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SRU Earth Days 2016
- Slippery Rock University (PA)
“Earth Days 2016” was Slippery Rock University’s annual Earth Day celebration involving fun and educational events aimed at increasing awareness and knowledge regarding sustainability, climate change, and preserving resources ...
- Posted May 31, 2016
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The role of students in the co-creation of transformational knowledge and sustainability experiments: Experiences from Sweden, Japan and the USA
- Clark University (MA)
- Oberlin College (OH)
- University of Tokyo
- Lund University
Accompanying realizations that engagement of multiple societal sectors (academia, industry, government, citizenry) and disciplines are required for formulating effective responses to complex sustainability challenges, calls for new forms of knowledge ...
- Posted May 31, 2016
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UIC Heritage Garden
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
The Heritage Garden at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is a hands-on learning project with an internship program where students work with faculty, staff, and community members to ...
- Posted May 31, 2016
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Creating Tree Ambassadors: Fostering a campus culture of sustainbility through urban trees
- University of Kentucky (KY)
Urban trees contribute substantially to ecological, economic, and social sustainability, but are often overlooked both as a method to achieve greater sustainability and as a vehicle for engagement in sustainability ...
- Posted May 31, 2016
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UMass New2U Reuse Collection and Tag Sale
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
New2U is a student-led program that is in its 3rd year of operation. New2U collects unwanted items from across campus each spring during move-out and resells these collected item each ...
- Posted May 26, 2016
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Compact Advanced Facility for Conversion of Waste Cooking Oil to Biodiesel to power the University Bus system
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
The University Bus system is powered by a Biodiesel mixture. The project investigated feasibility of generating its own Biodiesel from the waste cooking oil generated by the dining facilities and ...
- Posted May 26, 2016
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Organizational Change and Organizational Learning for Promoting Higher Education for Sustainable Development
- Dalhousie University (NS)
The scholarship of higher education for sustainable development has been criticised for its reliance on case studies and lack of theoretical rigour. This chapter provides a brief overview of several ...
- Posted May 25, 2016
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Learning while transforming: solution-oriented learning for urban sustainability in Phoenix, Arizona
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Conventional educational settings struggle with enabling students to acquire competence in collectively solving sustainability problems. Such competence is best conveyed in real-world learning settings. Solution-oriented sustainability learning (SOSL) programs create ...
- Posted May 24, 2016
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University of Redlands Proposal for Expanded Composting
- University of Redlands (CA)
We are currently living in a time with inequity, economic instability and environmental degradation. The University of Redlands campus claims to be sustainable, however, we lack many forms of renewable ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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University of Redlands Proposal for Expanded Composting
- University of Redlands (CA)
We are currently living in a time with inequity, economic instability and environmental degradation. The University of Redlands campus claims to be sustainable, however, we lack many forms of renewable ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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Master of Science in Sustainability Management (MScSM)
- University of Toronto (ON)
The Master of Science in Sustainability Management (MScSM) program provides the training for graduates to act outside the traditional disciplinary black boxes; integrate knowledge from management, social, and natural sciences ...
- Posted May 20, 2016
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How We Came to Inhabit These Spaces: Reflections on the Role of Place in Our Individual and Collective Journeys as Emerging Sustainability Scholars
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the experience of four doctoral students engaged in a collective project of place exploration at a mid sized Canadian university. Under the methodological ...
- Posted May 17, 2016
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A Statistical Analysis of the USFSP Solar Parking Garage
- University of South Florida St. Petersburg (FL)
This undergraduate student paper was accepted without revision as an oral presentation at the ICES 2016 : 18th International Conference on Energy held in Paris. The topic is a statistical analysis ...
- Posted May 13, 2016
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Monash Sustainable Development Institute
- Monash University (VIC)
The Monash Sustainable Development Institute tackles sustainability challenges head on with distinctive interdisciplinary approach. It pulls together scientists, lawyers, economists, psychologists, biologists, engineers, health professionals, training experts and more to ...
