncheon, Hosted by Xerox 1:00pm Departs from Lobby at Emerson College Hosts: An Inconvenient Truth 12:45pm
10 2014 CLIMATE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2014 CLIMATE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 11 HOTEL SUMMIT LAYOUT lower floor Space 57 upper floor Loft 1 Loft Atrium and Kitchen Rustic 6th Floor: Gallery 1 Loft 2 Loft 1 Studio 2 Studio 3 Studio Space 57 1 2 Studio 1 Studio Lounge bar Mezzanine Level: Ballroom Carver Lounge Emerald The stairs / entryway 1 – Check In 2 – Charging Station 1 – Check In 2 Charging Theater Studio 2 Studio Lobby and Lobby valet Elevators Elevators sloped exit IMPORTANT LOCATIONS BY FLOOR BY LOCATIONS IMPORTANT Level: Lobby Space 57 Theater Hotel Lobby Atrium The Kitchen Rustic The Studio 3 Studio 2 Loft Theater
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BRIAN SWETT KATHARINE JACOBS Chief of Environment, Energy and Open Space – City of Boston Director of the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions (CCASS) and Professor, The University of Arizona As Chief of Environment, Energy and Open Space, Mr. Swett’s Cabinet includes the Inspectional Services Katharine Jacobs is director of the Center for Climate Department, the Environment Department, the Parks Adaptation Science and Solutions (CCASS) and professor and Recreational Department, and Boston’s Recycling in the department of soil, water and environmental science Program. He serves as the Mayor’s appointee to the at The University of Arizona. From 2010 to 2013, Ms. boards of the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority, Jacobs served as an assistant director in the U. S. Office Boston Groundwater Trust, Boston Harbor Islands of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Alliance, and the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership, Office of the President and was director of the National and represents the City on the Boston Green Ribbon Climate Assessment, leading a team of 300 authors and Commission, the Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions more than 1,000 contributors who wrote the Third NCA Wednesday Act’s Implementation Advisory Committee, and the report, published in early 2014. She also served as the October 1 Massachusetts Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee. He Welcome Keynote Wednesday lead advisor on water science and policy and climate launched Greenovate Boston, a sustainability education October 1 adaptation within OSTP. Prior to her work in the White and outreach initiative; kicked off Climate Ready Boston, a Track 1 Keynote House, Ms. Jacobs was executive director of the Arizona set of climate preparedness initiatives focused on Boston’s Water Institute, leading a consortium of the three state built and natural environment, and is currently leading universities focused on water supply sustainability. She has efforts to update the City’s Climate Action Plan. Before his more than 20 years of experience as a water manager for work for the City of Boston, Mr. Swett advised and oversaw the Arizona’s Department of Water Resources, including LEED® and sustainability related initiatives throughout 14 years as director of the Tucson Active Management the Boston region for Boston Properties, and worked Area. Her research includes water policy, connecting for the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of science and decision making, stakeholder engagement, Environmental Policy Innovation. He has served on the use of climate information for water management Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Chapter of the U. applications, and climate change adaptation. She earned S. Green Building Council, and as Co-Chair of Urban Land her M.L.A. in environmental planning from the University Institute’s Boston Sustainability Committee. He received a of California, Berkeley. She has served on eight National B.A. in Public Policy and International Relations from Brown Research Council panels, was chair of the NRC panel on University and an MBA and a M.S. in Sustainable Systems Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change, and was a from The University of Michigan. member of the panel on America’s Climate Choices.
