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The Implementer
September 2022
Accelerate Your Climate Awareness. Knowledge. Action. | Second Nature's Monthly E-Newsletter.
NOTABLE NEWS
Leaders of Color Summit Session
Join the Planning Committee!
Members of the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) community on campuses and in communities are invited to join the planning committee to plan a Summit session for the 2023 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit. The development of the planning committee, and the work of co-developing a Climate Leadership Summit session aims to bring this community together to create and build long-lasting and meaningful relationships during the Climate Leadership
Summit and beyond.
As a Climate Programs Manager for the southeast region with explicit focus on authentic engagement with HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) and MSIs (Minority Serving Institutions), Blythe Coleman-Mumford is championing the creation of a Summit session for, and led by, leaders of color and members of the BIPOC community.
For more information, including how to express interest to join the planning committee, please click here.
Last Call for Content!
If you haven't done so already and would like to, the deadline to provide your input for the 2023 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit is TOMORROW (Friday, September 30th)! Here is your chance to help us make the 2023 Climate Leadership Summit best meet your needs.
Higher education institutions play a crucial role in preparing future leaders to adapt to, and help solve, the climate crisis. Rising college/university-aged students demonstrate intense interest in social justice issues, civic engagement, and climate change. This interest factors into school choice and can translate into campus sustainability movements, such as fossil fuel divestment campaigns.
Activating this powerful student energy allows universities, as cultivators of future climate leaders, to have an impact both locally and globally.
Join us as we bring together young leaders, organizers, and educators from the climate movement and hold space for real, vulnerable, courageous conversation and storytelling.
Activating the Power of Storytelling and Student Leadership for Intersectional Climate Justice
PART ONE
October 11, 2022 | 2pm ET
PART TWO
October 20, 2022 | 2pm ET
Thank you to all of these leaders for joining us as speakers!
Kiana Kazemi, Director of Programming, Intersectional Environmentalist
Isaias Hernandez, Educator and Creator, Queer Brown Vegan platform
Diamond Spratling, Founder & President, Girl + Environment
Kristy Drutman, Media Creator and Founder, BrownGirl Green
Miles Braxton, Co-Founder and Director of Strategic Partnerships, BlackOak Collective
Questions? Chantal Madray (cmadray@secondnature.org)
Preparing for COP27 Webinar Series
Join Us for the Remaining Two
This three-part webinar series has been developed by the University Climate Change Coalition (UC3), Second Nature and the Research and Independent Non-Governmental Organizations (RINGOs) constituency to provide anyone interested in the international climate negotiations
with a comprehensive overview of the UNFCCC process, including policy questions and issues to be addressed in the upcoming COP27 negotiations. Anyone interested in following the climate negotiations is invited to participate in the webinars.
September 19, 2022 - done!
7pm ET
Overview of the UNFCCC Negotiation Process and Structure
October 3, 2022
7pm ET
Engaging with the UNFCCC: COPs, Bodies, and Issues
October 24, 2022
7pm ET
Key Issues to Watch at COP27
Questions? Mia Sen (msen@secondnature.org)
Climate Leadership Commitments 3.0
During the 2022 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit, Second Nature announced the launch of a year-long process to reimagine the Presidents’ Climate Leadership Commitments and formulate the next generation of the Commitments.
We have hosted stakeholder meetings to get your valued input. Whether you have been able to join us for these meetings or not, you can read highlights from meetings; pulled together to increase transparency and accessibility in the stakeholder engagement process.
For questions and/or feedback: Bridget Flynn (bflynn@secondnature.org)
BONUS BULLETIN
Second Nature is Hiring Two Positions!
Communications & Marketing Manager
Full-time, Benefits, Fully Remote
$60-$75k/annual
Climate Programs Internship
Part-time (15-20 hrs/week), Fully Remote, no Benefits
$15/hr/week
Application Deadline for Both Positions: Friday, October 7, 2022
Second Nature Team Update
Pulling the Implementer newsletter together every month for the past three years, I've gotten used to making the announcements of Second Nature team members coming onboard and when they move onto other opportunities. It is bittersweet to now be penning my own!
After three wonderful years at the Second Nature organization, as of October 5th, I will be leaving the team to take on another opportunity. To those who I have had the privilege to work with - fellow Second Nature team members, partners, higher education climate leaders, and others - I have enjoyed and appreciated getting to do so. Your passion and dedication to this work is what will continue to be the difference over the coming years in this climate effort. Thank you for everything you have done and continue doing. Until another time!
