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Campus-wide Zero Landfill Waste Policy Implementation & Outreach Program - Emory University
- Emory University (GA)
In January 2018, Emory University implemented a completely redesigned waste policy as a leap toward the goal of zero landfill waste (defined nationally as diverting 95% of waste from municipal ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Chesapeake College - "A Living Lab."
- Chesapeake College (MD)
Chesapeake College, founded in 1965 as Maryland’s first regional community college, serves five counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, 20 percent of the state’s land, 3 percent of ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Mississippi State Community Garden
- Mississippi State University (MS)
In the spring of 2017, the Student Association at Mississippi State University secured funding to further sustainability on campus. This funding was used in part to hold a proposal competition ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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A Behavior Based Energy Conservation Program at Suffolk County Community College
- Suffolk County Community College (NY)
Suffolk County Community College (SCCC) is the largest community college in New York State, with over 26,000 students enrolled across three campuses and two extension sites. As a large ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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RU Sustainable event series
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
RU Sustainable events are designed with the purpose of bringing together faculty, students, and staff to engage with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). As described on the ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Partnership Development of Sustainable Learning
- Triton College (IL)
From a partnership of labor and industry and a community college grew an educational program geared toward meeting industry needs while highlighting facility sustainability and environmental awareness.
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Sustainability Action Planning Program
- Yale University (CT)
In 2017, the Yale Office of Sustainability launched a cohort-based sustainability action planning program that offered students, faculty, and staff members from 10 Professional Schools and three Officer Units the ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Sustainable Nation Podcast
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
This podcast releases three new episodes every week, consisting of interviews with global sustainability leaders in higher education, business and government. This can be a great resource for any sustainability ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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The Applied Student Research Toolkit
- McGill University (QC)
This Applied Student Research (ASR) toolkit is designed to help students complete an impactful ASR project. ASR related to sustainability is an opportunity for students to address the needs of ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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E-Book on Ethical Sourcing
- Fairware Promotional Products Ltd (BC)
A starter's guide to assessing your supply chain and will serve to start you down the path of finding suppliers that share your social and environmental goals.
- Posted May 18, 2018
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SIMAP: Sustainability Indicator Management and Analysis Platform
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
SIMAP™ is a carbon and nitrogen accounting platform that can track, analyze, and improve your campus-wide sustainability. Our proven algorithms, based on nearly two decades of work supporting campus inventories ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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A Comms Plan for Running a Waste Reduction Engagement in your University
- University of London
Over the last three years at Reduce the Juice we’ve learnt a lot about running successful behaviour change engagements and now want to share what we’ve learnt with ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Using Technology to Motivate and Quantify Behavior Change: My Cardinal Green
- Stanford University (CA)
In today’s increasingly technological and personalized world, sustainability professionals must provide opportunities to engage their community in a way that is relevant for them, while also quantifying the impacts ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Southern Oregon University Dish Loan Program
- Southern Oregon University (OR)
Southern Oregon University's Ecology and Sustainability Resource Center launched a Dish Loan Program in fall 2017. The Dish Loan Program is a free alternative for campus clubs, organizations, and ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Integral inclusion of sustainability to the curriculum
- The Universidad Tecnologica Metropolitana (Metropolitana Region)
It shows how the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Chile integrated sustainability throughout the curriculum for all its programs
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Improving office recycling
- Raritan Valley Community College (NJ)
Every semester, the Environmental Science and Sustainability (ENVI201) class studies recycling on campus and comes up with ideas for improvements. Student Deidre Supple had the idea of improving recycling in ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Cultivating the Globally Sustainable Self Summit Series - Advancing Education for Sustainable Development Through Research and Practice
- James Madison University (VA)
The Cultivating the Globally Sustainable Self Summit Series is a multi-year, multi-institution initiative that promotes transformative teaching, training, and learning in research and practice (www.jmu.edu/summitseries). The innovative ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Designing a Proxy Carbon Price Strategy for Smith College
- Smith College (MA)
This thesis to Design a Proxy Carbon Price Strategy for Smith College was written to internalize the social cost of carbon emissions into financial decision-making. A proxy carbon price is ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Assessing the Energy and Water Use of Vertical Farming at Princeton University
- Princeton University (NJ)
