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Effects of submetering on individual behavior at Lynchburg College
- University of Lynchburg (VA)
Attendees will achieve the following: 1) Understand the research-supported elements that should be incorporated into pledge programs to increase participation and sustain behavior change; 2) Be familiar with challenges and ...
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Interweaving Academic Reading Skill Development with Global Warming and Sustainability Education
- Montgomery College (MD)
There are still people who do not know much about, or even deny the existence of, global warming. Education may, therefore, play a role in our efforts to reduce the ...
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Organic Recycling - It's Here!
- NatureWorks (GA)
Noting the growing success of food waste diversion and composting, NatureWorks LLC(www.natureworksllc.com) and one of its key partners (R3/Bunzl Distribution) will showcase commercial success of organic ...
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Why Sustainability Needs Aesthetics
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
Sustainability is not value-neutral. It requires a recalibration of values in order to be able to correct our current unsustainable practices. The deposing of aesthetics--and in particular, of beauty--is part ...
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Predictive Modeling of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Oregon Institute of Technology (OR)
Climate action plans currently developed by institutions of higher education across the country need to provide various mitigations strategies to achieve carbon neutrality in the "near future". These strategies are ...
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Student Sustainability Internship Program: Creatively Involving Students in Sustainability Efforts
- Oregon Institute of Technology (OR)
Sustainability initiatives on college campuses, whether education campaigns or tracking and reporting for STARS, require significant time commitments that often cannot be met by sustainability personnel. Simultaneously, students are seeking ...
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unPLUg: How an Energy Competition Can Permanently Change Behavior
- Pacific Lutheran University (WA)
Many colleges have implemented residential hall competitions to reduce energy; however do these competitions create long-term change in behavior? Too often after the tally is counted many will return to ...
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Design as a major that integrates art, science & sustainability
- Pacific University (OR)
The development of sustainability as an academic discipline will require the creation of non-traditional majors that integrate knowledge fundamental to this endeavor. We describe collaboration at Pacific University between the ...
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Drink Local, Drink Tap: Turning On a New Campus Water Culture
- Pacific University (OR)
The privatized water industry has subtly grown during the past few decades, establishing itself in American culture as the sole source for clean drinking water. Most consumers are unaware that ...
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Food Rescue
- Pacific University (OR)
Food Rescue is a student-initiated food donation program that works to diminish food waste and redistribute leftovers from Pacific University campus events and dining hall meals to local community shelters ...
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A business case for developing transformative sustainable education
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Colleges and Universities have obvious financial incentives to invest in sustainability objectives that reduce the costs of campus operation. Similarly, investments in research infrastructure in topics of energy and sustainability ...
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Changing Hearts: Sustainability in the Long Term
- Pepperdine University (CA)
For many, the environmental movement is a consumer fad with very little intellectual or emotional investment. Generally, sustainability is deemed a "good thing" but given low priority at both the ...
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Hydration Stations: How perception influences Portland State University's water sustainability
- Portland State University (OR)
While universities often talk about sustainability, how do we actually measure the impact of our actions? How are the outcomes of campus initiatives influenced by students' perspectives? The social and ...
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Portland State University's Sustainability Journey: War Stories and Lessons Learned
- Portland State University (OR)
This paper tells the story of building academic sustainability programs at Portland State University over the last decade, distilling key scientific and organizational principles that have underpinned program development. With ...
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Towards Place-based Engagement in the University District of Portland
- Portland State University (OR)
The City of Portland's EcoDistrict Initiative is an emerging concept for modeling sustainable development within the Portland Metro region. The EcoDistricts Initiative is a multi-sectoral collaboration which seeks to ...
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The Green Auto Show
- Presbyterian College (SC)
Recognizing that vehicle choice by young buyers has a profound and lasting effect on consumption of fossils fuels, pollution, and our nation's national security, Presbyterian College sponsored a Green ...
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Gaian Methodologies - An Emergent Confluence of Sustainability Research Innovation
- Prescott College (AZ)
Gaian Methodologies flourish as a green and growing global research convergence. Sustainability extends beyond campus infrastructure; nature's design and organizing insights and patterns can inform research methods and guide ...
