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Experiences and Strategies of a Student-Run Massive Monarch Restoration on Off-campus Sites
- University of Kentucky (KY)
The White House recently released the National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators. One of its primary goals is a national effort to increase the ...
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Zero Waste: Data, Infrastructure, and Engagement Return Recycling Case Study
- New York University (NY)
- Return Recycling (NY)
Return Recycling is a student-led organization devoted to building a concrete understanding for waste data, infrastructure, and engagement. Over the past year we've prototyped new (self-designed) recycling bins, developed ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Engaging the Campus, Community, and Future: A Student's Guide to Organization Development
- University of Kentucky (KY)
Developing an organization, especially one that deals with a sustainability issue, may seem to be a daunting task. By examining the case-study of Lexington Environmental Youth Outreach (LEYO), a sustainability ...
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Enhancing Community Networks through Sustainable Events: Case Study
- Iowa State University (IA)
At colleges and universities across the world, students are engaging their campus and community in sustainability through creative event programming. As local organizations and on-campus organizations collaborate on meaningful projects ...
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To Serve or Not to Serve?: The Role of Gender Socialization in Community Engagement and Connections to Toxic Masculinities
- Oregon State University (OR)
Across various measures of civic and community engagement, whether across the country or here at Oregon State University, men tend to be less active in these activities, which can be ...
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What Professional Diplomacy can do for You: Putting the Ability in 'Sustainability'
- Texas A&M University (TX)
Diplomacy and negotiations permeate all aspects of life. It can either serve as a stepping stone for students advocating sustainability, or a stumbling block for those who lack diplomatic knowledge ...
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We're Divesting! Where can we Move our Money?
- National Union of Students
Working with others in the Divest-Invest movement this workshop will present the steps that can be taken once a fossil fuel divestment commitment has been secured. The workshop will cover ...
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The Revolution May Be Composted: The UA Compost Cats as a Model for Transformational Pedagogy and Student Empowerment
- University of Arizona (AZ)
The Compost Cats program provides a model for how institutions of higher education can equip student environmental leaders for the great social and environmental challenges we face, engage deeply with ...
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The Campus Kitchens Project: Using Food as a Tool for a More Sustainable Campus and Community.
- The Campus Kitchens Project (DC)
Attendees will get an in depth look at The Campus Kitchens Project (CKP) and will be empowered to bring the program to their school. CKP students on 50 campuses are ...
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Sustainability Marketing and the Arts
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Briefly covers general popular advertising avenues on campus and ways to uncover new marketing platforms through faculty and staff engagement. Focus is placed on an interaction with the arts and ...
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Student-led Technical Design Projects: From Conception to Implementation
- Engineers for a Sustainable World (CO)
Engineering students are often interested in contributing directly to sustainability in their communities by conducting local technical projects. In this interactive workshop, Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW), a non-profit ...
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Strategic Power: Public Leadership & Change Maker Skills
- Elected Officials to Protect America (SC)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win' - Gandhi This dynamic, interactive workshop will hone your public leadership skills to create massive ...
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Engaging your community to design tomorrow's campus: resiliency, vulnerability, and adaptation
- Boston University (MA)
- Cornell University (NY)
- Smith College (MA)
Scholars and practitioners have been arguing in favor of more holistic approaches to campus sustainability that would incorporate complex aspects of climate change. In order to address those multifaceted problems ...
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Transformational Sustainability Leadership: Accelerating the shift to life-sustaining and just societies
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
- SERES (Sacatepequez)
Over the last few years the Sustainability Initiative at the University of California, Irvine and the nonprofit SERES have collaborated to offer students an introductory and advanced level training in ...
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Sustaining Ourselves - A Collaborative Retreat for Sustainability Professionals
- College of Saint Benedict (MN)
- Hamline University (MN)
- Macalester College (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Join us in discovering how a model of stepping away from our various institutions, discovering common challenges and building cross-institution relationships helps us sustain ourselves. The planning team from the ...
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Sustainability, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Across the Curriculum
- Bemidji State University (MN)
- North Hennepin Community College (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- Robbinsdale Area Schools (MN)
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, North Hennepin Community College and Bemidji State University are offering a one day Sustainability, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Across the Curriculum workshop for faculty and ...
