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Flexible Urban Water Systems for the Adaptation of Campuses to Future Change Pressures
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
Water systems for new campuses or the major extension of existing campuses are designed for long operational life span of up to 50 years. However local change drivers such as ...
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Using Decision Pathways to Adapt Coastal Areas to a Changing Climate under Uncertain Risk: a Study of Three Australian Local Governments
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
Risks associated with climate change are generally considered to increase as time progresses, but the degree to which this correlation holds for a specific coastal area is uncertain. When developing ...
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Teaching Sustainability as a Contested Concept: Reflections from the Cascadia Sustainability Field School
- University of Victoria (BC)
Skepticism with respect to the self-evidence of truth claims in the ever-present context of power relations is central to critical scholarship. Concepts can and are used not as innocent representations ...
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Love Food Hate Waste: A Case Study on Engaging Students and equiping them with life long learning skills
- Western Sydney University (NSW)
The global food system is under pressure from exploding population growth and food waste is a major issue throughout the world. We throw away millions of tonnes of food and ...
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Using History to Build the Sustainable Campus of the Future: Three Case Studies on the Waterways of Wisconsin
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
Creating a campus-wide commitment to sustainability begins with cultivating a sense of place. As campus communities learn to value their places, their landscapes, and neighborhoods, they build dedication to preservation ...
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Task Force Transforms Sustainable Strategies and Implementation For a Bicycle Friendly Campus
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)
A severe debt-service, a campus culture of parking pressures and contention, and a parking committee stagnated by budget pressures, all lead to the inaction on alternative transportation measures. Sustainability in ...
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Financial and Physical Climate Change Resilience: Are Your Facilities Ready?
- URS Corporation (MD)
The slow but steady pace of climate change is producing rapid and drastic weather changes worldwide. These changes are challenging the ability of facilities to perform their most basic function ...
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Aggie Blue Bikes; How AmeriCorps Grants Can Bring Bicycle Lending to Your Campus
- Utah State University (UT)
Aggie Blue Bikes (ABB) is Utah State University’s (USU) premier bicycle lending, education and advocacy program; its mission is to get more people on more bikes, more often. Throughout ...
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Energy Efficiency at Valencia College: A Case Study of Retrofits and Building Automation, Green Construction, and Behavioral Savings
- Valencia College (FL)
Valencia College, a community college in Orlando, FL, constructed 66 buildings on five campuses between 1971 and 2012 and operates these buildings for their full life cycles. A critical aspect ...
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Mobile Technology in Higher Education - An Evolving Component of Sustainability
- Walters State Community College (TN)
As mobile technology becomes more a part of everyday life, it brings with it the opportunity to change our educational processes in order to enhance learning, reduce costs, and improve ...
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Beyond Sustainability: Resilience Thinking in Sustainability Education
- Warren Wilson College (NC)
Sustainability can be thought of as the ability of human communities to persist over the long term through equitable sharing of natural, economic and cultural resources within and across generations ...
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An In-depth Analysis of Waste Trends and Reuse Potential in Dining Facilities
- West Virginia University (WV)
In the United States, less than three percent of the 34 million tons of food waste generated was recovered or recycled in 2010. This represents the single largest component of ...
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Monasteries :"What Campus Sustainability Programs Can Learn From Their Antecedents"
- Western Illinois University (IL)
This presentation reports on historical influences of rural monasticism and culture on current sustainability practices in higher education. Although not conceived or defined as sustainability, western European monasteries functioned to ...
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Continuous Improvement: Restructuring Western Michigan University’s Office for Sustainability Internships to Facilitate Greater Comprehensive Success
- Western Michigan University (MI)
In an effort to be more relevant and more resilient, the WMU Office for Sustainability is adapting their internship program protocol and process to ensure greater success for the students ...
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Demystifying Bike Share: Explaining Current Systems, Options and Implementation Strategies
- Western Michigan University (MI)
Universities, colleges, cities, and towns have been looking to bike share systems to encourage ridership and to reduce the barriers to entry for bicycle transportation. Currently the system options in ...
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Beyond Operations: Collaborating Across Campus to Change Food Culture
- Williams College (MA)
Effect culture change on campus with sustainable food programming. Learn how the Williams College Sustainable Food & Agriculture Program introduces diverse student organizations, campus offices, and academic departments to sustainable ...
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Philosophy, Poetry, Sustainability: It’s all about Inspiring Deep Thinking
- Wright State University (OH)
The last few years have brought our mid-size primarily commuter school face to face with the image that we project and what we see reflected in the mirror. In the ...
