Thursday, November 29, 2012

Pitzer Teams with Famous Actor



 
Pitzer College recently announced the launch of the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability, a program designed to look at environmental issues unique to Southern California.
The announcement was made at the Los Angeles Press Club at a press conference that included Redford and Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley, according to a news release issued by Pitzer.
The Redford Conservancy at Pitzer College will be located in the historic Marston and Maybury-designed former infirmary located on 11.88 acres of Pitzer’s North Campus, according to college officials.
The building will be renovated this coming spring using innovative design and sustainable construction methods. The first academic programming was scheduled to begin in fall 2014, officials said.
This project is made possible by a gift from Susan and Nicholas Pritzker — the largest single donation in the College’s history, officials said. Redford serves as a special adviser to Pitzer President Laura Skandera Trombley on environmental matters.
“Robert Redford is a trailblazing environmental advocate," Trombley said. “His tireless campaigning to protect the planet proves what individuals can do when they bring the full force of their passion and imagination to a cause. At Pitzer, our students learn to forge new ideas and innovations needed to create a better world.”
The confluence of art, media, environmental sciences and creativity will be central at the Redford Conservancy to reflect the way actual progress is made in the 21st century, college officials said.
“I am both humbled and honored by this acknowledgement and to be part of such a dynamic partnership with Pitzer College, an educational institution firmly planted in the 21st Century,” Redford said.
“We hope that this Conservancy will become a place of collaboration with the best thinkers and best dreamers to take on the sustainability opportunities and challenges embodied in the Southern California region, and apply them here and beyond,” Redford said. “I’m most excited about how inspired this place will be by the ‘nothing’s impossible’ drive of the Pitzer students who will study and discover here.”

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