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Progress Not Perfection: How to Tell Your Story Along the Way
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- Colorado State University (CO)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
Communicating about sustainability initiatives and climate action can be hard. Sharing your story about climate neutrality goals, engagement initiatives, and small victories throughout a project can be even more challenging ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Enhancing Climate Change Education Through the Power of Storytelling
- Climate Stories Project (MA)
Students and members of the higher education community are feeling overwhelmed by the scale and the pace of the climate crisis but lack a forum for speaking with others about ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Storytelling for Change: Imagining a more just and sustainable future
- Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (WA)
Many of the institutions we work for and/or lead are driven by their desire to make the world a better place. As communications professionals who help them tell their ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Storytelling and Activism: Charting a Path to Facilitate Effective Student Advocacy
- Marquette University (WI)
- Wesleyan University (CT)
In popular discourse on college and university campuses, “activism” is often synonymous with organized marches or protests. While this form of activism is effective, it is not a one-size-fits-all tool ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Social Capital, Indigenous Storytelling, and Fish Diversity: Learning Together Through Community-university Partnerships in Downeast Maine
- University of Maine (ME)
Not only can community-university partnerships be vehicles for mobilizing community resources and affecting change, they also have high potential to produce useful, nuanced research and enable renewed visions of trust ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Sustainability Change Agent Campfire Stories: Navigating Inherent Tensions
- Georgetown University (DC)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
Sustainability work in higher education requires a straddling of multiple dualities such as academic/operational, incremental/transformational, deliberative pace/sense of urgency, and risk averse/risk taking. This session will ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Promoting Sustainability Through Multimodal Storytelling
- Åbo Akademi University (Varsinais-Suomi)
- University of Helsinki
In recent years, sustainability has been increasingly recognized within the early childhoodeducation and care (ECEC) context. Early childhood educatorsí capacities to designmeaningful learning opportunities for young children have been underlined ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Revelations of service-learning project: Multiple perspectives of college students’ reflection
- Cheng Shiu University
This study explored the reflections of college students at different stages of their service provided to preschoolers and proposed recommendations on service-learning curricula according to the research findings. Thirty-six college ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Storytelling for Sustainability in Higher Education
- University of Southampton
- Nottingham Trent University
- Liverpool John Moores University
To be a storyteller is an incredible position from which to influence hearts and minds, and each one of us has the capacity to utilise storytelling for a sustainable future ...
- Posted April 25, 2022
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Change Management Campfire Stories: Telling Stories About Our Stumbles and What We Learned
- Georgetown University (DC)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
This session will provide a virtual campfire story swap where long-time campus sustainability professionals will talk about their stumbles, unexpected outcomes, how they felt, and what they learned. The saying ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Reframing the Climate Conversation: Telling the Story to Bring About Productive Climate Action
- Ramapo College of New Jersey (NJ)
- New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability (NJ)
- AASHE (MA)
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
This webinar is is brought to you by the New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability (NJHEPS), the FrameWorks Institute and the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation ...
- Posted July 30, 2020
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SUNY COIL Global Commons Program
- State University of New York at New Paltz (NY)
- State University of New York System Office (NY)
During this six-week, six-credit program, SUNY students take action on one of six selected Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in partnership with a community based or non-governmental organization (CBO or NGO ...
- Posted May 28, 2020
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Using Short Fiction to Teach Business and Environmental Ethics
- Sanata Dharma University
This study firstly explores Ecohumanism as the educational paradigm in today’s world. Raising environmental awareness is essential in studying economics to care for the sustainability of earth resources. Using ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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The Importance of Community, Culture, History, and Education for Sustainability
- Colorado State University (CO)
In this presentation I will share the story of Keokuk, Iowa - my hometown - a river town community along the Mississippi River, which is considered the most dangerous town in Iowa ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Faculty Sharing Success Stories of Teaching with Paul Hawken's Book DRAWDOWN
- Fort Hays State University (IL)
- Project Drawdown (CA)
CALLING ALL FACULTY: Have you taught with Paul Hawken's best-seller book 'Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming'?? Bring your stories to share during this ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Narratives of relatedness: Engaging metaphor, story, and contemplative practices for economic change
- Portland State University (OR)
The current dominant economy is rooted in patterns of extraction, destruction, scarcity, and disconnection with the living earth. These capitalist patterns have shaped our dominant culture, institutions, and our ways ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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The Book of Fails - Learning from our mistakes through pictures and storytelling (and a few laughs)
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
Working in campus sustainability can put you into all kinds of strange situations. From learning that powdered cheese doesn't mix well into wet food scraps in the compost mixer ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Protecting Life on Land and Below Water: Using Storytelling to Promote Undergraduate Students’ Attitudes toward Animals
- National Sun Yat-sen University
The framework of Global Education 2030 Agenda suggests 17 learning objectives for sustainability education. Restoring the human–animal relationship is a core task emphasized by Goals 14 (Life below water ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2018
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Mapping our Participation in the United Nations Global Compact: Storytelling and Sustainability
- State University of New York at Geneseo (NY)
As a participant of the U.N. Global Compact, the State University College of New York at Geneseo uses the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals as a framework to talk ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Reel Sustainability: Connecting to Audiences Through Video Storytelling
- Princeton University (NJ)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of North Carolina, Asheville (NC)
- University of Montana (MT)
- Emory University (GA)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Central New Mexico Community College (NM)
From television commercials to YouTube, Snapchat, and even Facebook Live, it's no secret that video has become a staple of our everyday lives. Video provides an easy and efficient ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Visual Storytelling for Sustainability: Raising Your Game in Photo and Video
- Princeton University (NJ)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
Do you struggle to take photos that look 'professional' rather than run-of-the-mill? Is the idea of making a video, or even the occasional Boomerang clip, intimidating? In short, are quality ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Talking Truth: Finding Your Voice Around the Climate Crisis
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
Talking Truth was initiated in fall 2015 to support and build on understanding of climate disruption. Our experiential events employ storytelling, film screenings, art making, author talks, and reflective writing ...
