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Organizing Campuses to Think Outside the Bottle
- American University (DC)
- Edison Energy (CA)
At a time when the global water crisis is looming large, leaving over a billion people without access to enough safe drinking water to meet their basic needs, students are …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Early College, College, and Beyond: A Sustainable Educational Initiative
- University of Texas at El Paso (TX)
The Paso del Norte region is uniquely located in between two nations and three states. In the past, this region suffered from lack of access and support for educational attainment …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Energy and development: the role of academia in education, research, and technological cooperation for sustainability
Over the last decades, the interest of the international community for the multiple interconnections among energy, environment, and society has widely increased. Today, the close link between energy and development …
- Posted Feb. 17, 2017
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Closing Racial Equity Gaps
- University of Southern California (CA)
The Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California identified five obstacles that stand in the way of racial equity at the system level and present five essential …
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Graduate Diploma in Climate Risk Management
- University of Waterloo (ON)
The CRM diploma is for the early-to mid-career professionals who must integrate climate risk management into their regular professional duties. This part-time, entirely online program focuses on applied skills that …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Investing in the Future: Extending Enterprise Innovation through Biomimicry, Living Systems Design, and Systems Ecology in a Graduate Ecopreneurship Course
- Prescott College (AZ)
Two graduate faculty share their success strategies for cultivating student leadership in ecopreneurship to take sustainability deeper designing regenerative enterprises. Businesses using green practices and operations are a positive step; …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Power of Small Steps: Making Psychology Accessible to Practitioners Through Small Experiments
- University of Michigan (MI)
Campus sustainability offices are often expected to create sustainable, durable cultural change without inconveniencing the students, faculty, or staff at the universities and colleges at which they work. This task …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Webinar: An Accessible Roadmap to Healthy Indoor Air Quality
- University of Georgia (GA)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
- AASHE Test Campus
- Healthy Schools Campaign (IL)
Two years ago it was a struggle to generate interest in topics like ventilation and HVAC maintenance, but the COVID pandemic has highlighted just how much the air we breathe …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2022
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Social Justice (Minor)
- Champlain College (VT)
The 16-credit Social Justice minor will prepare students the ability to to view and approach work through a social justice lens—how an issue impacts the access, opportunity and equality of …
- Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Making Textbooks Affordable: Student Government Toolkit
The Making Textbooks Affordable toolkit explains how to expand the use of open textbooks on your campus. These free, high-quality, open-source books can save students on your campus millions of …
- Posted April 16, 2016
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Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT)
- Conservation International
- United Nations Environment Programme
IBAT for Research and Conservation Planning is an innovative tool designed to facilitate access to a range of global and national data layers, such as protected area boundaries, biological information …
- Posted March 24, 2016
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Public/Private Partnerships Utilizing Service and Experiential Learning to Facilitate Student Engagement
- Clark Atlanta University (GA)
There are a number of local municipalities in the Metropolitan Atlanta area that are in need of developmental plans to transition their communities into sustainable, self-sufficient enterprises. The most obvious …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Academic Computing Through Centralized Virtualization
- Alfred State College (NY)
Computer and information technology students require 24 hour access to powerful desktop computer workstations in order to complete lab assignments that may involve several virtual client and server computers. The …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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BA Environmental Engineering
- Rice University (TX)
The BA degree in Environmental Engineering Sciences is designed to provide access to topics of common interest to students across the disciplines at Rice University. It is tailored to the …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Minor in Renewable Energy Engineering
- University of Maine (ME)
This minor addresses the entire energy cycle from generation, to use, to lasting environmental effects. Students will have access to a brand new renewable energy laboratory equipped with the latest …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Engaged Scholarship for Sustainability: University of New Hampshire's Initiative to Facilitate Regional Food System Collaboration
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
