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The State of Environmental and Sustainability Education in Canada: A Review of Past, Current, and Future Directions

  • University of Saskatchewan (SK)

ABSTRACT This chapter reports results from a study by the Sustainability and Education Policy Network in Canada, as well as other published reports and studies, to provide a partial overview …

  • Posted Sept. 3, 2024
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CSU Students Work on CAPS NOx Monitor as part of Ozone Study

Colorado State University Sustainability Photographs

  • Colorado State University (CO)

Colorado State University photographs submitted for SCI 2024

Webinar: Using Organizational Behavior Change Principles to Amplify Sustainability in Higher Ed

  • Macalester College (MN)
  • University of St. Thomas (MN)
  • AASHE (MA)

Institutions of Higher Education (HEIs) are critical for a sustainability transformation given their role developing innovations and preparing future citizens and leaders. Yet, efforts to mobilize sustainable change in HEIs …

  • Posted Aug. 29, 2024
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Teaching Sustainability Competencies across the Disciplines - A Guide for Instructors

  • AASHE (MA)

Members of AASHE’s Scaling Up Sustainability Across the Curriculum Community of Practice produced this guide for instructors in our curriculum development workshops and for others who seek to integrate sustainability …

  • Posted Aug. 29, 2024
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09/28/2017 - Roxbury, Mass. - Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning tour the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative land trust.

Tufts Cluster Hire for Racial Equity

  • Tufts University (MA)

Option to accompany the Tufts cluster hire section in the SCI

Sustainability Engagement Tracking for STARS 3.0

  • Santa Clara University (CA)
  • AASHE (MA)

In anticipation of changes to Campus Engagement credits in STARS 3.0, Santa Clara University’s Center for Sustainability pivoted our methods of tracking participation in sustainability activities from “tallying attendance” to …

  • Posted Aug. 22, 2024
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WEST Environmental Justice Center works with local partner Hawai'i Public Health Institute to bring together community members and health and environmental organizations in Honolulu, HI

Arizona Center for Environmental Justice

  • University of Arizona (AZ)

The University of Arizona launched the WEST Environmental Justice Center. The center focuses on providing groups and organizations free training, resources, and support to tackle environmental or energy justice challenges. …

Students receiving a nature prescription as part of their healthcare treatment program will receive additional information with ideas for including at least 120 minutes of time in nature each week.

UC Davis Nature Rx

  • University of California, Davis (CA)

Professionals with UC Davis Student Health and Counseling Services provide prescriptions for nature to their patients as part of a holistic healthcare approach. The prescription includes a worksheet where students …

University of Toronto staff and researchers participate in the afforestation project from earnings collected from the ATEMI program

Air Travel Emissions Mitigation Initiative - The University of Toronto

  • University of Toronto (ON)
  • University of Toronto Mississauga (ON)
  • University of Toronto Scarborough (ON)

Air travel emissions mitigation initiative - The University of Toronto mitigates emissions for business air travel by investing in university-based projects aimed at reducing the institution’s carbon footprint. Through the …

UC San Diego students spend time gardening in the Warren Garden, one of many campus community gardens used for education and outreach.

UC San Diego Students Gardening

  • University of California, San Diego (CA)

UC San Diego students spend time gardening in the Warren Garden, one of many campus community gardens used for education and outreach.

Photographer: Erik Jepsen

BardE3 students took non-recycle-able items and built a plastic monster to help educate others

Defeating the Plastic Monster at Bard College

  • Bard College (NY)

BardE3 sustainability students took some of the monstrous plastic that we cannot recycle and built a plastic monster as a teaching tool. pronounced Bard-ies, these sustainability students understand the interplay …

Transmission tower construction

SunZia Wind

  • University of California, Office of the President (CA)

Construction photos of SunZia Wind

Emera IDEA Building and Richard Murray Design Building rooftop solar PV array

Emera IDEA Building and Richard Murray Design Buildings achieved LEED Platinum Certification

  • Dalhousie University (NS)

In Fall 2023, Dalhousie University's Emera IDEA and Richard Murray Design buildings, located on it's Engineering and Architecture campus, achieved LEED Platinum status, the first time the university has received …

Transporting salt marsh grass to the restoration site where it will be planted behind the oyster shell bags.

