Clinton Foundation Supports Presidents Climate Commitment . . . and Much More Related News & Info!
At the 2007 GreenBuild, former president Bill Clinton announced that this foundation was entering into a partnership with the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment. Here's the (PDF) press release.
SCUP also supports the ACUPCC, and that effort is the focus of a forthcoming SCUP webcast on December 12: Climate Change and Higher Education: Leadership to Achieve Climate Neutrality with Michael Crow, Billy Parish, and Dave Newport, moderated by James Gorman.
SCUP will also be providing planning expertise to a course being created by Dave Newport for next semester at the University of Colorado, "Climate Neutral CU." That course will be taught in class to students at UC Boulder and online to a large group of campus professionals who are expecting to learn how to engage their campus in climate neutrality planning while at the same time creating models and templates through their participation in the class. For current information contact Dave Newport at david.newport@colorado.edu.
Who would have thought, six years ago, that so much would be happening in the higher education sustainability world? Here are some other, related things you should know about:
SCUP also supports the ACUPCC, and that effort is the focus of a forthcoming SCUP webcast on December 12: Climate Change and Higher Education: Leadership to Achieve Climate Neutrality with Michael Crow, Billy Parish, and Dave Newport, moderated by James Gorman.
SCUP will also be providing planning expertise to a course being created by Dave Newport for next semester at the University of Colorado, "Climate Neutral CU." That course will be taught in class to students at UC Boulder and online to a large group of campus professionals who are expecting to learn how to engage their campus in climate neutrality planning while at the same time creating models and templates through their participation in the class. For current information contact Dave Newport at david.newport@colorado.edu.
Who would have thought, six years ago, that so much would be happening in the higher education sustainability world? Here are some other, related things you should know about:
- SCUP's board of directors recently passed a resolution (PDF) that led to SCUP sending 70 federal legislators letters in support of the Higher Education Sustainability Act, which would provide $50M of funding for campus-based projects. See the letter here. [LINK COMING SHORTLY!]
- Building Design and Construction magazine recently published a substantial white paper on professional attitudes and understanding about green building. SCUP members were surveyed once again as this is a follow-up from a similar study conducted in 2004. Here's the higher education portion of that report (PDF). [JENIFER HAS THIS LIN
- SCUP will be represented by Terry Calhoun during a November 27th webinar, Education for a Sustainable Future, from the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Network (HEASC), an organization that SCUP co-founded.
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