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Assessing sustainability in higher education curricula: A critical reflection on validity issues
While curricular assessments can give insight as to the extent sustainability is integrated into higher education study programs, issues remain regarding how assessments are conducted. Previous research has identified and ...
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Greening Technical and Vocational Education and Training: A practical guide for institutions
- UNESCO
This Guide is designed to help leaders and practitioners of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in improving their understanding and implementation of education for sustainable development (ESD) using ...
- Posted Aug. 28, 2017
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Opportunity and Obligation: A Role for Outdoor Educators in the Sustainability Revolution
A primary educational challenge of the 21st century is to inspire students to become socially and ecologically conscientious citizens who are empowered, responsible members of the larger world. Outdoor educators ...
- Posted Aug. 18, 2017
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Impact of a Wilderness Orientation Program on College Student's Life Effectiveness
Wilderness based outdoor orientation programs have been offered at colleges and universities to incoming freshmen since the 1930s. Although these programs appear to impact students in a positive way (e ...
- Posted Aug. 18, 2017
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Tracking the Carbon Footprint of Outdoor Recreation Programs: A Case Study of Texas Tech University's Outdoor Pursuits Center
- Texas Tech University (TX)
Outdoor leaders are already sensitive to the ethics of immediate actions related to use and care of wilderness areas. Considering the impact of our activities on global climate, however, requires ...
- Posted Aug. 18, 2017
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Effects of a College Course About Food and Society on Students' Eating Behaviors
- Stanford University (CA)
This paper aims to examine whether an innovative educational course focused on societal-level issues related to food and food production (Food and Society) would promote healthful eating among college students.
- Posted Aug. 18, 2017
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Impact on Plate Waste of Switching from a Tray to a Trayless Delivery System in a University Dining Hall and Employee Response to the Switch
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
A potential strategy for decreasing food waste in foodservice operations is trayless dining. The objective of this 2010 study was to compare the impact of using a tray vs a ...
- Posted Aug. 18, 2017
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Positive Attitudes toward Organic, Local, and Sustainable Foods Are Associated with Higher Dietary Quality among Young Adults
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Scant evidence is available on the relationship between preferences for organic, local, sustainable, and nonprocessed foods (ie, alternative food production practices) and dietary quality. This cross-sectional study examined the characteristics ...
- Posted Aug. 18, 2017
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Paper Reduction at the University of Washington
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
- University of Washington, Bothell (WA)
- University of Washington, Tacoma (WA)
The University of Washington is committed to reducing paper consumption at the university and using paper made from recycled content when necessary. Learn more about why that's important with ...
- Posted Aug. 17, 2017
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Sustainability, Green IT and Education Strategies in the Twenty-first Century
- Curtin University
This work presents and discusses the latest approaches and strategies for implementing Sustainability and Green IT into higher education and business environments. Following the global financial crisis in 2007/2008 ...
- Posted Aug. 17, 2017
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Marine Debris & Plastic Source Reduction Toolkit for Colleges & Universities
- University of California, San Francisco (CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- University of California, San Diego (CA)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
EPA, the Product Stewardship Institute, and the University of California collaborated on this toolkit to help college campuses and other institutions cut their plastic waste and reduce marine debris and ...
- Posted Aug. 17, 2017
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Sustainability at Work: Finding Purpose and Profit in Your Career
- AASHE (MA)
- Engineers for a Sustainable World (CO)
This webinar provides career guidance for pursuing sustainability in every imaginable career. Using the SURF Framework that the presenter developed, and professional narratives from various sectors (agriculture, health, science & ...
- Posted Aug. 17, 2017
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Fix It Friday promotional flyer
- Illinois State University (IL)
- Posted Aug. 15, 2017
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Parks and Sustainability
- Kent State University - Stark (OH)
Picture of a student in Kent State University at Stark's Introduction to Watershed Studies. This course was created through a park and campus partnership.
- Posted Aug. 15, 2017
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Natural Herbicides Project
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- Engineers for a Sustainable World (CO)
First experiment (for Google Science Fair 2012). Weedy check (control plot in which no natural herbicides were applied) shown to left; treated areas shown to right.
- Posted Aug. 14, 2017
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Asian deals for UNSW solar technology
- UNSW Sydney (NSW)
This press release describes three new technology licensing agreements between and the University of New South Wales and solar cell manufacturers in Asia. The first, a $1.7million licensing agreement ...