Research in sustainable solutions for harmful large-scale agriculture will help preserve the earth’s ecosystems and natural resources. Hydroponics is a method of farming that is shown to use considerably ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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The Meat of the Matter: Behavioral Science Nudges for a More Sustainable Diet
- Princeton University (NJ)
Current levels of global population growth and meat consumption are putting unprecedented demand on agriculture and natural resources. From a sustainability standpoint, the environmental impacts of excess meat consumption, coupled ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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SUNY Polytechnic Institute Campus Forest Carbon Inventory Report and Sequestration Estimates
- State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (NY)
This report takes initial measurements for existing SUNY Polytechnic Institute campus forest carbon stocks and estimates projections for annual rates of carbon sequestration. Establishing a baseline for campus forest carbon ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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The U-Challenge at Texas A&M
- Texas A&M University (TX)
- Johnson Controls, Inc (WI)
- Siemens Industry, Inc. (IL)
The U-Challenge is a semester-long research competition for students that has evolved over the past two years to encompass both graduate and undergraduate teams from all majors. Student teams of ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Food Lab Compost Project
- West Chester University of Pennsylvania (PA)
This project aims to reduce food waste produced by the West Chester University Food Lab. First, food scraps from the the Food Lab are collected in a sealed bin. Then ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Higher Education and the Sustainable Development Goals
- AASHE (MA)
- University College London (London)
- University of London
The challenges the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) go deeper than did those of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). They require a rethink of the ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Renewable Energy for Campus Facilites Services
- Black Hills State University (SD)
Demonstrating the effectiveness of the use of renewable energy at low costs in campus facilities services vehicles will help Black Hills State University reach its carbon and waste reduction goals ...
- Posted May 17, 2018
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UC Merced's 1st Annual Earth Month Celebration
- University of California, Merced (CA)
Earth Month was an opportunity for UC Merced organizations and departments as well as Merced Community members to come together in an effort to increase student engagement with our campus ...
- Posted May 17, 2018
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Dismantling a local School to Prison Pipeline with Education for Sustainable Development
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (TX)
UTRGV’s collaboration with an alternative school and its subsequent integration of education for sustainable development has been transformative for the country’s most vulnerable and marginalized youth.
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- Posted May 17, 2018
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Northwestern University Comprehensive Building Energy Data Audit
- Northwestern University (IL)
Northwestern University is committed to fostering environmental and ethical stewardship. The University’s Strategic Sustainability Plan establishes a vision for reducing environmental impacts. In terms of the University’s built ...
- Posted May 17, 2018
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Mobilization Strategies for Environmental Policy Influence
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
- AASHE (MA)
Those of us who research and teach about sustainability issues are often interested in the potential social impact of our own work, in order to help address environmental challenges of ...
- Posted May 15, 2018
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Introduction to the Leading Deep Change in Higher Education Workshop
- Wilfrid Laurier University (ON)
- AASHE (MA)
In response to member interest in higher level, leadership- and change-management focused programming AASHE has partnered with REFOCUS to offer a 1.5 day leadership development workshop in Summer 2018 ...
- Posted May 15, 2018
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Dimensions of professional competences for interventions towards sustainability
- Open University of the Netherlands
- University of Derby
- The Open University
This paper investigates sustainability competences through the eyes of professional practitioners in the field of sustainability and presents empirical data that have been created using an action research approach. The ...
- Posted May 14, 2018
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A scientometric review of global research on sustainability and sustainable development
- University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
The concept of sustainable development has gained worldwide attention in recent years which had enhanced its implementation. However, few studies have attempted to map the global research of sustainability. This ...
- Posted May 14, 2018
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Enhancing Ecoliteracy through Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Proverbs
- Seoul National University
Proverbs can be regarded as pithy axioms of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), which can be useful for sustainability education. By using an exploratory sequential mixed method, we analyzed TEK and ...
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Frontiers in Environmental Education: Philosophical Reflections on the Impact of Power Epistemology and Consumerist Pedagogy in Environmental Education
- The University of Newcastle (NSW)
- East China Normal University
In this paper we argue that an educational ideology, based on an epistemology of power and consumerism, has become embedded within the structural foundations of Western Education. The combination of ...
- Posted May 14, 2018
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Building student capacity to lead sustainability transitions in the food system through farm-based authentic research modules in sustainability sciences (FARMS)
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- Montana State University (MT)
Undergraduate courses provide valuable opportunities to train and empower students with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to advance society in more sustainable directions. This article emphasizes the value of bridging ...
