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Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Exchange Programs as a Potentially Cost Effective and Socially Beneficial Approach to Offsetting Carbon Emissions Locally
- Oberlin College (OH)
To achieve carbon neutrality, organizations can balance unavoidable emissions by purchasing "carbon offsets" that provide credit for emissions captured or reduced elsewhere. Locally managed and implemented offset programs can provide ...
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Walking the Talk Together: Queen's University's Sustainability Collaboration Model
- Queen's University
Sustainability and collaboration are among today's popular buzz words. However, rigid organizational lines, resource challenges, and a fast-paced environment severely constrain well-intended efforts. There is no shortage of great ...
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GreenRichland: Building Sustainable Local and World Community
- Dallas College (TX)
As the threat of global warming and natural resource shortages becomes more of a reality, Richland College is among the first community colleges in the U.S. to participate in ...
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Activating Student Involvement: One Student's Journey from Bystander to Sustainability Leader
- University of Utah (UT)
As a student, finding a niche on a commuter campus with an enrollment of over 27,000 is no easy task. It is easier to simply blend in and follow ...
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Use of a Wiki Site to Promote Sustainable Actions Among Students
- Utah State University (UT)
Utah State University's new Sustainability Council created an educational website. Wanting to engage students rather than simply educate them, we added a wiki component to the website using freely ...
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Building A Campus Sustainability Effort at a Regional Public University: A Five Year Retrospective
- Western Illinois University (IL)
While student leadership on campus sustainability issues is the norm on many campuses, attention to sustainability at Western Illinois University has been driven by faculty and staff. Until recently, student ...
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Chandler Gilbert Community College - Sustainability as a Campus Wide Strategy
- Chandler-Gilbert Community College (AZ)
This presentation will demonstrate how to integrate sustainability into institutional effectiveness. Chandler Gilbert Community College has embedded a commitment to sustainability into its strategic plan for 2007-2012. The strategic plan ...
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Making Your Campus a Laboratory for Sustainability: Linking Operations and Curriculum
- Evergreen State College, The (WA)
How can you incorporate daily operations of your campus into a laboratory for learning opportunities for students? This presentation will emphasize easily transferable strategies, regardless of campus size and orientation ...
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Promoting Recycling at a Big Ten University: Garnering and Understanding Stakeholder Input for a Communication Strategy at Michigan State University
- Michigan State University (MI)
In 2006, Michigan State University (MSU) began systematically studying methods to improve campus sustainability efforts. The MSU Vice President for Finance and Operations launched the Boldness by Design Environmental Stewardship ...
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Corporate Sustainability Reports: How to Perform a Basic Analysis to Understand a Company's Sustainability Efforts
- University of Idaho (ID)
Corporate Sustainability Reports are heavily criticized for portraying more marketing and public relations material than quantitative accounts of the company's commitment to sustainability. Corporate Sustainability Reports can contain mountains ...
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Education for Ecocultural Sustainability: ENVS 410 The Campus as a Living, Learning Laboratory
- Western Michigan University (MI)
This paper reports on the details of a remarkable, seven-year curriculum experiment directed at learning how to see and understand our campus as an ecocultural system. Taking a systems-oriented, action ...
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Maximizing Student Action on Campus
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Higher education institutions have been home to some of the most significant movements in history. Students recognize that there is strength in numbers and want to use their knowledge to ...
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A Sustainable Process for Sustainability Curriculum Development
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Development of interdisciplinary curricula is always a complicated process, both conceptually and bureaucratically. Doing this work in a new field in a new School is particularly challenging. This presentation traces ...
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Building a Vision and Culture for Safety and Sustainability
- CDM (MA)
The University of California, Riverside (UCR) has a vision to achieve outstanding health, safety, environmental, and sustainability performance as the foundation for integrating excellent sustainability, risk management, environmental, health, and ...
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EcoBox - Think Outside it - then Build Inside it, Next to it, and On Top of it.
- Central Piedmont Community College (NC)
Many of the technologies needed to create sustainable environments are neither new nor difficult, but you just have to use them. This presentation will start with the premise of having ...
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Life Cycle Assessment of a Banana Split
- Central Piedmont Community College (NC)
It seems everyone is talking about sustainability. We are bombarded with news, businesses, governments, parents, and academia about products ranging from cars to household cleaning agents. However, when one asks ...
