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Earth Science Education as a Key Component of Education for Sustainability
- Universidade do Porto
- Weizmann Institute of Science
Environmental insight has emerged as a new scientific concept which incorporates the understanding that the Earth is made up of interworking subsystems and the acceptance that humans must act in …
- Posted April 8, 2021
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Online Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability at ASU
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The program explores the social and human aspects of sustainability in the context of real-world issues. Students will look at ways to solve challenges of sustainability related to the environment, …
- Posted June 21, 2016
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Going Global: Green Guide for Sustainability at Dalhousie, Africa, and beyond!
- Dalhousie University (NS)
The College of Sustainability at Dalhousie University is a new interfaculty unit responding to global concern regarding environmental, economic, and social issues and the achievement of sustainable prosperity. The first …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Environmental awareness raising through universities – city authorities’ cooperation
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This paper aims to the environmental awareness raising as a key issue of education for sustainable development. Youth Environmental Volunteers Movement in the area of coastal oil response operations …
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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The development of high leverage practices in environmental sustainability-focused service learning courses: applications for higher education
- University of Connecticut (CT)
- University of Maine (ME)
High Leverage Practices (HLPs), as a core set of teaching practices, represent important instructional priorities and provide instructional guidance for students’ engagement in practice-based instruction. The goals of this research …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Achieving SDGs and Engaging Higher Education Using EPA Tools
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides a suite of freely available, web-based tools that assist diverse audiences, including higher education institutions, in tackling local and regional environmental problems, building …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Environmental Policy and Decision Making major, BS in Environment and Natural Resources
- The Ohio State University (OH)
Environmental policy and decision making explores the protection of long-term natural resource use and environmental quality through changes in human behavior and policy. Students study the economic and social forces …
- Posted Feb. 3, 2020
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Environmental Policy Concentration (MS in Science, Technology, and Public Policy)
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
The MS degree in science, technology, and public policy enables students to work at the intersection of engineering, science, and public policy. The program builds on RIT’s strengths as a …
- Posted Jan. 25, 2019
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Environmental Impact and Cost Savings Data for Low Speed Electric Vehicles on College Campuses
- Polaris Industries (MN)
In this discussion we will review environmental and financial data from two separate universities that have reduced their carbon footprint and the cost of their campus fleet operations through the …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Is sustainability an exhausted concept? Bridging the gap from environmental awareness to emotional proficiency in science education through integral sustainability
- Universidad de Extremadura
Sustainability has recently become a common context for science teaching due to its potential in terms of learning the content and promoting such universal values as respect for human rights …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Sport Sustainability Leadership Certificate (online)
- Seattle University (WA)
The first of its kind in the world, the Certificate in Sport Sustainability Leadership addresses the global concern for increased environmental and ecological sustainability in the sport industry. We empower …
- Posted April 22, 2016
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Can we Feed the World Without Destroying It?
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment (IonE) offered an innovative new course on the global challenges of agriculture, taught by Director Jon Foley and IonE colleague, Barrett Colombo …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Carbon and Nitrogen 'Footprinting' 101: Tools for Sustainability Education, Advocacy, and Planning
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
It's well-established that calculating the campus carbon and nitrogen footprint provides important quantitative information to assess, track, and improve campus sustainability, yet the majority of colleges and universities across the …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Benefits of Campus Transit Pass: Study of Students' Willingness to Pay for Proposed Mandatory Transit Pass Programs
- Western Washington University (WA)
The problem of estimating the expected net benefits of an unlimited-access campus transit pass, which would also fund an increase in critically needed services, is an example of the problem …
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Pairing Sustainable Systems Major and Technical Assistance Program to Achieve Wins
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
This session discusses collaborations between a Sustainable Systems Management Major and a technical outreach program (Minnesota Technical Assistance Program -MnTAP) to provide opportunities for sustainability undergraduate students to gain experiential …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Sustainability: Economics and Management (BSBA)
- Xavier University (OH)
The Sustainability: Economics & Management BSBA will allow students to holistically investigate the complex sustainability challenges of our era, where the economy and the organizations associated with it are seen …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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How to run a sustainability science research group sustainably?
