Transforming Higher Education for a Sustainable Society

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We envision a world in which all current and future humans are healthy, live in socially vibrant communities, and are personally and economically

secure within a flourishing and sustainable life support system.

Second Nature’s mission is to create a healthy, just, and sustainable society by transforming higher education.

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The common purpose of all educational institutions is to enable our students and our

societies to understand themselves and make wise and effective choices about their future.

The transition to sustainability is a challenge, which permeates all that we do, and runs

the gamut from the merely complicated to the most complex intellectual challenges.

If the economic, social, and environmental wellbeing of our societies is the “report card”

for higher education, we clearly have room to improve, and the opportunity to do so is

tantamount to the responsibility to act.

Unique among organizations focused on this challenge, Second Nature leverages a

network of insight and innovation and years of successful experience with a vision of

the future transformed by the most admirable of human aspirations.

— David Hales, President, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine

“ our job at higher education is to prepare the next generation of scientists,

technicians, parents, entrepreneurs and what i call global humanitarians to

bring this change forward, and we simply don’t have time to wait.”

— Martha KanterU.S. Under Secretary of Education

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Since its inception in 1993, Second Nature has been a major driving force for

transforming the education, research, operation, and community outreach of the higher

education sector in order to create a healthy, just, and sustainable future for everyone.

At a time when few saw the urgent need to find better and more sustainable ways of

meeting human needs and creating a thriving society, Anthony Cortese envisioned how

higher education, as the educator of all of society’s professionals and leaders and the

generator of the knowledge on which society thrives, could lead this effort and become

a model for all of society. With the encouragement and support of Senator John Kerry

and Teresa Heinz Kerry, Second Nature was created to make this vision a reality.

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My journeyMy journeyMy to journey to journey Second Nature began with growing up growing up growing in the 1950s and 1960s in the North End of

Boston, then a largely a largely a Italian largely Italian largely American working class working class working community. We swam and harvested clams in

Boston Harbor until I was about age 8, when those activities were banned because of pollution. of pollution. of Poor air

quality andquality andquality chronic respiratory disease respiratory disease respiratory were rampant.

Throughout my education, my education, my my childhood my childhood my experiences stayed with me. i wondered why we couldn’t have human progress without pollution. For me, the journey of journey of journey protecting of protecting of the protecting the protecting

environment was all about measures to improve our health and well-being.

This led me to become a civil a civil a and environmental engineer. I was the first in my immediate my immediate my family

to receive a college a college a degree (Tufts University) and later a doctorate a doctorate a (Harvard School of Public of Public of Health).

I answered the call of President of President of John F. Kennedy and Kennedy and Kennedy pursued a career a career a in public service.

While serving in serving in serving the US Public Health Service, the original EPA, and later as Commissioner of the of the of

Massachusetts Department of Environmental of Environmental of Protection, I participated in some of the of the of seminal

environmental protection efforts involving clean involving clean involving air, clean water, toxic chemicals and waste cleanup.

The progress was rapid and impressive, exemplified by the by the by first international agreement on acid rain

control between the New England New England New States and Eastern Canadian Provinces in 1993 that (then Lt.

Governor) John Kerry and Kerry and Kerry I helped shepherd. But the actions largely focused largely focused largely on ‘downstream’ clean-up

rather than prevention, and the gains required almost Herculean efforts against short-term and narrow

economic interests.

