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2020 Sustainable Campus Index
- AASHE (MA)
The 2020 Sustainable Campus Index (SCI) recognizes top-performing colleges and universities overall by institution type and in 17 sustainability impact areas, as measured by the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating …
- Posted Aug. 7, 2021
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Archiving the Campus as Living Laboratory : Preserving a long memory for transformative change
- University of Utah (UT)
This is part of the Campus as Lab webinar series. To see the full series visit our YouTube Channel.
Sustainable change on campus is often driven by student-led projects, project-oriented …
- Posted July 26, 2021
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Creating or Improving Green Office and Lab Certification Programs: Best Practices
- AASHE (MA)
- California State University, Stanislaus (CA)
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
If your institution is considering creating a Green Office Certification Program (GOCP) or improving an existing one, you have company. In 2019, several universities and colleges were in the same …
- Posted July 22, 2021
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43.8 kW Roof Top Mounts Multiple Locations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
Three rooftop solar installations on campus totaling 43.8 kw at the Frank Porter Graham Student Union, Bell Tower Parking Deck, and North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Education Center.
- Posted July 20, 2021
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45 MW PPA Exoplexus
- Macalester College (MN)
We purchase our renewable energy from a 45MW solar PV grid in Minnesota. It is owned by Ecoplexus and fed into Xcel Energy's portfolio.
- Posted July 20, 2021
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4.5 mW Carport Canopies
- California State University, Long Beach (CA)
The rows of high-reaching solar panels will provide 4.5 megawatts and supply one-third of the campus’ energy demands during peak periods. The new system also will add 44 electric vehicle …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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2 mW PPA: Off-Site Solar Farm
- Clark University (MA)
2 mW, 9 acre solar farm off-site in Charleton MA for which Clark receives the exclusive alternative PPA credits.
Through a state and federally supported program to encourage the development …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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42 kW Alpine Garage and Field
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs (CO)
There is a 42kW system on the Alpine Garage and Field. UCCS retains 17/42 of the attributes.
- Posted July 15, 2021
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182 kW Gallogly Events Center
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs (CO)
As of 10/3/2017, the University’s largest, on-site solar system was installed on Gallogly Events Center. It is a 182 kW photovoltaic system and it allows the Gallogly Events Center to …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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6.5 kW: Facilities Management Building
- California State University, Sacramento (CA)
Sac State installed a Photovoltaic (PV) system with a new car port located behind the Facilities Management building during the 2001-02 time frame. The car port is 108 Ft. long …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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614 kW Solar Arrays - 4 Installations
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
Georgia Tech is a large user of power but we reduce the associated impacts by incorporating solar energy into many of our buildings. In total there are over 4,000 solar …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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120 kW: Ivy Stacks Building
- University of Virginia (VA)
The UVA-owned Ivy Stacks solar array was designed and installed by Sun Tribe Solar and aims to support the University’s sustainability and carbon-reduction goals.
The solar array came online in …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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364 kW: Ruffner Hall and the Bookstore to Dominion Power
- University of Virginia (VA)
The university says the solar panel systems – one atop Ruffner Hall and the other at the University Bookstore – consist of 1,589 solar panels, each one about 3 by …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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126 kW: Clemmons Library Roof Installation
- University of Virginia (VA)
In 2017 a 126 kW solar PV array was installed on the roof of Clemmons Library.
- Posted July 15, 2021
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15 kW: Skipwith Hall
- University of Virginia (VA)
In 2016, a 15 kW solar PV array was installed on Skipwith Hall.
- Posted July 15, 2021
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3 MW Power Purchase
- Dickinson College (PA)
Dickinson's Solar Field is a 3-MW solar facility constructed on Dickinson property. Dickinson purchases electricity from the solar field through a power purchasing agreement with Tesla.
