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Case Study in Building Sustainable Partnerships: Fair Trade Learning in Vieques, Puerto Rico
- University of Mount Union (OH)
- Susquehanna University (PA)
Prescott College’s limited-residency Ph.D. program in Sustainability Education allows students to design and lead their second year fall residency. In order to enhance the experiential and transformative nature ...
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Building and Maintaining a System-Wide, 22-Campus Sustainable Energy Initiative
- Appalachian State University (NC)
- University of North Carolina System Office (NC)
Appalachian State University, in conjunction with the 17-institution University of North Carolina system, is hosting the Appalachian Energy Summit on July 17-19, 2013 in Boone, North Carolina. This July’s ...
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The Meatless Revolution: A Case Study of the Nation's First Vegan Dining Hall
- University of North Texas (TX)
- Humane Society of the United States (MD)
College students are increasingly concerned about their health, the environment, and animal welfare. According to report by foodservice marketing research firm Technomic, 21 percent of college students limit their meat ...
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Beyond the Classroom: Experiential Learning and Students as Agents of Change within Local Communities
- Hillsborough Community College (FL)
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
Through innovative partnerships, students at Hillsborough Community College (HCC) are extending their education beyond the classroom by providing community-wide leadership in the field of sustainability. In 2012-2013, examples of student-led ...
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Implementing a Sustainable Post-Consumer Composting Program for a Large Campus Community
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
- Aramark (PA)
At most universities food service operations generate a substantial amount of waste.
At the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), the university recycling program, UT Recycling, and the Dining Service Company ...
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New Funding Sources to Drive Campus Clean Energy/GHG Leadership and Innovation
- Ball State University (IN)
- Valencia College (FL)
This workshop introduces an entirely new funding source for colleges dedicated to pursuing aggressive clean energy efficiency goals: the voluntary carbon market. With announcements poised to be made at the ...
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Leveraging Community Partnerships to Enhance Climate Resiliency
- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (MA)
- Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (DC)
Recent extreme storm events and new studies in climate science have brought to light the need to both prepare for a changing climate and to maintain strong relationships with host ...
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The Nature of Sharing: Collaborating across Universities to Develop Education for Sustainability Certificate Programs
- Manhattanville College (NY)
- Webster University (MO)
AASHE Proposal for 2013, Nashville, TN
Short Title: Developing EfS certificate programs
Title: The nature of sharing: Collaborating across universities to develop Education for Sustainability certificate programs
--With universities struggling ...
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Paper Sourcing: Easy Wins on Campus, Huge Impacts in the Forest
- Forest Stewardship Council (MN)
- World Wildlife Fund (DC)
Overall paper consumption globally is on the rise. In the US alone we consume 500 lbs. of paper per capita, which is more than any other country. 40% of the ...
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The Sustainability Research Collaborative: A Multi-Institutional Model for Applied Investigation
- Princeton University (NJ)
- Yale University (CT)
The higher education sustainability field recognizes the need to apply rigorous research to applied campus-based challenges, both operational and cultural. The active networks of sustainability offices across the country make ...
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Motivating People Toward Sustainability: Applying Psychological Science to Green Behavior
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Achieving sustainability on university campuses requires engaging and changing the behavior of students, faculty, administrators, staff, and other members of the university community. New programs can suffer unexpected roadblocks if ...
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Campus Food Waste Management: Developing a Comprehensive Food Waste Management System for Green Campus
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Food waste is one of the most challenging components in the waste stream. Americans refuse 25% of all the food they prepare each year, leading to 33 million tons of ...
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Building Blocks of Integrated Design: Goal-Setting Charettes Using the Nominal Group Technique
- Harvard University (MA)
This session uses a flash charette format to provide attendees with a hands-on opportunity to learn specific strategies to engage diverse stakeholders in an integrated process to set robust sustainability ...
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Creating and Maintaining a Sustainability Student Network
- Macalester College (MN)
This session will focus on the successes and challenges faced by Macalester College in creating and supporting a Sustainability Student Worker Network. Macalester’s network is now in it’s ...
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Embedding Ecological Footprinting into Curriculum as a Tool to Engage Students
- Macquarie University (NSW)
The Department of Environment and Geography and the Sustainability Unit at Macquarie University, Sydney, collaborated to develop and investigate the effectiveness of environmental education pedagogy. A central sustainability goal in ...
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Film as a Medium to Engage a Broader Audience
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
This session will showcase a collection of short films highlighting a variety of initiatives at Northern Arizona University using various cinematic styles. The films are aimed at a wide audience ...