It was then that I realized that the rapidly growing rapidly growing rapidly health, growing health, growing social, economic, and environmental

challenges facing the facing the facing world were urgent, systemic and interdependent requiring a fundamental change in mindset that must be led by higher education. New economic, New economic, New technological

and social strategies living in living in living harmony with harmony with harmony the Earth’s life support systems were necessary in necessary in necessary order to

meet the needs of current of current of and future generations. I returned to Tufts University as University as University the first university-

wide Dean of Environmental of Environmental of Programs, helped start several new academic new academic new degree programs and, in

1989, founded the Tufts Environmental Literacy Institute Literacy Institute Literacy — the first effort in the U.S. to equip all

students, regardless of their of their of major or profession, with the knowledge and skills to align their personal

and professional lives with sustainability principles. sustainability principles. sustainability

The urgent need for all of higher of higher of education to provide this education and become a model for sustainability in operation led to the creation of Second of Second of Nature. Since 1993 we have been a

thought leader on how higher how higher how education can make this transformation and catalyzed the development of

statewide, regional, and national networks of higher of higher of education presidents, faculty, administrators, staff,

and students to build higher education’s capacity to capacity to capacity lead this effort.

While it is heartening to heartening to heartening see the explosion of action of action of on college campuses during this during this during time, we are at the

beginning stagesbeginning stagesbeginning of this of this of transformation while the challenges grow more difficult daily. With

your help, Second Nature will continue to play this play this play important role in developing the developing the developing high leverage

strategies to make a sustainable a sustainable a society ‘second society ‘second society nature’ through education.

— Anthony D. Cortese, ScDPresident of Second Nature

“ in the first part of my career, most people thought there was a trade-off between the economy, health, and the environment. Today, for the first time in my life, i am hearing the opposite: that we can’t afford not to live by the principles of sustainability.”

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Anthony Cortese participates in the presidential session at the 2010 ACUPCC Climate Leadership Summit in Denver, CO, where representatives from hundreds of US higher education institutions convened.Photo courtesy of Second Nature

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Three million students graduate from US higher education institutions each year, going on going on going to make choices

that guide and shape our society and society and society economy. They will They will They need new knowledge new knowledge new and skills to participate in

a clean,a clean,a green economy oriented economy oriented economy toward increasing jobs, increasing jobs, increasing reducing poverty, reducing poverty, reducing and raising the raising the raising quality of quality of quality life. of life. of

The NEED forEducation for Sustainability

Students in the Delta College Water Environment Technology program study stream water for potential

environmental impact on aquatic organisms. Photo courtesy of Delta College

Human society is on an unsustainable path. Rapidly growing population, aggressive

resource consumption, and waste buildup are putting unprecedented pressure on social

and natural systems while reducing their capacity to handle that pressure. Moreover,

the current economic strategies are failing to make the necessary progress on public

health, poverty, and wealth disparity in most countries.

And for decades, our higher education system has not created solutions needed to

avoid this crisis that threatens the viability of modern civilization. In many ways

it has produced, reinforced, and accelerated this process, albeit unintentionally.

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Our college and university graduates, university graduates, university regardless of their of their of fields of study of study of or study or study area of area of area expertise, of expertise, of must be

equipped to understand the complex interaction complex interaction complex of social, of social, of economic, and natural systems and to appreciate

the direct and indirect consequences of their of their of actions across time and space. To do so, interdisciplinary, systemic thinking will be necessary to necessary to necessary integrate disciplinary studies disciplinary studies disciplinary in ways that ensure that graduates

will have the knowledge and skills necessary in necessary in necessary a sustainable a sustainable a economy.

Research must be aimed at creating effective creating effective creating solutions to our largest and most urgent challenges. Campuses

must ‘practice what they preach’ they preach’ they so they become they become they living laboratories for their students and role models for the rest of society. Institutions must collaborate with their local communities and actors

in other sectors to help them become economically, socially and socially and socially environmentally sustainable. environmentally sustainable. environmentally In other

words, creating a creating a creating sustainable a sustainable a society must society must society be a core, a core, a normative goal of higher of higher of education.

Northland students enrolled in a special May-term course install 38 solar panels on the roof of the Dexter Library. Photo courtesy of Bob Gross

• all of our products and services will be designed so the materials canbe repurposed or safely returned to natural systems in a ‘closed-loop’.

• all energy will be safe, clean, and renewable.

in a sustainable society...

