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539 kW Rooftop Array: Res/Rec
- North Central College (IL)
The installation of 1,632 solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and energy storage system on the roof of the Residence Hall/Recreation Center (Res/Rec) will provide 22 percent of the ...
- Posted Nov. 1, 2016
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Can Urban University Expansion and Sustainable Development Co-Exist?: A Case Study in Progress on Columbia University
- Albany Law School (NY)
- Columbia University (NY)
This article uses the expansion of Columbia University as a case study to demonstrate the difficulty in labeling projects as "sustainable" or "unsustainable" when key stakeholders view the process and ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Columbia Announces Deal on Its 17-Acre Expansion Plan
- Columbia University (NY)
This article describes an agreement relating to the Columbia University's plans to expand its campus in Harlem. Among other things, the university committed to contribute $20 million to start ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Bringing Responsible Investment to Campus: A Handbook for Committees on Investor Responsibiity
- Responsible Endowments Coalition (PA)
This toolkit is intended to be a guide to the creation, organization, and operation of Committees on Investor Responsibility that function effectively. Many schools have adopted the model of the ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Graduate Certificate in Environmental Assessment and Management
- Murdoch University (Western Australia)
This multidisciplinary program is designed to provide environmental professionals with an introductory understanding of the policies, procedures and techniques of environmental management through practically-oriented study. It will be relevant to ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Environmental Management and Sustainability
- Murdoch University (Western Australia)
In this program, students learn to link management decisions with local, regional and global sustainability initiatives. They are equipped to develop clear alternatives for professional organisations to secure a sustainable ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Certificate of Specialization in Energy and Clean Technology Law
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
JD and LLM (traditional track) students are eligible to earn this certificate, which encourages students to develop a broad background in fundamental areas of the law while receiving advanced training ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Certificate of Specialization in Environmental Law
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
JD and LLM (traditional track) students are eligible to earn this certificate, which provides a specialized curricular program to ensures that students develop a broad background in fundamental areas of ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science
- University of Houston - Clear Lake (TX)
This program uses an interdisciplinary approach to prepare students for opportunities in the private sector and in governmental agencies where environmental issues are being addressed. Graduates of the plan will ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Bachelor of Science (BS) in Environmental Management
- University of Houston - Clear Lake (TX)
The Bachelor of Science (BS) in Environmental Management is designed as a flexible curriculum that meets the needs of full-time students and practicing professionals. By selecting approved electives in fields ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Master of Science in Environmental Science
- University of Houston - Clear Lake (TX)
This program is available in face to face format or online. Students in the face-to-face program must choose one of the five specializations when they apply:
- Environmental Biology
- Environmental Geology ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Master of Science in Environmental Management
- University of Houston - Clear Lake (TX)
This program is designed to meet the needs of full-time students as well as practicing professionals. Students are able to tailor their degree to their professional needs by selecting approved ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Environmental Management Certificate
- University of Houston - Clear Lake (TX)
The Certificate in Environmental Management is designed for professionals in the environmental management field who wish to update their skills without going for another master's degree. Certificates can be ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Geography and Environmental Management
- University of Waterloo (ON)
Students in this program explore the world and the people, places, and cultures that make it such a diverse place. They learn about climate change, landforms, natural hazards, global population ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Environment, Resources and Sustainability
- University of Waterloo (ON)
Students in this program will use insights from the natural, physical, and social sciences to help solve some of the world’s biggest environmental challenges, from water and food, to ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Environment and Business
- University of Waterloo (ON)
In this program, students gain a background in ecology, environmental economics, and environmental decision-making while developing expertise in finance, project management, accounting, marketing, and law. The program integrates environmental and ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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PhD in Social and Ecological Sustainability
- University of Waterloo (ON)
The PhD program in School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability (SERS) is devoted to understanding and pursuing sustainability in a dynamic and complex world, and to considering and integrating understanding ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Master of Environmental Studies in Sustainability Management (MES)
- University of Waterloo (ON)
The Sustainability Management graduate program is committed to providing future environmental leaders with the research skills, management tools, strategies and processes required to realize sustainable outcomes within business, government and ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Master of Environmental Studies in Environment, Resources and Sustainability (MES)
- University of Waterloo (ON)
The Masters program in Environment, Resources and Sustainability provides a mix of transdisciplinary understanding and problem-solving combined with the ability to focus on a narrower problem or issue.
