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Drivers for Sustainability Awareness Development in Tourism Curricula: The Case of Spanish Universities
- Universidad de Extremadura
Spain is one of the most popular tourism destinations in the world, and one of the top ten countries in terms of tourism contribution to its economy. As tourism is ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Education for Sustainable Development in Spanish University Education Degrees
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
- University of Cadiz
- Universidad Pablo de Olavide
This work presents an analysis of student perception of Spanish university education degrees regarding their training in sustainable development. A sample of 942 students was used. The methodology consists of ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Proposal for sustainability action archetypes for higher education institutions
- University of Campinas
Higher education institutions (HEIs) should assume their role as leaders in the search for a sustainable future. Consequently, such institutions need to incorporate sustainability into their activities. However, this needs ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Stimulating boundary crossing learning in a multi-stakeholder learning environment for sustainable development
- Wageningen University
Sustainable development requires multiple stakeholders to work and learn across practices, in other words, it requires boundary crossing competence. To prepare students for their future sustainability professions, higher education should ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Perceived factors affecting student-teachers’ learning about social urban sustainability
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Kentriki Makedonia)
- University of Western Macedonia
The present study aims to explore the perceived factors affecting student-teachers’ (STs) learning about social urban sustainability. Participants were 63 STs enrolled in a Department of Primary Education located in ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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INSTITUTIONAL ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS – CASE STUDY OF BANGALORE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, SOUTH INDIA
- Bangalore University (Karnataka)
The purpose of doing Ecological Footprint analysis for any University is to understand and have a clear view of the Institution's Ecological impact and sustainability practices. To make staff ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Investigating undergraduate student learning experiences using the good practice learning and teaching for sustainability education (GPLTSE) framework
- RMIT University
Sustainability curriculum in higher education is a crucial lever for building capabilities and knowledge for graduates to address the interconnected social, ecological and economic challenges of the 21st century in ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Junkyard Planet: Using Stories to Teach Managerial Accounting with a Sustainability Theme
- University of St. Thomas (MN)
The purpose of this article is to share my experience teaching managerial accounting as a sustainability-themed course using stories. Theme-based learning suggests a relatable theme can make course content more ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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A Discussion About Environmental Justice in Vermont
- University of Vermont (VT)
Project Green Schools was delighted to host A Discussion About Environmental Justice in Vermont in partnership with Vermont House Speaker, Conor Kennedy, Shelburne Farms, VT FEED, Hunger Free Vermont, VEEP ...
- Posted May 9, 2022
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Education for Sustainable Development – A University’s Contribution
- University of Bern
What is Education for Sustainable Development? And how can it be integrated into university teaching? This video shows some of the paths lecturers can take to discover how their own ...
- Posted May 5, 2022
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CLIMATE CRISIS ANTHEM Music Video
- AASHE (MA)
The CLIMATE CRISIS ANTHEM is a visually and musically engaging 6:20 minute video that portrays the dire situation we all face in the current environmental breakdown.
Musical styles range ...
- Posted May 4, 2022
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Earth Day Student Sustainability Showcase
- Sierra Nevada College (NV)
This photo shares a scene from the Sierra Nevada University Earth Day celebration held on 4/20/22 on the Incline Village campus in Lake Tahoe, NV. The day started ...
- Posted April 28, 2022
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Summer REU in Urban Ecology and the Environment
- City University of New York, Baruch College (NY)
- The City University of New York (NY)
- City University of New York, Brooklyn College (NY)
The Brooklyn Urban Ecology and Environment Program (BUEE) is a NSF-sponsored Research Experiences for Undergraduates hosted at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. BUEE supports the training ...
- Posted Feb. 7, 2022
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Understanding Diverse Student Participation in Campus Sustainability Programs
- University of Georgia (GA)
Nationwide a lack of diversity in sustainability roles and initiatives is well documented. Many attribute this lack of diversity to the limited representation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Strengthening Sustainability Programs and Curricula at the Undergraduate and Graduate Levels
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
- University of Michigan (MI)
- The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (DC)
Sustainability education is crucial to address urgent environmental, economic, and societal challenges. The number of undergraduate and graduate degree programs, research institutes, and centers focused on sustainability has markedly increased ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Demystifying that Six Syllable Word: Designing an Effective Intro to Sustainability
- University of Richmond (VA)
With so many different definitions of sustainability on a university campus, it can be difficult to find people who share a common understanding of that tricky six syllable word. For ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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The Process of Developing a Sustainability Certificate Program
- University of North Carolina, Asheville (NC)
This talk will cover the three-year process of developing and launching an interdisciplinary Sustainability Certificate at the University of North Carolina Asheville. The multi-step process included developing campus support (with ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Increasing Access to Sustainability Education Through Online Programs
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
Education has long been seen as crucial to supporting the needed sustainability transitions. Yet if these sustainability transitions are going to be just and inclusive than so must the education ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Carbon neutrality should not be the end goal: Lessons for institutional climate action from U.S. higher education
- Hamilton College-Clinton.NY (NY)
- Smith College (MA)
- Ceres (MA)
Climate action pledges have increasingly taken the form of commitments to net carbon neutrality. Higher education institutions (HEIs) are uniquely positioned to innovate in this area, and over 800 United ...
