By Sara Brown, Town Correspondent
Bunker Hill Community College has received a climate leadership award from a national non-profit, honoring the school's efforts in emphasizing sustainability in coursework, campus life, and school administration.
According to the college, Bunker Hill received the award from Second Nature, an organization dedicated to making sustainable living "the foundation of all learning and practice in higher education," at a meeting last month.
The Charlestown-based school was honored at the 5th Annual American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment Summit for promoting sustainability through several initiatives and making "college-wide sustainability initiatives a college-wide goal from 2010-2013.
Bunker Hill was one of the charter signatories of the climate commitment, which now includes 677 higher education institutions.
Other noted programs include a campus Urban Organic Garden Project, with individual plots tended to by various groups, offering 12 sustainability mini-grants in 2010-2011 to staff and faculty who developed courses like "Sustainability in Statistics, a new website dedicated to sustainability, and President Mary L. Fifield's establishment of a new position, Director of Sustainability.
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