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Creating Lasting Solutions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Climate and Sustainability Academy is the fourth academy at NC State, and unites existing and emerging interdisciplinary research, teaching engagement and operations efforts to promote sustainable and resilient solutions to climate and other global challenges, connecting people and places to imagine and catalyze transformative change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The academy will leverage strengths to elevate ideas that inspire and catalyze climate and sustainability scholarship. These existing strengths include imagining and implementing bold, actionable solutions in coastal, campus\/urban and working lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combining Forces<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Climate and Sustainability Academy will connect and oversee the Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (CRSI), focused on the coast and its watersheds, and the Sustainable Futures Initiative (SFI), working to bring together students, staff, scholars and practitioners to imagine and implement sustainable solutions for society. This academy also aims to facilitate and amplify climate and sustainability work on campus, including the efforts of the State Climate Office, the Sustainability Office and the 20+ entities represented in the Climate Solutions Collaborative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Unique Approach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
At the Climate and Sustainability Academy, we fulfill NC State\u2019s mission through our unique approach to interdisciplinary scholarship and engagement. We will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Leverage what is already here and help new efforts gain momentum. We seek to elevate, not to displace.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Maintain a dual focus on imagination and implementation. We aim to be bold and optimistic on what could be, while also catalyzing practical solutions here and now.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Be inherently place- and people-based. As the state\u2019s premier land-grant institution, this is a core part of our collective identity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Be futures-oriented. We will organize interdisciplinary efforts to support campus\/urban, working landscape and coastal transformations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
The academy will leverage major strengths to further NC State\u2019s reputation as a climate and sustainability solutions engine, with faculty, students and staff innovating with our corporate partners to make our physical campus a model for the cities of the world. It will also promote working landscapes as solution geographies, where innovations in food, biomaterials and clean energies are interconnected. Additionally, the academy will reimagine the coast of North Carolina in light of major changes and seek innovation within its Blue Economy, as an example of similar reimagining and innovation that will need to occur around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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News and Updates<\/strong><\/h2>\n <\/div>\n
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NC State Launches Universitywide Climate and Sustainability Academy<\/h3>\n \n\n \t \t
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Warwick Arden and Senior Vice Provost for University Interdisciplinary Programs Rob Dunn officially announced the launch of the Climate and Sustainability Academy. Dr. Erin Seekamp has been appointed as executive director and Dr. Christopher Galik has been appointed as deputy executive director.<\/p>\n\t \t \n
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