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Case Studies in Educating for Sustainability Across the Curriculum: Liberal Arts Edition
- Dickinson College (PA)
- Furman University (SC)
- Sewanee - The University of the South (TN)
Small colleges possess a unique opportunity to infuse sustainability across the curriculum. Dickinson College, Furman University, and Sewanee: The University of the South will share three case studies that demonstrate ...
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Throw Away Does Not Mean Go Away: Achieving Zero Waste on a Campus Scale
- American University (DC)
In alignment with its commitment to carbon neutrality, one university adopted a Zero Waste Policy in 2010, committing to send zero waste to landfill and incineration by 2020. This case ...
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Libraries as Partners Around the University Table
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of Florida (FL)
- University of Nevada Las Vegas (NV)
The university table where sustainability campus initiatives and academic programs are discussed is relatively busy. Seats are filled by representatives from academic and student affairs; buildings and grounds; housing services ...
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Establishing Sustainable Urban Communities: HBCU Experiences as Learning Models
- Clark Atlanta University (GA)
Sustainable Community Development
“Sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
- United Nations World Commission on Environment and ...
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Sustainability: A Solution to Student Retention
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (IL)
Recent statistics from The Princeton Review indicate that 69 percent of college applicants now cite an institution's level of commitment to environmental sustainability as a factor in their college ...
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Forging Alliances: Adaptive Methodologies for Engaging Students
- California State University, Long Beach (CA)
Initiatives on campus require lasting and adaptive student engagement to remain sustainable themselves. This case study analyses the successes and challenges of student engagement methodologies employed via two related sustainability-based ...
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A Comprehensive Campus-wide Water Management Plan
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
As a campus, we are committed to sustainable growth in order to improve the human condition. Sustainable water management has become a critical issue for the region, which has struggled ...
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Zero Waste: A Model for Transformational Change
- Aquinas College (MI)
As a part of its Climate Action Plan under the ACUPCC, Aquinas College is committed to become a zero-waste-to-landfill campus by May 2014. This is the most aggressive, publically stated ...
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Assessing Undergraduate Sustainability Knowledge Campus Wide: From design to implementation and analysis
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Many universities and colleges have adopted goals to increase the knowledge and awareness of sustainability concepts and issues among their student populations. To this end, more and more sustainability themed ...
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A Call to Action: Higher Education, Civic Engagement & Resilient Communities
- Strategic Energy Innovations (CA)
Climate risk is a function of exposure and vulnerability to impacts, and some communities are at greater risk than others. Impacts of climate change will be felt both as sudden ...
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Shared Story, Shared Learning, Shared Action: Curricular and Co-Curricular Tools for Engaging the Social Dimensions of Change
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Although it is widely agreed that sustainability education should encompass much more than mere knowledge acquisition, educators and sustainability officers often lack the time, energy, and expertise needed to more ...
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Sharing your Sustainability Story: the Role of Communications
- Middlebury College (VT)
- North Carolina State University (NC)
- Northwestern University (IL)
- Oberlin College (OH)
- Tufts University (MA)
Understanding the importance of generating environmental awareness on campus, many sustainability offices have begun creating positions with an emphasis on communications, marketing, and outreach. After all, it is vital to ...
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GS3: Developing Sustainable Business Leaders
- University at Albany (NY)
The proposed workshop will provide an in-depth review of the unique Going Green Globally program, or G3, designed for the first year MBA students at the University at Albany. The ...
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Scrap It and Start Over: Reshaping Your Eco-Reps Program from the Ground Up
- Northwestern University (IL)
- University of South Carolina (SC)
Many sustainability staff members have experienced a moment when they had to decide whether they wanted to continue an existing sustainability program in the same way it had been run ...
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Furman University's Sustainability Living Learning Communities
- Furman University (SC)
Furman University has had a long standing commitment to promoting engaged learning through the development of academic learning experiences beyond the traditional classroom setting. As part of Furman’s ongoing ...
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Four Approaches to Sustainability Education: One Degree
- Prescott College (AZ)
A look at doctoral programs across the United States reveals there is only one focused specifically in Sustainability Education. In its 9th year of operation, Prescott College’s Sustainability Education ...
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Nature-Based Therapeutic Service: Mutual Healing for Individuals and the Environment
- Prescott College (AZ)
Educators, counselors, and sustainability advocates are all looking for ways to infuse purposeful and memorable experiences into their work All seek ways to create progress and lasting change in learning ...