- Posted July 15, 2021
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11 kW Array Cassat-James Residence Hall
- Carleton College (MN)
A 10.6 kW solar photovoltaic (PV) panel array was installed on the Cassat-James roof as part of this residence hall construction project in 2009. Electricity production averages 10 MWh per …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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5 MW Solar Farm Installations
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges (NY)
The 5-MW solar project consists of two solar arrays, each providing 2.5 MW of clean energy. Construction on the project began in 2016 with the first array (Route 14 in …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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515 kW Installations - Tutt Library
- Colorado College (CO)
The library includes a geothermal energy field on Armstrong Quad, consisting of 80 wells, a 115-kilowatt rooftop solar array; a 400-kilowatt offsite solar array; a green roof-top garden; and a …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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35 kW Ground Installation - Baca Campus
- Colorado College (CO)
A 35 kw solar array was installed at CC's Baca campus through work done by NSO Priddy Trips in 2015. The array was funded by an allocation of $50,000 from …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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200 kW Power Purchase - CU Solar Farm
- Missouri State University (MO)
While sunshine itself is free, the equipment to turn it into a usable source of power is not. The CU Solar Initiative provides customers the ability to more easily afford …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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48 kW Solar PV Array -- McCarthy Gymnasium / FDC
- University of St. Thomas (MN)
The McCarthy Gym array is part of the microgrid research facility and it is currently operating in "island mode."stss
- Posted July 15, 2021
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14 kW Installation at SW1 Gateway
- British Columbia Institute of Technology (BC)
The Gateway building is a three storey 5,280-square-metre structure on the Burnaby campus. The building, which officially opened in November 2011, is a LEED Gold project, featuring numerous energy efficient …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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250 kW Solar Installation at Energy OASIS
- British Columbia Institute of Technology (BC)
The Energy OASIS facility is comprised of: a 250 kW solar photovoltaic (PV) parking canopy paired with a 500 kWhr lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS); two DC Fast Charge …
- Posted July 15, 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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UW Sustainability Action Plan
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
The Sustainability Action Plan is built on five Guiding Principles addressing student learning outcomes, research impact, diversity equity & inclusion, responsible use of our resources, and of course, decarbonization of …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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Lehigh, Lafayette, Muhlenberg and Dickinson Join Forces for Unprecedented Renewable Energy Project
- Coho Climate Advisors (MD)
- Dickinson College (PA)
- Lafayette College (PA)
- Lehigh University (PA)
- Muhlenberg College (PA)
In February 2020, Lehigh University, Lafayette College, Muhlenberg College and Dickinson College announced a partnership to purchase renewable energy as a collective. Together, the four schools will purchase the largest …
- Posted July 15, 2021
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Campus as Lab Webinar Series - 2021-5-14 - Archiving Campus Sustainability Efforts
- University of Utah (UT)
This Campus as Lab webinar focuses on the University of Utah's efforts to create a campus wide hyper-local archive for sustainability knowledge that is available to all campus and community …
- Posted July 14, 2021
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Working with Vulnerable Communities on Climate Action through Nonformal Higher Education and Peacebuilding
- M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence (NY)
- Salisbury University (MD)
- University of Cambridge
Nonformal higher education provides an avenue to bypass the rigidity of hierarchical structures and prescribed norms within formal education, which offers opportunities to assist marginalized communities with climate action through …
- Posted July 7, 2021
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Higher Education’s Crucial Role: Building a Sustainable and Circular Economy
- AASHE (MA)
- APPA: Leadership in Educational Facilities (VA)
- Association of College and University Housing Officers - International (OH)
- Barnard College (NY)
- Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association (IN)
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
- Rheaply, Inc (IL)
- Society for College and University Planning (MI)
- Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (MA)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
Join this webinar to learn how the circular economy* can help shape better procurement decisions and ways in which you manage your campus, facilities and supply of goods and services. …
- Posted July 1, 2021
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How Can Sustainability Education More Effectively Equip Students to Become Change Agents?
- AASHE (MA)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
Advancing sustainability, whether in one’s dorm, on a college campus, in a community, or at national and global levels, means enabling change, and educating change agents. Many sustainability competencies and …
- Posted June 11, 2021
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2020 Sustainable Career Panel Series: Corporate Sustainability
- Villanova University (PA)
This panel series highlights the amazing work Villanova alumni are doing to create a sustainable future for all of us. The Corporate Sustainability panel will feature: Alex Floyd the Senior …
- Posted June 10, 2021
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Villanova University 2020 Sustainable Career Panel Series: Under 30
- Villanova University (PA)
This panel series highlights the amazing work Villanova alumni are doing to create a sustainable future for all of us. The Under 30 panel features: Kevin Corbusier a Sustainability Project …
- Posted June 10, 2021
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Villanova University 2020 Sustainable Career Panel Series: Sustainable Innovation
- Villanova University (PA)
This panel series highlights the amazing work Villanova alumni are doing to create a sustainable future for all of us. The Sustainability Innovation Panel features: Michael Werner the Lead for …
- Posted June 10, 2021
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2020 Sustainable Career Panel Series: Public Service
- Villanova University (PA)
This panel series highlights the amazing work Villanova alumni are doing to create a sustainable future for all of us. The Public Service panel features: Mike Garland, Director of Environmental …
- Posted June 10, 2021
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Closing Keynote Speaker George Bandy: AASHE 2013
- Interface, Inc (GA)
George Bandy, VIce President for Sustainability at Interface provides closing remarks at the AASHE 2013 Conference in Nashville, TN.
