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Environmental & Land Use Law Certification
- University of Virginia (VA)
One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is to foster sustainable communities and ensure the environment's long-term health. Meeting this challenge requires land use and environmental policies grounded …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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From Controversy to Collaboration: Case Studies for Environmental Community Engagement
- University of Connecticut (CT)
Campus sustainability professionals are well positioned to lead public engagement and environmental community relations efforts for their college or university. One obvious reason is that environmental impacts from the institution's …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Advocating for Sustainability
- University of Arizona (AZ)
During Fall 2015, the Sustainability Advocate program was instated in each of the Panhellenic sorority chapters with house facilities at the University of Arizona. The advocate's job is to educate …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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10 kW Ground Mount Array: Harvard Forest
- Harvard University (MA)
A renewable energy source was commissioned at Harvard Forest in 2007. Moss Hollow, LLC (Lunenburg, MA) completed installation of a 10KW solar array next to the new Facilities Barn. Support …
- Posted Oct. 19, 2011
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138 kW Roof Top Mount Global Change Institute Building
- University of Queensland (QLD)
The Global Change Institute (GCI) living building is UQ's flagship sustainability project, providing a focal point for the university’s initiative in sustainable education and research.
The GCI building has been …
- Posted Dec. 17, 2021
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Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
The mission of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS or the Center) is to research, develop, and advance sustainable food and agricultural systems that are environmentally sound, …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Campus-Wide Change: Turn Down for Watt
- Northern Michigan University (MI)
Northern Michigan University's EcoReps and Facilities Management hosted the first Turn Down the Lights campaign during Sustainability Week in March 2018. During this week, corridor lights were turned off in …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Making a difference by marking the difference: constituting in-between spaces for sustainability learning
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Transdisciplinarity as a mode of addressing sustainability challenges was a guiding principle in establishing Germany's first Faculty of Sustainability at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in 2010. The different study programs …
- Posted June 8, 2016
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The university's role in sustainable development: Activating entrepreneurial scholars as agents of change
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Inholland University of Applied Sciences
- LM Thapar School of Management
The role of (entrepreneurial) universities as change agents in regional economic development has been highlighted previously, but how they can drive regional sustainable development in developing countries has been largely …
- Posted April 5, 2019
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Campus Master Plan
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
The UW- Madison's Campus Master Plan interweaves conservation, preservation, and sustainability through major transportation, landscape, green infrastructure, and other institution initiatives.
- Posted Oct. 28, 2022
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Pittsburgh Climate Initiative In Review
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
The Pittsburgh Climate Initiative (PCI) is a collaborative effort designed to lead Pittsburgh's residents, businesses, government, and institutions of higher learning in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The Pittsburgh …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Ralphies Green Stampede: Innovative Zero Waste Events at CU-Boulder
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
In 2008, Folsom Field became the first major sports stadium in the nation, professional or collegiate, to collect all materials in recycling or compost containers, eliminate trash cans and transform …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Engaging Housekeeping Staff for Zero Waste Success
- The Ohio State University (OH)
Contamination of single-stream recycling is one of the most significant obstacles to waste diversion. While campus culture promotes recycling, users do not reliably recycle correctly. The result is a contaminated …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Beyond problem solving: Engineering and the public good in the 21st century
- University of Sydney (NSW)
Problem solving is upheld as a defining feature of engineering identity, and the ability to solve problems is built into engineering curricula as a learning outcome and a graduate attribute. …
- Posted Aug. 1, 2016
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University of Delaware Energy Institute
- University of Delaware (DE)
The overall mission of the University of Delaware Energy Institute is to marshal and expand the University's science, engineering, and public policy expertise in new and emerging energy technologies and, …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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How university students assess the planetary boundaries: A global empirical study
- Technical University of Dortmund
- Goethe University Frankfurt
In order to effectively address global environmental problems, it is important that future decision-makers in society are aware of the safe operation space for humans, which is limited by the …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Theory is Cheap. Practice is Hard: Bringing Sustainability to First-Year Composition Curricula
- Texas A&M University-Texarkana (TX)