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Ecotrail Design: Integrating Art, Nature and Sustainability
- Daemen University (NY)
In an interdisciplinary collaboration between a biologist and artist/designer at Daemen College, we have initiated a multi-year project to engage students in environmental science through the creation of a ...
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Rational Resource Management: The Case EARTH University, Costa Rica
- EARTH University
EARTH University, located on an 8,000 acre property in the lowlands of Costa Rica, Central America, is a private, international, university dedicated to education in the agricultural sciences and ...
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Beyond Recycling: Oureach and Education Across Campus
- Eastern Connecticut State University (CT)
At Eastern Connecticut State University, we are committed to developing a culture of awareness with regard to recycling and environmental ethics. The Center for Sustainable Energy Studies works closely with ...
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Reducing the Cost of Energy on Campus with Distributed Wind Generation.
- Entegrity Wind Systems, Inc. (CO)
By installing small wind on campus, university administrators insulate budgets from increases in electricity prices. Capital funds invested in a wind turbine can yield significant annual operational savings that can ...
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The Furman Sustainable Agriculture Project
- Furman University (SC)
At a small liberal arts school in upstate South Carolina, a quarter acre garden of vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers is being cultivated and promises to be integral to Furman ...
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Undergraduate Management Education for Sustainability
- Furman University (SC)
Furman University's Department of Business and Accounting plays a significant role in the university's sustainability efforts through innovative curriculum development and engagement of the corporate community. Sustainability concepts ...
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The Sustainable Community College: Internal and External Paths We Have Followed
- Grand Rapids Community College (MI)
A presentation, by the Associate Provost and Director of Sustainability at Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC), will examine how GRCC have come to integrate sustainability into the principles and practices ...
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Academics in Action: Bridging the Gap Between the Classroom and the Community
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
In his 1949 polemic, "The Land Ethic," Aldo Leopold notes that the conventional answer to the question of how to develop an environmental conscience/consciousness is "more education" however, he ...
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The Greening of a Community College
- Harford Community College (MD)
Harford Community College has been a leader of the nation's campus sustainability initiatives since 2001. This poster presentation will share how the college has institutionalized sustainability practices into all ...
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Ithaca College's Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Ithaca College (NY)
Ithaca College has estimated its greenhouse gas inventory for the last seven years using the Clean-Air Cool-Planet excel-based calculator. The emissions inventory has been accomplished each year by an undergraduate ...
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Sustainable Growth - On Campus and Beyond
- LaGrange College (GA)
LaGrange College has partnered with the City of LaGrange and CIFAL Atlanta (a branch of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research) in presenting yearly workshops to promote the ...
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Effects of Education and Program Improvements on Garbage Disposal and Recycling Quantities
- Lenoir-Rhyne University (NC)
The project involved year long monitoring of dumpsters and recycling stations on the Lenoir-Rhyne College campus. A scale was drawn on each of these stations denoting measurements of height which ...
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We All Have a Part to Play: The Influence of Multiple Stakeholders on the Path to Operational Sustainability at Michigan State University
- Michigan State University (MI)
Michigan State University is working to become a leader in sustainability initiatives among land grant universities in the United States. As part of that effort, there are multiple campus-based groups ...
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Being Spartan Green at MSU
- Michigan State University (MI)
Want to mobilize a sustainable movement on your campus? We invite you to participate in a presentation that can help you get your campus moving onward or take your current ...
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North Carolina State University: Accomplishments and Commitments during the Year of Energy
- North Carolina State University (NC)
The administration at NC State University declared the 2008-9 academic year as the "Year of Energy." During the year, the University is accelerating the pace of moving towards the sustainable ...
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Green Research for Incorporating Data into the Classroom (GRIDc)
- North Carolina State University (NC)
North Carolina State University (NCSU), NCSU Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education, the North Carolina Solar Center, and Pitt Community College are working ...
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Technology Education for Sustainable Development: Institutional Transformation, Integration of Best Practices, and Associated Challenges at a Premier Canadian Institute of Technology - NAIT
- Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (AB)
NAIT is the third largest post-secondary institution in Alberta, serving over 86,500 full and part-time students in a wide range of programming. In addition to diploma and baccalaureate programming ...
