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The Electric Vehicle Boom is Coming – Is Your University Ready?
- Brailsford & Dunlavey (DC)
This session will share key takeaways from the National Renewable Energy Lab’s (NREL) 2030 Electric Vehicle National Charging Network report. Attendees will learn about the significant forecasted increase in ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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UBC Okanagan Climate Action Plan 2030 - The Impact of Collective Action
- University of British Columbia Okanagan (BC)
In December 2019, UBC declared a climate emergency, which included a commitment to accelerate the reduction of emissions at UBC. A key step is UBC Okanagan’s development of a ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Finished the Climate Action Plan - Now What?
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of Minnesota System Office (MN)
Climate action plans can be a big endeavor, but really they are only the first step in the process. Now what? Join colleagues to discuss how they advanced priorities (or ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Zero Waste Strategic Visioning & Planning
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
Zero Waste Strategic Visioning & Planning provides an opportunity for participants to explore the challenges and opportunities with facilitating a campus-wide strategic visioning and planning process. This will be a ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Inner Development Goals for Sustainable Development Goal Success
- Auburn University (AL)
- Mount Holyoke College (MA)
Is it possible to influence the outer world by changing our inner world? If so, what skills, abilities, and qualities does one need to effectively bring about change, and how ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Identifying Near-Term Opportunities to Reduce Water Demand and Cost
- George Washington University (DC)
- Coho Climate Advisors (MD)
GW recognizes that water is both a critical environmental resource and a source of rising utility costs. In order to conserve water and reduce costs, GW is exploring optimization strategies ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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COP28 Dubai Climate Conference - Delegation Organizers or Members
- University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Meet and learn about the plans and interests of other faculty, academic staff or students who are organizing or participating in University or other delegations to the Climate Conference known ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Who Owns the Campus Forest? A Tree Campus Conversation
- Arbor Day Foundation (NE)
Trees play a critical role in creating healthier, safer, and more connected communities. They clean our air, filter our water, and even slow storm surge and flooding in our cities ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Progress Not Perfection: How to Tell Your Story Along the Way
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- Colorado State University (CO)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
Communicating about sustainability initiatives and climate action can be hard. Sharing your story about climate neutrality goals, engagement initiatives, and small victories throughout a project can be even more challenging ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Shooting for the STARS: An Introduction From Liftoff to Landing
- Iowa State University (IA)
- AASHE (MA)
This session will provide an introduction to STARS and how it can be used to advance sustainability at your institution. We’ll provide “mission training” with an overview of the ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Sustainability is a Home Run
- Texas A&M University (TX)
Athletic Departments are the front porch of the university. This visibility provides opportunities for storytelling, demonstrating impact, and engagement. Although it may not be the most important department, it is ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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What Should we Teach in a Sustainability Class?
- Husson University (ME)
What should university students learn about sustainability in the classroom? As faculty, we constantly reevaluate this question as the climate emergency evolves, and in this talk I will present two ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Beyond Curriculum Integration Initiatives - Educating Otherwise
- West Chester University of Pennsylvania (PA)
This session will engage participants in a radical reconsideration of sustainability curriculum integration initiatives. Our aim as higher education professionals should be to ensure that every year, of the millions ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Sustainable Lab Ambassadors: Using students as green lab guides
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
The Penn State Sustainable Lab Ambassador (SLA) program is an engaged scholarship approach to creating a more sustainable research lab culture and operation while preparing researchers to build a more ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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AASHE Member Meeting
- AASHE (MA)
This is AASHE's annual member meeting where you can hear from AASHE leadership on highlights of the year, plans for the future, and ask questions of the board and ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Expanding Influence: Leveraging Student Experiential Learning to Build Lasting Partnerships