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KATE GORDON Executive Director, Risky Business Project; Vice President and Director, Energy & Climate Program at Next Generation
Kate Gordon leads the Energy & Climate team at Next Generation, developing policies and communications strategies to combat climate change and move the U. S. to a clean energy economy. She also serves as the Executive Director of Risky Business, a joint initiative of Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Office of Hank Paulson, and Next Generation to quantify and publicize the economic risks of climate change. She has worked on economic development and social justice issues for over 15 years, focusing on clean energy manufacturing, Thursday regional economic development in clean energy sectors, October 2 and American competitiveness. Ms. Gordon is a nationally Luncheon Keynote recognized expert on the intersection of clean energy and economic development. She contributes regularly to the Wall Street Journal as one of the paper’s “Energy Experts,” blogs for the Huffington Post, and writes a weekly update on California energy and climate news for Next Generation. She was Vice President for Energy and Environment at the Center for American Progress in Washington D.C., where she continues to serve as a senior fellow, and was co-director of the national Apollo Alliance (now part of the Blue Green Alliance), where she now serves on the Board of Directors. She was a senior associate at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy and an employment and consumer rights litigator at Trial Lawyers for Public Justice in Oakland. She received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University, and a J.D. and master’s degree in city planning from the University of California-Berkeley.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 8:30am– Three Campus Tour | Departs from The Revere Hotel Lobby 12:00pm Tour Coordinators: Eric Van Vlanderen, Campus Sustainability 2:00–4:30pm Check In Open, Required for Emerson Reception Coordinator, Emerson College; Gallery, 6th Floor, The Revere Hotel Karen Norton, Executive Director of Integrated Marketing and Communications, Bunker Hill Community College; 4:00–6:00pm Emerson College Welcome Reception Shaun O’Rourke, Director of Sustainable Design, Boston Architectural Host: Lee Pelton, Emerson College College Emerson Campus, 216 Tremont Street, Union Bank Building, Ground Floor, RSVP and Check-In required 8:30am– UMass, Boston Tour | Departs from The Revere Hotel Lobby 12:00pm Tour Coordinator: LeeAnn Pasquini, Director of Budget and Planning, University of Massachusetts System Office
9:00am– Game Simulation: World Energy | Studio 1 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 12:00pm Facilitators: Juliette Rooney Varga, Director of the UMass, Lowell Climate Change Initiative, UMass,Lowell; SUMMIT SHOULDER EVENTS, RSVP REQUIRED Ellie Johnston, Program Associate, Climate Interactive All events begin at The Revere Hotel, unless otherwise noted. All attendees should check-in before attending events. 9:00–10:00am ACUPCC Recruitment and Engagement Committee Meeting Representatives of the media are welcome at all sessions on October Studio 2 | Host: Elizabeth Kiss, President, Agnes Scott College 1 and October 2 except “Presidents Only” meetings. October 3 sessions are open to Summit registrants only. 10:00–11:00am ACUPCC Executive Committee Meeting | Studio 2 Host: Wim Wiewel, President, Portland State University 7:00am–4:30pm Check-in Open Gallery, 6th Floor, The Revere Hotel 10:00–11:00am Media Newsroom and Summit Orientation (Members of the Press 8:00–3:00pm Sustainability Showcase Load-In and PIOs only) | Atrium Studio 57, The Revere Hotel, Lobby Level (street entrance) Host: Tatiana Brailovskaya, Second Nature Communications
8:00–9:00am Breakfast: Leadership and Capacity Building Workshop | Studio 3 11:00am– ACUPCC Steering Committee Meeting | Studio 2 Host: Janna Cohen Rosenthal, Director of ACUPCC Initiatives, 12:00pm Host: Wim Wiewel, President, Portland State University Second Nature 12:00–1:00pm Lunch on Own
9:00am– Leadership and Capacity Building Workshop | Studio 3 OFFICIAL SUMMIT KICK-OFF 12:00pm This half-day workshop will focus on implementing the ACUPCC on MSI campuses. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with 1:00–2:00pm WELCOMING ADDRESS | Loft 1 peers from other MSIs, discuss successful implementation strategies 1:00–1:05pm » Opening Remarks undertaken by MSI signatories, and review the fundamentals for Presenter: Tim Carter, President, Second Nature tracking and reporting sustainability on campus, as well as attend the 1:05–1:15pm » Plenary Address rest of the Summit program. Presenter: Wim Wiewel, President, Portland State University Presenters: 1:15–2pm » Keynote Address Brett Passinella, ACUPCC Program Manager, Second Nature Presenter: Brian Swett, Chief of Environment and Energy, City of Rebecca Edler, Sustainability Coordinator, The College of Boston Menominee Nation