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The Journal of Sustainability Education
- Prescott College (AZ)
The Journal of Sustainability Education (JSE) serves as a forum for academics and practitioners to share, critique, and promote research, practices, and initiatives that foster the integration of economic, ecological ...
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Partnering with Local Government to Promote Sustainable Development
- Randolph College (VA)
Research partnerships between colleges and local government can be an effective way to promote sustainability at the community level. This project applied principles of conservation development to the analysis of ...
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Promoting Sustainable Communities: The Randolph College Permaculture Program
- Randolph College (VA)
Randolph College has a thriving permaculture and organic garden program, well-integrated into the college curriculum and offering semester and summer internships. The garden includes an orchard of heirloom fruit and ...
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Sustainability in the Curriculum
- Red Rocks Community College (CO)
Red Rocks Community College has made a commitment to the national challenge of creating and sustaining a green workforce. In conjunction with our partners, the National Science Foundation, Colorado School ...
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Social Sustainability in Practice: Pay 30 Forward at Rio Salado
- Rio Salado College (AZ)
Rio Salado College believes that investing in volunteerism is good business. In July 2009, Rio launched Pay 30 Forward to promote social sustainability at Rio Salado. The program honors Rio ...
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A Home for Sustainable Engineering: A Living-Learning Cohort
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (IN)
If promoting sustainability across the curriculum presents one set of logistical and conceptual challenges, and reducing a campus's environmental footprint presents another, surely integrating the two constitutes its own ...
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Grí¼nen der Universití¤t: Sustainability Perceptions and Practice at a German University
- Royal Roads University (BC)
North Americans often perceive that governments, institutions and individuals in Europe have a very high degree of consciousness and action with regard to environmental protection and sustainability. This paper explores ...
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Fostering Sustainability, Community and Service from Middle-School through Higher Education
- Saint John's University (MN)
In a collaboration between the St. John's University School of Education, the Office of Sustainability, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Grow NYC, Queens Botanic Gardens and the ...
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Building Community Through Collaborative Education: Partnerships for Sustainable Design
- San Francisco State University (CA)
As educators it is critical that we recognize our obligation to take an active role in developing curriculum that engages students in understanding the issues of environmental and social sustainability ...
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We to Me: Identifying the Ecological Self in Post-secondary Sustainability Curriculum
- Seneca Polytechnic (ON)
Post-secondary students have become skilled purveyors of the fundamentals of good sustainability. Beginning with their early years in pre-school, they are trained to memorize and recite key concepts of the ...
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To Tear Down or Retrofit - Reducing Building Energy Footprint
- Smith College (MA)
Given data on building energy consumption, institutions can leverage available standard tools to estimate their energy reduction potential. However, many campuses, especially those with a central power plant, are not ...
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Developing a Local Food System at Southern Illinois University
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale (IL)
If universities are to seriously seek strong overall campus sustainability, the efficiency and environmental impacts of individual campus sectors, such as resident dining, must be analyzed. At Southern Illinois University ...
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Institutionalizing sustainability in community colleges: role of the college president
- Spokane Community College (WA)
The purpose of this completed doctoral research study was to describe and improve understanding of the meaning of institutionalized sustainability and the role that a college president plays in institutionalizing ...
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Net Zero and Water Regenerative Campus
- Stanford University (CA)
Net Zero and Water Regenerative Campus
A recent report stated that Stanford University uses 2.7 million gallons of water per day. University medical centers can use over 600 gallons ...
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State Policy Influence on ACUPCC Climate Action Plans
- Stetson University (FL)
Climate change policy in the US has been highly variable, with little structure at the federal level and great variability among states. The lack of overarching national climate change policy ...
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Student Housing as a Catalyst for a Sustainable Campus
- Stony Brook University (NY)
The design of sustainable student housing can positively impact the experience of living and learning on a higher education campus. Incorporation of sustainable design features serve as an educational tool ...