This session explores the ways that sustainability compels a radical rethinking of first-year composition (FYC) pedagogy. Building on Inoue's (2014) rethinking of labor and assessment in the FYC class, Morton's …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Well-Being and Higher Education: A Strategy for Change and the Realization of Education's Greater Purposes
- Association of American Colleges and Universities (DC)
The newest release from Bringing Theory to Practice, Well-Being and Higher Education, explores the multiple connections of well-being to higher education and why those connections matter—for the individual lives of …
- Posted Oct. 6, 2016
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Serving Sustainability to Sun Devils: ASU's Award for Ecologically Healthy Food Services
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Serving Sustainability to Sun Devils is Arizona State University's award program for ecologically healthy food services. The mission of Serving Sustainability to Sun Devils is to provide a comprehensive mechanism …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Green Gurus Unite! Discussing the Promise and Perils of Becoming Your School's Moral Compass
- University of Louisville (KY)
- Aramark (PA)
We were flooded with requests to set something up to continue the conversation at the conclusion of our lively, well-attended 30-minute 'High Priests of Sustainability?!' presentation at AASHE 2017. This …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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STARS and GRI: Finding the Common Ground
- Ball State University (IN)
This paper describes a comparative examination of these respective Sustainability Reporting Guidelines and makes clear the value in using both reporting tools as universities seek to position their sustainability efforts …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Mitigating Air Travel Emissions: Measuring, Pricing and Collaboration
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Duke University (NC)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Presenters will discuss their approaches to tracking airline miles, estimating emissions, and counter-acting these emissions. Carbon neutral air travel requires data availability to accurately estimate emissions, but perhaps a larger …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Bentley Arena
- Bentley University (MA)
Bentley Arena, the nation's first LEED Platinum certified standalone ice arena.
- Posted Sept. 8, 2021
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Aramark Supporting Arizona State University's Commitment to Zero Waste through Operations and Educational Outreach
- Aramark (PA)
Monitoring the waste stream by minimizing our environmental footprint by reducing, reusing, and recycling waste. Supporting closed loop waste management processes and committing to innovative practices to reach an absolute …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Bull's Cycle Challenge
- University of South Florida St. Petersburg (FL)
- University of South Florida (FL)
April is here and it is time to enjoy the amazing Florida weather on a BIKE!!
The Office of sustainability, Student Government and The Student Green Energy Fund (SGEF), at …
- Posted April 21, 2021
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Stronger Together - Aligning Milwaukee's Institutions and Civic Agencies for Large-Scale Renewables
- Marquette University (WI)
- Milwaukee Area Technical College (WI)
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)
Urban land use, regulated utility markets, and up-front financing play into the challenges for renewable energy in Milwaukee, WI, as it does for many institutions across the country. On-site installations …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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MS in Environmental Studies
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
The Graduate Program in Environmental Science (GPES) offers MS, M. P. S., and PhD degrees. GPES was created in the early 1970's as a unique response to the emerging institutional …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Integrating Sustainability Into Management Education: A Dean's Perspective
- Michigan Technological University (MI)
The integration of sustainability and environmental ethics into management education has improved in the past decade. This is partly a response to external pressure, as societal concerns about sustainability grow …
- Posted Sept. 20, 2017
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Who's Afraid of Goods & Services? Prioritization in a Vast Scope 3 Category
- Yale University (CT)
Has your institution struggled with choosing which categories within “Purchased Goods and Services” and “Capital Goods” to focus your efforts on? This session aims to help you assess this, not …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Cornell University Moves Beyond Coal
- Cornell University (NY)
One of the biggest roadblocks on the climate neutrality pathway is coal. Approximately 50% of our nation's electricity comes from coal. In 2008, 13,000 tons of coal was associated with …
- Posted June 29, 2010
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International MA Program in Environmental Studies at The Porter School, Tel Aviv University
- Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv District)
The Porter School’s M.A. Program in Environmental Studies at Tel Aviv University provides students with an intensive multidisciplinary exploration of environmental studies with an emphasis on Israel's unique geographic and …
- Posted June 20, 2016
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20-year Sustainability Strategy for the University of British Columbia - Vancouver Campus
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
Can we move our understanding of sustainability and current practices beyond just damage limitation, to identifying ways in which human behaviour can be inherently positive, leading to simultaneous improvements in …
- Posted June 11, 2015
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Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Ocean Research
- Columbia University (NY)