Food Solutions New England (FSNE) is an example of a university-based effort to advance regional food system sustainability through collaboration using an engaged scholarship model. Engaged scholarship promotes mutually beneficial …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Science, Collaboration, and Sustainable Change
- Portland State University (OR)
Take Back the Tap is a national campaign spearheaded by nonprofit Food and Water Watch but run by students on college campuses across the nation. Portland State administration continues to …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustained Relevance Through Elegance: Redesigning Higher Education from Within
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Universities and colleges in the United States (U.S.) are in a period of rapid transformation. Driven by the need for an educated workforce, higher education institutions are responding to rapid …
- Posted May 26, 2021
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PhD in Local Government Management for Sustainable Communities
- Walden University (MN)
With this specialization, students will learn how to create and maintain sustainable communities that are environmentally sound, economically prosperous, and socially equitable. Explore the interrelated elements that make a community …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Minor in Ecology
- Université du Québec à Montréal (Québec)
The program aims to provide basic training in the field of ecology, by acquiring the notions of biology necessary for understanding the dynamics of ecosystems and by access to scientific …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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SMC - Wellbeing & Work (SCI Index)
- Saint Mary's College of California (CA)
The Legacy Garden is a space on campus where both students and employees visit and volunteer. The 3,200 lbs of produce produced annually is entirely consumed by students and staff …
- Posted Sept. 12, 2016
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IUPUI Day of Caring
- Indiana University Indianapolis (IN)
IUPUI partners with the United Way to host a Day of Caring to support local social organizations across Indianapolis. This year, the IUPUI community volunteered with Growing Places Indy, a …
- Posted Oct. 15, 2020
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CSUSM Cougar Thrifts
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
In 2018, the Sustainability Program, in collaboration with our Environmental Stewards Association, Student organization, Associated Students Inc. and Office of Inclusive Excellence began holding free, accessible pop-up shops, which we …
- Posted Aug. 19, 2021
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10 kW Three-Blade Wind Turbine
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)
Power from the 10-kilowatt, three-blade wind turbine is being transmitted to the campus power grid. The project is funded by Rensselaer and NYSERDA. The wind turbine is attached to an …
- Posted May 18, 2012
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The New Path Contest
- The New School (NY)
The New School considers sustainability in its broadest terms and invite applicants to do so as well. Projects can involve anything from environmentalism and recycling to access to better food, …
- Posted Feb. 7, 2019
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Victorian Centre for Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing (VCSCM)
- Monash University (VIC)
The VCSCM was designed to foster closer ties between manufacturers and researchers through access to practical scientific outcomes and innovative solutions to key issues faced by the industries, hands-on outreach …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Care Enough 2B Energy Aware: Using Submetering & Energy Models 4 Curriculum Dev. & Community Action
- St. Louis University High School (MO)
St. Louis University High School's faculty-coached and student led Energy Reduction team uses Energystar Portfolio, electric and solar panel submetering data, and energy modeling to create accessible curriculum for various …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Visualization of energy and water consumption and GHG emissions: A case study of a Canadian University Campus
- Carleton University (ON)
Campuses, communities, and other building clusters are major users of energy and water and thus can have a significant environmental impact. Frequently, their buildings’ resource consumption is metered to various …
- Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Unaligned connections or enlarging engagements? Tertiary education in developing countries and the implementation of the SDGs
- University College London (London)
Given that tertiary education (TE) is a sector often associated with exclusion, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where only a small proportion of the population gain access, how …
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Environmental Education Certficate
- Missouri State University (MO)
This certificate is jointly offered by Department of Biology and Department of Geography, Geology and Planning and provides coursework to improve or broaden the student’s background knowledge of environmental related …
- Posted Jan. 11, 2019
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BS in Sustainable Agriculture
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
Sustainable Agriculture majors are farm-focused and community-minded. They are interested in the ways in which local farmers and food enterprises contribute to a healthy food supply-from growing crops and raising …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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PhD in Environmental & Ecological Engineering
- Purdue University (IN)
The PhD program offers highly qualified students the opportunity to work on environmental research using an interdisciplinary approach to complex issues.