- University of Kassel
- University of Turku
- University of Hohenheim
Rigorous sustainability science includes addressing pressing real-world problems, weaving multiple knowledge systems, and striving for transformative change. However, these key attributes of sustainability science often conflict with university structures and …
- Posted April 23, 2021
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Curriculum in Action: Integrating Sustainability throughout the College Experience
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
Colleges and universities across the country wrestle with the issues of "Greening" their campuses, making social statements about sustainability, and informing their students about the fundamental scientific, social and economic …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Natural Resources Management (BS)
- Colorado State University (CO)
The goal of the natural resources management major is to provide students with a broad-based understanding of the interconnectedness of social, political, and ecological systems. This knowledge will enable students …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Climate Science MS
- George Mason University (VA)
The MS in Climate Science educates students to be climate professionals who can analyze and model advanced climate data. Students in the program learn to solve quantitative problems about atmospheric …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Learning while transforming: solution-oriented learning for urban sustainability in Phoenix, Arizona
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Conventional educational settings struggle with enabling students to acquire competence in collectively solving sustainability problems. Such competence is best conveyed in real-world learning settings. Solution-oriented sustainability learning (SOSL) programs create …
- Posted May 24, 2016
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Ingeniería Ambiental (Bachelors in Environmental Engineering)
- Universidad San Francisco de Quito - USFQ (Pichincha)
Ingeniería ambiental es una carrera que forma a profesionales capaces de aplicar principios científicos y diseñar soluciones de ingeniería para la prevención, evaluación y remediación de problemas de contaminación ambiental. …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2019
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Wood Science (MS, MPS)
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
Students with interest in Engineered Wood Products and Structures should have a strong background in integral calculus, statics, mechanics, and mechanical and physical properties of wood. The behavior of wood …
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Wood Science (PhD)
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
Students with interest in Engineered Wood Products and Structures should have a strong background in integral calculus, statics, mechanics, and mechanical and physical properties of wood. The behavior of wood …
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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The EcoRep Program at the University of South Carolina: How to Engage Students in On-Campus Environmental Activities
- University of South Carolina (SC)
This senior thesis focused on determining how much the undergraduate student population is aware about current environmental problems, their impression of them, and how they act accordingly. In addition, through …
- Posted June 8, 2016
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Engineering Sustainable Community Relationships
- Indiana University South Bend (IN)
What can engineering students offer sustainability? What will they gain from sustainability? Providing engineering students sustainability experience is a priceless investment. By learning to take a triple bottom line approach …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Building Relationships Between Sustainability Offices and Diversity Offices
- Williams College (MA)
Sustainability offices and diversity offices have a lot in common - both in our roles and in our subject matter. Both offices are change agents, frequently struggling against the same …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Financing Models of Campus Charging Infrastructures For Electric Vehicles
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
California is always a leader in mitigating and reducing its greenhouse gas emissions in coordination with our climate change mitigation policies as outlined in AB32. UC Berkeley, one of the …
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Higher education institutions as a driver of sustainable social development: Polish experience for Ukraine
- Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University (Poltavska Oblast)
The basis for sustainable and environmentally friendly development is gradually becoming aware of the importance of working more ethically and transparently and in a more humanistic way, as well as …
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Student-led environmental management system in Chiba University
- Chiba University
Purpose This paper aims to explain the student-led environmental management system (EMS) based on ISO14001 which Chiba University has continued for 15 years. It describes its structure “Chiba University Method”, …
- Posted May 11, 2020
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MS Coastal Marine and Wetland Studies
- Coastal Carolina University (SC)
The Master of Science degree program in Coastal Marine and Wetland Studies is taught and administered by College of Science faculty with expertise in the issues and problems facing coastal …
- Posted May 23, 2022
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Designing Sustainability Curricula to Foster a New and Diverse Generation of Leaders
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of Vermont (VT)
- Queen's University
Utilizing case studies of sustainability curricula at multiple universities, we will engage in a dialogue on how to educate a new generation of leaders on interdisciplinary sustainability thinking for a …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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We’re gonna get hydrated! Shrinking bottled water use (without a ban)
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
While students on some campuses work to ban (or to fight bans on) bottled water, positive partnerships at the University of Minnesota Duluth provided infrastructure, education, and social-norming around the …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Breaking into the Sustainability and Higher Education Profession
- Northwestern University (IL)
After speaking with numerous sustainability coordinators and directors, it has become clear that this emerging field brings in creative, hardworking, and versatile professionals from varying backgrounds. This is both exciting …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Drivers Behind Edible Food Recovery Programs at Institutions of Higher Education
- Messiah University (PA)
Of the blemishes on the American food system, food waste is one of those paradoxical issues that somehow exists in the midst of a well-documented environmental and food security crisis. …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Developing Curriculum Around the Triple Bottom Line
- Colorado State University (CO)
This presentation is to assist faculty in developing, or revising curriculum to fit within the framework of the Triple Bottom Line in regards to addressing topics of sustainability in their …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Creating Carbon Offsets: A New Alternative for Colleges and Universities?
