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INSIGHT 4: COLLABORATION BETWEEN CAMPUSES AND
COMMUNITIES IS FUNDAMENTAL TO MITIGATE AND
ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE AT THE LOCAL
AND REGIONAL SCALE

Hotchkiss School’s Biomass Facility.

A campus is nested within a community, and on a larger scale, is embedded
within a region. There is an inherent economic, environmental, and social rela-
tionship between a campus, its local community, and its region, whether it be
through attracting talent and increasing intellectual capital of the place, to influ-
encing transportation demands, to water availability. Collaborative and collective
planning between city stakeholders and campus stakeholders is fundamental to
determining meaningful and aligned sustainability and resilience measures. A
growing number of college and university presidents are signing Second Nature’s
resilience commitment. See Second Nature’s Resilience Commitment here.

INSIGHT 5: DEEP ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION OF
STAKEHOLDERS IS VITAL FOR EMBEDDING
SUSTAINABILITY INTO THE CULTURE OF A SCHOOL

There is a significant difference between add-on approaches to sustain-
ability solutions and built-in, community-generated approaches to sustainability