- Posted Aug. 14, 2017
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UNL technology powers Nebraska solar panel startup
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
This press release describes an exclusive licensing agreement between University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Rare Earth Solar, a Nebraska solar panel manufacturer. The technology licensed by the University replaces the typical ...
- Posted Aug. 14, 2017
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Sustainability Practice and Education on University Campuses and Beyond
- University of Toledo (OH)
Campus activities for sustainable development are an effective way of learning and implementing sustainability in surrounding communities and industry. A college campus is an ideal place to practice and test ...
- Posted Aug. 14, 2017
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University Campus Solid Waste Management: Combining Life Cycle Assessment and Analytical Hierarchy Process
- University of Malaya
This volume provides a comprehensive method for optimizing solid waste management practices and procedures at college and university campuses through the use of cluster analysis to combine Life Cycle Assessment ...
- Posted Aug. 14, 2017
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Development and Validation of Green Eating Behaviors, Stage of Change, Decisional Balance, and Self-Efficacy Scales in College Students
- University of Rhode Island (RI)
Objective: To develop and validate an instrument to assess environmentally conscious eating (Green Eating [GE]) behavior (BEH) and GE Transtheoretical Model constructs including Stage of Change (SOC), Decisional Balance (DB ...
- Posted Aug. 4, 2017
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University Student Perceptions of Seasonal and Local Foods
This study examined how university students conceptualize “seasonal” and “local” in relation to food. Because starting college often represents the first time many people assume primary responsibility for their meals ...
- Posted Aug. 4, 2017
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Clean Energy Patent Growth Index - 2015 Year in Review
The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI) tracks the growth of patents in the clean energy sector from 2002 to the present. Among other things, it includes a ranking of ...
- Posted Aug. 3, 2017
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Greening the Heart of Postsecondary Education
- Royal Roads University (BC)
- AASHE (MA)
What does “greening the heart of education” look like at the postsecondary level? What are the big questions we must pose — and answer — if colleges and universities are to contribute ...
- Posted Aug. 3, 2017
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Sustainable Business Courseware
- Point B (WA)
AASHE has partnered with Sustainable Business Consulting to provide plug-and-play online sustainable business courseware to help members accelerate the integration of sustainability into their curriculum. The content is consistent with ...
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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Sustainable Business Certificate
- Point B (WA)
This program has been created to bring students the leading skills and tools for integrating sustainability into any organization - current or future. It is designed to prepare students for practical ...
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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Professional Science: Environmental Geographic Information Science
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
Often, environmental scientists can analyze and interpret environmental data while GIS scientists can manage and manipulate data. Unity College’s 100% online GIS degree, the Master’s in Professional Science ...
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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Talloires Declaration
- Tufts University (MA)
- Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (DC)
Composed in 1990 at an international conference in Talloires, France, the Talloires Declaration is the first official statement by university presidents, chancellors, and rectors of a commitment to environmental sustainability ...
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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An interdisciplinary approach to environmental and sustainability education: developing geography students’ understandings of sustainable development using poetry
- Anglia Ruskin University
Education for sustainable development (ESD) persists as an important concept within international policy and yet, despite considerable debate, there remains a lack of consensus as to a pedagogy for ESD ...
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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Key trends in IEA public energy technology research, development and demonstration (RD&D) budgets
This analysis of public funding for energy research, development and demonstration (RD&D) in member countries of the International Energy Agency shows that the share of energy RD&D budgets spent on ...
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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Modeling the Relationship Among Perceived Corporate Citizenship, Firms’ Attractiveness, and Career Success Expectation
Drawing on propositions from the signaling theory and expectancy theory, this study hypothesizes that the perceived corporate citizenship of job seekers positively affects a firm’s attractiveness and career success ...
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Corporate environmental responsibility, employer reputation and employee commitment: an empirical study in developed and emerging economies
Employer reputation is relevant not only to attract but also to retain qualified employees. While in the past financial incentives have been the most important instrument, corporate environmental responsibility (CER ...
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The contribution of corporate social responsibility to organizational commitment
This study investigates the relationship between organizational commitment and employee perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) within a model that draws on social identity theory. Specifically, we examine the impact ...
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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Corporate social responsibility and labor turnover
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)
This paper aims to estimate empirically the effect on the voluntary turnover (quit) rate of employees when a large public corporation already judged as an outstanding employer is also ranked ...