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Demonstrating Carbon Sequestration with a Verifiable Land-Use Change
- Truman State University (MO)
The use of degraded agricultural lands for carbon sequestration has the potential to store significant amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Through verifiable land-use changes, property owners could realize revenue by ...
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Fostering change agents for sustainability
- Tufts University (MA)
Graduate work on the effectiveness of a social psychology-based, experiential learning course on generating undergraduate civic leaders in sustainability behavior change is described. This presentation outlines the structure of the ...
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Achieving Campus Sustainability through Service-Learning
- University of Alberta (AB)
How can you overcome budget cuts and staffing shortages while still achieving campus sustainability goals and empowering your student body? The University of Alberta's liberal arts campus, Augustana, has ...
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Campus as a Learning, Living Laboratory for Sustainability
- University of Arizona (AZ)
At the 2006 AASHE national conference, University of Arizona (UA) student Emilie Brill-Duisberg received the Student Sustainability Leadership Award for her work on implementing campus water harvesting projects which grew ...
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Practice, Professional Societies, and the Future of University Sustainability Education
- University of Arizona (AZ)
This presentation discusses a new and novel direction for sustainability education taken by the University of Arizona's recently launched Practice School of Sustainability. Sustainability certificate programs have proliferated in ...
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Structuring Campus Sustainability Programs to Foster Sustained Student Leadership
- University of Arizona (AZ)
This paper details the recent creation of a self-sustaining environmental initiative undertaken at the University of Arizona to transform the campus through collaborative projects and programs and foster the continued ...
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Sustaining Sustainability: Paradigms for Motivation and Collaboration
- University of Arizona (AZ)
Sustainability cannot exist outside of the context of the community or society engaging with its pursuit. It is a value, just like equity, liberty, or efficiency, that requires groups efforts ...
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University of California, Berkeley Recycling and Waste Receptacles Redesign
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The University of California at Berkeley (UCB) adopted the goal of diverting 50% of its waste by June 30, 2008. This goal was met primarily because a large quantity of ...
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Engaging Students in Sustainability Efforts on College Campuses
- University of Central Missouri (MO)
How many times has your office wanted student input on sustainability projects and didn't know how to engage students? Perhaps you are having trouble rallying students around a proposed ...
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The End of Nature: Creating Sustainability Curriculum for Every Major
- University of Cincinnati (OH)
This session will begin with the presentation of the sustainability course developed for the University of Cincinnati as a collaboration between the University and design and consulting firm, emersion DESIGN ...
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Creating a Sustainable Future: Mind, Heart, Behavioral Change, Resilience
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
We are all, to greater or lesser extents, consumers of food, water, energy, goods, services, and creators of byproducts. The collective impact and global reach of our consumptive habits is ...
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Ralphies Green Stampede: Innovative Zero Waste Events at CU-Boulder
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
In 2008, Folsom Field became the first major sports stadium in the nation, professional or collegiate, to collect all materials in recycling or compost containers, eliminate trash cans and transform ...
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Scientific Laboratories Becoming More Efficient through Behavioral Changes & Equipment Solutions
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
Laboratories at the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU-Boulder) typically use 5-7 times more energy than classroom or office space. Like many universities, until recently, CU laboratories have not been a focal ...
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The Greening of an Intensive English Program
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
Our poster discusses what sustainability is and why we include environmental topics in our English as a Second Language curriculum. We explain our new summer certificate program focusing on sustainable ...
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Creation of Interdisciplinary Sustainability Undergraduate Curriculum
- University of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus (CO)
The University of Colorado Denver initiated a faculty led signature area in sustainability to explore the potential of either a major or minor in sustainability. This PowerPoint presentation will cover ...
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From Controversy to Collaboration: Case Studies for Environmental Community Engagement
- University of Connecticut (CT)
Campus sustainability professionals are well positioned to lead public engagement and environmental community relations efforts for their college or university. One obvious reason is that environmental impacts from the institution ...
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Rethinking Diversity: Defining, implementing, and measuring social sustainability in universities
- University of Denver (CO)
The overarching objective driving this session is the incorporation of social sustainability into U.S. higher education. As a movement gaining in momentum and popularity, sustainability has the ability to ...
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