The World Surf League is investing $1.5 million in first-year funding for ocean science at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory as part of an innovative new philanthropy called WSL PURE. …
- Posted Sept. 12, 2016
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Combining best practices framework with benchmarking to advance principles for responsible management education (PRME) performance
- University of Calgary (AB)
Higher education institutions play a critical role in shaping a more sustainable world. There is limited research on ‘how’ business schools can effectively take the UN PRME's Sharing Information Progress …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Transferrable Student-Led Procurement Research: Partnering with Office Depot to Create Change at Willamette University
- Willamette University (OR)
- Office Depot, Inc. (TX)
The presenters discuss a student-led research project at Willamette University, transferrable to other universities buying supplies from Office Depot or similarly large suppliers that likely provide comprehensive data on institutional …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Soil Erosion Service Project
- Oregon State University-Cascades Campus (OR)
Students, staff, and faculty at the OSU-Cascades participated in an erosion control service project lead by OSU-Cascades Sustainability Program on a construction site on Oregon State University's campus in Bend, …
- Posted April 29, 2021
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Alternative Energy Initiatives
- University of Idaho (ID)
This $1.75 per full time student, per semester fee provides funding to innovative student-led campus projects relating to alternative energy and green infrastructure to further the university's goal of carbon …
- Posted Aug. 15, 2022
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McGill Celebrates its STARS Platinum Rating
- McGill University (QC)
The McCall MacBain Arts building lit in green in order to celebrate McGill University's achievement of a Platinum STARS rating in March 2024. Thanks to the efforts of the McGill …
- Posted July 23, 2024
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JMU Virginia Pollinator-Smart Certification
- James Madison University (VA)
James Madison University became the first university to earn the Virginia Pollinator-Smart Certification, a program that promotes pollinator-friendly solar energy developments throughout Virginia. The university's East Campus Hillside features the …
- Posted Aug. 19, 2024
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The Physical and Behavioral Impacts of Campus Transportation Amenities
- University of Georgia (GA)
- Yale University (CT)
- Nelson/Nygaard (CA)
This panel discussion explores the kind of transportation services that best meet students' transportation needs. Their expectations around transportation are being shaped by what they experience on their campuses and …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Student Approved Projects on Campus: What Could Go Wrong and What Could Go Right?
- Western Michigan University (MI)
Like many universities, Western Michigan University has instituted a grant to fund student-led sustainable change on campus. What sets Western Michigan University apart, however, is that the allocations of these …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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GeoX - Lowering carbon through ground source heat pump technology at Colorado State
- Colorado State University (CO)
Colorado State University, in Fort Collins, CO has undertaken its first project to employ geothermal energy, also called ground source heat pump or geoexchange system. This CSU project, dubbed GeoX, …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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We Conserve: A Campus Wide Campaign
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
The University of Wisconsin - Madison initiated the aggressive We Conserve program in 2006 to further strengthen its environmental stewardship practices and to promote education and motivation to the community …
- Posted July 8, 2012
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Sustainability Dashboards: From Hopes & Dreams to Reality & Maintenance
- University of Pittsburgh (PA)
- University of Oregon (OR)
University-wide Sustainability Dashboards can emphasize and juxtapose the various aspects of sustainability, while increasing institutional transparency. Organizing and presenting institutional performance data helps quantify universities' progress as sustainability leaders while …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Additional Benefits to Sustainability in Higher Education? The Effect of the American College and University President's Climate Commitment on Undergraduate Admissions Outcomes
- Colgate University (NY)
Hart assesses the possible impact that signing a campus climate commitment, specifically the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), has on college attractiveness, which is measured in terms …
- Posted Jan. 12, 2021
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Diversity@Emory - The Path to Emory University's Diversity Web Portal
- Emory University (GA)
To establish Emory University's first diversity web portal --diversity.emory.edu
- Posted July 1, 2012
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Sustainability in an Urban Campus Setting: UMass Lowell's Transformative, Leadership Driven, and Results Oriented Approach
- University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)
The classic story of the campus sustainability program is a student-driven grassroots organization forming the culture, aiding in program implementation and ultimately gaining the support of the entire institution. UMass …
- Posted June 11, 2015
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Environmental Science and Policy (BS)
- Clarkson University (NY)
In the environmental science and policy undergraduate bachelor's degree program, students will gain insight into most aspects of the human world, from science to technology, and the environment with hands-on …
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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