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Sustainable Biodiversity on the Georgia Southern Campus
- Georgia Southern University (GA)
Our project recorded the biodiversity of vertebrates on the 700 acre rural campus of Georgia Southern University. Faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students were involved in collecting the data. Students ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Sustainability Assessment Report for Philadelphia University by using AASHE STARS Credit System
- Philadelphia University (PA)
This project is a thesis research on sustainability at Philadelphia University. The University is known regionally for its sustainability initiatives and education. The university has won several awards and recognitions ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Using classroom schedule data to reduce energy consumption
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
Most Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems (HVAC) are designed to provide a ventilation based on the assumption that the rooms are fully occupied, when real occupancy is most often ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Designing a Photovoltaic Array for Smith College
- Smith College (MA)
The development of distributed solar energy is an opportunity for individuals and institutions to support the growth of the clean energy economy, lower their carbon footprint, promote energy security, and ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Reducing the Nitrogen Footprint of a Small Residential College
- Dickinson College (PA)
The release of reactive nitrogen contributes to its accumulation in the environment, causing a variety of harmful effects. To measure Dickinson College’s contribution to nitrogen pollution, and quantify the ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Adding a Nitrogen Footprint to Colorado State University’s Sustainability Plan
- Colorado State University (CO)
As a large land grant university with more than 32,000 students, Colorado State University (CSU) has both on-campus non-agricultural and agricultural sources of nitrogen (N) released to the environment ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Incorporating Sustainability Content and Pedagogy Through Faculty Development
- James Madison University (VA)
The new Centers for Sustainability Across the Curriculum increase the availability of faculty development opportunities related to sustainability. Faculty and administrators considering professional development and subsequently design/redesign of courses ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Comparing Institution Nitrogen Footprints: Metrics for Assessing and Tracking Environmental Impact
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- University of Virginia (VA)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
When multiple institutions with strong sustainability initiatives use a new environmental impact assessment tool, there is an impulse to compare. The first seven institutions to calculate nitrogen footprints using the ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Transforming Campus Food Service with Anytime Dining
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
The Department of Dining Services at University of Maryland (UMD) set a goal to change the student culture and experience on campus through the Anytime Dining residential dining program. The ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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The New Eco-Rep Model: Unifying Campus Audiences in Co-Curricular Sustainability Programming
- Dickinson College (PA)
Dickinson College has innovatively reformed its Eco-Rep model into a combined student and employee peer-to-peer sustainability education program that creates co-curricular learning experiences aimed at unifying campus stakeholders while increasing ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Assessing the Social and Environmental Costs of Institution Nitrogen Footprints
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- University of Virginia (VA)
This article estimates the damage costs associated with the institutional nitrogen (N) footprint and explores how this information could be used to create more sustainable institutions. Potential damages associated with ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Climate Change and the Canadian Higher Education System: An Institutional Policy Analysis
- University of Rochester (NY)
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
Climate change is a pressing concern. Higher education can address the challenge, but systematic analyses of climate change in education policy are sparse. This paper addresses this gap in the ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Implementing Sustainability Co-Creation between Universities and Society: A Typology-Based Understanding
- Clark University (MA)
- University of Tokyo
- University College London (London)
- United Nations University
Universities are under mounting pressure to partner with societal stakeholders and organizations to collaboratively create and implement sustainability-advancing knowledge, tools, and societal transformations. Simultaneously, an increasing number of societal organizations ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Environmental and Economic Perspectives in the Analysis of Two Options for Hand Drying At an University Campus
Environmental criteria can be part of global energy policies for the establishment of support and development actions for different technologies. Minimization of greenhouse gas emissions is a benefit to all ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Integrated traditional and applied education in a public US university: exploring sustainable cities and regions in classrooms and communities
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
- University of Montevallo (AL)
The most effective and promising models for teaching sustainability sciences and studies in a university setting are a topic of vigorous debate. This paper discusses an integrated sustainability curriculum at ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Integration of interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability education and research and urban sustainability
- Global Council Science and the Environment (DC)
This article explores the results of the National Council for Science and the Environment’s 2012 census of interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability (IES) baccalaureate and graduate degree programs and the ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Enhancing climate change adaptation: strategies for community engagement and university-community partnerships
