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UVA 2025 to 2026 Annual Report
- University of Virginia (VA)
Executive Summary The University of Virginia’s 2025–2026 Sustainability Annual Report highlights UVA’s progress toward the goals of the 2030 Sustainability Plan. Distributed annually to the Board of Visitors and University …
- Posted Oct. 8, 2026
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What We Learned as the Largest STARS-Reporting University in Latin America
- Tecnológico de Monterrey – Campus Monterrey
This session will share key lessons learned, insights gained, and challenges encountered in the implementation of the STARS framework across Tecnológico de Monterrey's campuses, in México. Tecnológico de Monterrey is …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Carnegie Elective Classification for Sustainability Pilot Reunion
- American Council on Education
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
This session invites all institutions that participated in the pilot of the Carnegie Elective Classification for Sustainability—both submitting campuses and observers—to reconnect, reflect, and share insights from their experience. The …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Trust, Feedback, Growth - Cultivating a Resilient and Adaptive Team
- Trust
To move at the pace demanded by the climate crisis will require quick feedback loops and ongoing iterations of our work. A team can be stacked with talent - but …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Wellness Model for Sustainability
- Augsburg University (MN)
Traditional models of sustainability include three systems in relationship with each other: social, economic, and environment. By adding “wellness” to this model and visually representing the relationships so the environment …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Early Career Sustainability Professionals Networking
- Boston University (MA)
- College of the Holy Cross (MA)
- University of Michigan (MI)
The Supporting Early Career Professionals Networking session offers new sustainability professionals a valuable opportunity to connect with peers and leaders in the field. As more young professionals enter sustainability roles, …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Lessons From Building and Managing an Access-Forward Bike Program
- Amherst College (MA)
Discover how Amherst College fosters a bike-friendly environment through the Tread Shed, a student-managed co-op style bike shop. Learn how the Tread Shed functions, including its innovative work-to-own bike program, …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Balancing E-Micromobility Access with Community Safety at GW
- George Washington University (DC)
Cycling has long been a part of how George Washington University affiliates get around the DC region, and supporting cyclists is a key university strategy for reducing transportation-based Scope 3 …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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A Whole-Institution Approach Towards Sustainability in Higher Education
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
- York University (ON)
Join us to share your views on embedding sustainability holistically in your institution! The whole-institution approach networking session brings together educators, administrators, and policy leaders to exchange expectation and experiences …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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TSLGBTQIA+ Meet Up
- University at Buffalo (NY)
This session is for any individual from the LGBTQIA+ community that wants to connect with others in the AASHE network. It will be a safe space to build relationships and …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Centering Equity and Joy: Lessons From the Sister Scholarships at UC Berkeley
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Since 2020, UC Berkeley’s Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) and The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) have collaborated to launch and grow the “Sister Scholarships,” two equity-centered scholarships designed to support …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Sustainability Without Equity in 2025: An Update on Anti-DEI Bills
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
The three E's of sustainability are the environment, economy, and equity. Over the past two years, we have seen dramatic changes in higher education concerning the third E, namely in …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Cross-Campus Collaboration for Student Sustainability Leadership
- American University (DC)
Cross-campus collaboration focused on student leadership opens the doors for students (and staff) to engage meaningfully and constructively with their own university’s sustainability efforts, as well as build connections across …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Building a Campus and Community Coalition
- Virginia Tech (VA)
The New River Environmental Coalition is a group of students, faculty, staff, and community members interested in promoting sustainability through mutually beneficial partnerships to create a collective impact in the …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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The Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium (NECSC) Networking Session
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Central Office (NJ)
- Tufts University (MA)
The Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium (NECSC) was established in October 2004 to support sustainability officers in advancing education about and demonstration of sustainable systems on university campuses in the northeast …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Building Climate Resilience with Local Communities
- Antioch University, New England (NH)
- California State University, Chico (CA)
- Dickinson College (PA)
Climate resilience educators, researchers, and practitioners from Dickinson College, Antioch University, and Chico State will share insights from our institutions’ work with local communities to build climate and community resilience. …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Climate Action Narrative Shifts for Higher Education: Navigating Uncertain Times
- Second Nature (MA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
In a time of large-scale climate policy shifts, depleted funding streams, political polarization on matters related to DEI, and institutional uncertainty, the stories we tell about equitable climate action in …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Connections Between Higher Education and Local Governments: Building Policy Action Around the SDGs