Restoring Oyster Reefs

  • Georgia Southern University (GA)

Once each year since 2018, students from Georgia Southern University have traveled a couple hours north to assist the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources with restoration of oyster reefs …

Football game day in Kyle Field Stadium, College Station, Tx

Game day at Kyle Field Stadium

  • Texas A&M University (TX)

Game day in Kyle Field where average attendance is often 100,000. This picture depicts the potential large scale impact that pro-sustainability measures leveraged in athletic spaces can have.

Pitt student uses a food locker

Food Lockers Address Food Insecurity at Pitt

  • University of Pittsburgh (PA)

New food lockers at University of Pittsburgh make grocery and meal delivery more convenient and help address food insecurity for the Pitt community. Nonperishable food items, fresh produce and extra …

Kyle Field Stadium

Kyle Field Football Stadium

  • Texas A&M University (TX)

Kyle Field view from Aggie Park which encourages campus and community members to spend time outdoors. Aggie Park hosts outdoor learning spaces, venues for community festivals, and an outdoor stage …

Texas A&M Green Team athletes host Eco Athlete Webinar

Texas A&M Green Team athletes host Eco Athlete Webinar

  • Texas A&M University (TX)

Texas A&M Green Team athletes hosting a webinar event featuring Eco Athletes.

Texas A&M Student Athletes volunteering at Habitat for Humanity

Texas A&M Student Athletes volunteering

  • Texas A&M University (TX)

Texas A&M Student Athletes volunteering at Habitat for Humanity

Branded recycling bins in athletic facilities

Texas A&M Athletics Recycling Bin

  • Texas A&M University (TX)

Branded recycling bins in athletic facilities

Recycling containers installed for football game day events outside Kyle Field Gates

Recycling containers for football game day experience

  • Texas A&M University (TX)

Recycling containers installed for football game day events outside Kyle Field Gates

Texas A&M Athletics Sustainability Master Plan Core Team

Texas A&M Athletics Sustainability Master Plan Core Team

  • Texas A&M University (TX)

Members of the Athletics Sustainability Master Plan gather at the Annual Sustainability Breakfast. L-R (Rebekah Parkhill, Kelly Wellman, David Taylor, Lauren Lichterman, Scot Obergefell)

Keith Rich assembles solar panels at Crossroads Solar in South Bend.

Solar partnership supports formerly incarcerated individuals

  • University of Notre Dame (IN)

The University of Notre Dame has partnered with Crossroads Solar to develop a 1-megawatt solar array. Crossroads provides jobs and life skills to formerly incarcerated individuals as part of a …

The JMU East Campus Hillside, located below King Hall, features the expanded solar array and native pollinator habitat that were included in the certification.

JMU Virginia Pollinator-Smart Certification

  • James Madison University (VA)

James Madison University became the first university to earn the Virginia Pollinator-Smart Certification, a program that promotes pollinator-friendly solar energy developments throughout Virginia. The university's East Campus Hillside features the …

McGill's downtown campus in Autumn

McGill's Downtown Campus in Autumn

  • McGill University (QC)

An aerial view of McGill University's downtown campus in October. Prominently featured are the McCall MacBain Arts Building, the Redpath Museum. The downtown campus is nestled against Mont Royal, Montreal's …

Upmanu Lall, professor and director of the Water Institute at the ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, provides welcoming remarks to the 2024 World Water Day event audience. Photo by Andy DeLisle, courtesy of Arizona State University

ASU Global Futures Water 2

  • Arizona State University (AZ)

Upmanu Lall, professor and director of the Water Institute at the ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, provides welcoming remarks to the 2024 World Water Day event audience. Photo …

Peter Schlosser, Vice President and Vice Provost of Global Futures at Arizona State University, outlines a framework of planetary systems and the vital role secure access to safe water plays in ensuring a thiriving future for all of Earth’s inhabitants to the 2024 World Water Day event audience.