- Antioch University, New England (NH)
This paper discusses current opportunities for universities to partner with local governments and NGOs to support local level adaptation to climate change and a proposed ten-stage model which delineates the ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Work-based learning as a catalyst for sustainability: a review and prospects
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the continuing dearth of scholarship about the role of work-based learning in education for sustainable development, and particularly the urgent demands ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Critical attributes of Sustainability in Higher Education: a categorisation from literature review
- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Santa Catarina)
Sustainability in Higher Education has been investigated mainly through examining institutional approaches, curricula content, or students' and teachers' perceptions of sustainability in practice. However, a deep characterisation of the foundations ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Relocating Education for Sustainability: From the campus to the community
- Kent State University (OH)
For 25 years, higher education has been challenged to provide a path toward sustainability. This challenge is both lofty and necessary. During this time, higher education has yet to make ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Funding Strategies for Non-Traditional University MS4 Stormwater Programs
- Michigan State University (MI)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
- University of Michigan (MI)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
- University of Virginia (VA)
Stormwater programs have historically been stymied by lack of proper funding resources. Unlike drinking water and sanitary sewer utility services that long ago transitioned to enterprise funds, a stormwater utility ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Solar Garden Partnership: A Renewable Energy Innovation
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
- Consumers Energy
Grand Valley State University (GVSU) began a renewable energy project in partnership with its local utility, Consumers Energy, after the Michigan Public Service Commission approved a Solar Garden program. This ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Stanford University's R&DE Creatively Responds to the California Drought
- Stanford University (CA)
Sustainability is a core value to Stanford University's Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE). R&DE is responsible for about 1/3 of Stanford's campus, housing over 13,000 residents ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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McGill University's Sustainability Projects Fund
- McGill University (QC)
The Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) is a crown jewel of McGill University’s sustainability efforts and a best-practice model for universities. The SPF’s main goal is to build a ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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McGill Students Lobby to Create Climate Officer Position
- McGill University (QC)
In Spring 2016, Management PhD student Amir Nosrat, and other colleagues at the Post-Graduate Students' Society of McGill University, came up with the idea to create a Climate Officer position ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Cowbell Cleanup
- Mississippi State University (MS)
Cowbell Cleanup is an initiative that was started by the Office of Sustainability on Mississippi State University's campus. The University faces a large influx of guests during home football ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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The Campus Sustainability Plan: A Community Building Momentum
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
Progress on campus wide sustainability is not easy. It takes both planning and implementation to realize results. The University of Saskatchewan is realizing results from its Campus Sustainability Plan, developed ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Community Engaged Scholarship and Learning in Urban Forestry helps UTRGV earn Tree Campus USA Designation
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (TX)
In 2014, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (through its legacy institution UTPA), one of the largest Hispanic Serving Institutions in the country, proposed and offered three iterations of ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Portland State University - All Gender Restroom Policy
- Portland State University (OR)
In late 2015 Portland State University (PSU) administration officially adopted an all gender restroom policy (also sometimes referred to as gender-neutral, unisex, or universal) for the PSU campus. The all ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Reduce the Juice – Saving Energy in Halls of Residence
- AASHE (MA)
- University of London
At the University of London, in England, we have launched a behaviour change programme aimed at students living on campus in the University’s halls of residence. The aim of ...
- Posted May 18, 2017
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Stanford achieves dramatic greenhouse gas emissions reductions to surpass state, national, and international climate targets
- Stanford University (CA)
Stanford Energy System Innovations (SESI) is a new campus energy system powered by renewables, designed to meet the current and future energy needs of Stanford University in an environmentally, socially ...
- Posted May 18, 2017
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Johnson County Community College Student Sustainability Committee
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
As a broadly effective, innovative, engaging, and replicable project, Johnson County Community College’s Student Sustainability Committee [the SSC, the Committee] is a compelling and powerful tool for developing student ...
- Posted May 18, 2017
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KMRB Energy Reduction Project
- University of Rochester (NY)
The University of Rochester’s Medical Center operates 24-hours a day, seven days a week in a 5.4 million square foot complex. Facilities Operations is responsible for providing conditioned ...