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Campus Sustainability Planning: Perceptions and Priorities
- Oberlin College (OH)
Planning for campus sustainability is often initiated by facilities and services, environment-related departments, or directly by the administration. The impetus for these entities is often serving vested interests, putting out ...
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Why Your Campus Needs an Office of Sustainability
- Ohio University (OH)
Sonia Marcus, sustainability coordinator at Ohio University, will discuss the benefits of creating a dedicated office of Sustainability to address green campus goals. In this presentation, you will learn why ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Kanawha Project: Environmental Issues Across the Undergraduate Curriculum
- Ohio University (OH)
The overall goal of the Kanawha Project is to enhance the undergraduate curriculum by integrating environmental issues across disciplines. During the 2008-7 academic year the following activities took place on ...
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Student-Powered Sustainability at Pacific Lutheran University
- Pacific Lutheran University (WA)
Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) has taken up its role in the environmental movement by fostering environmental education as well as promoting environmental responsibility. One of PLU's most vital facets ...
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Starting a Successful, Student Organization for Sustainability.
- Philadelphia University (PA)
Philadelphia University is a private, coed, regionally accredited school with 4-5 year degrees in the six different schools of, Science, Architecture, Design/Media, Engineering/ Textiles, and Liberal Arts. We have ...
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Portland State University: Let Knowledge Serve the City
- Portland State University (OR)
PSU's approach to sustainability seeks to integrate operations, research, education and community engagement. Our poster will draw on green building and watershed stewardship projects that demonstrate our strategy. The ...
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Building A MASS Movement: the Masters of Arts in Sustainability Studies at Ramapo College of NJ
- Ramapo College of New Jersey (NJ)
As Sustainability moves from a meandering stream to a roaring movement, it is important that we develop graduate programs that push development of the field and prepare leaders to implement ...
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Sustainable Capital: Creating a Campus Sustainability Revolving Loan Fund
- Roanoke College (VA)
One of the major obstacles to making campuses sustainable is high initial costs, which render financing sustainability measures difficult despite the long-term cost savings many projects reap. On several campuses ...
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Carbon Budgets as a Teachable Moment
- Union College - NY (NY)
The calculation of a college's carbon budget one of the most important steps toward assessing an institution's sustainability and creating a plan to improve operations. Calculating carbon budgets ...
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UCSC Sustainability Assessment
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
The 2007 UCSC Sustainability Assessment was created to assess UCSC's current standing in sustainability and where UCSC could use improvement. This poster showcases the Assessment by explaining the process ...
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Assessing Sustainability in the University of Chicago Dining Halls: Food, Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- University of Chicago (IL)
Sustainability proponents are increasingly calling on academic institutions to render their food procurement practices more sustainable. "Locally produced" and "organic" are currently the only two available sustainable options, with availability ...
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Recycling During Student Move In and Move Out
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
Student Move In and Move Out are both times of heavy waste generation on most college campuses. The University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a means to divert tons ...
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Moving On: From RECs to Local Offsets as Social Benefits
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
As the nation's first campus to fund Renewable Energy Credit (RECs) purchases with student dollars, the University of Colorado-Boulder was reluctant to abandon RECs. However, after considering the co-benefits ...
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Designing and Developing Service Learning Pedagogy in Support of Sustainability
- University of Florida (FL)
Service learning has become a recognized form of pedagogy in University graduate and undergraduate education. The term takes a variety of forms including structured internships, design and policy studios, law ...
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Linking Difference, Defining Action: Sustainable Living on Campus
- University of Florida (FL)
The signing of institutional commitments by American colleges and universities to advance sustainability and become carbon-neutral parallels the trend seen in the last decade toward creating sustainable campus housing. Similar ...
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University Leadership in Island Climate Mitigation
- University of Hawaii at Manoa (HI)
Islands are uniquely affected by climate change. Rising sea levels threaten coastal infrastructure and fresh water aquifers ocean acidification deteriorates coral reefs ecosystems and native forests are susceptible to new ...
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Sustainability Science at a Land Grant Institution: Linking Community Visioning and Scientific Analysis
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The need for academic researchers to have meaningful co-learning experiences with leaders in the broader community has been highlighted in much of the literature on sustainability. Scientists and community leaders ...
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