ASU Global Futures Water 1

  • Arizona State University (AZ)

Peter Schlosser, Vice President and Vice Provost of Global Futures at Arizona State University, outlines a framework of planetary systems and the vital role secure access to safe water plays …

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USC Sustainability Hub empty

  • University of Southern California (CA)

Photo of an empty USC Sustainability Hub, before students arrive for the day.

How to Make the Most of your Sustainability Event

  • The University of British Columbia (BC)
  • AASHE (MA)

This webinar on “How to make the most of your Sustainability Event” will focus on learnings and successes based on a several weeks long Sustainability programme at UNBC that was …

  • Posted Aug. 15, 2024
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A student interacting with the Sustainable Seneca booth at the Sustainability Career Fair at Seneca Polytechnic, where they discovered career opportunities across diverse sectors, including banking, landscape, community work, and green energy.

Seneca Polytechnic - Sustainability Career Fair

  • Seneca Polytechnic (ON)

In 2023, the annual Green Citizen Symposium was held November 7-9, exploring the theme, “Collaborate for Climate Action.” By fostering collaboration, partnership, and innovation at various levels across different sectors, …

The wall of basil from The Seneca Farm, a two-floor shipping container facility at Seneca Polytechnic's Newnham Campus turned into a hub for urban agriculture commercial growing and research. The facility uses hydroponic vertical farming technology.

Seneca Polytechnic - The Seneca Farm

  • Seneca Polytechnic (ON)

Opening in September of 2023, Seneca Polytechnic has renovated the two-floor shipping container facility at Newnham Campus and turned it into a hub for urban agriculture commercial growing and research. …

Members of the Concordia Stingers football team and women's hockey team took part in the tree-planting event event.

Concordia University tree planting event

  • Concordia University

Thanks to the efforts of staff, students and faculty, some 185 new trees were planted on the university grounds in 2019.

The initiative got underway November 5 with the first …

Concordia University students, faculty and staff take part in a plant sale at the Concordia Greenhouse.

Concordia Greenhouse plant sale

  • Concordia University

The Concordia Greenhouse provides a welcoming, organic green space that fosters community by providing experiential learning opportunities within a year-round growing environment.

A Concordia University community member gets their bike tuned up as part of the university's Earth Day festivities.

Bicycle awareness day

  • Concordia University

Two days before the global main event in 2017, Concordia University held an early Earth Day celebration with a focus on the benefits of cycling.

Concordia's Environmental Health and Safety …

A Concordia University staff member reviews content during a climate change poster installation at the university.

Climate change poster installation at 4TH SPACE

  • Concordia University

Climate change is one of the most significant challenges of our time, and an important priority for the entire Concordia University community.

In keeping with Concordia’s ongoing engagement in sustainability …

The Concordia University Centre for Creative Reuse's Valentine's Day Arts and Crafts event is an example of one of the many offerings the office puts on throughout the academic year.

Valentine's Day Arts and Crafts with the Concordia University Centre for Creative Reuse

  • Concordia University

The Concordia University Center for Creative Reuse (CUCCR) is dedicated to diverting materials from inside the university’s waste-stream and offering them to the general community free of cost. The 2023 …

A Concordia University community member works on a Bee-yond Plastic Wrap during the university's Zero Waste Week.

Bee-yond Plastic Wraps: Concordia Zero Waste Week

  • Concordia University

Let’s face it, snack containers are bulky and annoying to carry. Concordia University Centre for Creative Reuse (CUCCR), in collaboration with the Dish Project and Concordia's Zero Waste Program, facilitates …

The mind.heart.mouth garden located on Concordia University's Loyola Campus uses garden-based learning and sensory experience theories to create workshops and spaces for the university community.

mind.heart.mouth garden

  • Concordia University

mind.heart.mouth. uses garden-based learning and sensory experience theories to create workshops and spaces that increase awareness and foster stronger connections with our natural environments and the food production process.

UC San Diego Seventh College Synthesis Program Decarbonization Living Laboratory

  • University of California, San Diego (CA)

Beginning in the 2023-2024 academic year, faculty from the Seventh College Synthesis Program have partnered with staff from Operations Management and Capital Programs to develop living laboratory, project-based courses for …

The new John M. O'Quinn Law Building earned LEED Silver certification

STARS of Data Accuracy

  • University of Houston (TX)

Beginning in 2019, University of Houston required all new buildings and major renovations to be designed and certified to LEED Silver or better standards. Since then, three projects have met …

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SNHU Eco-Reps Making Graduation Sustainable

  • Southern New Hampshire University (NH)

Southern New Hampshire University Eco-Reps volunteer at each graduation to sort through waste for recyclables.

