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Lightning Talks: Public Outreach & Engagement
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- My Green Lab (CA)
- University of Strathclyde
This session consists of 3 15-minute Lightning Talk sessions related to campus operations. The Lightning Talks are: Climate Neutral Districts - scalar city and region collaboration to drive climate action …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Environmental & Sustainability Studies BA/BS
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Students will gain the broad educational background needed to create positive change as leaders, thinkers, decision-makers, and citizens. The program emphasizes a practical approach to environmental issues through collaborative problem-solving, …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Natural Resources Management BS
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
The natural resources management program prepares students to care for the land- and water-based ecosystems of Michigan and beyond, as well as to serve the people whose well-being depends on …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Geography and Sustainable Planning BS
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Geography is an interdisciplinary, problem-solving field that bridges the natural and social sciences. It is the spatial science focused on understanding where phenomena are located, how they got there, where …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Certificate in Green Chemistry
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
A Certificate in Green Chemistry provides a major advantage to an applicant on the job market in the area of chemistry and environmental sciences. A Certificate in Green Chemistry is …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Certificate in Sustainable City and Regional Planning
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
This 15 credit hour (minimum) Certificate in Sustainable City and Regional Planning provides students with a foundational knowledge of sustainability in planning and land use issues. This certificate can be …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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MS in Biology with Natural Resources Management Emphasis
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Grand Valley State University's Master of Science degree in biology is designed to allow students the opportunity to study at a graduate level in broad areas such as genetics and …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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The Future Is Interdisciplinary: A Campus Farm Model
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
This presentation will focus on the GVSU Sustainable Agriculture Project, an interdisciplinary, four-acre, student operated farm. The mission of the SAP is to seed sustainable agriculture best practices, cultivate leadership …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Own Your own Backyard: Farm to Keg
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
This presentation will be a reflective narrative of multiple voices from a research project intended to assess the transformational learning of students engaged in a partnership between Grand Valley State …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Strategic Plan for Sustainable Agriculture Project
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
The GVSU Sustainable Agriculture Project is a collaboration between students, faculty, and staff to experience sustainable agriculture on the Allendale Campus. The project began with a group of students in …
- Posted Oct. 6, 2021
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Strategic Plan for Office of Sustainability Practices
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Sustainability is accepted and valued as having an integral role in fulfilling the mission of the university. This systems integration of sustainability builds the capacity to positively impact sustainability issues …
- Posted Oct. 6, 2021
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Grand Valley State University Surplus Store
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Artwork on the window of the GVSU Surplus Store
- Posted Sept. 8, 2021
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GVSU Campus in Summertime
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
GVSU Campus in Summertime
- Posted Sept. 8, 2021
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GVSU Sustainable Agriculture Project and New City Neighbors Partnership
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
A 30 x 168 ft. Gothic-style hoophouse was being erected at Grand Valley State University’s Sustainable Agriculture Project on November 17, 2020. Employees from Nifty Hoops, New City Neighbors and …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2021
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Grand Valley State University - Water Sustainability
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Abstract - Grand Valley State University - Water Sustainability
Having success in reducing energy consumption and costs, Grand Valley State University (GVSU) located in the state of Michigan, looked at …
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Social Innovation MA
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
The Professional Master of Arts in Social Innovation at Grand Valley State University is designed to prepare graduate students to be change agents who will foster and lead innovation throughout …
- Posted Nov. 6, 2019
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Sustainability Reinvestment Fund
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
The Reinvestment Fund has been established through the contributions of various departments and auxiliaries including: Finance and Administration, Campus Dining, University Bookstore, Student Senate, and the Office of Sustainability Practices. …
- Posted Feb. 7, 2019
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Design Thinking and Sustainability
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
- University of Pittsburgh (PA)
This session will review two case studies involving design thinking and sustainability: Grand Valley State University The presentation will reflect on the learning process of students engaged in developing the …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Teaching Sustainability / Teaching Sustainably
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Over the coming decades, every academic discipline will have to respond to the paradigm of more sustainable life practices because students will be living in a world challenged by competition …
- Posted June 28, 2018
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Food Service Companies and Campuses Innovating to Source More Local Food
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
- University of Vermont (VT)
- Aramark (PA)
- Sodexo USA (MD)
This session will focus on increasing local food purchasing through stakeholder engagement at universities in Arizona, Maine, Michigan and Vermont. GVSU continues to expand its sustainable agriculture educational opportunities and …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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GVSU Bike Safety Course for National Bike Month
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
- League of American Bicyclists (DC)
This lunch and learn serves as a 45 minute introduction to safe and knowledgeable bicycling. The discussion is led by instructors certified by the League of American Bicyclists (LCIs) and …
- Posted May 25, 2017
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Solar Garden Partnership: A Renewable Energy Innovation
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
- Consumers Energy
Grand Valley State University (GVSU) began a renewable energy project in partnership with its local utility, Consumers Energy, after the Michigan Public Service Commission approved a Solar Garden program. This …
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Chemistry BS
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
The Department of Chemistry at Grand Valley State University is one of a few institutions that offer a Certificate in Green Chemistry for chemistry majors. Green chemistry is also woven …
- Posted Feb. 24, 2017
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Rating the New Campus Landscape: How SITES Can Engage Students + Energize your Sustainability Mission
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
SITES is to campus landscapes what LEED is to buildings. Two public institutions, Grand Valley State University (Michigan) and Nassau Community College (New York) have shown their highest commitment to …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Sustainability as a Lifestyle from Campus to the Community
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Grand Valley State University piloted an introductory course called 'Sustainability as a Lifestyle.' This 1-credit course was designed to examine sustainability through an academic lens and use the campus as …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Collective Impact of Sustainability!
