The Implementer

July 2022

Accelerate Your Climate Awareness. Knowledge. Action. | Second Nature's Monthly E-Newsletter.
 

July 28th: Happy National Intern Day!

We are so thankful for our amazing interns and their contributions to our work as part of our team! 

To help us celebrate our most recent and current interns, we're excited to
kick-off our Generation Climate Action POV blog series!

Higher education students are not just future climate leaders; they are also climate leaders NOW.  This Spring and Summer, Second Nature had/has incredible climate leaders interning with us.  

In recognition of each of their individual skills, lived experiences, and passion for this work that they bring to our collaborative team every day, we wanted to provide our interns with the space and opportunity to contribute to this climate work in a unique way. 

Beginning tomorrow (Friday, July 29th) through next Friday, August 5th, you can read posts (a new post by a different intern each day) from our interns on our Second Nature Anecdotes blog. 
 

Generation Climate Action POV series
Friday, July 29 - Friday, August 5th
(a new blog post everyday)
 

Become a Second Nature Fellow!

We are currently accepting applications for four different fellowship opportunities that will run from August 2022 - August 2023: 

America Is All In (AIAI) Higher Education Climate Fellow
Climate Justice Fellow 
Carbon Offsets Fellow
Solutions Center Fellow

Each Second Nature Fellow will receive a stipend of $30,000.  The application deadline for all four positions is Monday, August 15, 2022.  You can find more information - including position descriptions for each fellowship and how to apply - on our Fellowships web page.  ​​​​​​

Are You Attending COP27?

A "Whole-of-Higher-Ed" Approach to Combating Climate Change

University Climate Change Coalition (UC3) 2022 Summit

The Summit provided an opportunity for UC3 member institutions to gather together to continue planning forward when it comes to their climate action strategy.  Below are links to two write-ups about the Summit - one from UBC and one from the University of Colorado Boulder. 

*New* Community Resilience Building Publications Available

Second Nature, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, has been working with Climate Leadership Network signatories to bring the Community Resilience Building (CRB) Workshop process to their campus-communities.  CRB is a unique, “anywhere at any scale”, community-driven process, rich with information, experience, and dialogue, where participants identify top risks, current strengths, challenges, and priority actions to improve community resilience for the present and the future.  The publications below are summaries of what came out of some of these workshops.

Other Resources You May Be Interested In:

ENERGY STAR Higher Education Benchmarking Initiative
Second Round Reporting: July 1-September 1, 2022

The Higher Education Benchmarking Initiative provides a free way for colleges and universities to be able to compare the performance of the energy and water of buildings on your campus to that of your fellow higher education institutions. 

Smart Energy Decisions Net Zero Forum
September 12-14, 2022 | Phoenix, AZ

The Net Zero Forum is an actionable event designed to accelerate the development and execution of Net Zero strategies. Buyers from large energy customers – including commercial, industrial, institutional (higher education and healthcare), and government – attend as an important step in the journey to reduce the carbon emissions of their organization and achieve their Net Zero ambitions. 

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