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Master of Environment and Business
- University of Waterloo (ON)
The Master of Environment and Business (MEB) is a program aimed at meeting the growing need for business sustainability professionals as a distinct group of knowledgeable, skilled, confident and motivated ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Master of Climate Change
- University of Waterloo (ON)
The University of Waterloo’s Master of Climate Change (MCC) program focuses on the multiple ways climate change interacts with society and the environment. The MCC program provides a unique ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Environmental Studies (BA)
- Ferrum College (VA)
The Environmental Studies program prepares graduates for a career and for graduate study in the broad field of environmental studies and sustainable development. The program uses a multidisciplinary systems approach ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Graduate Certificate of Education for Sustainability
- James Cook University (Queensland)
This qualification develops skills and knowledge in sustainability and enables students to communicate these skills in educational settings. This course is relevant to teachers, trainers, school leaders, administrators, and others ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Graduate Certificate of Science in Sustainability
- James Cook University (Queensland)
This program requires 4 courses related to sustainability science.
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Bachelor of Environmental Practice
- James Cook University (Queensland)
This program is designed to empower students to solve sustainability challenges. It provides a broad understanding of the operative and management interactions between the biological, physical, social, economic and political ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Master of Education in Sustainability
- James Cook University (Queensland)
The Sustainability major in the Master of Education program develops enables students to communicate and innovate sustainability education programs in formal and informal education. This program is relevant to teachers ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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An international Master's program in green ICT as a contribution to sustainable development
Various principles of sustainable development are currently being integrated into national policies and programs. Such principles relate to a range of aspects of human activities requiring urgent attention, including heating ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Promoting energy efficiency in a South African university
- University of Johannesburg (Gauteng)
Electricity supply issues have resulted in widespread blackouts and increased utility costs in South Africa. This is placing financial pressure on universities as they have limited means of increasing their ...
- Posted Oct. 28, 2016
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Comparative Analysis of Ecological Footprint on Ecological Campus of an Urban University in China
- Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology
The componential method of ecological footprint is applied to estimate the ecological footprint of the Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology (XAUAT) in 2011. An EF value for the ...
- Posted Oct. 28, 2016
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Making the invisible visible: how students make use of carbon footprint calculator in environmental education
- University of Gothenburg
Problems concerning carbon dioxide emissions and other climate change-related issues are on the global political agenda and constantly debated in media. Such issues are important for individuals to enable active ...
- Posted Oct. 28, 2016
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Use of Life Cycle Assessment methodology in the analysis of Ecological Footprint Assessment results to evaluate the environmental performance of universities
- Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia)
The assessment of the environmental performance of an organization is an essential part of the decision-making process of an Environmental Management System. Having robust indicators enables a reliable assessment. The ...
- Posted Oct. 28, 2016
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Application of the componential method for ecological footprint calculation of a Chinese university campus
The componential method of ecological footprint is applied to estimate the ecological footprint of Northeastern University (NEU) in 2003. The components considered in this study include energy (coal, natural gas ...
- Posted Oct. 28, 2016
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Development of a hands-on toolkit to support integration of ecodesign in engineering programmes
In recent years, the integration of sustainable development in higher education has received a growing amount of attention. During the last decade, initiatives have aimed at integrating sustainable development at ...
- Posted Oct. 28, 2016
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Composite indicators for a sustainable campus—Design rationale and methodology: The case of the Catholic Institute of Lille
Having first appeared in the mid-1990s, policy actions for improving how sustainable development principles are put into practice on university campuses have been growing more and more. This has taken ...