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Partnerships for Youth Development: Green Leadership Academy for Diverse Ecosystems (GLADE)
- Missouri State University (MO)
The Green Leadership Academy for Diverse Ecosystems (GLADE) is a week-long academy for high school students sponsored by the Greater Ozarks Audubon Society, Missouri State University, Missouri Department of Conservation ...
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Crafting a Comprehensive Student Internship Program
- Texas A&M University (TX)
Our Office would like to share strategies used, successes and challenges faced, and lessons learned during our efforts to build and stabilize a Sustainability Student Intern Program. Established in the ...
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Warren Wilson College Sustainable Dining Policy: A Strategic Partnership Case Study
- Warren Wilson College (NC)
This case study presentation will delve into the collective research and actions by Warren Wilson College (WWC) students, staff, and Sodexo employees to create a resilient and adaptable dining service ...
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Engaging Students in Climate Research with High Altitude Stratospheric Balloons
- Trevecca Nazarene University (TN)
For the last four years, Trevecca Nazarene University has been using small-scale high altitude balloon flights to engage students in climate research and raise awareness of that research within the ...
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Hospital and Lab Sustainability
- Medical University of South Carolina (SC)
This session will consider unique ideas and give unique information on how to green university hospitals and labs. I will outline how the Medical University of South Carolina has tackled ...
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Cultivating Sustainability Scholars
- George Mason University (VA)
George Mason University committed to greatly expanding opportunities for undergraduate scholarship through a Quality Enhancement Program associated with the university’s re-accreditation in 2009. Core faculty from Mason’s Environmental ...
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Lessons from the Rookie Years: Building a Sustainability Program on a Shoestring Budget
- Saint Louis University (MO)
When first starting a sustainability program at the university four years ago, our division of facilities services created a strategic plan that identified “environmental resource optimization” as an initiative. It ...
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Student to Student: Best Practices and Lessons Learned with Student Engagement
- Alliance to Save Energy (CA)
This session will provide an overview of a student internship program that empowers college students to be tomorrow’s energy efficiency leaders. Currently on 23 universities and colleges and employing ...
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SELFsustain
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of Minnesota System Office (MN)
This panel will provide a glimpse into multiple approaches universities can apply to nurture resilient communities. Large public land grant institutions are especially rich with opportunity to apply interdisciplinary perspectives ...
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Incubation of a New Suite of Courses in Food Systems
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Five innovative new courses at the University of Minnesota--Twin Cities focus on issues of changing food systems and global sustainability. Responding to student interest, the courses developed independently. Even as ...
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Integrating Sustainability Initiatives and Green Energy Infrastructure on Engineering College Campuses
- Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ)
Emphasis on sustainability in higher education over the last decade prompted the formation of nonprofit organizations, like the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), which administers ...
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State of the Campus Sustainability: Campus Carbon Calculator
- Clean Air-Cool Planet (NH)
Over the past decade, college and universities have often been at the forefront of action and leadership on the issue of climate change. They have convened teams of environmental advocates ...
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Engaging Campus Constituents: Using Partnerships to Increase Behavior Modification Awareness & Action
- University of Southern Mississippi (MS)
The Office of Sustainability and University Libraries formed a partnership on the main campus of The University of Southern Mississippi dedicated to increasing awareness of sustainable practices through a phased ...
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A holistic approach to culture change on campus: a new model of liberal arts education
- Green Mountain College (VT)
Making the transition to sustainability in higher education will require a significant culture change across the campus. The current approach in which sustainability is pursued as a collection of isolated ...
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Sustainable Campuses: Integrating Sustainability into Your Institution
- Audubon International (NY)
Audubon International (AI) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to delivering high-quality environmental education and using incentive-based approaches to implement sustainable natural resource management in all places people ...
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Flash Strategy Workshop: Moving From Reactive to Proactive in 60 Minutes
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- GreenerU (MA)
In our role as sustainability professionals, we serve as organizational change agents. At the same time, we have many “balls in the air” and we “wear many hats” in our ...
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Transitioning to Zero Waste Hockey: A Student Run Pilot
- University of Denver (CO)
Last year students at the University of Denver in partnership with Ritchie Center Athletics led the charge to institute zero waste hockey games at the University of Denver. This grassroots ...
