Upstate Medical University has been selected as a finalist for a 2012 Second Nature Climate Leadership Award. This honor comes with the opportunity to participate in a secondary competition: fan-voted video contest!

To support Upstate in the video portion, please click here and "like" our entry. A Facebook account is necessary to vote.

Upstate‘s entry and video focus on the unique sustainability challenges and successes of an academic medical center with teaching hospitals, research laboratories and four colleges. Upstate‘s hospital accounts for about 75 percent of the university‘s energy resources and solid waste generation.