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Sustainability: Why Universities Can Lead by Example
- North Central College (IL)
This TEDx Talk describes the benefits of adopting more energy-efficient systems and technology on college campuses. Such practices pay off for these institutions in the long run while also helping ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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Florida Gulf Coast University Eagles' Earth Day
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
"At Florida Gulf Coast University, celebrating environmentalism and sustainability are too important to be limited to just one day.
So, while the rest of the world marks Earth Day later ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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New Bikeshare Program Gets Rolling at UVM
- Champlain College (VT)
- University of Vermont (VT)
- Gotcha (SC)
Undaunted by grey skies and cold temperatures, about a dozen hardy UVM students, faculty and staff helped launch Phase I of Greenride Bikeshare, the first public bikeshare program in Chittenden ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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Water Cage at Northeastern University
- Northeastern University (MA)
Water cage demonstration created on campus quad. Filled large cage with water bottles and attached facts and data about plastic bottle usage around the outside of the cage. Very effective ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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Pass Up Plastic Challenge
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
In celebration of Earth Day on April 22nd, the Sustainability Institute at the University of New Hampshire coordinated a Pass up Plastic Challenge. Students, faculty, and staff collected single-use plastics ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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UConn Earth Day Spring Fling
- University of Connecticut (CT)
Earth Day Spring Fling is UConn’s largest annual environmental awareness event and celebration. This year’s event took place on April 18th from 11am-2pm on Fairfield Way, the heart ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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2018 Earth Week at Lehigh University
- Lehigh University (PA)
Lehigh University celebrated Earth Week by hosting a week of educational and engaging events. Earth Week is an opportunity to celebrate the beauty and bounty of our planet, while also ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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UC Merced Engineers for a Sustainable World
- University of California, Merced (CA)
UC Merced's Engineer's for a Sustainable World talk to students, staff and faculty about current projects including aquaponics.
- Posted April 23, 2018
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Reducing Electricity Use in Campus Residence Halls
- Radford University (VA)
- AASHE (MA)
Our quasi-experimental design exposed first-year students in four matched residence halls to three different interventions designed to encourage energy conservation, specifically electricity conservation. We employed active and passive programming and ...
- Posted April 20, 2018
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2018 Earth Week at Wake Forest
- Wake Forest University (NC)
Students, faculty, staff, and friends from the community worked together to remove leaf litter and tree limbs from the Wake Forest cross-country trails on Friday, March 23, as part of ...
- Posted April 19, 2018
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The place of content and pedagogy in shaping sustainability learning outcomes in higher education
- University of Haifa
This research investigates the ways in which undergraduate courses dealing with the environment address sustainable development (SD), and contribute to the development of sustainability learning outcomes (SLO). The participants in ...
- Posted April 18, 2018
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The personal context of student learning for sustainability: Results of a multi-university research study
- Victoria University (Victoria)
The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005–2014) was an important framework and catalyst for increasing Sustainable Development (SD) efforts within academic institutions, worldwide. Tertiary institutions began ...
- Posted April 18, 2018
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The importance of international conferences on sustainable development as higher education institutions' strategies to promote sustainability: A case study in Brazil
- University of Georgia (GA)
- University of Cambridge
This paper analyzes the significance of international conferences for higher education institutions (HEIs)’ promotion of sustainability. The paper has undertaken a detailed review of the scientific literature on strategies of ...
- Posted April 18, 2018
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The glocal curriculum: A model for transnational collaboration in higher education for sustainable development
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Transnational collaborations between universities provide an underutilized opportunity to teach sustainability competencies emphasizing the global and local nature of (un)sustainability. This article asks: what kind of curricula and teaching-learning ...
- Posted April 18, 2018
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The FIU Nature Preserve: Achieving Biological Conservation Through Diversification of Stakeholders
- Florida International University (FL)
Many institutions of higher education have sustainability initiatives; however, not all consider the importance of proximity to nature in the psychological well-being of their associated human community. Florida International University ...
- Posted April 18, 2018
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The efficacy of real-world experiences and service learning for fostering competences for sustainable development in higher education
- KU Leuven
One of the main challenges for teachers of higher education is to design learning activities that will allow students to effectively acquire sustainability competences. Education therefore needs to be re-oriented ...