- Posted May 13, 2016
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Minor in Sustainability Science
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
The Minor in Sustainability Science provides a comprehensive exploration of the issue of sustainable development and integrates social, cultural, ecological/environmental and economic perspectives through project-based work. It includes inter- ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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MSc in Global Sustainability Science
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
The two-year dual degree program in Global Sustainability Science is jointly administered by Arizona State University and Leuphana University of Lüneburg. It aims to provide an academically well balanced education ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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MSc in Sustainability Science
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
A distinctive feature of Leuphana University Lüneburg's inter- and transdisciplinary research-oriented and problem-focused Master's program in Sustainability Sciences is its balance between sustainable natural sciences and sustainable humanities ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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Master of Environment and Sustainability
- Monash University (VIC)
The Master of Environment and Sustainability is a forward-thinking, interdisciplinary, two-year course that integrates the knowledge needed to mitigate and adapt to global change with sustainability principles. Central to its ...
- Posted May 9, 2016
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A bibliometric study on “Education for sustainability”
- University of São Paulo
The scientific production on “education for sustainability” has been growing in recent years what demonstrates the attention this subject has gathered. To better understand and characterize this trend, a bibliometric ...
- Posted May 3, 2016
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School of Earth and Sustainability
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
The University of Massachusetts Amherst has established a new School of Earth and Sustainability (SES), which will serve as a central hub for a suite of academic programs, research, innovation ...
- Posted May 3, 2016
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Where in the World of Sustainability Education is US Geography?
- University of Central Missouri (MO)
This paper investigates latest developments in sustainability studies, sustainability education and geography's place in sustainability education, with a focus on the USA. The investigation draws on latest information on ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Geography and the Emergence of Sustainability Science: Missed Opportunities and Enduring Possibilities
- Oregon State University (OR)
The dawn of the 21st century saw the emergence of the newly declared field of “sustainability science.” The new field’s research agenda focuses on meeting human needs while simultaneously ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Sustainability Science
- Harvard University (MA)
- American Meteorological Society (DC)
- Stanford University (CA)
- Stockholm University
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (SC)
- University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
- Griffith University (Queensland)
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
Meeting fundamental human needs while preserving Earth's life support systems will require an accelerated transition toward sustainability. A new field of sustainability science is emerging that seeks to understand ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Linking classroom learning and research to advance ideas about social-ecological resilience
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- University of Alaska Fairbanks (AK)
- University of Victoria (BC)
- Stockholm University
There is an increasing demand in higher education institutions for training in complex environmental problems. Such training requires a careful mix of conventional methods and innovative solutions, a task not ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Evolution and structure of sustainability science
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
The concepts of sustainable development have experienced extraordinary success since their advent in the 1980s. They are now an integral part of the agenda of governments and corporations, and their ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Routledge Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development
- University of Vechta
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- RMIT University
The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development gives a systematic and comprehensive overview of existing and upcoming research approaches for higher education for sustainable development. It provides ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions
- University of Maine (ME)
Producing knowledge and linking it to actions that meet human needs while preserving the planet’s life-support systems is emerging as one of the most fundamental and difficult challenges for ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Measuring the educational impacts of a graduate course on sustainable development
- Texas A&M University (TX)
While university‐level education is increasingly recognized as an important component of sustainable approaches to development, little empirical research has been done on the impact of sustainability education on student ...
- Posted April 29, 2016
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John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CA)
The Lyle Center is committed to a future in which all people live with dignity in safe, healthy, and sustainable environments. We believe this future is best achieved through the ...
- Posted April 29, 2016
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Institute for Sustainable Design
- Cooper Union (NY)
The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design seeks to provide the greater Cooper Union community—architects, engineers and artists—with the cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills that are necessary to create ...
- Posted April 26, 2016
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How not what: teaching sustainability as process
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
Ever since the word “sustainability” entered public discourse, the concept has escaped definition. The United Nations has christened the years 2005–2014 “The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development ...
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Successes and snags of a sustainability course in higher education
- University of Arizona (AZ)
By means of an action-research methodological approach, this paper analyses the accomplishments and challenges of a university-wide course that offers sustainability theory and practice to help students adopt pro-sustainability behaviours ...
