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By Jill Yesko , University Relations
Contact (336) 334-3890
Posted:3-29-07
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Dr. Anthony Cortese, an expert in how college campuses can become environmentally sustainable, will speak on “The Role of Higher Education in Sustainability” at 7 p.m., on Monday, April 16, in Room 101 of the Science Building. The public is welcome at no charge.
Cortese is president of Second Nature, an organization that promotes world-wide efforts to make healthy, just and environmentally sustainable action a foundation of all aspects of higher education. He is also the co-founder of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).
Cortese’s lecture is the inaugural event for UNCG Earth Week, a campus-wide series of events highlighting environmentally responsible programs that will take place Monday through Friday, April 16-20.
“UNCG has long-been committed to creating an environmentally-friendly campus,” said Provost A. Edward Uprichard, who will introduce Cortese. “Through new initiatives such as the energy service contract that will reduce energy costs by $7.8 million over the next 12 years, and the environmental studies major that will begin this fall, the university has demonstrated its commitment to bringing sustainability to the forefront of higher education.”
The lecture is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and coordinated by the UNCG Committee on Sustainability.
“Several of us met him at the inaugural conference of AASHE and realized that in a year when unifying various isolated conversations about sustainability was a priority, Anthony Cortese was the perfect person to come and speak to our campus community,” said Dr. Anna Marshall-Baker, chair of the UNCG Faculty Senate.
Cortese holds B.S. and M.S. Degrees from Tufts University in civil and environmental engineering and a Doctor of Science in Environmental Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.
For more information about Earth Week events or sustainability at UNCG, visit http://sustain.uncg.edu.
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