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AIM2Flourish: Using Business for Good Education to Inspire the Future of Business
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
"If you want to change how business operates you have to change the way it is taught." - David Cooperrider, PhD AIM2Flourish is a program of the Fowler Center for …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Implementing a New Campus-Wide Bin Infrastructure: From Setting Standards to Deploying Bins
- Austin Community College (TX)
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
- Busch Systems International Inc. (ON)
Have you ever dreamed about completely replacing all of the waste and recycling bins on your campus with shiny new, perfectly selected, and ideally placed bins? What would you do …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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AIM2Flourish: Using Business for Good Education to Mobilize for a Just Transition
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
AIM2Flourish is an initiative of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Linking Infamous History and Sustainability - 50 Years Since the 1969 Cuyahoga River Fire
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
- Cuyahoga Community College (OH)
- Kent State University (OH)
2019 marks 50 years since the last and most well-known time the Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969. Much has changed for the better in Cleveland and across the United …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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AIM2Flourish: An Experiential SDGs-Assignment for Students
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
The UN SDGs are the world’s must-do list by 2030, and we need every student, everywhere to identify themselves as Global Goals leaders. Now in its third year, the free, …
- Posted Feb. 14, 2019
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Designing Sustainable Systems (PhD)
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
The PhD track in Management: “Designing Sustainable Systems” program is designed for DM students who want to build on their DM research and produce a doctoral dissertation that meets academic …
- Posted Jan. 11, 2019
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Environmental Studies Minor
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
Environmental studies is a multidisciplinary program that introduces students to the study of human interactions with the non-human world. The program emphasizes the moral, cultural, and political dimensions of environmental …
- Posted Jan. 11, 2019
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Environmental Studies (BA)
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
Environmental studies is a multidisciplinary program that introduces students to the study of human interactions with the non-human world. The program emphasizes the moral, cultural, and political dimensions of environmental …
- Posted Jan. 11, 2019
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The Real Food Challenge: Bringing Healthy and Local Food Options into Campus Dining Halls
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
Across the United States, college campuses are partaking in the Real Food Challenge, a national organization that promotes the development of local, fair, sustainable and humane food systems in college …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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AIM2Flourish: Transforming Management Education Through Positive Business Innovation Stories
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
The UN Global Goals are the 'World's Must-Do List' to end poverty, combat climate change, protect life on land, and ensure a livable future for all people. Many business leaders …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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AASHE STARS: Field Notes From New Adopters
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
- University of Chicago (IL)
- Gordian (SC)
The AASHE STARS program is invaluable. It provides higher education institutions a unified platform for assessing and reporting their contributions towards the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. However, obstacles remain. …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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How a Team of Student Ambassadors Can Amplify and Accelerate Wins for a Small Sustainability Staff
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
Facing the Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals of campus sustainability work with small offices can feel impossible; however, despite having a small staff, college and university sustainability offices can effect real …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Nord Family Greenway
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
The Case Western Reserve University Nord Family Greenway is a 300-foot-wide parkland in the heart of the CWRU's campus that was recently renovated to enhance pedestrian and bike access. The …
- Posted July 31, 2018
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The Research - Climate Nexus: The Difficult Questions Facing Progressive Institutions Today.
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
- Cornell University (NY)
- Princeton University (NJ)
- Buro Happold (NY)
As universities are tackling climate commitments focused on Scope 1 and 2 emissions, they are facing difficult decisions on capital investments in existing and new building stock and infrastructure to …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Raising Student Voices: Student Action for University Community Investment
- American University (DC)
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
- Duke University (NC)
- Fordham University (NY)
- Loyola University New Orleans (LA)
- University of Chicago (IL)
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- University of San Francisco (CA)
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (TX)
- Wesleyan University (CT)
- Responsible Endowments Coalition (PA)
This report from The Democracy Collaborative and the Responsible Endowments Coalition seeks to connect struggling communities to local institutional wealth through engaging student activism. The report profiles three administration-led initiatives …
- Posted Aug. 1, 2016
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Bagging the Disposable Plastic Bag
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
- Bon Appétit Management Company
The Student Sustainability Council at Case Western Reserve University removed disposable plastic bags from campus dining locations and replaced them with reusable bags.
- Posted June 10, 2016
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Pedal-powered smoothies to celebrate Earth Day at Case Western Reserve University!
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
We borrowed a bike-powered blender (a Fender Blender) from our on-site gym and had a few of our Sustainability Ambassadors help students and visiting families make their own pedal-powered smoothies …
- Posted May 5, 2016
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Tinkham Veale University Center - A Beacon of Student Activity and Sustainability at Case Western Reserve University
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
- Perkins+Will (NY)
In 2011 Case Western Reserve University and Perkins+Will began the process that would ultimately result in the completion of the Tinkham Veale University Center. Both CWRU and Perkins+Will brought strong …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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What if People Really Mattered? Designing a Socially Sustainable Workplace
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
- Kent State University (OH)
- Maharishi University of Management (IA)
- The Social Design Group (OH)
Workers and workplace systems have been viewed and treated as having instrumental value for organizations to date, rather than given recognition of the full measure of their intrinsic value. Most …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Ohio Delegation Gathering of AASHE Attendees
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
Ohio delegation lunch gathering of AASHE attendees
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Our Words Create Worlds
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
Sustainability is a new arrival to higher education, enjoying increasing acceptance by colleges and universities in a little more than a decade. Colleges and universities have been quick to embrace …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Fowler Center for Sustainable Value
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
The Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit exists to advance the scholarship and practice of flourishing enterprise. It is allied with like-minded initiatives helping all institutions …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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100 kW Turbine - Wind Energy Research Center
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
Case Western Reserve University continues to make progress toward a multimillion-dollar wind energy research center. The first wind turbine, scheduled to be operational sometime during fall semester, will be near …
- Posted May 18, 2012
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