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Campus Decarbonization Masterclass Panel - Featuring Leah Bamberger, Dennis Carlberg, & Dano Weisbord
- Boston University (MA)
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- Northeastern University (MA)
- Tufts University (MA)
Panelists from 3 Boston-area institutions will swap stories and share lessons learned from their institution’s efforts to decarbonize and strengthen community resilience to climate change. This panel will feature ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Developing Climate Hope, Antidotes for Climate Anxiety
- Dartmouth College (NH)
In our line of work, we’re all familiar enough with climate anxiety and grief–it’s easy enough to despair amidst the daily slew of depressing headlines, after all ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Sustainability Point 0: We’re Getting Traction So What Does the Next Step Look Like?
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
For many universities, Sustainability 1.0, 2.0 and maybe 3.0 are behind us. We are starting to get traction, become main streamed, be elevated in the organizational structure ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Energy Immersions: multi-disciplinary trips exploring energy transitions, communities, and justice.
- Dartmouth College (NH)
A critical role of sustainability in higher education is to prepare the next generation of leaders to enact just transitions in food, transportation, health, industrial, and energy systems. Enacting system ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Dartmouth Sustainability Office Inclusivity & Diversity Action Plan
- Dartmouth College (NH)
The Dartmouth Sustainability Office challenges and empowers Dartmouth College and our students to solve the human and environmental problems presented by a rapidly changing planet. We do this via hands ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Best practices for teaching green invention: Interviews on design, engineering, and business education
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- Alula Consulting (MT)
This study investigated best practices in teaching environmental responsibility to inventors and innovators. Because successful invention includes engineering, design, and business, best practices in all three disciplines were investigated, as ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Growing Strong Leaders: A Collaborative Approach
- Dartmouth College (NH)
Sustainability problems are intersectional and multi-faceted. Solving these problems will require collaboration between stakeholders working in different sectors and communities, and using different strategies. Our approach to training changemakers and ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Strategies for Engaging Students in Meeting Operational Sustainability Goals
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- Middlebury College (VT)
Many colleges and universities either have or strive to develop sustainability plans or goals that are implementable, while still allowing them to achieve their educational mission. At Dartmouth College, Middlebury ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Educational Terroir: The Power of Place in Program Development
- Dartmouth College (NH)
The Dartmouth Sustainability Office has continually worked to pursue sustainability solutions that build upon the unique strengths and opportunities of our setting. Our programs increasingly draw upon the unique cultural ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Autodesk Sustainability Workshop
- Dartmouth College (NH)
Series of short videos on green product design and engineering. All videos are roughly 5 minutes or less, to be easy to drop into existing coursework. Suitable for engineering, design ...
- Posted Sept. 5, 2019
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Design for Cradle to Cradle certification
- Dartmouth College (NH)
Series of short videos on how to design products for Cradle to Cradle certification. useful for classes in design, mechanical engineering, chemistry, and/or business.
- Posted Sept. 5, 2019
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Tools for Design and Sustainability
- Dartmouth College (NH)
This is an online course on sustainable engineering and design. It includes curriculum, exercises / homeworks, and examples of student work on: - Life cycle assessment - Systems thinking (including Whole System Mapping ...
- Posted Sept. 5, 2019
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Green Revolving Fund
- Dartmouth College (NH)
Envisioned by a team of passionate students and implemented by Dartmouth sustainability and facilities staff, the $1M Green Revolving Fund launched in winter 2013. Green revolving funds finance energy efficiency ...
- Posted Feb. 7, 2019
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Resiliency in the Face of Global Change: Developing a Sustainability Program That Thrives
- Dartmouth College (NH)
In December 2017, China announced a waste importing ban that upended the global recycling markets. In January 2018, the U.S. imposed a 30% tariff on solar equipment manufactured abroad ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Campus Controversies: How Should Sustainability Offices Respond?