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Sustainability Programs: Examining Why Typical Approaches Have Little Impact and a Transformational New Model for Making Change
- McMaster University (ON)
- Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) (ON)
Reporting standards like the GRI, STARS and Carbon Disclosure Project are valued for being comprehensive, attracting participation and pushing the sustainability agenda forward. We will examine the benefit and limitations ...
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Senior Leadership Summit: Positioning Sustainability as Your Ultimate Innovation Driver
- Harvard University (MA)
AASHE presents its 2016 Senior Leadership Summit on Positioning Sustainability as An Innovation Driver for senior leaders and leadership teams. To date, the most prevalent senior leadership response to sustainability ...
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Scaling applied learning programs for sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
Applied learning opportunities, from internships, to community-based learning courses to student research provide training for students in addressing complex societal challenges. These endeavors are mostly designed to optimize the student ...
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Natural Organizational Design for Sustainability: A New Role for Sustainability Change Agents
- Harvard University (MA)
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- University of British Columbia (BC)
The organization model underpinning patterns of resource allocation & decision-making across higher education, is incapable of the pace & depth of change that the sustainability agenda requires. All around us ...
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LEED Green Associate Training V4
- Leonardo Academy (WI)
LEED Green Associate Training covers information needed for preparation for the GBCI LEED Green Associate exam. Presented by Leonardo Academy staff: Michael Arny, President of Leonardo Academy who was the ...
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Learning the Language of Executive Leadership to Increase Sustainability's Value
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- Purdue University (IN)
With higher education facing ongoing budget cuts, top to bottom reviews of programs and policies, and critical questions regarding the value of a college education, we must be able to ...
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Inclusion for Impact: Discourse on Diversifying the Sustainability Movement
- George Mason University (VA)
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
How can each of us answer the call toward a more inclusive and integrative approach to sustainability at our institutions, in our communities, and beyond? This session will explore the ...
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How to Use Renewables to Cut Carbon and Boost the Bottom Line
- Howard University (DC)
- Edison Energy (CA)
- Dallas College (TX)
This workshop will help participants develop comprehensive renewable energy plans that educate campus stakeholders, dramatically reduce GHGs, and provide cost savings and budget certainty by avoiding volatile conventional energy costs ...
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Galvanizing Gaia: A Social Incubator for Women Leaders and Innovators
- Prescott College (AZ)
Two ecopreneurship professors create a supportive context for women sustainability entrepreneurs and campus program innovators to move from idea to action with their regenerative project ideas. This dynamic half-day ...
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Energy Engineering for Non-Engineers
- GreenerU (MA)
Much of the change we need to make in order to address climate change and sustainability challenges relates to engineering, but that doesn't mean everyone needs an engineering degree ...
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EcoVate - Design Thinking for Sustainability in a Changing World
- Dartmouth College (NH)
Sustainability is about tackling old, resistant problems in new ways to develop solutions that work. Design thinking is a tool that can help us meet the challenge of tackling big ...
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Developing and Implementing a Critical Social Justice Lens for 21st Century Campus Sustainability Work
- Hackman Consulting Group
This cross-disciplinary workshop is designed to take our campus sustainability work to a deeper level, via the use of a critical 'social justice lens' (SJL), so as to improve its ...
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Creating a Living, Regenerative Campus Companion to STARS
- Colorado State University (CO)
- Praxis | Building Solutions, LLC (PA)
Leaders in campus sustainability, green building, and related fields are looking for ways to push beyond current practice into the realm of regenerative design and living environments. There is a ...
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Connecting Higher Education to Agenda 2030
- Portland Community College (OR)
- United Nations University
Sustainability efforts have grown across higher education institutions, schools, non-profits, government agencies, and the private sector. As established in the Ahmedabad Declaration, higher education is necessary for helping achieve a ...
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A Zero Waste Campus is Possible
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
We begin by asking students to envision a zero waste campus through innovative problem solving & logistics management. In small groups, they map out how to prevent specific forms of ...
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Five Job Skills to Save the Planet: Why Political Campaigning is a Must Do
- Bard College (NY)
The 2016 election will be a defining one for climate change and many other sustainability issues. But Presidential election-year campaigns also provide students with unique, once-every-four-year, high-impact opportunities to gain ...
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Seize the Grid for 100% Clean Energy
- Sierra Club (DC)
Join this hands-on workshop where you will learn how to spark a youth-led movement for energy democracy on your campus. We are at a turning point in history. The clean ...