- Cuyahoga Community College (OH)
- University of Southern California (CA)
With the current US administration having just actively “rejected and denounced” the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the importance of partnerships between local government and academic institutions to address issues requiring …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Campus+ Collaboration for The New York Climate Exchange
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- New York Climate Exchange
- New York University (NY)
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
- Stony Brook University (NY)
Universities work with a diverse array of partners, across several sectors, and on several topics. In most cases, a bilateral partnership is formed around a narrow, desired outcome, such as …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Stakeholder Collaborations With Composting
- Eco-Products (CO)
Starting up a campus composting operation can be a challenging but rewarding endeavor. The difficulties inherent in hauling and composting such a hard to manage waste stream and the headaches …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Student Food Waste Audits and University Decision Processes
- Southern New Hampshire University (NH)
Our presentation will describe how we used the Campus Race to Zero Waste and Food Recovery Network campaigns to identify data and leverage more sustainable partnerships across the university. Campaigns …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Audit to Action: Turning Data Into Zero Waste Strategy
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign partnered with the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) for a waste audit of 8 campus buildings more than 10 years ago. In 2023, they pursued …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Sustainability Efforts With Beverage Companies - Networking Meeting
- University of Dayton (OH)
This networking session is designed to facilitate conversations and resource sharing related to sustainability efforts with beverage companies. This session was held for the first time at the 2024 AASHE …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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A Collaborative Approach to Standardizing Reuse and Reduction Data
- Boston University (MA)
Currently, diversion rates predominantly measure recycling and composting efforts, but they fail to capture the highest levels of the waste hierarchy—reuse and reduction. As universities and organizations worldwide work toward …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Field Lessons in Advancing Sustainable Foodware in Higher Education
- Michigan Sustainable Business Forum (MI)
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
How can colleges and universities shift toward safer, more sustainable food packaging—especially in the face of limited budgets, procurement constraints, and evolving public health concerns? This session will share key …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Closing the Loop on Campus Composting: In-Vessel Digestion at the Auraria Campus and Hot Aerobic Composting at Lafayette College
- Auraria Higher Education Center (CO)
- Lafayette College (PA)
This session features two innovative campus composting strategies that highlight closing the loop on organic waste and sharing valuable lessons learned. The Auraria Campus in Denver, serving 44,000 students and …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Engaging Suppliers to Reduce Emissions from Purchased Goods & Services: Are You In?
- Brailsford & Dunlavey (DC)
- Stanford University (CA)
Scope 3 emissions from purchased goods and services (“PGS”) represent one of the largest and most complex categories in higher education’s carbon footprint. This session will enable participants to share …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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The Wild West of Buying Green: Taming Decentralized Procurement
- Stanford University (CA)
- Texas A&M University (TX)
In decentralized university settings, where every department may operate independently, promoting environmentally and socially responsible purchasing can feel like the Wild West. This joint session brings together insights from two …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Wonderfil Refill Solutions: How to Achieve Circularity on Campus and at Scale
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- Wonderfil, PBC (CA)
Wonderfil is a climate-tech company founded by an interdisciplinary team of students who wanted to use their education to tackle the problem of plastic packaging as a major source of …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Reusable To Go Case Studies with UC San Diego and Christopher Newport University
- Christopher Newport University (VA)
- University of California San Diego (CA)
Two case studies will be presented of reusable takeout dining programs. In the first year of implementation, AY 23-24, Christopher Newport University had over 128,000 verified returns with a 96% …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Campus Compost Kiosks: Reducing Contamination Through Education
- Illinois State University (IL)
Illinois State University introduced post-consumer composting to the broader campus community in 2022 by partnering with its commercial composter to bring compost kiosks to campus. The kiosks are conveniently located …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Accelerating Sustainable Procurement Impact Through Campus Engagement
- American University (DC)
Higher education institutions’ (HEIs’) procurement decisions account for most of their carbon emissions and give rise to a suite of critical social justice concerns. Sustainable procurement offers a promising pathway …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Closing the Loop: Planning for Zero Waste on Campus
- Resource Recycling Systems (RRS) (MI)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
University waste diversion plans can be a critical piece for helping a campus achieve its waste diversion and climate impact goals. Through the process of conducting a waste diversion plan, …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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A Plan Within a Plan: Getting Specific About Waste
- Bentley University (MA)
- Casella (VT)
- GreenerU (MA)