- University of Georgia (GA)
This Field Report is an interactive session on leveraging experiential learning initiatives to expand influence. We will begin with examples of mutually beneficial on and off campus partnerships from the ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Designing Effective Sustainability Communications in Higher Education
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
In pursuit of increasing the effectiveness of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's (UNL) communications efforts surrounding sustainability, UNL’s Office of Sustainability (OS) and University Communications department collaborated to develop ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Data Dashboards for Beginners: How & Why to Start
- American University (DC)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
American University (AU) and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) are coming together to present on lessons-learned while developing sustainability-data focused Tableau dashboards for the public. The session will ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Thriving as a Sustainable Leader: Creating a Personalized Resiliency Plan
- Lebanon Valley College (PA)
In this session, we will examine the leadership challenges and opportunities that are specific to the intersection of sustainability and social justice work, including how external stressors have become more ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Investing in the Just Transition: How to Leverage Your Endowment
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- Intentional Endowments Network (MA)
- Mercer Investment Consulting (MD)
- Global Endowment Management (NC)
The half trillion dollars in endowment funds invested by the nation's higher education institutions represent a relatively untapped resource containing immense economic and social power. The past few years ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Campus Decarbonization Masterclass Panel - Featuring Leah Bamberger, Dennis Carlberg, & Dano Weisbord
- Boston University (MA)
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- Northeastern University (MA)
- Tufts University (MA)
Panelists from 3 Boston-area institutions will swap stories and share lessons learned from their institution’s efforts to decarbonize and strengthen community resilience to climate change. This panel will feature ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Maximizing Voluntary Renewable Electricity Impacts
- Boston University (MA)
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
- Center for Resource Solutions | Green-e (CA)
As the urgency to address climate change intensifies, higher education institutions are ramping up their voluntary renewable electricity adoption. Additionally, as the renewable electricity market matures, leading organizations have begun ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Biomass as a Source of Sustainable Energy on College Campuses
- Colgate University (NY)
- Middlebury College (VT)
Utilizing wood for energy can lead to deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and increased carbon emissions. Under the right circumstances, however, biomass can replace fossil fuels, support well-managed forests, the local ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Washington Oregon Cascadia Higher Education Sustainability Consortium (WOHESC) Networking Session
- Portland State University (OR)
This session will be for higher ed sustainability professionals, faculty, students and sustainability professionals from the Washington Oregon and Cascadia region to gather, report our successes, share our perspectives, problem ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Texas Regional Alliance for Campus Sustainability (TRACS) Networking Session
- Texas A&M University (TX)
- The University of Texas at Dallas (TX)
This is a networking meeting for Texans and other parties interested in the Texas Regional Alliance for Campus Sustainability (TRACS) to connect and discuss campus sustainability topics unique to the ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Sustainability, y'all! Southeastern Schools Meet Up
- Duke University (NC)
- Kennesaw State University (GA)
- University of North Carolina, Charlotte (NC)
- University of Georgia (GA)
- University of Kentucky (KY)
Do you attend or represent a college or university in the southeastern US? Do you want to connect with folks from other schools from this distinctive part of the continent ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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NY Coalition for Sustainability in Higher Education Meet-Up
- University at Albany (NY)
The New York Coalition for Sustainability in Higher Education (NYCSHE) seeks to provide peer support, resources and networking opportunities for those working on sustainability in campuses in NY state. This ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium Meet-Up
- Tufts University (MA)
The Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium support sustainability officers in advancing education about and demonstration of sustainable systems on university campuses in the northeast United States and Canadian maritime region by ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Networking Meeting for Californians
- California State University, Chancellor's Office (CA)
Come join with other campus sustainability advocates from California. This is a chance to catch up with peers and discuss topics specific to the California context.