President Milton A. Gordon signs the Talloires Declaration, a statement of commitment to environmental sustainability in higher education, April 18. Joining him at the signing are, from left, A. Scott Hewitt, professor of chemistry and biochemistry; Steven Murray, acting vice president of academic affairs; graduate student Doug Moody, chair of the Associated Students Environmental Advocacy Committee; Greg Dyment, director of the Fullerton Arboretum; and Willem van der Pol, director of physical p

Creating A Stronger, Sustainable Campus

  • California State University, Fullerton (CA)

President Gordon Signs Talloires Declaration, Presidents Climate Commitment

By Pamela McLaren

President Milton A. Gordon has joined university presidents around the world in signing the Talloires Declaration, a statement of …

Cornell systems engineering doctoral student Akshay Ajagekar assesses the growth of lettuce plants in a Guterman Lab greenhouse. Ajagekar has prototyped an AI-based controller to reduce energy use in lettuce greenhouses in the state by 30%.

AI-based controller

  • Cornell University (NY)

Part of Cornell’s Radical Collaboration on Solutions for Sustainability includes is Guided by faculty task forces, Cornell is investing in ten strategic discipline areas one of which is artificial intelligence. …

UMass Boston students walk through the new quad, designed with innovative green infrastructure and sustainability features

UMass Boston Students enjoy New Green Infrastructure & Sustainable Landscaping Projects

  • University of Massachusetts Boston (MA)

UMass Boston used organic landscape management and protects biodiversity in our grounds. In the past years an important project has created a new 5 acre green space where a building …

Students pass by the PolyForm sculpture that celebrates celebrated College of Human Ecology’s interdisciplinary, human-centric mission spanning science, technology and design, and the connections between the natural, social and built environments.

PolyForm celebrates mission, spirit of Human Ecology

  • Cornell University (NY)

Students pass by the PolyForm sculpture near Martha Van Rennsselear Hall. The vision: A piece that evoked and celebrated College of Human Ecology’s interdisciplinary, human-centric mission spanning science, technology and …

The Steminist Movement, a Cornell student organization puts together STEM kits with Wendy Lin from the Community Partnership Funding Board.

Steminist Movement

  • Cornell University (NY)

The Steminist Movement, a Cornell student organization puts together STEM kits with Wendy Lin from the Community Partnership Funding Board. Fighting the Gender Gap in STEM through Education

Courtney Knight, a volunteer with Compass at Cornell, works with students, staff and other volunteers at the George Junior Republic High School

Compass at Cornell Volunteer- Civic Service

  • Cornell University (NY)

Courtney Knight, a volunteer with Compass at Cornell, works with students, staff and other volunteers at the George Junior Republic High School (a school specifically designed to educate at-risk children). …

AFRIK! 2024 The Blueprint Fashion Show

AFRIK! The Annual Fashion Show- celebration of Black fashion

  • Cornell University (NY)

AFRIK! The Annual Fashion Show: The Blueprint. An annual celebration of Black fashion creatives within the Diaspora! Anticipate beautiful clothing, amazing performances, and a beautiful night to remember.

Native American Indigenous students at Cornell present Rematriation: The Fashion Show, Cornell’s first Indigenous fashion show.

Cornell’s first Indigenous fashion show

  • Cornell University (NY)

Native American Indigenous students at Cornell present Rematriation: The Fashion Show, Cornell’s first Indigenous fashion show. Michelle Schenandoah ’99, founder of Rematriation, is a member of the Oneida Nation Wolf …

Student models prepare backstage for “Rematriation: The Fashion Show,”

Cornell’s first Indigenous fashion show.

  • Cornell University (NY)

Student models prepare backstage for “Rematriation: The Fashion Show,” Cornell’s first Indigenous fashion show presented by Native American Indigenous Students at Cornell.

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