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2:00–2:30pm TRACK 1: KNOWLEDGE AND SOLUTIONS FOR A CHANGING 4:00–4:30pm Resilience and Adaptation CLIMATE, SESSION 1 | Loft 1 An emerging program area for Second Nature and the ACUPCC is Foundational understanding of climate change is the primary driver climate adaptation and resilience. Here we discuss ways in which of commitment and action, but as knowledge evolves, “climate resilience is providing an integrated strategic and implementation change science” is growing to include more disciplines, as well as a framework for climate (and sustainability) action, including Second greater number and diversity of people advancing the science and Nature’s new Alliance for Resilient Campuses (ARC) and its early developing solutions. Understanding the climate challenge, framing impact and direction, and a new Center that brings together climate and communicating it, and ultimately meeting the challenge, requires adaptation science and solutions at a campus scale. more rigor, innovation, organization, and inclusivity than ever before. Presenters: This session introduces the U. S. National Climate Assessment Anne Waple, Director of Resilience Initiatives, Second Nature (NCA) — an effort that has involved thousands of participants — and Kathy Jacobs, Director, Center for Climate Adaptation Science and describes its new approach and key findings. We will also highlight Solutions, The University of Arizona the NCA’s information resources, engagement strategy, and the way in which the NCA is now informing U.S. policy, widespread decision- 4:30–5:00pm Break, Hotel Check-In | Move to MomentUs Plenary Presentation making, and education. 2:00–2:05pm » Opening Remarks 5:00–6:00pm MomentUs Plenary | Theatre 1, Lobby Level (street entrance) Presenter: Anne Waple, Director of Resilience Initiatives, Second 5:00–5:05pm » Introduction Nature Presenter: Mitch Thomashow, Director of Presidential Fellows 2:05–2:30pm » Keynote Program, Second Nature Presenter: Kathy Jacobs, Director, Center for Climate Adaptation 5:05–5:45pm » MomentUs Presentation Science and Solutions, The University of Arizona Presenter: Bob Perkowitz, President, ecoAmerica 5:45–6:00pm » Q and A 2:30–3:00pm Coffee Break | Gallery, 6th Floor 6:00–8:00pm Sustainability Showcase and MomentUs Reception 3:00–4:30pm TRACK 1: KNOWLEDGE AND SOLUTIONS FOR A CHANGING Studio 57, Lobby Level (street entrance) CLIMATE, SESSION 2 | Loft 1 Reception including conversation with the Summit Host Committee, 3:00–4:00pm » Panel Discussion: The Sustained Assessment Presenters of Innovative Campus Sustainability Projects, and Second Discusses components of the U. S. National Climate Assessment Nature partner organizations. in more detail, including how it has initiated rigorous and focused effort to develop scenario-based decision-making; indicators 8:00–9:00pm Sustainability Showcase Load Out of change, impact, and solutions; the important intersection of Studio 57, The Revere Hotel, Lobby Level (street entrance) mitigation and adaptation in understanding potential and actual actions; and how it is designing information systems to support science and decision-makers. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 Moderator and Presenter: James Buizer, Deputy Director for Climate Adaptation and International Development, Institute of 7:30am–4:00pm Check In Open | Gallery, 6th Floor the Environment, The University of Arizona Invited Presenter: Derek Arndt, Chief, Climate Monitoring Branch, 7:45–9:30am Breakfast | Gallery, 6th Floor NOAA National Climatic Data Center Presenters: Emily Cloyd, U. S. Global Change Research Program; 7:45–9:00am Cenergistic Breakfast, Invitation only | Studio 3 Anne Waple, Director of Resilience Initiatives, Second Nature
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8:00–9:00am ACUPCC Town Hall | Loft 2 10:00–10:20am » Q and A Meet Tim Carter, Second Nature’s new President, and Janna Cohen- Presenters: Megan Chapple, Director of the Office of Rosenthal, Director of ACUPCC Initiatives; explore implementation of Sustainability, George Washington University; the ACUPCC, including reporting challenges, leadership transitions, Chris O’Brien, Director of Sustainability, American University Climate Action Planning, greenhouse gas inventories, and tracking progress in mitigation and education programs; and help identify 10:20–10:40am Break into Participatory Sessions new opportunities. Presenters: Tim Carter, President, Second Nature; 10:40–11:45am TRACK 2: HIGHER EDUCATION’S CLIMATE LEADERSHIP Janna Cohen-Rosenthal, Director of ACUPCC Initiatives, SN; IMPERATIVE, SESSION 2: PARTICIPATORY SEMINARS Brett Pasinella, ACUPCC Program Manager, Second Nature; Discussion of Track 2 issues at greater depth. Two or three ACUPCC Gabriela Boscio, Program Associate, Second Nature presidents offer ten-minute presentations in each session, followed by facilitated discussion. 