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Building a Strategy for Changing Behavior at Your Institution
- Oberlin College (OH)
Academic institutions cannot achieve climate neutrality through technology alone; members of the institution must also be engaged in creating a culture of sustainability. Our research project employed a community-based social ...
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Re-growing the Penn State Student Farm: Designing a Living Lab Experience by Bringing All Partners to the Table
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
In response to the need for greater integration of sustainability in higher education, many institutions have created student farms on their campuses. Founded originally as an agricultural college, The Pennsylvania ...
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A Cap-and-Trade Model for RIT Commuters
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
As climate change awareness grows, several U.S. colleges and universities are tracking their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and have signed the American and University Presidents Climate Commitment (AUPCC), pledging ...
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Research Methods
- University of Arkansas (AR)
Aligning with the themes of the conference, resiliency and adaptation, our team would like to facilitate a discussion around inquiry approaches relevant to making research in sustainability both resilient and ...
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Comparative Analysis of Fuel Source Consumption and Economic Costs of Razorback Transit Among Alternative Fuel Sources
- University of Arkansas (AR)
Razorback Transit is the public transit system of the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. This transit system serves the University of Arkansas community (population ca. 25,000) and residents of Fayetteville, AR ...
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Environmental Justice: Inspiring Action Through Words
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
As the University of Colorado Assembly for Sustainability and Equity, we aim to spread awareness about environmental justice issues, as well as empower individuals with solutions to these issues. Ultimately ...
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Behavior Change for Energy Efficiency: A Literature Review
- Western Michigan University (MI)
The first Earth Day in 1970 spurred a heightened interest in environment-focused behavior change research among social scientists. Psychologists, in particular, enthusiastically rose to the challenge. Multiple review papers have ...
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Water Conservation and Pollution Mitigation at the Source: A Cooperative Town-Gown & Private Sector Mission for a Sustainable Future
- Appalachian State University (NC)
With less than one percent of accessible freshwater on Earth available for drinking water, there is a critical need to conserve and recycle water. In addition, municipal water and wastewater ...
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Five Years of an Integrated Approach to Campus Sustainability: Linking Academics, Operations and Student Life
- Dalhousie University (NS)
At the 2008 AASHE Conference, [X] University presented two ambitious campus sustainability initiatives, one academic and one operational, and an overarching sustainability framework. The university has since put these initiatives ...
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A Rooted University: Growing Resiliency, Community, and Engaged Food Citizens
- University of Michigan (MI)
With the impending energy descent and accelerating impacts of climate change, the need to foster resiliency and adaptation in the realm of higher education is increasingly pertinent. Universities provide a ...
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Teaching Sustainability & Fostering Change at Vanderbilt University
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
Sustainability is the most pressing educational issue of the twenty-first century. In a crisis prone world of limited resources and rapid change, colleges and universities play a vital role in ...
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Design and Construction of an Anaerobic Digestion Laboratory: An Addition to the Biofuels Education and Research Facility at Appalachian State University
- Appalachian State University (NC)
The Biofuels Education and Research Facility (BERF) at Appalachian State University (ASU) originally funded by an EPA P3 grant in 2007 for the planning and construction of a closed cycle ...
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Somatics, Wellness, and Sustainability: Embedding the Concept of Sustainability Within the Physical Body
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Much of the work towards sustainability is focused on reducing the actions of consumption on many levels. Natural resources, space, and food resources are several of the main areas of ...
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Sustainability Initiatives Revolving Fund: A Unique Application With A Proven Track Record
- Arizona State University (AZ)
A major research university developed and launched its Sustainability Initiatives Revolving Fund (SIRF) in fiscal year (FY) 2010 with the goals of investing wisely in projects that promote sustainability, accelerating ...
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How to Build a Career Saving the Planet? Just Ask
- Bard College (NY)
What skills and experiences do you need to become people of power, people with the ability to affect the future, within five to ten years? What does it take to ...
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Drinking Sunlight: Maple Syrup from Your Dorm’s Backyard
- Calvin University (MI)
As students at a small liberal arts school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, opportunities to get involved in the world of sustainable living are endless. Western Michigan is known for producing ...
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Sustain U: Centralizing the University Community Around Sustainability
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Sustainability has always had a presence on the Carnegie Mellon campus, but not one widely acknowledged. Students and staff often pass by the Solar Decathlon house or the recycling room ...