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The Power of Ethical Sourcing and Ecolabels: Perspectives from Fair Trade USA, Marine Stewardship Council and the Forest Steward
- Fair Trade Colleges & Universities
With thousands of products on shelves and hundreds of ecolabels, making purchasing decisions that provide positive benefits to the environment and society can be confusing for professionals and consumers. The ...
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Sustainability Literacy & Pro-Environmental Behavior -a comparison across domestic and international students at Ohio State Univ
- The Ohio State University (OH)
The Ohio State University (OSU), one of the nation’s largest public universities, ranks among the top 10 nationally for international student enrollment. As per the findings of the Open ...
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A History of Resiliency and Adaptation: The Renewable Energy Initiative at Appalachian State University
- Appalachian State University (NC)
The nature of how we interact with the world has been affected by global climate change—we must be resilient. Appalachian State University (ASU) is adapting through the student-led Renewable ...
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Getting to Zero Waste: Waste Audits
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Waste Audit Team has created a protocol for all waste audits at UC Berkeley. Up until this point, groups have been conducting audits using different methods, making it so ...
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New Kid on the Block: How Our University Launched its New Sustainability Program
- University of North Texas (TX)
Each year more and more universities and campuses realize the importance of sustainability as seen by the growth of sustainability programs, academic degrees and certifications, and professionals employed in higher ...
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Integrating Sustainability Sciences into a Social Science Discipline: An Exploration in the Fiber, Textile & Clothing Field
- Oklahoma State University (OK)
Climate change is a multifaceted global issue that is transforming Earth’s surface and atmosphere in response to human influences. The $2 trillion fiber, textile, and clothing (FTC) industry contributes ...
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So, You Think That's a Sustainability Course?!?
- Portland State University (OR)
- Alfred State College (NY)
- University of Louisville (KY)
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)
Considerable uncertainty haunts university sustainability officers when developing sustainability-focused and -related course identifiers. It seems everyone has an opinion about which courses qualify for the different categorizations, and why. Unresolved ...
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UAlbany Goes Local: A Holistic Approach to Food Purchases
- University at Albany (NY)
Like many institutions, the University at Albany has been looking to increase their local food purchases over the last several years. While we share this sentiment with many of our ...
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Sustainability Planning 2.0: Strategic Sustainability Planning to Achieve Ambitious Resource Conservation Targets
- University of British Columbia (BC)
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is using the campus as a living lab to develop long-range resource conservation action plans that are ambitious, yet have tangible, achievable targets and ...
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Wholly Frijoles! Teaching Sustainability Through Interactive Systems Thinking Education
- University of Arizona (AZ)
This presentation will be highly interactive and begin with participants playing and discussing “Wholly Frijoles” for about 40 minutes. The “Wholly Frijoles” simulation focuses on the use (and abuse) of ...
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Happiness: A Vital Part of Sustainability
- University of Michigan (MI)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that, “We need a new economic paradigm that recognizes the parity between the three pillars of sustainable development. Social, economic and environmental well-being are ...
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Designing an Energy-Saving Campaign
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Our myPower campaign envisions a future where all campus stakeholders take action to save energy. The initiative combines campus commitment, coordination with a larger energy effort, communications strategies based on ...
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Campus Sustainability Assessment System at a Japanese University through STARS International Pilot
- Hokkaido University (Hokkaido)
Campus Sustainability Assessment System 2013 for Hokkaido University was formulated not only to assess the outcome obtained by activities which we intended to carry out according to Action Plan 2012 ...
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Sustainability Officer and Faculty Members Collaborations on Advancing Sustainability Across the Curriculum
- Empire State College (NY)
“Sustainability officer” is a fairly recent position at campuses across the nation. Although this position has a variety of titles and is housed in different departments at different campuses, it ...
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Reinventing Community: Oberlin College's Green Arts District
- Oberlin College (OH)
- BNIM Architects (MO)
The Green Arts District (GAD) is the heart of a regional plan launched in 2009 to transform the progressive college campus and city into a sustainable model of a post ...
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Theoretical Underpinning For Campus Sustainability Initiatives
- University of Vermont (VT)
Behavior and environment applies insights of behavioral sciences to problems at the interface between people and environment. Many sustainability initiatives on college campuses do not seem to be grounded in ...
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