9:00–10:20am TRACK 2: HIGHER EDUCATION’S CLIMATE LEADERSHIP 10:40–11:45am » Influencing National Organizations | Loft 1 IMPERATIVE, SESSION 1 | Loft 1 Despite the growth of climate awareness on college and College and university presidents can significantly influence public university campuses, and the emergence of numerous national awareness of climate preparedness, sustainability, and resulting sustainability organizations, many educational organizations, educational, economic, and political issues. Focuses on how to presidential associations, and other influential groups have yet to maximize that influence in the national landscape, discussing the embrace the significance of climate leadership. What role can the role of the president in supporting climate science, conducting ACUPCC play in strengthening its voice within these organizations interdisciplinary research, the role of the public intellectual, building and promoting their climate leadership and sustainability community and regional partnerships, and convening platforms initiatives? What is the role of ACUPCC presidents and their teams for deliberating policy solutions, ethical dilemmas, and institutional in facilitating this effort? obligations. Presenters: John Anderson, President, Millersville University; 9:00–9:15am » Opening Remarks Wim Wiewel, President, Portland State University; Presenter: Wim Wiewel, President, Portland State University Michael Thomas, President, New England Board of Higher 9:15–9:35am » Climate Science in Higher Education Leadership, Plenary Education Why is it essential for higher education to promote, defend, 10:40–11:45am » Sustainability in Conservative Communities | Studio 1 and invest in climate science? How should higher education Many institutions face challenging political realities in their contribute to the national dialogue on this issue? What is the role communities, including skepticism about climate change of the university president in leading this discussion? science, concerns about the moral dimensions of sustainability, Presenter: Tim White, Chancellor, California State University or conflicting values regarding the purpose of higher education. System How can presidents take a leadership role in helping communities 9:35–10:00am » The Capital Partners Solar Project and campuses understand the importance of climate leadership, By 2016, George Washington University and American University while being sensitive to the concerns of the community? will source approximately half of their electricity from solar farms Presenters: in North Carolina. The project, called Solar Capital Partners, Jonathan Gibralter, President, Frostburg State University; includes the George Washington University Hospital. This session Linda Lujan, President, Chandler Gilbert Community College will cover the conceptualization and implementation of the Facilitator: Jake Schrum , President, Emory & Henry College project, emphasizing the role of presidential leadership, while 10:40–11:45am » Conducting Interdisciplinary Research | Studio 2 paying special attention to replicability. Climate leadership and sustainability initiatives embody Presenters: interdisciplinary approaches to curriculum and research. Many Steve Knapp, President, George Washington University; presidents hesitate to interfere in what is often perceived as Neil Kerwin, President, American University the domain of deans and faculty, yet often only presidential Moderator: Elizabeth Kiss, President, Agnes Scott College leadership can inspire proceeding with innovative or controversial
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curricular approaches. What is the role of the president in 10:40–11:45am Open Air Session | The Atrium, Meet at Elevator Banks, move to promoting interdisciplinary teaching and research, especially in Lobby Level, (street entrance) relationship to climate issues and sustainability? Join Second Nature staff and your colleagues for table discussions Presenters: on a diversity of topics identified through the registration feedback Mark Huddleston, President, University of New Hampshire; survey, including how to implement and fund campus short-term Anthony Collins, President, Clarkson University; sustainability goals, how to strategically integrate sustainability into Stephen Mulkey, President, Unity College your long-term planning, and how to collaborate across the network, Facilitator: Peter Saundry, Executive Director, National Council for sharing data and platforms. Science and the Environment 10:40–11:45am » Community and Regional Partnerships: The Role of the President 11:45a–12:15p Break | Move to Ballroom for Luncheon as Civic Leader | Studio 3 When presidents build community and regional partnerships, 12:15–2:00pm Climate Leadership Awards Luncheon and Keynote | Carver Ballroom they step into the public limelight in ways that may stimulate 12:15–12:30pm » Welcome controversy and sometimes even moral or ethical dilemmas. Their 12:30–1:00pm » Climate Leadership Awards roles are not only to be “educators in chief” but also community Presenter: Paul Ferguson, President, Ball State University; Vice leaders of climate leadership initiatives, sustainability programs, Chair, ACUPCC Steering Committee and climate resilience projects that involve multiple stakeholders. 