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An Historian's Critique of the Sustainability Triangle
- Xavier University (OH)
This paper examines the traditional sustainability triangle—economy, environment and society—from an historical perspective. I argue that the sustainability triangle and its attendant well-used concept of sustainable development arose ...
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Growing An Integrated Urban Farm, Modular and Mobile
- Xavier University (OH)
With space constraints, a Master Plan that is a "moving target," and limited funds, Xavier University undertook to build a farm on-campus. The design choices at every step of the ...
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Measuring Success
- Yale University (CT)
This presentation will focus on how to capture, disclose and manage sustainability performance metrics. The presentation will focus on how to develop and institutionalize sustainability performance metrics that lead to ...
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Waste and Access: Communicating about sustainability between universities in developed and developing countries
- Yale University (CT)
Sustainability initiatives in the United States are largely focused on reducing waste in terms of materials, water, energy, fuel, and even time and money. In less economically developed countries, however ...
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Aiming Higher: The Rio+20 Report on Higher Education's Role in Sustainable Development
- Portland Community College (OR)
- Macquarie University (NSW)
Our presentation will highlight the efforts made by an international consortium of educators and higher education leaders at Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to persuade delegates ...
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Preventing Burnout in an Age of Permanent Crisis
- New York University (NY)
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." -Audre Lorde
As we care for ourselves, we become more effective activists and ...
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Teaching Sustainability 101: How Do We Structure An Introductory Course?
- George Washington University (DC)
- Michigan State University (MI)
- Philadelphia University (PA)
- Roosevelt University (IL)
This panel discussion brings together 5 university instructors who have been teaching some version of "Intro to Sustainability" for at least several years. The panelists will share and compare their ...
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Collaborative Approach to Understanding Faculty Research and Course Offerings
- Appalachian State University (NC)
As part of Appalachian State University's commitment to sustainability, a faculty inventory was conducted to determine the nature and extent of research, scholarly activity, and creative production that are ...
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Experiential Learning in 'Sustainable Global Stewardship': A Costa Rican Case-Study
- Cal Poly Humboldt (CA)
This session will provide an overview of a sample interdisciplinary experiential study abroad program in 'Sustainable Global Stewardship' in Costa Rica. This will include a summary of program design through ...
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Greening the Team: Enhancing the Sustainability of Collegiate Athletic Facilities
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- University of Southern California (CA)
- Green Sports Alliance (OR)
- Natural Resources Defense Council (DC)
Athletic facilities are often the centerpieces of higher education campuses, where people come together and school spirit is built. They are also venues offering vast opportunities for positive impact on ...
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Designing Introductory Courses in Sustainability for Undergraduate Learners
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Skagit Valley College (WA)
- University of Washington, Bothell (WA)
Sustainability programs have proliferated in colleges and universities recently, including lower division courses designed to introduce students to the issues of sustainability. But as a field of study, sustainability is ...
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Sustainability Officers Workshop: Leveraging Leadership for Campus Sustainability
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
- Environmental Leadership Program (MD)
This workshop will focus on strengths-based leadership and systems thinking for the sustainability professional. Participants will map your own personal and professional strengths while considering how those strengths can move ...
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Creating a Sustainable Campus Culture through Student Engagement: Capitalizing on Living-Learning Communities and Creative Inquiry Teams
- Clemson University (SC)
- University of South Carolina (SC)
The Leading and Innovating for Our Environment and Future (LIEF) program is a movement on Clemson University's campus to cultivate a culture of sustainability. Students, faculty, and staff are ...
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Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) 101 (2012)
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
- AASHE (MA)
Since 2006, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), a membership organization of colleges and universities committed to building a sustainable world, has engaged in a ...
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Endowment Transparency at Duke: a Qualitative Analysis of Effects on Environmental Sustainability and Assessment of Strategies
- Duke University (NC)
The transparency of a university's endowment affects the responsibility of its investment decisions. After researching Duke University's endowment and examining numerous protests against Duke's irresponsible investments, I ...
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Zero Waste Stadiums: Don't Be Scared (Or Maybe A Little)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- University of California, Davis (CA)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
Join us for an interactive session on Zero Waste sports venues. A zero waste stadium is commonly defined as one that achieves or seeks to achieve 90% diversion rate or ...