- Posted April 18, 2018
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The ecological domain in the sustainability science research and education
- University of Tokyo
A single disciplinary approach fails to tackle problems threatening the sustainable development. Thus, the sustainability science – focused on the problem, normative, and covering many disciplines – has been developed and recognized ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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MUSC Earth Day and Local Food Fest 2018
- Medical University of South Carolina (SC)
On Wednesday April 11th, thousands of people attended MUSC Earth Day & Local Food Festival. Almost a dozen food vendors and trucks served up fresh and local produce from nearby ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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The concept of woonerf zone applied in university campuses: the case of the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Kentriki Makedonia)
In this paper, the concept of transferring the idea of woonerf zone from residential areas to university campuses is examined and the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Testing Ecocentric and Anthropocentric Attitudes toward the Sustainable Development (EAATSD) Scale with Bachelor Students
- Leiden University
- The Hague University of Applied Science
The Ecocentric and Anthropocentric Attitudes toward the Sustainable Development (EAATSD) scale is adapted from other scales measuring environmental concern with the aim of specifically targeting the subject of sustainable development ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Teaching Environmental Sustainability Across the Sport Management Curriculum
- University of South Carolina (SC)
The push to engage in the “green movement” has now shifted from a passing thought to a central focus of higher education. Environmental sustainability has the capacity to be an ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Tackling mobility environmental impacts through the promotion of student active travel
- Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia
Concern about sustainability is rooted in the growing awareness that human activities have significant environmental impacts. Tackling impacts generated by mobility practices can pass through active mobility promotion. However, this ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Sustainability in university campus: options for achieving nearly zero energy goals
- University of Coimbra
Purpose The purpose of this study was to design a renovation plan for a university campus building (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) with the aim to achieve nearly zero ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Systems Structure of Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education Institution
- National University of Malaysia
To understand the enactment of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in higher education institution (HEI) and why very unequal ESD activity that mostly focused on campus greening rather than on ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Sustainability Reporting by Australian Universities
- Victoria University (Victoria)
There is continuing debate about the consequences of climate change and an increasing emphasis placed on the disclosure of social and environmental indicators by organisations. Universities have been traditionally known ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Sustainability in higher education: A review of contributions from Portuguese Speaking Countries
- University of Aveiro
- University of Brasilia
The Portuguese-speaking countries (PSC) have a population of close to 250 million and occupy an area of about 10.7 million square kilometers across four continents. Most of these countries ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Sustainability education: how evolving STEM benefits underserved populations
- Evergreen State College, The (WA)
This research explores ways in which sustainability education efforts can create an advantageous learning environment for women and underrepresented minority students in STEM. By drawing on key literature that discusses ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Sustainability competencies in teacher education: Making teacher education count in everyday school practice
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
The need for sustainable development and societal transformation is gaining more and more relevance. Social learning processes will be needed to contribute to real change which is why the 2030 ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Sustainability-oriented higher education networks: Characteristics and achievements in the context of the UN DESD
- University of Zurich
- Charles University
Higher education institutions (HEIs) are, as a sector, an important actor in society and their role in sustainability transition has been acknowledged. However, their commitments to sustainability expressed through the ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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The Role of University Campuses in Reconnecting Humans to the Biosphere
- Stockholm University
In this paper, we explore the potential for integrating university campuses in a global sustainability agenda for a closer reconnection of urban residents to the biosphere. This calls for a ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Teaching Sustainability Using an Active Learning Constructivist Approach: Discipline-Specific Case Studies in Higher Education
- Kennesaw State University (GA)
In this paper we present our rationale for using an active learning constructivist approach to teach sustainability-related topics in a higher education. To push the boundaries of ecological literacy, we ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Integration of Sustainability into Architectural Education at Accredited Korean Universities
- Seoul National University
- University of Seoul
- Chungbuk National University
- Sungkyunkwan University
- Korea University
- Hongik University
This paper examines the integration of sustainability principles into architectural education programs at South Korean Universities that have been accredited by the Korea Architectural Accrediting Board (KAAB). Accreditation requires the ...
- Posted April 16, 2018
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Connecting Competences and Pedagogical Approaches for Sustainable Development in Higher Education: A Literature Review and Framework Proposal
- Tecnológico de Monterrey (Nuevo Leon)
- Gävle University College
- University of Toulouse
Research into and practice of Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) have been increasing during the last two decades. These have focused on providing sustainability education to future generations of ...