1:00–1:20pm » Special Awards How can the president leverage these multiple roles to promote Past Steering Committee Chair, Tim White; Welcoming Chair sustainability? and Co-Chair Wim Wievel and Paul Ferguson; Second Nature Presenters: John Dunn, President, Western Michigan University; Presidential Award, David F. Hales; Second Nature Presidential Paul Fonteyn, President, Green Mountain College Award Lifetime Achievement, Anthony D. Cortese; Emeritus Board Facilitator: Divina Grossman, Chancellor, University of Member Awards William Johnson, Patty Calkins, David Shi Massachusetts, Dartmouth Presenter: Richard Cook, Chair, Second Nature Board; Managing 10:40–11:45am » A New Model for Sustainability Leadership | Loft 2 Partner, Lahti Search Consultants; President Emeritus, Allegheny A partnership between Harvard University faculty and the U. S. College Green Building Council (USGBC) has developed an executive 1:20–1:50pm » Keynote Address leadership program in change management for sustainability Presenter: Kate Gordon, Executive Director, Risky Business Project that integrates sustainability into an organization’s core and 1:50–2:00pm » Q and A emphasizes the complex leadership challenges of transforming organizational processes and culture. Discussion of this model 2:00–2:30pm Break | Move to Gallery, 6th Floor and its potential. Presenters: Mary Spilde, President, Lane Community College; 2:30–3:15pm TRACK 3: CREATING A CAMPUS CULTURE OF SUSTAINABILITY Girard Weber, President, College of Lake Country; SESSION 1: PLENARY | Loft 1 Denice Wardrop, Assistant Director, Penn State Institutes of Promoting sustainability initiatives has the potential to transform the Energy and the Environment college and university campus—from curriculum to infrastructure—and Facilitator: can positively enhance many aspects of campus life. What are the Rachel Gutter, Director USGBC Center for Green Schools, USGBC best ways to bring the campus together? How can presidents and their teams most effectively mobilize their stakeholders, especially given the complicated challenges facing higher education? Topics include curricular and co-curricular challenges, building a campus sustainability team, educating students, working in a state-wide
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educational system, working with boards and other constituencies, 3:45–3:55pm » Individual Reflection and the organizational challenges of climate action planning. Participants take ten minutes to consider their specific situations, 2:30–2:45pm » Opening Remarks identifying the most important sustainability objectives and What does it mean to create a campus culture of sustainability? challenges on their campus. Drawing on his experiences at the University of Maine and Ball 3:55–4:15pm » Teams Discuss Challenges and Opportunities State University, Paul Ferguson addresses the president’s role as a After sharing individual reflections, teams identify the one or two sustainability change agent. challenges and opportunities most pertinent for their approach to Presenter: Paul Ferguson, President, Ball State University, Vice campus sustainability. How does your institution bridge the gap Chair, ACUPCC Sterring Committee between aspirations and campus politics and resources? Where 2:45–3pm » Institutional Templates and Comprehensive Strategies on the ACUPCC Timeline does your campus stage of commitment The Institute for the Built Environment at Colorado State fall? How will your team continue to build momentum and bring University and the Center for Green Schools at the U. S. Green knowledge from the summit back to campus? Building Council (USGBC) recently collaborated to produce a Facilitators: Second Nature Staff framework that articulates conditions and approaches needed to advance whole-school sustainability. In combination with 4:15–5:15pm TRACK 3: Participatory Sessions the U. S. Department of Education’s Green Ribbon criteria, Time for discussion between campuses, gathering data from this framework serves as a compass for moving toward whole participants regarding salient issues, sharing best practices, and spectrum sustainability. Rachel Gutter introduces the framework, synthesizing common next steps. inviting attendees to consider its application to their own campus 4:15–5:15pm » Working in a Statewide System | Loft 2 sustainability efforts. How do they campuses operating in statewide systems Presenter: coordinate sustainability initiatives? To what extent does the Rachel Gutter, Director, Center for Green Schools, USGBC system authorize sustainability policies and how much autonomy 3:00–3:15pm » The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus does a local campus have? Which statewide systems have Drawing on his visitsg to campuses throughout North America, particularly coherent sustainability plans and policies and how Mitch Thomashow discusses the nine elements of organizing were those plans implemented? a sustainability agenda as a comprehensive campus strategy: Facilitators: energy, food, and materials (aspects of infrastructure); Dianne Harrison, President, California State University, Northridge; governance, investment, and wellness (aspects of community); John Anderson, President, Millersville University and curriculum, interpretation, and aesthetics (aspects of 4:15–5:15pm » Sustainability as a Focus for Campus Transformation (Deepening learning). Commitment) | Studio 1 Presenter: Mitchell Thomashow, Director of Presidential Fellows Designed for campuses using sustainability as a strategic Program, Second Nature approach to integrated campus transformation that includes master planning, enrollment management, student success, 3:15–3:45pm Coffee Break | Gallery, 6th Floor, Move into campus team breakout infrastructure change, and working with faculty and staff. How can sessions and choose which session to attend together as a team. a campus work