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Sustainability, A Living Experience
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
At Carnegie Mellon University sustainability has been stripped to “green.” Despite the greater on-campus attention of recycling and composting initiatives, six green roofs, zero-waste events, a community garden, and student ...
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Creating Cross-Campus Collaborations: Transforming Curriculum, Empowering Students
- Central College (IA)
Cool things can happen when campus silos are breached and faculty members get to know and start collaborating with directors of facilities, grounds, and food service to empower students. This ...
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Imagining a Sustainable Future: Studying Sustainability through Interdisciplinary Lenses and Experiential Learning in the First-Year Seminar
- Chapman University (CA)
This presentation will focus on a freshman foundations course that introduces students to sustainability as an interdisciplinary concern, using various analytical perspectives to critically explore sustainability through the disciplinary lenses ...
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Pumping Kilowatts: A Look at Energy Efficiency in Fitness Centers
- Chapman University (CA)
Chapman University recently installed SportsArt’s Eco-Green cardio equipment in one of our residential fitness facilities. The SportsArt equipment captures kinetic energy and turns it into electrical energy that is ...
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Driving the Clean Energy Revolution: Student Entrepreneurial Leaders Wanted - Apply Here!
- Chevrolet (OR)
As Chevrolet prepares to support a cleaner, energy efficient future for US campuses as part of its Carbon Reduction Initiative, it will also be challenging students to help engage their ...
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Managing Campus Forests to Meet Carbon Neutrality Goals at Colgate University
- Colgate University (NY)
Deforestation, land use changes and poor land management practices are major contributors to global climate change. Alternatively, sustainable forest management and conservation of open lands must be an important part ...
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Pulp Up the Volume: Maximizing Waste Diversion and Student Empowerment
- College of Charleston (SC)
In the fall of 2012, the College of Charleston began composting with the use a pulper in the dining hall City Bistro. (This machine utilizes a recycled stream of water ...
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Dalhousie University’s College of Sustainability: Transforming a campus for sustainability education
- Dalhousie University (NS)
Over the past five years, Dalhousie University’s College of Sustainability has developed and implemented an innovative model for sustainability education, which transforms university education to ensure all graduates have ...
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A Comprehensive Framework for Driving Sustainability Collaboration Through Athletics
- Davidson College (NC)
Many athletic departments and teams have sustainability initiatives. However, few have comprehensive programs using sustainability in athletics to drive adaptation of practices and awareness building throughout campus, alumni and surrounding ...
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A Design-Build Block Semester: Student Engagement Through the Creation of a Solar Garage
- Green Mountain College (VT)
This presentation tells the story of twenty-one students and one building, where pedagogy revolved around a single goal: the design and construction of a solar garage. The fifteen-credit semester was ...
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Bridging the Town Gown Gap: A Case Study of Civic Engagement and Sustainability
- Indiana University South Bend (IN)
For most of us in higher education, service is typically seen as a second class activity worth little note; a burdensome but necessary duty to participate in a campus committee ...
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Educational Opportunities In Kennesaw State University’s Farm-To-Campus Initiatives
- Kennesaw State University (GA)
The multi-faceted farm-to-campus program at Kennesaw State University (KSU) includes 40+ acres of off-campus organic farmland and small on-campus plots, including an herbal garden, a student-run permaculture garden, and indoor ...
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Kwantlen MultiPass Program - More Than Just A U-Pass
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University (BC)
In 2011, Kwantlen Polytechnic University was faced with a unique problem to solve when the province of British Columbia announced the rollout of a new Universal Bus Pass program for ...
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Historic Green Building, 21st Century Energy Monitoring & City, College & Business Partnership at Maryville College
- Maryville College (TN)
In spring 2013, the first building on the Maryville College (MC) campus received LEED certification. Built in 1876, Crawford House is one of the oldest and among the first historic ...
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Participatory Planning Processes for Sustainability
- McGill University (QC)
Sustainability is the process of a community working together towards a shared vision for a better future. Strategic planning should be participatory – for and from the community. At McGill, we ...
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Energy from the Sun = Food + Electricity + Innovation
- Metropolitan Community College (NE)
MCC embarked on a project to integrate its solar energy program with an existing symbiotic horticulture and culinary arts program. The project seeks to provide hands-on learning experiences for solar ...
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Sustainability at Michigan State is Bolder, by Design
- Michigan State University (MI)
This session will outline a progressive strategic initiative at Michigan State University and its impact on its sustainability program. This initiative is called Bolder by Design. Launched by President Lou ...
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