- Posted June 4, 2021
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Food Choice and Waste in University Dining Commons—A Menus of Change University Research Collaborative Study
- Lebanon Valley College (PA)
- Rice University (TX)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of California, Davis (CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
The purpose of this multi-campus research was to investigate the relationships of food type and personal factors with food choice, consumption, and waste behaviors of college students at all-you-care-to-eat dining …
- Posted June 3, 2021
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Climate Friendly Cooling Pledge and New Regulations Affecting Universities: Opportunities and Implications
- AASHE (MA)
- Bard College (NY)
- Project Drawdown
- The Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (DC)
- Yale University (CT)
Action is needed now by college staff in facilities, EHS, sustainability, student life, business offices, auxiliary services, housing, dining, planning, and procurement. Changes within all these staff areas to manage …
- Posted June 3, 2021
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Embedding sacred ecology in sustainability solutions: The role of post-secondary environmental science programs
- Central European University
There is increasing attention to the potential contribution of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) to addressing an unprecedented crisis in social-ecological systems. Approaches to the bridging of scientific and indigenous knowledges …
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Designing a Regenerative Future: Higher Education as a Driver of Change
- OCAD University (ON)
Many Ontario colleges continue to educate students in the traditional mechanistic fashion of the linear economy. Graduates in search of a career are equipped to perpetuate the take-make-waste economic system …
- Posted May 28, 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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Environmental Justice Ethnography in the Classroom: Teaching Activism, Inspiring Involvement
- Allegheny College (PA)
- Rhode Island College (RI)
- San Francisco State University (CA)
- University of North Carolina, Wilmington (NC)
- University of South Florida (FL)
In this era of industry deregulation, gutting of environmental protections, and science denial, environmental justice applied anthropology is more important than ever. There is growing ethnographic research into the ways …
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Towards an equity competency model for sustainable food systems education programs
- American Museum of Natural History
- Columbia University (NY)
- Middlebury College (VT)
- Teachers College, Columbia University (NY)
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
- Tufts University (MA)
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
Addressing social inequities has been recognized as foundational to transforming food systems. Activists and scholars have critiqued food movements as lacking an orientation towards addressing issues of social justice. To …
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Discourse of ‘helping the poor’: rethinking global poverty and its pedagogical possibilities in higher education
- Xiamen University
As the global community strives for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly, the first goal of ‘ending poverty in all its forms everywhere’, university students’ learning experiences and understanding about …
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Increasing University Competitiveness through Assessment of Green Content in Curriculum and Eco-Labeling in Higher Education
- Educons University
- University of Novi Sad
Growing environmental problems and increasing requirements of green jobs force universities around the world not only to transform their curricula but also to enrich existing ones with contents related to …
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Teaching the “how” of transformation
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Central Office (NJ)
- University of Oslo
College and university students are eager to engage with transformative solutions to the climate crisis, but often struggle to see openings or possibilities where they can leverage their actions and …
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Understanding the factors influencing recycling behavior in college students: the role of interpersonal altruism and environmental concern
- Ming Chuan University
- National Quemoy University
- National Taichung University of Science and Technology
The purpose of this study is to develop and empirically test a model that can predict factors affecting student recycling behavior. The theoretical model was based on motivation, place attachment, …
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Key experiences for the transdisciplinary approach: fieldwork-based training in sustainability science education
- International Christian University
- National University of Singapore
- University of the Free State
- University of Tokyo
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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Energy use and CO2 emissions in the UK universities: An extended Kaya identity analysis
- Australian National University
- Florida International University (FL)
- Kingston University London
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Universität Duisburg-Essen
We investigate the progress of the UK universities in greening their energy sources in line with the UK's goal of becoming a net-zero economy by 2050. Using the HESA estate …
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Signaling sustainability: impact that learning how to report has on enrollment, endowment and emissions of North American higher education institutions
- Connecting Environmental Professionals Ottawa
- Robert Morris University (PA) (PA)
The purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated model assessing the frequency and timing between reports on the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) …
- Posted May 28, 2021
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