- Posted Oct. 28, 2016
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Using ecological footprint analysis in higher education: Campus operations, policy development and educational purposes
- UC Leuven-Limburg
- KU Leuven
Ecological footprint analysis has been used worldwide in a variety of organizations (enterprise, public authorities, non-governmental organizations, (higher) educational institutions) and at different levels (personal level, (parts of) organizations, cities ...
- Posted Oct. 28, 2016
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Framework for the inter-comparison of ecological footprint of universities
The ecological footprint (EF) method represents the suitability of a given population on the carrying capacity of the total system. It was developed in order to measure the relationship between ...
- Posted Oct. 28, 2016
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An urban university’s ecological footprint and the effect of climate change
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
Ecological footprint analysis (EFA) has been used since the early 1990s as a measure of sustainability for geographical regions, products, and activities. EFA is used as a measure of land ...
- Posted Oct. 28, 2016
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A Nearly Carbon-Neutral Conference Model: White Paper & Practical Guide
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
This document was created to help stage nearly carbon-neutral (NCN) conferences based on a model first implemented at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) in May of 2016. Compared to fly-in conferences ...
- Posted Oct. 28, 2016
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The impact of transportation demand management policies on commuting to college facilities: A case study at the University of Trieste, Italy
Universities, like other types of public and private institutions, when located in a city, have both positive and negative impacts on the area where they are situated. On the one ...
- Posted Oct. 27, 2016
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Travel, transport and energy implications of university-related student travel: A case study approach
- University College Dublin, National University of Ireland
This study highlighted significant cultural differences and complexity in travel behaviour associated with travel to university across the UK and Ireland. This paper examines university travel behaviours and the implications ...
- Posted Oct. 27, 2016
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Lehigh University Conducts Residential Hall Waste Audit on Campus Sustainability Day
- Lehigh University (PA)
On October 26, Lehigh University conducted a waste audit of the largest residential hall on campus, M&M. Twelve students participated in the waste audit. The students will use the data ...
- Posted Oct. 27, 2016
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Struggling to Serve at the Nation’s Richest University
- Harvard University (MA)
A New York Times article about the 2016 university dining hall workers' strike at Harvard University. Employees were dissatisfied with a health insurance increase in the face of low wages ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Proactive sustainable university transportation: Marginal effects, intrinsic values, and university students' mode choice
- University of Queensland (QLD)
In the United States, millions of university students drive alone to school. Therefore, decreasing driving alone and related car dependence among university students is as important as doing that among ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Non-motorized transport and university populations: an analysis of connectivity and network perceptions
- University of Alabama (AL)
This research examines local bicycle and pedestrian networks in the vicinity of the University of Alabama campus to assess the utility of these networks for travel to the university by ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Travel behavior of university students who live on campus: A case study of a rural university in Asia
With their irregular class schedules and considerable freedom in the campus environment, university students are an example of a social group that tends to have complex and unique travel behavior ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Mode choice of university students commuting to school and the role of active travel
- McMaster University (ON)
In recent years, interest in the travel behavior of students in institutions of higher education has grown. It has been noted that students tend to use a variety of transportation ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Invisible commuters: assessing a university’s eco-friendly transportation policies and commuting behaviours
- Alabama State University (AL)
- Tulane University (LA)
- The University of New Mexico (NM)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
To assess the efficacy of a private university’s environmentally friendly transportation policies, we administered a transportation and energy-use phone survey to a random sample of faculty, non-professional staff, and ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Measuring the potential for bicycling and walking at a metropolitan commuter university
- University of Michigan-Flint (MI)
An attitudinal survey was disseminated to faculty, staff, and students at a metropolitan commuter university with the objective to ascertain what travel demand management (TDM) strategies will increase bicycling and ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Using parking pricing as a travel demand management tool at a university campus: an example for Istanbul Technical University
This study investigates the potential effects of parking pricing on the private vehicle use of residents of the campuses of large compounds such as universities. For this purpose, a parking ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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The Paradox of Public Transport Peak Spreading: Universities and Travel Demand Management
- University of Sydney (NSW)
The characteristics which make public transport attractive and contribute to high public transport use by specific market segments create the paradox in which encouragement of peak spreading of public transport ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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