Climate Leadership Awards 2012

Open Dates: 
Friday, December 09, 2011 to Friday, December 14, 2012

All of Second Nature’s Climate Leadership Award Finalists were asked to create a 1-3 minute video highlighting their climate innovation on campus. Our online community was asked to decide who the most innovative campus was. After more than 14,000 votes were cast, we are proud to announce our winner: William Patterson University, of Wayne, New Jersey.

They will be presented with a certificate that denotes their victory at the GW Moving the Planet Forward Conference, on April 17th. As with all groups who submit videos to Planet Forward, every school will have the opportunity to be featured in blog posts on The Huffington Post and National Geographic’s Great Energy Challenge blog, in our pieces on television, in our webisodes, or in other public outreach opportunities.

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sustainability, turbine, energy innovation, Arizona State University, Second Nature, New York University, University of Illinois, William Paterson University
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Allegheny College: Deep Infrastructure Sustainability
kelly boulton
Sustainability at Allegheny College is a community endeavor that is as much about responsibility as it is about fun.
Chandler-Gilbert Community College: SEE Your World
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Chandler-Gilbert Community College's SEE Your World initiative focuses on social, environmental, and economic issues and promotes their commitment to global learning.
New York University: The "Silver Buckshot" Approach
Jeremy Friedman
YOU get a bike! EVERYBODY gets a bike! Being sustainable in a big, bustling city is no easy task, but creating a free bike-sharing program in New York is just one of the ways students at NYU are making the city more sustainable!
Spelman College: Changing the World
Terri Simmons
Spelman College's vision is to build a college that will thrive for the next 100 years, and the way to do that is through sustainability.
Clean Parking Power in the Climate Leadership Awards
Maddie Brennan
This week, Planet Forward is highlighting more of the finalists in Second Nature’s Climate Leadership Awards. Although all very different, what do these school's all have in common? They're producing lean technology to reduce greenhouse gas... Read More
William Paterson University: An Array of Sustainable Initiatives
William Paterson University
William Paterson University
William Paterson University in New Jersey won a Planet Forward award, thanks to a unique initiative that affects both the environment and its students. By building more “smart” facilities and using electric vehicles, the school is changing the way... Read More
We're Teaming up with Second Nature for the Climate Leadership Awards
Charlie Rybak
Planet Forward
How to Make a Cool Video Planet Forward is excited to be partnering with Second Nature this year on the Climate Leadership Awards to feature some of the great climate leadership work being done by colleges and universities.
Glendale Community College: A Culture of Sustainability
Glendale Community College, AZ
Glendale Community College has been invested in sustainability since 2004, and now features over 30 on-campus "Green Efforts" initiatives.
University of Central Missouri: Choose Red (and Go Green)
Manny Abarca and Taylor Hermann
Students at the University of Central Missouri partnered with the school and local community to launch an initiative that will lower their energy expenses by 31% and free bike rentals.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Reducing Energy Usage by 19% in Four Years
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois' students approved a student green fee, which enabled them to achieve $12 million in energy savings, decrease energy usage by 19%, and water usage by 16% since 2008.

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