- Posted Oct. 6, 2021
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Zero waste policy evaluation of college campus. A case study of University of Florida.
- University of Florida (FL)
Waste generation and disposal of that waste is as big of an issue as climate change. Different factors come into play in developed and developing world. In developing countries litter ...
- Posted Oct. 6, 2021
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Pedagogies for sustainability: insights from a foundational sustainability course in the built environment
- RMIT University
Abstract Purpose This paper aims to draw on an in-depth qualitative case study of an undergraduate sustainability education course to show the extent of pedagogical reflection and teaching capability demonstrated ...
- Posted Oct. 6, 2021
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Zero waste policy evaluation of college campus. A case study of University of Florida
- University of Florida (FL)
Waste generation and disposal of that waste is as big of an issue as climate change. Different factors come into play in developed and developing world. In developing countries litter ...
- Posted Sept. 23, 2021
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Principia College students routinely participate in multidisciplinary internships that challenge them to develop solutions to complex problems, such as modern climate change.
- Principia College (IL)
Abby Holt (in the red shirt), a double major in sustainability and geology at Principia College, has a passion for glaciology and the nexus between historically frozen landscapes and a ...
- Posted Sept. 8, 2021
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Principia College students routinely participate in multidisciplinary internships that challenge them to develop solutions to complex problems, such as biodiversity loss.
- Principia College (IL)
Truett Sparkman, an environmental studies major with a minor in sustainability at Principia College, has a passion for the management and conservation of complex ecosystems threatened by inadequate policy regimes ...
- Posted Sept. 8, 2021
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Minor in Sustainability
- Queens University of Charlotte (NC)
Requirements for a Minor in Sustainability Note: This minor is not available to Environmental Science majors.
Required Courses: Introduction to Geospatial Sciences
Environmental Economics
Sustainability and Society
Environmental Sustainability
Legal ...
- Posted Aug. 23, 2021
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Sustainability Science BS
- Queens University of Charlotte (NC)
Sustainability science studens will learn in small class sizes and conduct independent research with award-winning faculty. We are dedicated to active learning and field based instruction.
Research Students will be ...
- Posted Aug. 23, 2021
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L'Anse Community Solar Project
- Michigan Technological University (MI)
L'Anse Community Solar Project - A team of engineering researchers and students from Michigan Technological University worked with local and state partners to bring solar to the Community of L ...
- Posted Aug. 23, 2021
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M.S. in Environment and Sustainability Management
- Georgetown University (DC)
The Georgetown Master of Science in Environment and Sustainability Management (MS-ESM) is a jointly offered degree that blends scientific knowledge with business principles—a powerful combination that will enable you ...
- Posted Aug. 11, 2021
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How to Create a Culturally Inclusive Course and Beyond
- Duke University (NC)
Overview The goal of this document is to provide resources and ideas for creating a culturally inclusive learning environment. This is also referred to as “culturally sustaining pedagogy,” “diversifying the ...
- Posted July 15, 2021
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Affecting Sustainable Changes in the Individual Through Landscape Architecture: A Case Study of the University of Virginia
- University of Virginia (VA)
In the long trek towards creating a sustainable society, universities play one of the most significant roles. They serve as laboratories for defining what it means to be a sustainable ...
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Key experiences for the transdisciplinary approach: fieldwork-based training in sustainability science education
- University of Tokyo
- National University of Singapore
- University of the Free State
- International Christian University
This paper aims to describe how a sustainability-focused program in higher education can provide training and key experiences for implementing transdisciplinary approaches. The case is a fieldwork-based training course called ...
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Towards a common future: revising the evolution of university-based sustainability research literature
- University of Beira Interior
- University of Passo Fundo
- University of Campinas
- Hiroshima University
- Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
- Universidade Federal Fluminense
- University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz
- Bournemouth University (Dorset)
- University of Wroclaw/Uniwersytet Wrocławski (Wrocław)
- University of Minho
- Universidade federal de Santa Maria
- University of Belgrade
- University of the Aegean (Lesvos)
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
The field of sustainability has evolved considerably since the report “Our Common Future” was published in 1987. Whereas matters related to sustainable development used to be of marginal interest in ...
