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A Message from Cecil Scheib, Chief Sustainability Officer
The following message was shared in the Office of Sustainability once-monthly email, Sustainability News, on April 22, 2020. Subscribe to receive future newsletters.
Hello NYU Community,As you might expect, my recent focus has been the safety of students, colleagues, family, and friends; I’m thinking of and miss you all. I also regret the planned 50th Anniversary Earth Month events that had to be canceled or postponed, but am thankful several fantastic ones occurred virtually.
Announcing the March 2020 Green Grant Recipients
The following projects have been awarded a Green Grant from the Office of Sustainability.
Climate Change Education En Español
Project leader: Tania Goicoechea, Program Manager (Steinhardt, Wallerstein Collaborative For Urban Environmental Education & Sustainability)
This interdisciplinary project aims to address the inequities in climate change education by creating an interactive digital hub that will host resources in Spanish and/or resources designed with Latinx communities in mind. The grantees will also host roundtable discussions with educators and other community members to gather feedback on the design and use of the online hub, as well as to create a space to share resources and ideas.
NYU Receives STARS Gold Rating for Sustainability Achievements
For over a decade, NYU has raised the bar in making our campus and community more sustainable. But we often hear the question: how are we doing?
This month, NYU officially received a Gold rating through the Sustainability Tracking Assessment & Rating System (STARS), conducted by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). With more than 900 participants in 40 countries, AASHE’s STARS program is the most widely recognized framework in the world for publicly reporting comprehensive information related to a college or university’s sustainability performance. NYU’s STARS Gold score ranks us in the top 30% of certified institutions.
NYU Fights Food Insecurity During COVID-19
New York, the city that never sleeps, has gone silent. As we transition to remote learning and working, we are struck with the inequalities being both created and deepened by COVID-19. NYU is a university not only in the city, but of the city. It is our responsibility and privilege to answer the call in one of New York’s greatest times of need.