• We will live off nature’s ‘interest’ rather than its ‘capital’ by usingresources no faster than they can self-generate—the ideas embodied insustainable fishing, agriculture, and forestry.

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Second Nature’s SUCCESS

Over 30% of students in the US attend an institution that is part of the

american College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment.

33 million metric tons = current annual emissions of Co2e from aCUPCC institutions that will be eliminated when they achieve

their goals.

higher education has become the only sector to commit to

addressing climate disruption with the scientifically necessary goal of net-zero GHG emissions.

higher education institutions contribute 121 million metric

tons to total annual US greenhouse gas emissions.

Second Nature is the international leader in building momentum, leveraging

collaborations, and catalyzing change to move higher education toward sustainability.

We believe that creating a thriving, enduring society is the fundamental purpose of

all learning; sustainability should be a foundational principle of higher education.

We call this Education for Sustainability (EfS)—a movement that has grown

synonymous with Second Nature. We mobilize higher education leaders and policy

makers to advance sustainability imperatives and inspire higher education to embrace

sustainability as a core concept.

We are the primary force in the nation and worldwide engaging higher education senior leadership (presidents, trustees, business officers, and provosts) to make sustainability a

strategic imperative for their institutions.

We support the american College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment(ACUPCC). The leaders of more than 670 colleges and universities in all 50 states and the

District of Columbia, representing one-third of the 17+ million college students in the US,

have committed to climate neutrality in both practice and education.

Through our advancing Green Building in higher Education program, funded

by the Kresge Foundation, we work to build the capacity of minority-serving and under-

resourced institutions to construct and renovate campus buildings in ways that save money,

reduce negative health impacts and serve as community models for environmentally

sustainable design.

Implementation liaisons from dozens of institutions fine-tune their climate action plans

during a workshop presented by Second Nature. Photo courtesy of Second Nature

SUCCESS

as a collaborator...

as a change agent...

Presidents from hundreds of institutions across the U.S. convene annually at the ACUPCC Climate Leadership Summit. Photo courtesy of Second Nature

Some of the savings realized through participation in one of Second Nature’s programs:

$2 million = annual savings from Ball State University’s geothermal project

$2.2 million = annual savings from Los angeles Community College District’s solar projects

$260,100 = annual savings from Clemson University’s energy efficiency projects

$300,000 = annual savings from Tennessee State University’s behavior-change conservation efforts

We worked with the Campaign for Environmental Literacy on recent amendments to the Higher

Education Act that authorized $50 million annually for college and university sustainability

programs, the first federal funds directed in support of EfS.

We advised and partnered with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) on learning institutes

focused on sustainable campus operations at historically Black, hispanic american serving, and Tribal institutions.

We helped grow the Education for Sustainability Western Network into the Association for the

Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (aaShE), a national higher education

learning community with over 1,000 member organizations.

We inspired higher education to become the first sector in society to commit to climate neutrality.

We created the first comprehensive reporting system, publicly available to all of higher

education, that engages higher education in promoting sustainability.

We helped coordinate efforts by hundreds of institutions to advocate for climate and higher education federal policies around transportation, funding education for sustainability activities,

and passing federal climate legislation.

For more information about Second Nature’s programs, write to info@secondnature.org

The “innovation Curve” graphic shown here is a conceptual a conceptual a representation of the of the of spectrum of

progress institutions of higher of higher of education in the U.S. have made in addressing the addressing the addressing sustainability challenge. sustainability challenge. sustainability

Many areMany areMany still at the very early very early very stages. early stages. early Some have already made already made already sustainability a sustainability a sustainability core, a core, a normative goal of the of the of

institution. Most are somewhere in between, having completed having completed having some energy efficiency energy efficiency energy measures, efficiency measures, efficiency developed

some sustainability-focused curricula, or engaged some departments to focus on these issues—but not yet

established sustainability as sustainability as sustainability a strategic a strategic a imperative.

What isNEXT?