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Place-Based Art, Science, and Agency: Transformative Action and Connection for Climate Change Times
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Climate change is often framed as a scientific problem, fossil fuel, or greenhouse gas problem. Digging past these framings to the wound, not just the symptoms, we see sustainability as ...
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NWF EcoLeaders Helps Students Gain Project-Based Leadership Skills and Explore Career Pathways
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
National Wildlife Federation's EcoLeaders Program is a career and leadership development program for college students and young professionals. NWF's EcoLeaders provides students with the virtual space to initiate ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Leading Climate & Resilience Action on Your Campus & Community!
- Second Nature (MA)
- National Campus Leadership Council (DC)
Students have long been the champions and implementers for campus sustainability efforts. NCLC & Second Nature will engage student leaders on emerging climate issues, providing tools/support to make a ...
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Herding Cats? How to Engage Your Whole Campus Community in Sustainability
- National Union of Students
Sustainability is engaging, empowering & enabling, but sometimes getting other people on board is a bit like herding cats - frustrating, resource intensive, and with no one correct way of ensuring ...
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Fighting Waste, Feeding People: Student Solutions for the Long Term
- Food Recovery Network (MD)
Forty percent of all food produced in America is wasted, while one in six Americans is unsure where his or her next meal will come from. If food waste were ...
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Fair Trade Advocacy: Connecting Campuses & Local Communities
- Fair Trade Colleges & Universities
This session will explore the Fair Trade movement in the U.S. Students will learn how Fair Trade campaigns on campuses collaborate with local communities to increase Fair Trade purchasing ...
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Decarbonizing the Global Economy: Student Coalition to Garner Higher Ed Support for Widespread Carbon Pricing Legislation
- Swarthmore College (PA)
Scientists and the United Nations agree that we urgently need to decarbonize the world's economy to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Unfortunately, developing a cohesive policy ...
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Conscious College: A Framework for Campus Chapters to Inspire, Educate, and Activate Students Around Sustainability
- Turning Green (CA)
What do you need to bring sustainable thinking and action to your campus with real, lasting impact? The Turning Green team has been working with students for over eleven years ...
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KEEPING WATCH: Locally Produced Films for Art, History and Public Awareness
- University of North Carolina, Charlotte (NC)
The University of North Carolina Charlotte will present and discuss the use of a series of locally-produced short films used as components of a highly successful public awareness program called ...
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Texas Regional Alliance for Campus Sustainability (TRACS) Networking Session
- Rice University (TX)
This is a networking meeting for Texans and other parties interested in the Texas Regional Alliance for Campus Sustainability to connect and discuss campus sustainability topics unique to the Lone ...
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Women in Sustainability Network
- Prescott College (AZ)
Come join us to build a collaborative network, share synergy, and catalyze collaboration. Who this session is for: Administrators, faculty, and program leaders concerned with innovation, gender equity, and social ...
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The Future of Sustainability Workforce Preparation and Hiring: A Networking Session
- The GREEN Program (PA)
The GREEN Program will be hosting this networking session. The GREEN Program offers short term, career accelerating, abroad opportunities on topics connected to sustainability and sustainable development for students & ...
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Beyond the Library: Librarians Team up With Campus Partners for Sustainability Education and Outreach
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
- University of Arizona (AZ)
Collaborate with your library to disseminate and implement sustainability solutions - on campus and beyond! Join us in this networking session to share your ideas and experiences and learn about exciting ...
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10 Years Old, 1 Year New: Climate Leadership Commitment signatory networking session
- Second Nature (MA)
Climate Leadership Commitment Implementation Liaisons and those interested in learning about the Climate Leadership Network will hear from Second Nature staff about the accomplishments, progress, and activities over the past ...
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Climate Leadership Network Carbon Offset Projects Networking
- Clarkson University (NY)
- Second Nature (MA)
This networking meeting will focus on the development of carbon offset projects for colleges and universities. An advisory group formed after a networking session at last year's AASHE conference ...
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US EPA - NEW Organics Recovery Program Development Toolkit
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
- Keep America Beautiful (CT)
US EPA Region 4 will unveil the working draft of its Organics Recovery Program Development Toolkit developed specifically for colleges and universities. The toolkit is intended to guide campuses looking ...
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College & University Recycling Coalition Members Meeting
- University of South Carolina (SC)
Members and non-members alike are invited to join this annual CURC membership meeting. Board members will provide organizational updates, discuss current projects and share opportunities to get involved. The meeting ...
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