together —with leadership from the president, the senior staff, and the board of trustees — to ensure the long-term 3:45–5:15pm TRACK 3: CREATING A CAMPUS CULTURE OF SUSTAINABILITY, continuity an dviability of its sustainability initiatives? SESSION 2: TEAM DISCUSSIONS & PARTICIPATORY SESSIONS Facilitators: Juan Olivarez, President, Aquinas College; 3:45–4:15pm » Team Discussions William Shutkin, President, Presidio Graduate School Institutional teams select one of the sessions below for team 4:15–5:15pm » Embedding Sustainability in the Curriculum | Studio 2 discussion. (Those not with a team should join a session and work Changing the campus curriculum is among the most controversial with representatives from other campuses.) Facilitators will help political issues in any college or university, with faculty typically identify and discuss challenges and opportunities most pertinent perceived as the “gatekeepers” of the curriculum. What is the to a particular campus. role of the president as a sustainability curricular champion? How
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can the president work with the vice presidents, deans, faculty, 8:30–8:45 » Framing and students to facilitate dynamic conversations about curricular How to shift investment strategies to align with financial, change? environmental, and social goals; how to initiate campus-wide Facilitators: Mariko Silver, President, Bennington College; dialogues; and the educational opportunities and philanthropic Elizabeth Kiss, President, Agnes Scott College implications of these decisions. 4:15–5:15pm » Organizing Sustainability Initiatives and the Climate Action Plan Facilitator: Jonathan Lash, President, Hampshire College Studio 3 | Designed for campuses new to the ACUPCC, for those 8:45–9:20am » Panel Discussion that have not yet developed their Climate Action Plan, or those Presenters: Susan Gary, Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor whose longer-term signatory campuses that have encountered of Law, School of Law, University of Oregon; obstacles. Discusses first steps, how to maintain momentum, Don Gould, Trustee, Pitzer College; typical obstacles, and the role of the president in moving climate Patrick Norton, Vice President, Finance and Treasurer, Middlebury action planning forward. Questions include the authority of the College chief financial officer in climate action planning and what happens 9:20–9:40am » Q and A during a presidential transition. 9:40–10:30am » Breakout Exercise. How might intentionally designed Facilitators: Wendell Brase, Vice Chancellor for Administrative & endowments contribute to comprehensive institutional climate Business Services, University of California, Irvine; and sustainability plans? (How might keeping endowments Sue Gaylor, Executive Vice President, Allegheny College separate from such plans impact their overall effectiveness?) What will you do when you go back to your campus? How might 6:00–9:00pm Invitation Only Dinner, Hosted by Altenex you use the information discussed at this session? How might Departs from the Lobby; The Atrium, Lobby Level (street entrance) the ACUPCC & the Intentional Endowments Network help you in engaging these issues on your campus? How might your campus 8:00pm Informal Implementation Liaison Meet and Greet, Cash Bar. contribute to the collective impact of sustainability investing at Host: UMass System | The Emerald Lounge, Mezzanine Level endowments through the ACUPCC & Intentional Endowments Network?
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 8:30–10am TRACK 5: CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS FOR CLIMATE LEADERSHIP Studio 3 | Many corporations are making excellent strides in 7:00–8:45am Breakfast | Gallery, 6th Floor sustainability infrastructure, research, and operations. What does climate leadership mean in a business environment and how has 7:15–8:15am Unfacilitated Breakout Breakfasts such an approach changed business operations, strategic planning, Faculty/Staff | Studio 1 and corporate philosophy? What are the ways in which they can Presidents | Studio 2 create supportive partnerships with colleges and universities to Implementation Leaders/Sustainability Officers| Loft 2 promote climate leadership and what are the ramifications of these partnerships? 8:30–10:30am TRACK 4: INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND INSTITUTIONAL VALUES: 8:30–8:40am » Introduction HOW, WHY AND AT WHAT RISK? | Loft 1 Facilitator: Mitch Thomashow, Director of Presidential Fellows Many campuses are engaged in discussions about the relationship Program, Second Nature between campus investments (including endowments, procurement, 8:40–10am » Facilitated Panel Discussion and capital projects) and institutional values. Do these investments Presenters: Hervé Tessler, President, Corporate Operations, Xerox; promote sustainability, climate action planning, and other Blaine Collison, Managing Director, Network Services, Altenex; institutional values? The ramifications of these discussions are Dan Kreeger, Executive Director, Asscoiation of Climate Change gaining national attention. What roles does the president, the chief Officers business officer, and the board chair have in these discussions and coordinating campus-wide approaches?
