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: Anthony D. Cortese is the founder and president of Second Nature, a national nonprofit organization working to create a healthy, just, and sustainable society through education. Second Nature is the lead supporting organization of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment and of the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium. Dr. Cortese has spent the past four decades working for sustainability and environmental protection, including his time as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection as a Dean at Tufts University. For more information, see www.secondnature.org and www.acupcc.org. MORE
Richard J. Cook is President Emeritus of Allegheny College and Senior Fellow with Second Nature. Under his leadership, Allegheny College became a charter signatory of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment; Allegheny has since become a leader in developing a campus culture of innovation and action directed toward achieving climate neutrality and sustainability. While a chemistry professor and provost at Kalamazoo College, Dr. Cook held appointments under two governors on the Michigan Toxic Substance Control Commission and the Governor’s Environmental Science Board. His work in connection with the Love Canal hazardous waste site near Niagara Falls and in association with hazardous waste incineration and landfill use has won him recognition in several states and countries. For more information, see www.allegheny.edu. MORE
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