AUGUST 2010
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Campus Sustainability in Action


We invite you to listen to our fellow's story.  Also, please take advantage of the limited time discounts that can help you and your colleagues pursue sustainability on your campus.
-Second Nature

A Kresge Fellow's Story
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Ron Brooks, a 2009 Kresge Fellow from Tennessee State University, talks about his fellowship experience and how he helped his institution save about $300,000 on energy usage!
Financing Green Campus Resources

Enterprise Green Communities: Charette Grants provide up to $5,000 for housing developers to integrate green building systems in their developments and engage in a serious discussion of green design possibilities.

Directory of Funders that Support Green Building and Green Communities is a compiled list of 24 private foundations that wish to promote green building and offer capital grants.

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Financial Opportunities
include the latest funding programs available to business, industry, and universities .


Advancing Green Building Blog


"Students Prove a Little Tax Goes a Long Way"--Vanessa Santos, an intern with Second Nature's Advancing Green Building program, discusses how students at University of California-Riverside are raising money for green building initiatives through taxing themselves. 

"Students Fight for Clean Energy"--Dan Abrams, a former Second Nature intern, shares story of college students and their quest to achieve 100% clean-energy for Massachusetts by 2020.
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Campus Green Builder
is a web portal to green building information and a free one-stop online resource on campus green buildings that is accessible to all higher education institutions.

Second Nature
18 Tremont Street, Suite 308, Boston, MA 02108 | 617-722-0036
Contact us:
advgreenbldg@secondnature.org