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Sustainability reporting has grown to increased levels of importance both for shareholders on campus including faculty, staff, and students, as well as for community stakeholders such as businesses, NGO’s, and …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Impact: The Challenges of Creating Interdisciplinary Courses on Food, Food Systems, and Food Justice to Empower Students to Action
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
When looking to de-silo the often-segregated, triple-bottom line of sustainability, food seems the ideal course subject to broaden understanding. The class was formulated with a three-tiered structure - where our …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Community Engagement: Learning With and From Community Neighbors
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
- Herman Miller (CO)
We define community engagement as connecting the great things happening on campus with the great things going on in the community. With a small, but ambitious Green Team, it made …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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It IS Easy Being Green: Promoting Campus Sustainability as a Student Leader
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
There are three components to the Triple Bottom Line: environmental, social and economic. When separated, they are just that, but when these three components are equally emphasized, sustainable transformation for …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Comprehensive Approach to Sustainability on Campus: Stories from the Field
- American University (DC)
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
With students and college presidents alike making commitments to go green, higher education is institutionalizing a culture of sustainability like never before. Developing a comprehensive plan for sustainability on campus …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Making Sustainability Sustainable: The Dollars and Cents of It
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Sustainability at GVSU has become the 7th value for the University and embraces the triple bottom line of environmental, economic and social impacts on campus and in the community.
Sustainability …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Leading the University and Print Vendor Community toward Sustainable Practices
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Applying sustainability principles to the design of printed material needed by universities must take into consideration a life cycle from raw materials through the manufacturing of paper to design and …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Green and Sustainable Campus Operations
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Grand Valley State University has been implementing sustainability using an interdisciplinary integrated systems approach in administration, facilities services, campus dining; education and curriculum development, student involvement and community engagement and …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Green, Across the Campus and Across the Curriculum
- Ball State University (IN)
- Eastern Iowa Community College District (IA)
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) supports the integration of green building and sustainability projects across higher education campuses and curriculum. With students and educators now living and working in …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Academics in Action: Bridging the Gap Between the Classroom and the Community
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
In his 1949 polemic, "The Land Ethic," Aldo Leopold notes that the conventional answer to the question of how to develop an environmental conscience/consciousness is "more education" however, he also …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Using IPCC DDC Scenarios and MAGICC-SCENGEN Model for Teaching Global Climate Change
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Global climate change is a very complex phenomenon: students need to understand the causes of climate change, its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences, and the adaptation and mitigation options to …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
The foresight, leadership, and support of these organizations have made it possible to pursue a vision with global implications for the development of alternative and renewable energy sources. The 25,000 …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Minor in Environmental Studies
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
This program provides students and faculty an exciting place to engage in interdisciplinary, engaged teaching and learning about the interaction between humans and the environments they depend upon. The program …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Certificate in Sustainable Food Systems
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Strong local food systems are essential for healthy local communities. Students preparing for careers in local food enterprises, health care, sustainability, education, business, social work, non-profit administration and many other …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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30 kW Rooftop Array: MAREC
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
The 25,000-square-foot MAREC office building has a 30-kilowatt solar roof system. Grand Valley State University's energy center in Muskegon will be selling renewable energy credits generated by the facility's solar …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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20 kW Rooftop Array: Laker Turf Building
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
The 138,000 square foot Laker Turf Building on GVSU's Allendale campus opened its doors in 2008. Green features include a 20 KW rooftop photovoltaic system and a solar wall on …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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