- Dartmouth College (NH)
Election results, sexual misconduct allegations, racist graffiti, controversial op-eds, poorly worded emails are resulting in cycles of anger, backlash, emotional release, exhaustion and division on many of our campuses. At ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Building student capacity to lead sustainability transitions in the food system through farm-based authentic research modules in sustainability sciences (FARMS)
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- Montana State University (MT)
Undergraduate courses provide valuable opportunities to train and empower students with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to advance society in more sustainable directions. This article emphasizes the value of bridging ...
- Posted May 14, 2018
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The High Touch Approach: Making Inclusivity and Social Sustainability Core to Mission
- Dartmouth College (NH)
A pressing issue facing university campuses is concern about social community. Dartmouth College and its peers is being held accountable for high-risk behavior and a lack of inclusivity. How can ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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EcoVate - Design Thinking for Sustainability in a Changing World
- Dartmouth College (NH)
Sustainability is about tackling old, resistant problems in new ways to develop solutions that work. Design thinking is a tool that can help us meet the challenge of tackling big ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Identifying alignment between common institutional priorities and sustainability objectives: one higher ed network's findings
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
- Princeton University (NJ)
- GreenerU (MA)
As higher education grapples with a shifting landscape of priorities for the 21st Century, common themes across institutions are emerging. Simultaneously, regional or peer-group sustainability networks continue to seek effective ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 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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Mobilizing the power of higher education to tackle the grand challenge of sustainability: Lessons from novel initiatives
- University of Arizona (AZ)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of Maine (ME)
Leaders from a half-dozen U.S. academic institutions with dedicated sustainability programs share five recommendations, distilled from their own experiences, for universities seeking to improve their ability to both create ...
- Posted May 1, 2016
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EcoVate: Design Thinking for Sustainability Challenges
- Dartmouth College (NH)
According to Forbes '...design thinking is a proven and repeatable problem-solving protocol that any business or profession can employ to achieve extraordinary results.' Design thinking is used in the field ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Flash Strategy Workshop: Moving From Reactive to Proactive in 60 Minutes
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- GreenerU (MA)
In our role as sustainability professionals, we serve as organizational change agents. At the same time, we have many “balls in the air” and we “wear many hats” in our ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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SCORE: A Sustainability Rapid Assessment Launchpad to AASHE STARS
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- Sustainable Measures, LLC (CT)
Dartmouth College used SCORE, a sustainability 'rapid assessment' tool, in conjunction with AASHE's STARS Pilot assessment tool to analyze the College's sustainability progress. SCORE, based on The Business ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Warm Data, Cool Earth or Unplug to Keep the Polar Bear Happy
- Dartmouth College (NH)
Faculty and students at Dartmouth College have created an animated real-time energy display system to encourage students to reduce electric use through behavior changes. What is unique about this system ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Center for Business & Society
- Dartmouth College (NH)
The Center for Business & Society at Tuck aims to prepare Tuck students for leadership in this increasingly complex, interconnected world. A connected world, shifting ideologies, and the changing role ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Environmental Studies (BA)
- Dartmouth College (NH)
This program contributes to the appreciation of the value of natural resources, to the understanding of environmental problems, and to the strong dependence of humanity on its surroundings. This program ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Minor in Environmental Science
- Dartmouth College (NH)
The Environmental Studies Program (ENVS) offers courses on a wide range of topics including environmental science, ecological economics, and international environmental issues, conservation of biodiversity, ecological agriculture, environmental justice/racism ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Non-Profit & Sustainabiliy Management Specialization (MBA)
- Dartmouth College (NH)
As part of Dartmouth's world renowned MBA program, students choose elective courses such as: Corporate Social Responsibility; Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector; Ethics in Action; Tuck Global Consultancy; and ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Guest Blogger: Nine Rules for a Successful Green Revolving Fund
- Dartmouth College (NH)
Students can be a powerful driving force for campus sustainability. However, student initiatives are often plagued by barriers including funding shortages, resistance to institutional change, and the perception that sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Guest Blogger: To Revolve or Not to Revolve?
- Dartmouth College (NH)
In the last few years, universities have emerged as a hotbed of investment in clean energy and efficiency (“cleantech”). An increasingly popular and innovative tactic for making these investments is ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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