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Organizational Commitment in Manufacturing Employees: Relationships With Corporate Social Performance
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Despite the numerous forays into understanding the concept and consequences of Corporate Social Performance (CSP), very little is known about how CSP impacts employees. In response, this study examines the ...
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Is Employee Organizational Commitment Related to Firm Environmental Sustainability?
Organizational commitment refers to an individual’s identification and involvement with an organization. This paper examines the organizational commitment of employees toward firms with varying levels of environmental sustainability efforts ...
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Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
Corporate social responsibility has received an increasing amount of attention from practitioners and scholars alike in recent years. However, very little is known about whether or how corporate social responsibility ...
- Posted Aug. 1, 2017
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Modeling the relationship between perceived corporate citizenship and organizational commitment considering organizational trust as a moderator
This study proposes a research model based on social identity theory, which examines the moderating role of organizational trust on the relationship between corporate citizenship and organizational commitment. In the ...
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Understanding employees' responses to corporate social responsibility: mediating roles of overall justice and organisational identification
Prior research has suggested that corporate social responsibility (CSR) contributes to organisations' competitive advantage by influencing stakeholders' attitudes. While existing research indicates that CSR relates to some employee outcomes, the ...
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‘Employees response to corporate social responsibility: Exploring the role of employees’ collectivist orientation’
- KEDGE Business School (Bordeaux)
Since the extant literature largely ignores the conditions that moderate the impact of CSR on employees’ related outcomes, we examine the moderating effect of employees’ collectivist orientation on the relationship ...
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Perceptions of corporate social responsibility, organizational commitment and job satisfaction
This paper aims to, first, investigate the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR)’s various dimensions on organizational commitment and job satisfaction, and, second, to examine the moderating role of ...
- Posted July 28, 2017
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The effect of employee CSR attitudes on job satisfaction and organizational commitment: evidence from the Bangladeshi banking industry
This paper aims to investigate the relations between employee corporate social responsibility (CSR) attitudes on job satisfaction (JS) and organizational commitment (OC) in the context of Bangladeshi banks in the ...
- Posted July 28, 2017
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The influence of corporate social responsibility on employee satisfaction
The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and employee satisfaction. The study proposes and empirically tests two hypotheses: that CSR is positively ...
- Posted July 28, 2017
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Examining the effects of corporate social responsibility and ethical leadership on turnover intention
The purpose of this paper is to apply the self-concept theory and conservation of resources theory to develop a model that explains how both corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ethical ...
- Posted July 28, 2017
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Employable graduates for responsible employers
- Higher Education Academy (York)
This report explores links between sustainability and employability in the graduate job market in relation to higher education teaching and learning. This was achieved in two ways - firstly, by researching ...
- Posted July 28, 2017
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Corporate Social Performance And Organizational Attractiveness To Prospective Employees
Drawing on propositions from social identity theory and signaling theory, we hypothesized that firms' corporate social performance (CSP) is related positively to their reputations and to their attractiveness as employers ...
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Green not (only) for profit: An empirical examination of the effect of environmental-related standards on employees’ recruitment☆
Thanks to an original database on French firms we investigate the impact of environmental-related standards on employees’ recruitment. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that voluntary environmental-related standards (i ...
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Modeling Corporate Social Performance and Job Pursuit Intention: Mediating Mechanisms of Corporate Reputation and Job Advancement Prospects
An important issue for successful recruitment is to increase the pursuit intention of job seekers. This study discusses such issue by proposing a research model based on the signaling theory ...
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Tell me your socially responsible practices, I will tell you how attractive for recruitment you are! The impact of perceived CSR on organizational attractiveness
This experimental study seeks to extend the current knowledge about the impact of corporate social responsibility on organizational attractiveness by analyzing the mediating role of corporate image. To the best ...
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Green and nongreen recruitment practices for attracting job applicants: exploring independent and interactive effects
The study is based on the reactions of a sample of Italian graduate students to the websites of seven companies operating in Italy. It addresses two specific issues in the ...
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Illuminating the Signals Job Seekers Receive from an Employer's Community Involvement and Environmental Sustainability Practices: Insights into Why Most Job Seekers Are Attracted, Others Are Indifferent, and a Few Are Repelled
- University of Vermont (VT)
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
Evidence shows that job seekers tend to be attracted to employers known for their corporate social responsibility (CSR), but relatively little is known about the underlying psychological processes. Moreover, the ...
- Posted July 28, 2017
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