- Amanda Belles
2020 - 2021 Impact Report Now Available
Continuing to accelerate climate action while also enduring a global pandemic, is not something any of us could have foreseen prior to 2020. However, "pausing" on our collective climate action was not an option; the consequences were to dire.
Read about what we - in conjunction with all of you - have been able to accomplish over these past two years, even during a global pandemic.
Current Partnership Projects We're Involved In
We are excited to share information with you about some of the current projects with partners that were are a part of.
Sustainable Retirement Plans Pledge
Second Nature partner, the Intentional Endowments Network (IEN), drafted - with Second Nature's and AASHE's support - a pledge in support of the opportunity for higher education employees to have a diverse range of sustainable investing retirement options.
This Is Planet Ed | Higher Ed Climate Action
The Aspen Institute recently announced the rebranding of the K12 Climate Action Initiative which focuses on four different categories. One of the categories - Higher Ed Climate Action - works to organize members of the higher education community to take climate action. Second Nature is an initial partner of the Higher Ed Climate Action.
Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit
United Nations Human Rights, CU Boulder and the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance are co-hosting a three-day global climate summit addressing human rights and climate change as together we explore solutions that every sector of society—government, business, education and individuals—can adopt and act upon.
Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit
3 days | 10 panels | 35+ global experts
Climate solutions.
Virtual Registration is Open to All.
Image Credit: Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit
OPPORTUNITIES
An Opportunity From a Second Nature Partner
Metrus Energy pioneered the Sustainable Energy as a Service model, which enables schools to upgrade equipment, reduce energy costs, and achieve sustainability targets without tapping into their CapEx budget. As a first step Metrus offers a free, remote energy audit that provides a detailed analysis of where the most impactful changes can be made and a roadmap for getting it done.
International Climate Symposium
October 24-26, 2022 | Dickinson College and/or Virtual
Dickinson College invites all to their Science-Based Choices for Climate Action, Insights from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report Symposium which will be both in-person in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and livestreamed online.
The entire symposium is free however does require registration. Second Nature is a Supporting Organization.
MONTHLY MERIT
Agnes Scott College Leading the Way
We wanted to take a moment to recognize Agnes Scott College. Not only is Agnes Scott College continuing to actively pursue and accomplish their campus climate goals, they are also working to make their campus inclusive and equitable in all possible ways. Congratulations to Agnes Scott for the recent accolades you have received acknowledging this work.
2022 Top Colleges for Diversity
INSIGHT into Diversity Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award
Ranked #1 Most Innovative Liberal Arts College (5th year)
2022-2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges
Town-Gown Relations are Great
The Princeton Review’s Best 388 College for 2023*
*Also on the Best Southeastern, Best Value and Most Green colleges lists
Excellence in Diversity
Congratulations to all of the Climate Leadership Network signatories and University Climate Change Coalition (UC3) members who are recipients of the 2022 Top Colleges for Diversity INSIGHT into Diversity Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award!
RAPID RECOGNITIONS
Ohio State leading new $15 million project to study carbon farming as climate change solution
Publication Date: August 25, 2022
Source: The Ohio State News
Climate Change Is Increasing Frequency of Fish Mass Die-Offs
Publication Date: August 26, 2022
Source: University of Arkansas News
What is the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy?
Publication Date: August 25, 2022
Source: The University of Utah
PBS interviews Eddy, Bouchard about aquaculture sustainability
Publication Date: August 26, 2022
Source: The University of Maine
UCI’s School of Education relaunches the Environmental and Climate Change and Literacy Projects
Publication Date: September 8, 2022
Source: UCI News
UB scientists to study how ancient climate change altered ecosystems in Southeast Alaska
Publication Date: September 12, 2022
Source: University at Buffalo News Center
Campuses are offering therapy for anxiety over climate change
Publication Date: September 12, 2022
Source: The Washington Post
University Of Miami: New Class Aims To Foster Climate-Savvy Leaders
Publication Date: September 13, 2022
Source: India Education Diary
About the Year of Climate Action
Publication Date: N/A
Source: Brandeis University, Office of Sustainability
RELEVANT RESOURCES
IRA & Higher Education Webinar Recording
Not able to join Second Nature, America Is All In, and RMI yesterday for the discussion focused on the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the ways it directly connects with the higher education sector? No problem, you can now watch the webinar recording.
From Second Nature:
From America Is All In
America Is All In - a coalition that Second Nature is a part of like many of you - has recently released two new reports that may be of interest:
1. All in on Building Decarbonization in the Age of the Inflation Reduction Act (September 22, 2022)
2. Improving the American Indoors: The Health, Economic, and Community Benefits of Zero-Carbon Buildings (September 21, 2022)
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