{"id":13560,"date":"2012-03-13t14:52:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-13t14:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/new-york-university-the-silver-buckshot-approach\/"},"modified":"2023-02-28t18:46:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28t18:46:27","slug":"new-york-university-the-silver-buckshot-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/new-york-university-the-silver-buckshot-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"new york university: the “silver buckshot” approach"},"content":{"rendered":"
this video is an entry in a contest we’ve launched with second nature’s climate leadership awards. see below for how you can vote for it. <\/em> sustainability is rapidly changing the face of nyu, the largest private university in the us, a community of 50,000 students, faculty and staff embedded in the heart of new york city. nyu\u2019s climate action plan is a comprehensive strategy which seeks to engage the whole university community in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as effectively and rapidly as possible.<\/p>\n through a ‘silver buckshot’ approach — including a new, high-efficiency cogeneration power plant, the city’s first free bike-sharing program, rapid expansion of ‘living laboratory’ teaching and research efforts, and programs such as green grants and a sustainability task force designed to harness the distributed grassroots power of our community — nyu has already reduced global warming pollution by 33% in five years…<\/p>\n and we won’t stop until we reach our goal under the american college and university presidents climate commitment (acupcc) to achieve climate neutrality by 2040!<\/p>\n
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