- Whitman College (WA)
Mandatory and voluntary carbon offsets have been promoted as an important part of the solution to the climate crisis. They are touted for their economic and environmental efficiency as well …
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Collaborating for transformation: applying the Co-Laboratorio approach to bridge research, pedagogy and practice
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
Intractable issues such as poverty, environmental degradation and economic and social exclusions, as exemplified in the SDGs, are inherently systemic problems that require multi-actor collaborations. This paper presents the learnings …
- Posted May 4, 2021
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The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader
- Colorado State University (CO)
- Iowa State University (IA)
- Northeastern University (MA)
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- Salisbury University (MD)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
- McGill University (QC)
- University of British Columbia Okanagan (BC)
- National Geographic Society (DC)
- TREE Foundation (FL)
Solutions to our most pressing environmental problems demand the development and application of leadership skills that are not typically fostered in traditional academic programs: skills that advance new transdisciplinary approaches …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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MS in Sustainability Science
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
Sustainability science is a problem-based, solution-oriented framework for creating a resilient civilization. The framework combines technical sustainability with skills based in the social sciences and humanities to create effective change …
- Posted Jan. 25, 2018
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Stewardship Science: Connecting undergraduate-led sustainability research with community service
- University of St. Thomas (MN)
Growing environmental challenges make sustainability science training a pressing educational goal. Given the complexity and interdisciplinary nature of environmental problems, strategies are needed to recruit students with diverse skills to …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Are College Students Representatives for Future Generations?
- University of Virginia (VA)
The Brundtland Conference Definition of Sustainability: "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
Many …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Curriculum: Status Quo or Transformation?
- Ripon College (WI)
In the last several years, we have witnessed a growing number of sustainability undergraduate programs across the United States. Often stemming from the work of existing departments, these programs address …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Fighting Food Waste on College Campuses
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Aramark (PA)
BACKGROUND: An estimated 40% of food produced in the US goes uneaten, yet 1 in 8 Americans struggle with hunger. And that number may be even higher on college campuses, …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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E-waste recycling assessment at university campus: a strategy toward sustainability
- Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit (Nayarit)
Electronic waste is one of the main environmental problems caused by the consumption’s dynamics. E-waste disposal is concerning all the stakeholders, from policymakers to the end users. Hence, an assessment …
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Rethinking health professions’ education leadership: Developing ‘eco-ethical’ leaders for a more sustainable world and future
- Bond University (Queensland)
- Swansea University
In this commentary, we discuss health professions’ education (HPE) leadership in relation to planetary health emergencies, suggesting that an ‘eco-ethical leadership’ approach is highly relevant. Building on both traditional and …
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Left Behind: The Religious Right and the Environmental Equation
- Lane Community College (OR)
One long-time faith-based environmentalist declares, "Evangelicals can change at the drop of a hat…. They have no one to answer to other than the Bible. So if the Bible says …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Environmental Design (BA)
- University at Buffalo (NY)
We live in times in which our urban and built environments are undergoing unprecedented change. The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Environmental Design degree provides students with the skills to …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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‘Business as Usual’: Critical Management Studies and the Case of Environmental Sustainability Education
- University of Queensland (QLD)
- University of South Australia
The inclusion of sustainability and ethics teachings in management education for many seems a positive step forward for creating more environmentally just and ethically sound managers. However, the type of …
- Posted April 22, 2021
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Environmental Navigation Network: Developing a Peer Mentor Program in the Environmental Program at the University of Vermont
- University of Vermont (VT)
The acknowledgement of complex environmental problems and society’s work to address them during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, inspired higher education to respond by developing a high number of …
- Posted July 5, 2016
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