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Climate Action Unbound: A New Curricular Model Driving Institutional Change
- Hampshire College (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
Equipping students with both the knowledge and skills to be effective change agents is essential to solving the climate crisis. The inaugural Climate Action Semester Unbound at Hampshire College offered …
- Posted Sept. 20, 2024
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Climate Emotions: From Anxiety to Action
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Tufts University (MA)
- University of Connecticut (CT)
- Williams College (MA)
- The All We Can Save Project
Eco anxiety is real and pervasive. Students, faculty and community members often struggle with the overwhelming impacts of climate change, species loss, and structural environmental inequities. Sustainability practitioners in Higher …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Farmington Solar Facility
- Amherst College (MA)
- Bowdoin College (ME)
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Smith College (MA)
- Williams College (MA)
Farmington Solar Project - The New England College Renewable Partnership (NECRP) is a consortium of five small New England liberal arts colleges - Smith, Amherst, Bowdoin, Hampshire, and Williams - …
- Posted Aug. 8, 2022
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Beyond Campus Boundaries: Transferring your Skills to Support Climate Action in Local Government
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (MA)
The climate crisis and lack of national-level action has left many of us feeling like we need to do more - both on campus and beyond. As students, staff, and …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Evaluating the performance of a decentralized graywater treatment system in a living building at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA
- Hampshire College (MA)
Decentralized graywater treatment systems are growing in popularity as the threat of water scarcity rises and wastewater's potential as a resource is recognized. In 2016, Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, …
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Hampshire College’s R.W. Kern Center- A Living & Learning Building
- Hampshire College (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
Located at the heart of Hampshire College campus, the R.W. Kern Center is a certified Living Building: generating its own energy, capturing and treating its own water, and processing and …
- Posted March 21, 2019
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Sustainable Revolving Fund (SURF)
- Hampshire College (MA)
The Hampshire College Sustainability Revolving Fund (SURF) provides loans for campus improvement projects that benefit Hampshire's sustainability by improving efficiency and conserving resources. The SURF exists to foster student, staff, …
- Posted Feb. 7, 2019
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Hampshire College's R.W. Kern Center- A Living & Learning Building
- Hampshire College (MA)
Located at the heart of Hampshire College campus, the R.W. Kern Center is a certified Living Building: generating its own energy, capturing and treating its own water, and processing and …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Five College Coastal and Marine Sciences Certificate
- Amherst College (MA)
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Mount Holyoke College (MA)
- Smith College (MA)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
The Five College Coastal and Marine Sciences Program offers an interdisciplinary marine-related curriculum to undergraduate students enrolled in the five campuses. The Five College Coastal and Marine Sciences Certificate is …
- Posted July 26, 2018
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Five College Sustainability Studies Certificate
- Amherst College (MA)
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Mount Holyoke College (MA)
The Five College Sustainability Studies certificate (FCSS) program is designed to engage students in a structured course of study that will draw on courses from across the campuses in a …
- Posted July 26, 2018
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Solar Photovoltaic Arrays at Hampshire College generating up to 100% of electricity on site
- Hampshire College (MA)
In 2015, the Hampshire College Board of Trustees approved a plan to provide 100% of electricity from on-site solar arrays through a combination of 19 acres of ground-mounted PV arrays, …
- Posted July 26, 2018
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R.W. Kern Center- A Living Building
- Hampshire College (MA)
Located at the heart of Hampshire College campus, the R.W. Kern Center is a multi-purpose facility that embodies the highest threshold of forward-thinking sustainable design: generating its own energy, capturing …
- Posted May 21, 2018
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4.7 MW Solar Array
- Hampshire College (MA)
- SolarCity
Hampshire College partnered with SolarCity to install 4.7 MW (DC) of solar on 19 acres of its 840-acre campus. The system is expected to provide 100 percent of Hampshire's electricity …
- Posted Jan. 12, 2018
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Leveraging Living Building Challenge Standards across Campus Operations
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- Hampshire College (MA)
How do you show faculty, staff and students that a building is alive and empower them to keep it healthy? As the most stringent green building certification in the world, …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Reuse or Build New? A Tale of Two Carbon Footprints
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Bruner/Cott Architects (MA)
What role does embodied and operational carbon play in making campus development decisions? What role do offsets have in balancing the equation? In light of the ever-growing stock of buildings …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Teaching with principles: Toward more effective pedagogy in ecology
- Colorado State University (CO)
- Hampshire College (MA)
Ecology is a complex and dynamic field and, as communicators of our discipline, faculty should be able to define a set of core principles that underpin and create ecological pattern …
- Posted Sept. 20, 2017
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Inspiring Change: Campus Mission and the Living Building Challenge
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Bruner/Cott Architects (MA)
- Integrated Eco Strategy
- International Living Future Institute (WA)
The RW Kern Center is designed to embody Hampshire College's mission of fostering positive change in the world, as well as to meet the Living Building Challenge. This session is …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Can carbon offsets be community-based, educational, and affordable? The results of a 4 college collaborative research project.
- Amherst College (MA)
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Smith College (MA)
- Williams College (MA)
What would be the best carbon offset? Can carbon offsets achieve measurable carbon reductions, as well as support the health and sustainability of our local communities and provide educational and …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Beyond Offsets: Innovative approaches to achieving and exceeding our climate commitments
- Amherst College (MA)
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Smith College (MA)
- Williams College (MA)
- Living Routes, Inc. (MA)
Climate change is a defining issue of our time, and colleges and university are leading the way by setting ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets. Many of us are even striving …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Accepting the Challenge: Living Building Challenge in Higher Education
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Smith College (MA)
- Williams College (MA)
Living Building Challenge is a relatively new sustainable building standard launched in 2006 with the purpose of raising the bar in green building. In the words of LBC, it challenges …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Environmental Studies & Sustainability Program (BA)
- Hampshire College (MA)
The Environmental Studies & Sustainability Program (ESSP) is a multidisciplinary program for students and faculty across the college. It brings together a rich grouping of courses, ongoing projects, campus programs, …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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36 kW Solar Canopy: Chuck and Polly Longsworth Arts Center
- Hampshire College (MA)
A 36 kW array atop Hampshire's Chuck and Polly Longsworth Arts Center has been helping to reduce Hampshire's carbon footprint since 2010.
- Posted Oct. 21, 2015
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