- Posted May 18, 2017
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NC State University Achieves 95 Percent Diversion With Building Deconstruction
- North Carolina State University (NC)
Harrelson Hall, the first round classroom building constructed on a university campus, was deconstructed in 2016 and NC State University exceeded its waste diversion goal, diverting 95 percent of non-hazardous ...
- Posted May 18, 2017
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American University in Cairo 2017 Carbon Footprint Report
- American University in Cairo (Cairo)
The first step of reducing a university’s carbon footprint is measuring its current size. The 2017 Carbon Footprint Report is the 4th in the American University in Cairo’s ...
- Posted May 18, 2017
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Project Green Step 2030: Catawba College Campus Solar Energy Installation
- Catawba College (NC)
Catawba College completed a solar energy project in 2016 that is projected to produce more solar electricity than all the other North Carolina colleges and universities combined. This was the ...
- Posted May 18, 2017
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Watershed UGA: A living laboratory transforming campus and community through teaching, research and service
- University of Georgia (GA)
Watershed UGA created a vision and framework for using the campus as a living laboratory to advance sustainability through teaching, research, public service and outreach, and university operations. We are ...
- Posted May 18, 2017
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The University of Virginia as a Living Lab for Solar Energy
- University of Virginia (VA)
Over the next five years, The University of Virginia hopes to install 1-2 megawatts of solar PV on grounds. To help prioritize projects, UVA turned to the School of Engineering ...
- Posted May 18, 2017
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Does Social Justice Knowledge Matter in Sustainable Business Education?
- Appalachian State University (NC)
There is a growing social justice movement in the United States in response to perceptions of increasing inequality, as illustrated by recent minimum wage protests and the Occupy Wall Street ...
- Posted May 18, 2017
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Wind Power Feasibility Study for Ball State University
- Ball State University (IN)
Based on two years of site-specific wind speed measurements and actual power curve performance estimates of five commercial wind turbines, a feasibility study of wind-power potential near Ball State University ...
- Posted May 16, 2017
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The Ohio State University Sustainability Goals Development Project
- The Ohio State University (OH)
In November 2015, The Ohio State University announced the establishment of sustainability goals to guide the university as it develops durable solutions to the challenges of sustainability and in evolving ...
- Posted May 16, 2017
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Fix It Friday
- Illinois State University (IL)
Fix It Friday is a program in which fashion students set up sewing machines in various places within the Illinois State University campus and the surrounding Bloomington-Normal community and offer ...
- Posted May 16, 2017
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UTA CARES: Open Education and Open Pedagogy for Sustainable Future and Resource Conservation
- University of Texas at Arlington (TX)
Reducing the cost of a college education is a frequent topic in higher education circles. Some colleges and universities such as UT Arlington have been trying to find other ways ...
- Posted May 16, 2017
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GreenApps Eco-Reps Sustainability Leadership and Engagement Course
- Appalachian State University (NC)
The GreenApps: Eco-Reps Program was developed in order to recruit on-campus students to join the Office of Sustainability team to assist with education and promotion of campus sustainability through a ...
- Posted May 16, 2017
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Master of Arts in Food Studies
- Chatham University (PA)
Chatham University's Master of Arts in Food Studies is a part of their Falk School of Sustainability & Environment. The interdisciplinary program trains students to understand and analyze holistic ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
Florida Gulf Coast University’s Bachelor of Arts in Environmental studies is designed to prepare students for a large network of job opportunities in the environmental field.The program incorporates ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Sustainability Certificate Program: Creating Community through Cohorts
- University of Georgia (GA)
The Certificate in Sustainability will enhance opportunities for integrative, applied learning in interdisciplinary settings as well as prepare students to address difficult global sustainability issues. The certificate will also work ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Oregon Climate Change Research Institute
- Oregon State University (OR)
The Oregon Climate Change Research Institute is an institute underneath Oregon State’s Advancing the Science of Earth’s Ecosystems center. The institution was created by the Oregon Legislature and ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Florida Gulf Coast University Emerging Technologies Institute
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
The FGCU Emerging Technologies institute is an off campus institute designed to facilitate projects and research in regards to sustainable technology. Projects will be geared towards environmental sustainability and renewable ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Biofuels and Bioproducts Research Lab
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
The focus of research at the Biofuels and Bioproducts research lab includes studying the chemical makeup of algae and the economic and physical feasibility of optimizing it as an alternative ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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