Table of Contents

1. The LACCD Sustainable Media Studio: Shooting A Green Tomorrow, Today
2. Help Your School Win the Green Bracket Just Launched This Week
3. Business Environmental Program Reaches Out to Help Local Businesses Become More Energy Efficient
4. Students Release Groundbreaking Report on Sustainability Efforts at Christian Campuses

The LACCD Sustainable Media Studio: Shooting A Green Tomorrow, Today

It's Lights, Camera, Action at LACCD Sustainable Media, the student-led documentary studio of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). Armed with high definition cameras, field recording equipment, big imaginations and one of the largest public sector green building programs in the country as their subject, the talented student auteurs of the LACCD are educating and entertaining their peers on the subject of sustainability and climate neutrality, using the art of documentary filmmaking. Producing video sustainability stories "by students, for students," the studio's filmmakers are turning the camera's lens on themselves and their colleges to showcase marquee building projects campus by campus and reveal the behind-the-scenes transformation of the LACCD. "Energy and You", the group's recent production, comedically tracks a community college student's carbon footprint as he valiantly tries to get to class on time. Read more...

Help Your School Win the Green Bracket Competition

The much-anticipated NCAA Basketball Tournament is right around the corner, and we expect a high percentage of the schools competing in the men's and women's division I games to be ACUPCC signatories. If you and others from your school send in enough great photos, videos, and stories about sustainability and athletics on your campus, your school just might win the Green Bracket (if not the NCAA one). The Second Nature team will be posting the best images and stories online in the effort to generate some friendly competition and publicity for green schools as well as highlight progress on the greening of athletics programs. Could you forward this information to your colleagues and students at your school who are leaders in sustainability and/or sports? Could you let us know if you have ideas, stories, or images to submit to greenbrackets@secondnature.org? See www.greenbrackets.com for more information and contest rules.

Business Environmental Program Reaches Out to Help Local Businesses Become More Energy Efficient

We accomplish so much more when we forge partnerships in our communities, and that philosophy is an integral piece of our sustainability plan at the University of Nevada, Reno. As one of the charter signatories to the ACUPCC, we have set a goal to integrate sustainable practices into everything that we do - from the way we construct our buildings, to our energy usage, to our curriculum, to our outreach mission as a land-grant institution. As part of these outreach efforts, our Nevada Small Business Development Center is offering energy-efficiency assistance to small businesses and targeted industries such as retail, food service, grocers and offices, through its Business Environmental Program. The Center was one of just four small business development centers in the country awarded funding from the U.S. Small Business Administration last year for projects offering energy-efficiency assistance to small businesses. The award provides $125,000 a year for three years for the program. Read more...

Students Release Groundbreaking Report on Sustainability Efforts at Christian Campuses

Renewal, a grassroots Christian environmental network active on campuses across the United States and Canada, is proud to present the first-ever report on our growing movement, Green Awakenings: Stories of Stewardship and Sustainability from the Next Generation. Now is a momentous time for our generation; the planet is in crisis and environmental stewardship is a biblical priority for Christians. The purpose of Green Awakenings is to show what it looks like when Christian students and campuses come together to care for all of God's creation. We want to demonstrate the breadth, depth, and diversity of the growing student movement. More than fifty campuses are featured in the report, most of which are members of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, but only a handful of which are currently signatories to the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment. Signatories are identified in the report by the torch logo next to their names. Read more...