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10:00–11:00am Alliance for Resilient Campuses Engagement Session; Listening 2014 marked the 5th year of the Second Nature Climate Session on National Climate Education Opportunities | Loft 2 Leadership Awards (CLAs). This program recognizes Considerable momentum exists in communities, campuses, and in innovative and advanced leadership in education for many organizations to plan for resilience. Discussion begins with sustainability, climate mitigation and adaptation, and new approaches to resilience framing, the Alliance for Resilient institutionalized sustainability at signatory campuses of Campuses, available resources, regional partnerships, and working 2014 the American College & University Presidents’ Climate with communities, and moves into a listening session about Commitment (ACUPCC). opportunities higher education has to engage at the national scale. Presenters: Anne Waple, Executive Director, Second Nature; This year, more than 50 institutions applied for the awards. Cary Gaunt, Second Nature The winners were among the 20 finalists chosen by Second Nature’s board and represent the diversity of higher 11:00–11:15am Break education institutions across the US. The competition also featured a video component, run in partnership with 11:15–12pm Presidential Reflections and Summit Conclusion: A Central Question Planet Forward. Each of the 20 finalists produced a video About Scaling Up | Loft 1 promoting its sustainability efforts, which were voted on Campus Presidents reflect on key Summit themes, what they have publicly during Earth Month. More than 28,000 votes were learned, and the most important opportunities for the ACUPCC. cast and, as a result, Western Michigan University came Presenters: out on top, receiving 8,912 votes from site visitors and Linda Lujan, President, Chandler-Gilbert Community College; community members. Wim Wievel, President, Portland State University Facilitator: Mitchell Thomashow, Director of Presidential Fellows Read more about our 2014 winners below and learn more Program, Second Nature about the Climate Leadership Awards and past winners on our website: secondnature.org/climate-leadership-awards SUMMIT SHOULDER EVENTS, RSVP REQUIRED
12:15–1:45pm Xerox Luncheon, Invitation Only | Studio 3 Host: Herve Tessler, President, Corporate Operations, Xerox 2014 CLA WINNERS 12:00–3:00pm World Climate Simulation | Loft 2 Lunch Included, RSVP required Facilitators: Juliette Rooney Varga, Director of the UMass, Lowell California State University, Chico Climate Change Initiative ; Ellie Johnston, Program Associate, Master’s Colleges & University Climate Interactive; Jared Nease, Research Assistant, UMass,Lowell; Alicia Negron, Assistant Resident Director, UMass,Lowell California State University, Chico has a long-standing and deep institutional commitment to Sustainability. Forward-thinking leadership from its administration, coupled with 1:00–3:00pm An Inconvenient Truth Presentation numerous grassroots efforts over the years has led to the institutionalization of Emerson Campus, Departing from The Revere Lobby at 12:44pm sustainability as a core value and guiding ethic of the University. In 2007, University Presenters: Josef Mantl, Emerson College; President Paul Zingg became one of the founding signatories of the ACUPCC. Most Massachusetts State Senator Marc R. Pacheco; recently, CSU Chico also became an inaugural member of the Alliance for Resilience Sierra Flanigan, Director of Campus Sustainability for EcoMotion Campuses (ARC). The University has a target climate neutrality date of 2030, and boasts Host: Eric Van Vlanderen, Campus Sustainability Coordinator, over 250 designated sustainability courses across the curriculum. Student engagement Emerson College is demonstrated through numerous student sustainability groups and internship opportunities available on campus, as well as a Green Fund that has supported over 100 diverse student sustainability initiatives.
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Montgomery County Community College Valencia College Associate/Tribal College Associate/Tribal College
Since joining the ACUPCC in 2007, sustainability has become a core value at Valencia College, the first associate’s college in Florida to sign the ACUPCC, has Montgomery County Community College. At a regional level, the College is recognized achieved a 47% reduction in electricity use per square foot in the past three years. for its work to reduce emissions through a variety of transportation strategies such as Its strategic energy efficiency efforts reduce operating costs, and savings have been daily shuttles between their campuses, and a partnership that facilitates safe ridesharing used to support their mission of “learning-centered education” and student success. for students, faculty and staff. As part of their general education core curriculum, faculty Currently, the college is in the process of selling three years of Scope 2 Stationary members have developed sustainability-focused courses in a variety of disciplines. Source (electricity) emission reductions as voluntary carbon credits in the Chevrolet Students also benefit from learning opportunities through community partners. Outside Carbon Reduction Project pilot and will use the money to set up a Green Revolving Fund. partnerships have also helped the College implement a self-funded energy conservation Valencia is also reducing their transportation carbon footprint through a regional public- project that will result in $6,000,000+ in energy savings over 15 years. The project funded ride-matching program and by improving bicycle and pedestrian access to the incorporates renewable energy sources from wind and solar on their campuses, as well campuses. Valencia’s Sustainability Across the Curriculum faculty development class as energy and cost-saving initiatives. helps faculty infuse sustainability into their diverse courses.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Western Michigan University Doctorate Granting University Video Voting Competition Winner Doctorate Granting University Understanding the importance of promoting sustainability both on and off campus, UMass Amherst recently developed a detailed civic engagement plan for the “New In 2013, the Detroit Free Press recognized Western Michigan University (WMU) as a England Sustainable Knowledge Corridor”, designed to engage local under-served “Michigan Green Leader”. They reduced greenhouse gases by 13% from 2008-2012 populations in dialogues that create opportunities for capacity building and increased without offsets, increased building square footage by 19% while reducing energy use by community participation. The University is home to over 300 sustainability-related 15% over the last 17 years. Water use has been reduced by 50% over the past decade, courses and 20 sustainability-related majors. They pledged to procure 20% real, fair and they are approaching stormwater neutrality. WMU is a Founding Circle Member trade, humane, locally sourced food by 2020 when they signed the Real Food Campus of the Billion Dollar Green Challenge, and their president, Michael Burke, serves on Commitment. They were selected as winners in the Environmental Protection Agency’s the ACUPCC Steering Committee. They have built sustainability into their mission and national EPA Food Recovery Challenge competition, and were awarded the College & strategic plan and use STARS as a core framework for evaluating its implementation. University Recycling Award by MassRecycles. UMass Amherst currently plans to build one Their students created the first “Sustainability Fee” in Michigan, and the University of the largest anaerobic digestion facilities in the state, which will turn organic waste into fosters place-based solutions to climate change problems through their Community bio-gas to be used by regional municipalities and other colleges in the Pioneer Valley. Sustainability Incubator.
