This year, the award program’s fourth, drew the largest and most competitive pool of nominations to date. Second Nature will partner with PlanetForward, a web-to-television initiative that documents and shares energy, climate, and sustainability advances, on a public voting competition featuring the finalists’ climate leadership and campus innovations during Earth Month (April 2013).<\/p>\n
“The caliber of this year’s nominations is unparalleled,” said ACUPCC Director Ashka Naik. “The depth of climate leadership and the breadth of sustainability education programs demonstrated by these finalists reflect their commitment to truly innovative solutions for a sustainable future.” \u00a0 About Second Nature<\/strong> \u00a0 Second Nature works to create a healthy, just, and sustainable society beginning with the transformation of higher education. Second Nature is the support organization of the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). Bellevue College has been recognized for our work in making our campus a more sustainable institution. As a result of our work, we have been entered into the running for a Climate Leadership Award. Our job now is to create a video entry to show all of the amazing things we are doing on campus. ...more about Finalist – Second Nature’s Climate Leadership Award<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31,42,101,196],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-acupcc","tag-award","tag-dc-fast-charger","tag-second-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7499,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions\/7499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Awards Timeline<\/strong> \u00a0 The awards will feature a public, online voting component. Each of the 20 finalists will produce a video that promotes its specific sustainability efforts. Voting will be open during Earth Month, April 2013. Last year’s voting competition drew over 70,000 video views and 14,000 votes.
In late spring, award winners will be chosen, independent of the video voting competition, by members of the Second Nature Board not affiliated with ACUPCC signatory schools.
More information on the awards is available here<\/a>.
Full List of Finalists<\/strong> \u00a0 The following colleges and universities, listed according to their respective Carnegie Classifications, are the 2013 finalists:
Associate\/Tribal College<\/span>
Bellevue College (WA), \u00a0 Glendale Community College (AZ) ,\u00a0 Saint Louis Community College at Florissant Valley (MO), \u00a0 University of Hawaii Kauai Community College (HI)
Baccalaureate College<\/span>
Carleton College (MN), \u00a0 Hobart & William Smith (NY), \u00a0 Middlebury College (VT), \u00a0 Oberlin College (OH)
Master’s Colleges & University<\/span>
American Public University System (WV), \u00a0 Chatham University (PA), \u00a0 Goddard College (VT), \u00a0 Western State Colorado University (CO)
Doctorate Granting University<\/span>
Georgia Institute of Technology (GA), \u00a0 Indiana State University (IN),\u00a0 Missouri University of Science & Technology (MO), \u00a0 Portland State University (OR), \u00a0 State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
Special Focus Institutions \/ Other<\/span>
Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MA), \u00a0 Pratt Institute of Art & Design (NY), \u00a0 University of Massachusetts Medical School (MA)<\/p>\n
Learn more at: www.secondnature.org<\/a>
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About the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment<\/strong> \u00a0 The ACUPCC is an intensive partnership among more than 650 colleges and universities to accelerate the education, research, and community engagement to equip society to re-stabilize the earth’s climate while setting an example by eliminating net greenhouse gas emissions from their own operations.
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