Nice article on Second Nature - a non profit that JK and THK founded with others in 1993

[karynnj]

Yes, 1993! Interesting in that this was when they were first friends and because the concepts were at least a decade ahead of when this was something others spoke of.

"n 1993, a group of folks in Boston including Senator John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Bruce Droste and Dr. Anthony D. Cortese, formed “Second Nature,” an institution designed to gently escort sustainability into the curriculum of every educational outlet.

Dr. Cortese, in his speech Mobilizing Higher Education for a Healthy, Just, and Sustainable Society, explains the need for placing a green blanket over every aspect of education, from the valuable degrees, like engineering, to the utterly useless, like film. The idea is to park sustainability front and center, and make it the focus from which all other disciplines will branch.

We don’t see ourselves as a part of nature, we see ourselves above it. And we’re not.

Second Nature’s philosophy is based on the idea that everything in nature is interconnected, and therefore, dependent on each other. By causing damage in one place, it is inevitably going to come back to bite us. So, how much damage to nature are we looking at in 2010? "
http://www.greenandsave.com/green_news/green-science-technology/second-nature-sustainability-education-5751

In 2007, Second Nature was one of the recipients of profits from This Moment on Earth.

[BlueIris]

1. Thanks for the link. It's important to remember that JK has been

promoting environmental reform for so many years.