The program is flexible, and designed to meet the …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Energy Efficient Residence Hall
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
Unity College completed a new two-story, 18,200-square-foot, 76-bed residence hall in August 2016. The ADA-compliant building houses incoming freshmen and features multiple common spaces for group studying, private bathrooms and …
- Posted Sept. 23, 2016
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Dark Sky Reserve
- Université de Sherbrooke (QC)
Université de Sherbrooke is one of the partners in the project “Fight against light pollution : Towards the first Dark Sky Reserve in an urban environment around the Mont-Bellevue Park”. …
- Posted Aug. 28, 2023
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Coastal Fund
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
The Coastal Fund (CF) was created and is funded by the students at the University of California, Santa Barbara in order to preserve and enhance the ecological integrity of the …
- Posted Feb. 7, 2019
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Sustainability Revolving Fund
- British Columbia Institute of Technology (BC)
The Revolving Fund for Sustainability Initiatives is a program which provides seed funding for BCIT schools and departments that wish to undertake energy/green initiatives. The funding is provided in the …
- Posted Feb. 7, 2019
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Bike racks in front of Macdonald Engineering Building
- McGill University (QC)
Bike racks set up outside the Macdonald Engineering Building at McGill University on a sunny summer day.
McGill's Ride & Refresh program makes it easier for McGill students, full-time staff …
- Posted July 23, 2024
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ASU Global Futures Water 1
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Peter Schlosser, Vice President and Vice Provost of Global Futures at Arizona State University, outlines a framework of planetary systems and the vital role secure access to safe water plays …
- Posted Aug. 15, 2024
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Smart Buildings - Integrating PoE with the IoT
- Cree (NC)
The purpose of this presentation is to provide a better understanding of how the Internet of Things (IoT) and Power over Ethernet (PoE) have and will continue to change our …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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NRDC Greening Advisor for Collegiate Sports
- Natural Resources Defense Council (DC)
Welcome to the NRDC Greening Advisor for Collegiate Sports, a free guide to greening athletics and recreation. Below is some advice for how to navigate this guide and how to …
- Posted April 15, 2016
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Student Sustainability Advisory Committee Materials
- University of Central Florida (FL)
A webform was created for an easily accessible application that allowed for extensive outreach. The application did not require any paper usage and allowed for easy organization. The application did …
- Posted April 27, 2016
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Students Heat Up Las Pintas: An immersive service experience in solar technology
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
Water is a necessity for all of us, but to some, heating it is a luxury. Now in its second year, the Las Pintas Solar Experience takes Johnson County Community …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Digital & Interactive Short Courses in Technical Sustainability & Design: Pilot Results and Lessons Learned
- Engineers for a Sustainable World (CO)
In an effort to improve access to education on both skills and multidisciplinary topics within sustainability Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) has been piloting a series of digital short …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Virginia Commonwealth University High-Output Learning Garden: Coordinating Resources and Partnerships to Relieve Food Insecurity
- Virginia Commonwealth University (VA)
Food deserts are areas with limited access to healthy food options and are a major contributor to health issues and inequality in the United States. The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Not Your Grandma's CAP: An Interactive Climate Action Plan for Storytelling and Spurring Change
- CannonDesign (NY)
Shouldn't a campus's climate action plan lead to actual 'actions'? One might say, of course! In reality, traditional climate actions plans become static reports that once done are least socialized/researched …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Breaking the Bubble: Using Video to Demystify Sustainable Living
- University of Kentucky (KY)
This poster presentation details an online video series entitled 'What Can You Do to Live More Sustainably.' Nine videos featuring students, staff and faculty across the University of Kentucky provide …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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How Providing Public Transit Passes Not Only Helps Students Financially, But Empowers Them Too
- Augsburg University (MN)
Environmental Action Committee (EAC) is a student led campus organization working on sustainable initiatives that benefit both the campus and student body at Augsburg University. One of the group's main …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Sustainable Transportation Programs: Nationwide Trends & Practical Case Studies
- American University (DC)
- University of Arkansas (AR)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (VA)
- Gordian (SC)
Emissions created by commuting-related activities are a major component of many institution's greenhouse gas inventories. Yet, these emissions sources are notoriously difficult to mitigate. There are a number of ways …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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How to Benchmark Your Building in Five Minutes or Less
- Atrius (CA)
As a management practice, benchmarking involves tracking building performance by regularly measuring key performance indicators such as energy use and periods of peak and low demand. Benchmarking then compares current …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Supporting Roles for STARS: Regional Campus Libraries in Sustainability Initiatives
- Indiana University South Bend (IN)
- Indiana University Southeast (IN)
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Academic libraries are rich storehouses of expertise and initiatives that directly contribute to sustainability initiatives impacting both your campus and local service communities. These initiatives also contribute to ongoing reporting …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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