- Posted Jan. 3, 2018
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Farmer Fridays: Connecting Students to Communities Through Stories
- Western Kentucky University (KY)
One goal for local institutions' different Offices of Sustainability is to bridge the gap between the campus and the community. This case study follows Western Kentucky University's path to ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Student Affairs Stories of Sustainability: Resources to Engage Students and Remove Silos Webinar
- AASHE (MA)
- Santa Clara University (CA)
- NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation (OR)
- DePaul University (IL)
- Colorado State University (CO)
- University of Delaware (DE)
- ACPA - College Student Educators International (DC)
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
This webinar provides tips and tools for student affairs professionals to engage students around sustainability and remove silos.
- Posted Nov. 10, 2016
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Message in a bottle: what shapes university students’ understanding of sustainability?
Our research question concerned how life stories shape university students’ understanding of the sustainable use of natural resources. We searched for an answer for this question by listening to the ...
- Posted July 25, 2016
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How We Came to Inhabit These Spaces: Reflections on the Role of Place in Our Individual and Collective Journeys as Emerging Sustainability Scholars
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the experience of four doctoral students engaged in a collective project of place exploration at a mid sized Canadian university. Under the methodological ...
- Posted May 17, 2016
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Con Job: Stories of Adjunct & Contingent Labor
- The College of Saint Rose (NY)
- Posted March 12, 2016
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Transforming Self and Society Through Story: Why Sustainability Curriculum Needs Narrative Inquiry, Self-Study
- Seneca Polytechnic (ON)
At AASHE's 2010 conference in Denver, a pilot project was presented which engaged post-secondary students in ecological identity research through a process known as the Earth & I workshop ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Storytelling: The Buzzword That Can Actually Get You A Job
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
Your last year of school looms ahead, perhaps even that dreaded G word in May. All those times your advisors tried to convince you to follow their career path, or ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Storytelling: Using the Power of Innovation Stories to Inspire Action
- University of Mississippi (MS)
Our storytelling workshop is designed to teach the fundamentals of story and multi-media as tools for powering progress. Students will learn the basic elements of a compelling story and get ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Videos Tell Sustainability Stories, Work toward Sustainable Futures
- University of Vermont (VT)
As an effective pedagogical approach for addressing planetary-scale Anthropocene challenges at the local level, I consider storytelling—enhanced by videos-- as a social transformation tool to work toward sustainable futures ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Pathways to Success: Opening Lines of Communication that Lead to Bigger Conversations
- Texas A&M University (TX)
The noise vying for student’s attention on campus is steadily increasing. This communication traffic jam makes it more challenging to reach your campus community with your sustainability message. To ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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COAL: Storytelling, Music, and Community for Climate Stability
- Santa Clara University (CA)
COAL is a national arts and culture project that combines mythical storytelling and music to engage communities for climate stability and explore the most challenging paradox of our times: the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Digging In: A First-Year Food and Sustainability Experience
- Franklin Pierce University (NH)
"Digging In" is the theme of a semester-long project that immerses first-year students in the practice of community engagement around food and sustainability. Beginning with storytelling about the place of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Social Life of Smartphones
- Texas A&M University (TX)
Our institution has taken a unique approach to education and outreach initiatives by deliberately highlighting the social aspects of sustainability, fostering the power of storytelling to elicit emotional responses in ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Telling a Comprehensive Sustainability Story
- Portland State University (OR)
We all know that sustainability is more than just a campus-wide recycling plan. It’s imbued across departments and disciplines, leaks out of classrooms and into communities, it manifests in ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Story of Self: Defining Your Story to Connect to the Sustainability Movement and Advance Your Career
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
Every person has taken their own path to develop passion and drive in the sustainability field or chosen career. In “Story of Self,” we will define and leverage each journey ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Nurturing Sustainability Leaders: Pedagogical Practices and Guiding Stories
- Portland State University (OR)
The Leadership for Sustainability Education (LSE) graduate program at Portland State University focuses on preparing sustainability leaders by developing: 1) a reflective understanding of self 2) an understanding the world ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Storytelling and Storymaking: A New Paradigm for Sustainability Management
- University of the District of Columbia (DC)
- West Chester University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
Complying with commitments (climate and otherwise) is necessary but not sufficient for realizing a vision of a sustainable society. Moving colleagues, senior leaders, and students to creative action requires something ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change
- Emory University (GA)
- San Diego State University (CA)
In Sustainability on Campus campus leaders recount inspiring stories of strategies that moved eighteen colleges and universities toward a more sustainable future. This book is for faculty, students, administrators, staff ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Developing Sustainability Literacy Among the Next Generation of Educators
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The Sustainability Science Education Project at Arizona State University aims to develop sustainability literacy among future educators. An innovative course, Sustainability Science for Teachers (SSFT), leverages the power of digital ...
- Posted June 10, 2015
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