Our work is far from done. The task of overcoming our civilization’s most urgent

challenges — lifting billions of people out of poverty and creating opportunities for

secure, decent lives for all, without undermining the natural systems upon which

we depend — is a marathon, not a sprint. All of us, as producers, consumers, and

citizens need the knowledge and skills that only higher education can provide to

meet these challenges.

BEGINNING INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED

670+ ACUPCC Institutions

15% have completedGreenhouse Gas(GhG) inventories(539 ACUPCC Institutions)

9% have completedClimate action Plans(327 ACUPCC Institutions)

Sustainability is acore, normative goalof the institution

Photo courtesy of Arizona State University

We are still a long way from shifting all institutions into the “advanced” category—but when critical

thresholds are crossed, the shift can happen quickly. It will require ongoing collaboration within higher

education and among business, government, local communities and civil society—and concerted,

persistent, and strategic effort from Second Nature. Over the past 20 years—and particularly in the last

5 years—our programs have accelerated the progress of hundreds of schools from the “beginner” stage

to “intermediate” and “advanced.”

With your help, Second Nature will continue to play its leading role in developing leveraging strategies to make this a reality—so that a sustainability perspective will be “second nature” for all graduates, in all they do.

ACUPCC signatory Cornell University’s Frank Perry (left), Combined Heat and Power Plant Associate Project Manager, meets with Sierra Club’s Bruce Niles at the new plant, opened in 2009. Turbines fired by natural gas and waste heat from the turbines generate electricity. Exhaust from steam turbines circulates through underground tunnels and warm radiators all over campus. The result: a 28% cut in emissions. Photo courtesy of Cornell University

“ Second Nature is helping leaders at Penn State develop a comprehensive Strategic Sustainability Plan that will help us capitalize on our cumulative teaching, research, outreach, and operational efforts in sustainability, and also to take advantage of the size, breadth, and global reach of our University.”

— David RileyExecutive Director, Penn State Center for Sustainability

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The US higher education sector graduates approximately

3 million students each year—the vast majority of which are not equipped with a systemic understanding of sustainability principles and are thus ill prepared to create a sustainable society through their actions in their personal and professional lives.4

Gravity data collected from space by NASA found that antarctica has been

losing more than 100 cubic kilometers

(24 cubic miles) of ice each year since 2002.2

By 2050, total water demand in the U.S. is projected to increase by as much as 12.3%.

however, 70% of all U.S. counties’ water supplies will be experiencing water shortages due to climate change.3

Over 3 Billion people, almost half of the world’s population, live off less than $2.50 per day.5

according to the United Nations Development Program, the world’s poorest people walk the Earth with a very light carbon footprint. We estimate the carbon

footprint of the poorest 1 billion people on

the planet at around 3 percent of the world’s total footprint. Living in vulnerable rural areas and urban slums, the poorest billion people are highly exposed to climate change threats for which they carry negligible responsibility. Comparisons: US: 20.6 tons per capita. India:1.2 tons and Ethiopia: 0.1 tons.6

The past decade was the warmest ever on record, according to NASA data.1

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2 Conway, Erik. “Is Antarctica Melting?” NASA. NASA.Web. 21 Oct 2010.

3 Altman, Peter, and Spencer, Theo. “NRDC: Climate Change,Water, and Risk.” Natural Resources Defense Council.NRDC, 01 07 2010. 07 2010. 07 Web. 15 Oct 2010.

4 Aud, S. et al. “The Condition of Education 2010 (NCES2010-028).” National Center for Education Statistics, Instituteof Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington,DC. (2010).

5 Shah, Anup. “Poverty Facts and Stats.” Global Issues – Social,Political, Economic and Environmental Issues That Affect Us All.Global Issues, 20 09 2010. Web. 15 Oct 2010.

6 United Nations. “Inequalities in carbon footprinting-somepeople walk more walk more walk lightly than others.” United Nations HumanDevelopment Report. (2007/2008).

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