- Posted May 14, 2018
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Leveraging Sustainability Reporting in Higher Education Institutions—A Multidimensional Research Agenda
- University of Hildesheim
Sustainability has become increasingly important to research and practice. In order to determine impacts, identify improvement potential and to disclose efforts towards sustainability, an organization needs appropriate reporting. Thus, sustainability ...
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Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: An enabling role for accounting research
- University of St Andrews (Scotland)
- University of London
The purpose of this paper is to establish and advance the role of academic accounting in the pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are regarded as ...
- Posted May 14, 2018
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Voluntary disclosure of sustainability reports by Canadian universities
- University of Hamburg
In contrast to corporate firms, voluntary sustainability reporting by universities is still in its infancy. Against this background, we have investigated which Canadian universities report their sustainability performance and what ...
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Virtual Water as a Metric for Institutional Sustainability
- University of Virginia (VA)
Carbon and nitrogen footprints are increasingly common metrics used to consider the environmental impacts of activities and consumption by institutions; an institutional water footprint complements these assessments by providing a ...
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Using experiential marine debris education to make an impact: Collecting debris, informing policy makers, and influencing students
- University of Hartford (CT)
The Shore to Statehouse project supported the creation of an open-source, replicable, undergraduate experiential course on marine debris. Funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the course allowed undergraduate ...
- Posted May 14, 2018
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Urban sustainability education: Challenges and pedagogical experiments
- Stanford University (CA)
- Tsinghua University
The twenty-first century will witness massive urban expansion and growth of the urban population, which has global implications for future pathways of sustainable development. Addressing new and heightened demands on ...
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University-Community Partnership Models: Employing Organizational Management Theories of Paradox and Strategic Contradiction
- University of Louisville (KY)
University–community (U-C) partnerships have the potential to respond to society’s most pressing needs through engaged scholarship. Despite this promise, partnerships face paradoxical tensions and inherent contradictions that are ...
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University culture and sustainability: Designing and implementing an enabling framework
- University of Worcester
- Cranfield School of Management
Universities across the globe are giving increasing priority to the challenges of sustainability, encouraged by a variety of drivers including international and national policy, student and societal pressures. Many extant ...
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University ad Sustainable Urban Development Indicators for Analysis and Evaluation
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Madrid)
- Carlos III University of Madrid
University is an institution with a high potential to promote changes that lead to better social outcomes in terms of sustainability and social responsibility. Therefore, it is seems highly necessary ...
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The Efficacy of Third-Party Certifications and Memberships: Bridge to Institutional Sustainability at Colleges and Universities
- Messiah University (PA)
This study researches the effects of third-party certifications and memberships on decision-making pertaining to environmental practices at higher education institutions (HEIs). A survey containing up to 22 questions was sent ...
- Posted May 14, 2018
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Students' Perception of and Engagement with Sustainability at Humber College
- Humber College (ON)
ProjectSustainability aims to explore Humber College students’ perception of sustainability, and their engagement with the Office of Sustainability - including the effectiveness of current sustainability initiatives, as well as improvement and ...
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Undergraduate Learning through Engaged Scholarship and University-Community Partnerships
- College of William & Mary (VA)
- University of Georgia (GA)
The impact of university–community partnerships and involvement in engaged scholarship on student learning was examined through in-depth interviews with undergraduate members of a student-led, community-based research organization at a ...
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Transnational collaboration for sustainability in higher education: Lessons from a systematic review
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
We continue to understand little about how to best design and operate transnational collaborations between universities to advance research and education for sustainability. This article explores general practices in transnational ...
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Towards the integration of sustainability in Higher Eeducation Institutions: A review of drivers of and barriers to organisational change and their comparison against those found of companies
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Madrid)
In recent years, there have been a considerable number of efforts to integrate sustainability into Higher Education Institutions (HEIs); however, there are still challenges that need to be overcome. A ...
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Towards integrated sustainability in higher education – Mapping the use of the Accelerator toolset in all dimensions of university practice
- University of Calgary (AB)
- Vert Energy Group
- Uppsala University
- Charles University
The role of individual change agents and the human dimension in general are increasingly being acknowledged as critical elements in sustainability integration at higher education institutions. Yet few studies focus ...
- Posted May 14, 2018
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