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Mountain West Higher Ed Sustainability Networking
- Colorado State University (CO)
For all the higher ed sustainability professionals in the Mountain West, including AZ, CO, NM, UT, NV, WY, MT, ID. This is an opportunity for us to connect & meet ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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In the Upper Midwest? Meet your regional colleagues and learn about the Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability
- University of South Dakota (SD)
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
- Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability (MN)
Are you a sustainability leader (student, staff, faculty or community partner) in the Upper Midwest? Join us for an informal and interactive networking session hosted by the Upper Midwest Association ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Ben Jealous Masterclass
- Boston University (MA)
- Sierra Club (DC)
With experience leading social change organizations from the NAACP to the Sierra Club, Benjamin Jealous will make the case that we cannot solve the climate crisis without also tackling racial ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Growing Your People: Advancing Sustainability Through Employee Empowerment
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
- University of Pittsburgh (PA)
Learn how to harness the potential of existing employees to help further your organization’s sustainability goals by designing thriving Green Ambassador & professional development programs that empower employees to ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Utilizing Bees to Strengthen Relationships in Higher Education
- Hillsborough Community College (FL)
Finding funding to support sustainability related initiatives can be difficult in any institution. Come learn about how a Florida community college utilizes their bee hives to strengthen relationships throughout the ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Zero Waste Campuses
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
This is a meetup for all students, staff, companies, and professionals that are working on campus Zero Waste efforts. Whether you're helping your campus achieve Zero Waste goals, or ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Empowering Change: HBCUs, PBIs, and Sustainability
- United Negro College Fund (GA)
Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking table talk discussion as we delve into the dynamic intersection of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs), and Sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Green Lab Networking
- Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) (IN)
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Working to make campus lab operations more sustainable and “green” offers a huge opportunity to reduce energy use and waste while also providing education and hands on sustainability skills to ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Community College Networking Meeting
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
This session will allow community college sustainability professionals to catch up, share successes, brainstorm solutions to mutual concerns, and commiserate about frustrations.
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Climate Leadership Network Networking Meeting
- Second Nature (MA)
Attendees representing campuses that have signed the Presidents' Climate Leadership Commitments and those interested in learning about the Climate Leadership Network will hear from Second Nature staff about recent accomplishments ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Networking Session for Canadian Institutions
- Dalhousie University (NS)
Campus sustainability is a strategic priority for many of Canada’s 436 universities and colleges. As higher education institutions across Canada continue their efforts, the need for mechanisms to exchange ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Mentorship in Higher Education Sustainability
- Emerson College (MA)
Sustainability Offices are typically small and operate in unique and sometimes challenging organizational structures, leaving staff feeling isolated while managing huge organizational change efforts. Sustainability staff from American University and ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Changing the Way Sustainability Feels by Engaging the Five Senses
- University of Southern Maine (ME)
Too often, Universities’ sustainability outreach efforts feel transactional and lacking in human empathy for the intended audience. Sometimes we, the practitioners, get so caught up in crafting the perfect arguments ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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FRESH to Table: A Homegrown Dining Initiative
- Boston College (MA)
FRESH is a Boston College Dining Services (BCDS) initiative that stands for Fairly traded, Regional, Equitable, Sustainable, and Healthy. With these FRESH parameters, BCDS seeks to source food and food ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Raven Medicine Cloud: Indigenous Placemaking at the University of Manitoba
- University of Manitoba (MB)
As part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 94 Calls to Action, the Office of Sustainability at the University of Manitoba (UM) is developing strategies and programming ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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International Networking Session
- AASHE (MA)
Join this session to network with attendees from outside of the US and Canada, learn about AASHE's work with campuses around the world, and the variety of global organizations ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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A Unique College and Community Mentorship Model
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- Dallas College (TX)
The AASHE Mentorship Program is a great program for connecting aspiring sustainability student mentees with inspiring higher education sustainability professionals. But what if it could grow into something larger and ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Practicing Hope: Combatting Pessimism in the Climate Movement
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
In the current state of the world, we are all experiencing heightened feelings of anxiety, fatigue, and despair. Crisis after crisis takes an enormous toll on our mental health and ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Coolfoodies and Friends Meetup
- University of Pittsburgh (PA)
- Williams College (MA)
- World Resources Institute (DC)
Join Coolfood Pledge members Brandeis University, University of Pittsburgh, and Williams College for a group discussion and networking hour following the “Implementing Coolfood at Three Universities” session. Chat with Coolfood ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Sustainable and Healthful Food Purchasing Policy at Lehigh University
- Lehigh University (PA)
This session is designed to educate sustainability staff, university business service departments, and campus dining executives on ways to incorporate healthy and sustainable food into their campus operations. This session ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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NAU’S 2022 True-Blue Summer Flex Policy: Financial, Human, and Environmental Sustainability
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
In 2022, Northern Arizona University (NAU) implemented a "New NAU workplace" policy, which included True-Blue Summer Fridays, a hybrid-first strategy, and flexible core business hours. The True-Blue Summer Friday program ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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