- Posted April 16, 2018
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‘The Camels are Unsustainable’ Using Study Abroad as a Pedagogical Tool for Teaching Ethics and Sustainable Development
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Michigan State University (MI)
Sustainable development (SD) has contested meanings, and perspectives vary within and across societies. Emphases can range dramatically from recycling advocacy to eradication of poverty. Assumptions and approaches to sustainable development ...
- Posted April 16, 2018
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Individual Sustainability Competences for Eco-design Infrastructure
- Open University of the Netherlands
Sustainability in the broadest sense of the term has become an undeniable aspect of corporate dealings this day and age. The advent of Corporate Social Responsibility as a morally sound ...
- Posted April 16, 2018
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‘Education for sustainability’ in the business studies curriculum: a call for a critical agenda
- Massey University
The critical theorization of education for sustainability developed from the earlier political conception of ‘education for the environment’. This critical perspective underpins the theory of education for sustainability that the ...
- Posted April 16, 2018
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Enhancing Education for Sustainable Development in Environmental University Programmes: A Co-Creation Approach
- Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia)
- National Polytechnic University
The purpose of this study is to analyse co-creation approach as a strategy at HE as a prerequisite for a successful implementation of sustainable development (HESD), while considering student collaboration ...
- Posted April 16, 2018
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Training in Environmental Policy Advocacy During Challenging Times
- DePauw University (IN)
- AASHE (MA)
Many positive environmental policy gains are under threat across the country. Students who are motivated to take action are more important than ever. Over the last decade, DePauw University has ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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AASHE Webinar: Going Green - Financially and Environmentally
- Texas A&M University (TX)
- Siemens Industry, Inc. (IL)
- AASHE (MA)
This introductory webinar is designed to help campus representatives think critically about what it means to "go green" both financially and environmentally.
- Posted April 12, 2018
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AASHE Webinar: Retrofitting Existing Buildings for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response
- Western Michigan University (MI)
- AASHE (MA)
- Cypress Envirosystems (CA)
This is an educational webinar presented by AASHE Business Leader Cypress Envirosystems.
Compared with new facilities, existing buildings and plants often have legacy equipment which waste energy, require more maintenance ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Sustainable Agriculture Minor
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls (WI)
Students who select this minor will learn about sustainable agriculture in its broadest sense, including issues related to maintaining and/or improving crop and animal productivity, preserving environmental resources for ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Agroecosystems Management (MS)
- Colorado State University (CO)
Major research emphases are precision crop and nutrient management and management systems that improve efficiency of crop water use. Additional research emphases include soil carbon and nutrient dynamics in cropping ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Agriculture & Natural Resources (BS)
- Berea College (KY)
Berea College is one of few liberal arts colleges in the United States offering an academic program in agriculture and natural resources (ANR). The ANR Program’s curriculum provides all ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Sustainable Agriculture Minor
- California Polytechnic State University (CA)
A minor in Sustainable Agriculture is open to all Cal Poly students. In it, students approach modern agricultural problems from a holistic perspective, emphasizing agricultural planning integrated with ecological principles ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Sustainable Agriculture Certificate Program
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CA)
The six week certificate program provides an intensive introduction to small scale sustainable farming, hands-on hydroponic greenhouse management, and agribusiness preparedness.
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Bachelor in Environmental Agriscience
- Tennessee Technological University (TN)
With its combination of courses in the traditional sciences and agriculture courses, Environmental Agriscience students are prepared for a wide range of experiences. A 300-acre working, teaching and research farm ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Environmental Science, Food Systems & Sustainable Agriculture (BS)
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
Students studying Food Systems & Sustainable Agriculture build upon a solid foundation of environmental science, gain experience in designing and managing agricultural ecosystems, develop quantitative skills in evaluating ecosystem processes ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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BS in Agriculture, Major in Sustainable Agriculture Systems
- University of Alberta (AB)
Students will develop the skill needed to lead in sustainable agricultural systems with this major stream. Students will have the opportunity to widen their knowledge base by: Studying agriculture in ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Water Efficient Landscaping Specialization, Horticulture MPSH
- Utah State University (UT)
The purpose of this degree is to provide horticulturalists with knowledge and skills needed to effectively promote landscape water conservation. As water becomes more precious, the demand for these skills ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Agricultural Sustainability & Food Biosecurity Certificate
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
The USDA recognizes the need to ensure a competent, qualified, and diverse workforce to serve the food and agricultural sciences and improve the economic health and viability of rural communities ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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