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Environmental Sustainability in Information Technology: It's a Culture Thing
- University of Michigan (MI)
We have found that IT professionals and users of technology have not traditionally considered the impact of their computing choices on the environment. Yet, nearly every computing choice has an ...
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Smart Sustainable Landscape at Duke University
- Duke University (NC)
The Duke Smart Home has participated in the new Sustainable SITES Initiative pilot program and created a new garden and landscape on the Duke central campus which includes water management ...
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A Novel Alternative to Purchasing Carbon Off-Sets
- Utah State University (UT)
Nearly one-fifth (19%) of Utah State University's (USU) carbon emissions result from faculty, staff and students traveling on business. Travelers logged over 17 million miles in air travel and ...
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Getting to the Point: Teaching STEM Content Through Societal Challenges
- Oakland Community College (MI)
- Association of American Colleges and Universities (DC)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
Our planet and its inhabitants are under unprecedented stress. More than ever before, we need people - citizens, scientists, engineers, and teachers - who not only understand the scientific and societal dimensions ...
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Green Building LEEDers in Higher Education: A Review of the Current Use of the LEED Rating System in the Green Building Policies of U.S. Universities
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
This study serves as an update to the report entitled "The Role of the LEED Green Building Rating System in Higher Education: Recent Trends and Status," published in Fall 2010 ...
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Hope and Sustainability Education: Initiating a Research Collaborative
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Generating and maintaining hope among students is recognized as a challenge for sustainability educators, but what do we really know about course content and experiences that generate hope rather than ...
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Sustainability: Perspectives of Students as Stakeholders in the Curriculum
- University of Hawaii Kapiolani Community College (HI)
Using a single case study approach, this doctoral dissertation explores sustainability curricula in a community college setting. Forty students were interviewed using a focus group methodology to discern group norms ...
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Assessing Sustainability Learning Outcomes at Two Community Colleges
- Delta College (MI)
Assessing sustainability and general education outcomes is a tough nut to crack. Follow two community college academic professionals along their journey to discover an efficient and effective assessment tool. Both ...
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Feed The Beast: Organic Waste Collection in a Campus Food Court
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)
To gauge the feasibility of organic waste separation in a public setting, we studied the effect of introducing new waste receptacles into a student union food court. The public education ...
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Community and Sustainability - Tour and Discussion at an Urban Ecovillage
- Fellowship for Intentional Community (MO)
Learn the history, context, accomplishments, pitfalls, transitions, plans and visions for this 13-year old two block central city eco-village and sister communities around the world. On-site tour showcases systems for ...
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Creating EcoHouse: A Student Driven Approach to Sustainability and Social Justice
- State University of New York at Geneseo (NY)
This poster discusses residential living as a venue for learning and community engagement in sustainability and social justice. At our small, rural, public liberal arts college, education extends beyond the ...
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Transforming Enemies Into Allies: How to Have Difficult-But Necessary-Conversations in Our Roles as Sustainability Change Agents
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of Hawaii Kapiolani Community College (HI)
- University of Hawaii - West Oahu (HI)
- GreenerU (MA)
This workshop will give us the space to learn and practice some tactics for having those difficult conversations that are unavoidably part of the work of making change happen within ...
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Guts, Focus and Endurance: When the Energy Future Calls, What Role Will You Play and How Will You Avoid Burnout?
- Focus the Nation (OR)
Changing our country's energy story is hard work. How we extract and use energy is extraordinarily complex, interwoven into every person's life, and embedded in every aspect of ...
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Evaluating an On-Campus Farmers Market
- Berklee College of Music (MA)
You can change all the light bulbs that you want, but no one will notice except to complain about the fluorescents. On the other hand, a farmers market is a ...
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Interpreting Sustainability Initiatives: The "Greened" Aiken Center at the University of Vermont
- University of Vermont (VT)
The George D. Aiken Center, at the University of Vermont, houses the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. The Aiken Center reopened for the 2012 spring semester after undergoing ...
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The Eco-Reps' Sister Organization: Including Social Justice Peer Educators on Your Campus
- University of Arizona (AZ)
Research shows peer education is one of the most effective ways to reach students today. Many campuses host an Eco-Rep program, often as paid positions. These programs tend to focus ...
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A Guide to Getting Your Hands Dirty: How Campus Green Spaces Promote Real World Problem Solving
- Western Michigan University (MI)
Green spaces on campus create opportunities for direct, participatory, interdisciplinary learning. They can include student gardens, campus garden-boxes, native landscape installations, greenhouses and even indoor displays. A number of student-led ...
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