This session will focus on how to leverage existing waste goals to create a detailed and actionable implementation plan. Climate action plans (CAPs) don’t always provide the detail necessary to …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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The Lore (And Lessons) of RFPs (Real F***Ing Projects)
- Macalester College (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- Winona State University (MN)
Come prepared to share stories of success and projects gone wrong! Writing compelling and clear request for proposals (RFPs) can increase the odds of receiving bids from the right partners. …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Zero Waste Campuses Meetup
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
This is a meetup for all students, staff, companies, and professionals that are working on campus Zero Waste efforts. Whether you're helping your campus achieve Zero Waste goals, or focusing …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Making the Argument: How Your Zero Waste Plan Can Save Money
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
How much does it cost to achieve zero waste? Developing the budget behind a Zero Waste Action Plan is a complicated endeavor. This isn’t just about potential cost savings by …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Designing Effective Zero Waste Standards
- George Mason University (VA)
- University of Virginia (VA)
As two of the largest universities in Virginia, The University of Virginia and George Mason University, we will share our experiences developing zero waste standards to improve diversion and contamination …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Have No Fear! Launching a Lab Plastic Recycling Program
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Are you hesitant or fearful of trying to tackle lab plastic waste? Labs can be scary places for sustainability staff sometimes, right? We’ve already got our hands full with our …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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A Collaborative Hackathon to Find Meaning in Waste Audit Data
- Busch Systems International Inc. (ON)
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- Harvard University (MA)
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Whether its energy management, standardized testing or baseball statistics, data analytics are universal to understanding and improving performance of any kind. Waste composition studies (“waste audits”) are the bedrock data …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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How Students Can Lead Campus Zero Waste Planning
- Macalester College (MN)
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
This presentation will be led by 3 current students at Macalester College who began working on Macalester’s Zero Waste Action Plan (ZWAP) in Fall 2023. At the time Macalester had …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Catalysts for Campus Circularity: Student-led Reuse Efforts that Spark and Sustain
- Augustana University (SD)
- College of Charleston (SC)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
What if campus reuse and circularity efforts could also build community, drive campus cultural change, and empower student leadership and advocacy? Four college campuses have done just that - harnessing …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Closing Keynote - Christopher M. Caldwell
- College of Menominee Nation (WI)
President of the College of Menominee Nation and an enrolled member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, Caldwell is a lifelong advocate for Indigenous sustainability thinking. With a career …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Opening Keynote - Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
- Urban Ocean Lab
Social movements can be fragile when they're helmed by a few prominent leaders. We need many leaders to accelerate this transformation from a fossil-fueled economy to a regenerative one…This is …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Keynote Panel: The Value of Sustainability in Higher Education
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- University of Texas at Arlington (TX)
- Wake Forest University (NC)
Dedee DeLongpré Johnston, Chief of Staff, Wake Forest University, and founder of its Office of Sustainability. Dr. Fiona Wilson, Chief Sustainability Officer and Executive Director of the Sustainability Institute, University …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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How a Student-Led Funding Board Distributes Its $1M Green Fund
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
The Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a student-led university funding board charged with distributing two student fees which comprise the Illinois Green Fund, …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Scrappy Sustainability: “Budget?! We Don’t Need No Stinking Budget!”
- Georgia State University (GA)
- University of Louisville (KY)
- University of Miami (FL)
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
Whether we are just launching our first sustainability initiatives or decades into the work, there are always opportunities on our campuses that we might be able to pursue even without …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Campus Dining – Innovations in Waste Minimization
- Bentley University (MA)
Working with dining is an excellent opportunity to build campus waste minimization programs. This session will highlight two innovative programs and give you an opportunity to brainstorm ways to engage …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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Buying, Cooking, Disposing: Collaboration in College Food Systems
- Macalester College (MN)
Where does our food come from? How is it consumed? What happens to the waste? Seniors Nurain Jiwani and Abby White have spent the last three years examining how food …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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The Power of Plant-Forward Menus in Achieving College and University Sustainability Goals
- Humane World for Animals (MD)
- University of Michigan (MI)
The growing concern for the environmental impacts of our food choices has prompted an increasing demand for plant-based options at colleges and universities. Our presentation covers the enormous potential of …
- Posted Sept. 30, 2026
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