University of Minnesota – Morris Baccalaureate College 2014 FINALISTS
University of Minnesota, Morris is a leader in climate and energy work. Morris reduced its carbon footprint by 40% since 2005, with a goal of carbon neutrality by 2015. Twin Bentley University Gateway Technical College SUNY Sullivan (Sullivan 1.65MW wind turbines provide over 60% of Morris’s annual electricity, generating more County Community energy than is consumed. Morris made the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Top 30 Colby College Huston-Tillotson University College) On-site Generation” list, received an AASHE STARS Gold rating, and was recognized as the #1 “Cool School” in Minnesota in 2013 by the Sierra magazine’s Cool Schools Columbia College Chicago Massachusetts College of The Ohio State University ranking. Educationally, 78% of Morris’ disciplines have sustainability courses and 67% Art and Design of their departments conduct sustainability-related research. Student engagement on Frostburg State University University of Massachusetts campus is high: students led the creation of a composting system diverting 20 tons of Pacific Lutheran University Medical School food waste to soil production, they run the recycling and gardening programs, and more. Furman University University of North Texas
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The Implementation Liaison (IL) Leadership Circle is a group of champions who have 2013 WINNERS implemented innovative sustainability and climate action strategies on their campuses to overcome challenges and create an institutional framework to advance their community Bellevue College Oberlin College toward a sustainable future. Bellevue, WA Oberlin, OH Associate/Tribal Baccalaureate The IL Leaders provide peer-to-peer support to individuals responsible for implementing the ACUPCC at signatory institutions. They are committed to sharing their expertise and Chatham University Portland State University knowledge with the ACUPCCnetwork in the effort to accelerate the collective learning Pittsburgh, PA Portland, OR towards climate disruption solutions. Master’s Doctorate Granting
Goddard College Pratt Institute of Art & Design Plainfield, VT Brooklyn, NY Master’s Special Focus Jay Antle Jen Jones Mieko Ozeki Middlebury College State University of New York College of Executive Director, Center Facilities Coordinator, Sustainability Projects Middlebury, VT Environmental Science and Forestry for Sustainability, Johnson College of Charleston (SC) Coordinator, University of Baccalaureate Syracuse, NY County Community Vermont (VT) Doctorate Granting College (KS) Nate Keener Missouri University of Science & Director of Sustainability, Rashmi Sahai Technology University of Hawaii Kauai Community Maria Boccalandro Lewis and Clark Sustainability Specialist, Rolla, MO College Sustainability Project Community College (IL) Office of the President, Doctorate Granting Lihue, HI Coordinator, Cedar Valley University of California (CA) VIDEO VOTING COMPETITION WINNER Associate/Tribal College (TX) Tyler Kidder Assistant Director for Misa Saros Daniel Dixon Sustainable Programs, Coordinator, Climate University Sustainability University of Southern Change Institute, University Coordinator, University of Maine (ME) of Maine Orono (ME) Maine (ME) Linda Petee 2013 FINALISTS Preston Jacobsen Sustainability & Risk Sustainability Manager, Management Coordinator, American Public University System Massachusetts Maritime Academy University of Tennessee Delta College (MI) (TN) Carleton College Saint Louis Community College at John Pumilio Florissant Valley R. Kaye Johnston Director of Sustainability, Georgia Institute of Technology Sustainability Coordinator, Colgate University (NY) University of Massachusetts Medical University of Missouri - Glendale Community College School Kansas City (MO)
Hobart & William Smith Western State Colorado University
Indiana State University
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