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Concentration in Sustainability (Master of Business & Science)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
The Master of Business & Science with a concentration in Sustainability is designed to help students identify, analyze and better understand connections among social, environmental, technological and economic systems. Designed ...
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Minor in Sustainability
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
Students in this minor complete 3 foundational courses, a practicum course, and a course in each of the following areas of inquiry: Resource Management Systems; Governance; and Economics and Social ...
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Sport Sustainability Leadership Certificate at Seattle University
- Seattle University (WA)
The first of its kind in the world, the fully online Certificate in Sport Sustainability Leadership addresses the global concern for increased environmental and ecological sustainability in the sport industry ...
- Posted April 22, 2016
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Sport Sustainability Leadership Certificate (online)
- Seattle University (WA)
The first of its kind in the world, the Certificate in Sport Sustainability Leadership addresses the global concern for increased environmental and ecological sustainability in the sport industry. We empower ...
- Posted April 22, 2016
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An MBA’s Guide to the Triple Bottom Line
- University of Scranton (PA)
The “Sustainability and the MBA: The Triple Bottom Line” guide helps you discover how to build stronger and more sustainable relationships between organizations, stakeholders, and the community.
- Posted April 21, 2016
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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
RASEI (pronounced RAY-see) is a joint institute between the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) addressing important, complex problems in energy that require a ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame
- University of Notre Dame (IN)
The Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame (ND Energy) is a University Research Center whose mission is to foster and grow energy-related research toward sustainable and affordable energy solutions ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Sustainability, Energy and Environment Fellows Program
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Why is true sustainability so hard to achieve? Behind every environmentally friendly practice is a web of consequences, trade-offs, feedbacks, and barriers — and this undergraduate minor administered by the Institute ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Clean Energy and Sustainability Minor
- University of Massachusetts Boston (MA)
The minor in clean energy and sustainability (CES) is offered through the Clean Energy and Sustainability program. It consists of six courses selected from six core areas: Environmental Science, Energy ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Energy and Sustainability Specialization (Master's in Mechanical Engineering)
- Northwestern University (IL)
This interdisciplinary mechanical engineering concentration engages both deep technical courses in energy and technology topics as well as critically important courses in the policy, law and economics of energy.
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Specialization in Sustainability (Master of Project Management)
- Northwestern University (IL)
This specialization prepares individuals to play a significant role in shaping the future of the built environment by providing a framework for developing creative sustainable solutions as a key element ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Energy and Sustainability Undergraduate Certificate
- Northwestern University (IL)
The Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University (ISEN) Undergraduate Certificate provides a means for Northwestern students to pursue multi-disciplinary instruction in the increasingly important areas of sustainability and ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University (ISEN)
- Northwestern University (IL)
The Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern was established in 2008 as an umbrella organization whose unique mission is to advance global energy and sustainability solutions through transformational research ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Establishing sustainability science in higher education institutions: towards an integration of academic development, institutionalization, and stakeholder collaborations
- University of Tokyo
- University of Zurich
- Lund University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
The field of sustainability science aims to understand the complex and dynamic interactions between natural and human systems in order to transform and develop these in a sustainable manner. As ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Sustainable Business and Innovation (MSc)
- Utrecht University
As part of this two-year Master’s programme in Sustainable Business and Innovation, you will learn about sustainability challenges and the technological and other options that businesses can use to ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Sustainable Development (MSc)
- Utrecht University
This two-year Master’s programme is aimed at students who want to contribute to the design of the solutions needed to achieve an environmentally and socially accountable society. In this ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Master of Sustainability Science
- University of Tokyo
- United Nations University
The Graduate Program in Sustainability Science - Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI) provides the training necessary to enable future global leaders to make a profound impact on sustainability science and sustainable development ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Sustainability Science (PhD)
- University of Tokyo
- United Nations University
The Graduate Program in Sustainability Science - Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI) provides the training necessary to enable future global leaders to make a profound impact on sustainability science and sustainable development ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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