- Posted May 28, 2021
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BS Sustainability Studies
- University of California, Riverside (CA)
The Bachelor of Science in Sustainability Studies program at UC Riverside offers a social justice approach to environmental sustainability and climate change. This interdisciplinary degree program explores interactions between human ...
- Posted May 27, 2021
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CGHE 2020 Annual Conference webinar panel: Higher education and sustainability
- University of Bristol
- University College London (London)
- International Association of Universities
Higher education institutions both impact and are impacted by global climate change and the environment. In this conference hosted by the Centre for Global Higher Education, a panel of professors ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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The Living Building at Nuthatch Hollow | Binghamton University
- Binghamton University (NY)
Binghamton University's Nuthatch Hollow is a hidden oasis just a short distance from campus. Professors Pam Mischen and Carl Lipo explain how this 75-acre property is ideal for the ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Prairie Grass Restoration Project
- Grinnell College (IA)
- Re:wild Your Campus (TX)
Located in central Iowa, Grinnell College, once a prairie itself, is now indistinguishable from any other college, its land covered in swaths of fresh cut, herbicide-coated sprawling green lawns. In ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Global Innovation Challenge (WMGIC)
- College of William & Mary (VA)
WMGIC is the premier intercollegiate hack-a-thon style international and sustainable development case competition aimed at encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration to create innovative solutions to current global issues.
- Posted May 26, 2021
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New Ways to Love Trees
- Hope College (MI)
As urbanization rapidly replaces natural forest cover, urban forests are becoming increasingly important because of the ecosystem services they provide. Through the development of the TreeSap app and corresponding educational ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Virtual Energy Treasure Hunt Event
- Suffolk County Community College (NY)
In April 2021, Suffolk County Community College hosted our first US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Treasure Hunt Event. The DOE describes the Treasure Hunt as “One of the best ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Auraria Campus Sustainable Development Handbook
- Auraria Higher Education Center (CO)
Auraria Campus Sustainable Development Handbook Maintenance, Design, & Construction Guidelines for Campus Operations & Planning
The Sustainable Development Handbook for Auraria Campus synthesizes the existing sustainability goals of Auraria Campus ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Equity, Diversity, Justice, Inclusion Task Force, Catawba College
- Catawba College (NC)
The Equity, Diversity, Justice, and Inclusion (EDJI) Task Force at Catawba College aims to build a campus community where all members thrive by working to cultivate critical conversations and practices ...
- Posted May 25, 2021
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What's in Your Paper? Organizational Fiber Consumption and the Purchasing Decisions that Drive it
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Institutions of higher education (HEI) today often pursue sustainability in a holistic manner, integrating sustainability into their day to day operations as well as their long-term strategic plans. One challenge ...
- Posted May 25, 2021
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Cascadia Cornucopia Food Forest as a prototype for food permaculture areas on campuses
- Cascadia College (WA)
The Cascadia Food Forest is an example of an integrated learning project at Cascadia College. It was designed to facilitate learning opportunities outside the classroom. The food forest is a ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Climate Action Plan Sustainability Ambassador Course
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
The Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) ambassador course was piloted in the spring 2021 semester as an opportunity for students to have a direct role in assessing and recommending building-level ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Central Sustainability
- Central Michigan University (MI)
Prior to 2020, Central Michigan University (CMU) lacked an Office of Sustainability, or any structures which ensured the pursuit of sustainability initiatives on campus and in the community. Two student ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Glass Recycling at a Rural Georgia College Campus
- Georgia College & State University (GA)
Glass has quickly become a hard to recycle material in many places in the U.S. and around the world. This is especially true for geographically rural areas with an ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Glass Recycling at a Rural Georgia College Campus
- Georgia College & State University (GA)
Glass has quickly become a hard to recycle material in many places in the U.S. and around the world. This is especially true for geographically rural areas with an ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design – A Certified Living Building
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
In September 2015, the Georgia Tech Institute of Technology received a commitment for $30 million from The Kendeda Fund to building what the partners expected to become the most environmentally ...
- Posted May 18, 2021
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Project Reach, Reclaim, Revive
- Seneca Polytechnic (ON)
Guided by academic advisors and business experts, student leaders of Enactus Canada create and implement community empowerment projects and business ventures in their communities. This experiential learning platform helps students ...
- Posted May 18, 2021
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The Futility and Fatality of Incremental Action: Motivations and Barriers among Undergraduates for Environmental Action that Matters
- Ithaca College (NY)
Monty Hempel was deeply engaged with the impact of sustainability education on student values and behavior. An important question that he posed was How can sustainability education provide a sound ...
- Posted May 10, 2021
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