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Addressing Climate Anxiety through Resilience and Community Building
- Portland Community College (OR)
Sustainability and climate work require resilience to fend off burnout and avoidance. While our college does good work promoting sustainability through our Climate Action Plan and curricular and co-curricular environmental ...
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Integrating Climate Justice and Climate Change Into Curricula Through Community-Based Learning
- Portland Community College (OR)
Portland Community College’s 2021 Climate Action Plan: Resiliency, Equity and Education for a Just Transition calls for the college to support and encourage students to engage with sustainability and ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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AASHE International Networking Meeting 2021
- Portland Community College (OR)
- University of Texas at Arlington (TX)
Members of the international community and anyone interested in international issues or collaboration are invited to join in our annual networking meeting to share resources, explore challenges, and highlight ideas ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Fun with Food Systems: Creative Ways to Increase Food Sovereignty and Build Community Remotely
- Portland Community College (OR)
Food shortages skyrocketed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and community college students were notably affected. Normal campus supports such as in-person food pantries, learning gardens, and our campus ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Creating an Equity-Based Climate Action Plan Through Stakeholder Engagement
- Portland Community College (OR)
- GreenerU (MA)
Many college campuses are looking for paths to climate neutrality - that is - reducing and sustaining zero-emissions operations. Climate action planning is one strategy to achieve this goal. But a straight ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Keynote Presentation with Heather McGhee
- Portland Community College (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
Heather McGhee designs and promotes solutions to inequality in America. She is the author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (2021 ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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International Networking Meeting
- Portland Community College (OR)
Members of the international community and anyone interested in international issues or collaboration are invited to join in a networking meeting to share resources, challenges, and ideas from our countries ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Racial Equity and Social Justice Essay Series: Resources for Higher Education Staff on Understanding Key Concepts...
- Boston University (MA)
- Portland Community College (OR)
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- AASHE (MA)
Better understanding, supporting, and addressing racial equity and social justice issues as they relate to sustainability work in higher education is paramount in creating institutions that welcome and nurture intellectual ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Incorporating Social Equity Considerations into Sustainability & Climate Action Planning
- Portland Community College (OR)
Equity is playing an increasing role in the process of sustainability and climate action planning. Asking 'Who benefits?' and 'Who gets to decide?' from the outcomes is a critical component ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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No Sustainability Without Justice, Volume I
- AASHE (MA)
- Harvard University (MA)
- University of Vermont (VT)
- University of Oregon (OR)
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- Portland Community College (OR)
AASHE’s advisory committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion conceived of No Sustainability without Justice: An Anthology on Racial Equity and Social Justice as a way to share guidance around ...
- Posted Oct. 29, 2021
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PCC Student Leader with Climate Rally Sign
- Portland Community College (OR)
A student leader at Portland Community College's Cascade campus shows off the sign they made for the youth climate rally during PCC's annual Eco-social Justice Day event. This ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2021
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PCC Students Visit Portlandia Farmstandia
- Portland Community College (OR)
Students shop for fresh veggies and honey harvested on campus while visiting Portland Community College's farm stand, also referred to as Portlandia Farmstandia. This photo was taken prior to ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2021
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Farm Animals Among Solar Panels at PCC Rock Creek
- Portland Community College (OR)
Talisman the guard llama and other farm animals graze between the solar panels at Portland Community College's Rock Creek campus.
- Posted Aug. 30, 2021
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Unpacking the ESD for 2030 Toolbox
- Portland Community College (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
The “ESD for 2030” roadmap highlights the urgent challenges facing the planet and aims to increase the many ways that education can help build a more just and sustainable world ...
- Posted May 27, 2021
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Incorporating Social Equity and Climate Justice into Climate Action Planning in Higher Education
- Portland Community College (OR)
Portland Community College’s 2021 Climate Action Plan: Resiliency, Equity and Education for a Just Transition (the CAP) centers people at the heart of creating benefits and solutions to the ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Diversity Definitions - Portland Community College
- Portland Community College (OR)
This is a list of Portland Community College Mission Priority Terminology published by the PCC Office of Equity and Inclusion.
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Tim Wise: Higher Education's Urgent Imperative to Become Antiracist
- Portland Community College (OR)
Timothy Jacob Wise is an American anti-racism activist and writer and is among the nation’s most prominent antiracist essayists and educators. He has spent the past 25 years speaking ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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COVID-19 & Sustainability Discussion: Recap & Reflection
- Emory University (GA)
- Portland Community College (OR)
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- The New School (NY)
- University of Missouri (MO)
- AASHE (MA)
During the month of April, AASHE will be leading a discussion series for our community to engage with one another to talk through opportunities and challenges related to COVID-19 and ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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ESD for 2030: The Future Depends on Us!
- Portland Community College (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
- Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network (GPSEN) (OR)
The United Nations has established a new decade, beginning in 2020, focused on the power of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). “ESD for 2030” calls for educators to help advance ...
- Posted Jan. 23, 2020
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Social Justice Connections: Mapping Sustainability, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion on Campus and in the Community
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- Portland Community College (OR)
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
Examining connections between sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts is essential for advancing environmental sustainability and social justice together. The AASHE Advisory Council's Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Committee ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Exploring Allyship and Connections Between Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion & Social Justice
- Bentley University (MA)
- Green Mountain College (VT)
- Portland Community College (OR)
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
- Universidad de Monterrey
- Fair Trade Colleges & Universities
No one inherently knows everything about diversity and inclusion work, but this work can also be a challenging place to experiment, because mistakes hurt others and in this space, impact ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Foodies in Sustainability Education
- Portland Community College (OR)
In this workshop we will connect and exchange ideas on how best to utilize food to teach sustainability across disciplines. Food has a central place in individual lives, community culture ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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International Networking Meeting 2019
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- Portland Community College (OR)
Members of the international community and anyone interested in international issues or collaboration are invited to join in a networking meeting to share resources, challenges, and ideas from our countries ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Turning the Page: A Behavior Change Toolkit for Reducing Paper Use
- Portland Community College (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
- Root Solutions (CA)
In 2017, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) and Root Solutions, with funding from the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund, created the Turning the Page ...
- Posted Nov. 6, 2019
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Hope and Empowerment: Navigating Grief, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice Through Train-the-Trainer Workshops
- Portland Community College (OR)
- Portland State University (OR)
- Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network (GPSEN) (OR)
In these times of accelerating change, environmental crises, and social injustices, we are bombarded with negative news that can numb and overwhelm the spirit. How can we build hope and ...
- Posted May 20, 2019
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Learning Garden construction at Portland Community College's Cascade Campus
- Portland Community College (OR)
Portland Community College Staff and students teamed up to plant a new learning garden on Portland Community College's Cascade campus. Learning gardens already exist at three of PCC's ...
- Posted May 17, 2019
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PCC, Sustain Me! A Higher Education Sustainability & Environmental Justice Podcast
- Portland Community College (OR)
This has been an ongoing project that has blossomed from a local/regional production and has now been promoted, recognized, listened to, and presentations have been given nationally and internationally ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2019
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Eco-Social Justice Grant (formerly The Green Initiative Fund)
- Portland Community College (OR)
The Eco Social Justice Grant is funded through student fees and administered by a student majority governance board in collaboration with the Sustainability Department. It has provided over $1 million ...
- Posted Feb. 7, 2019
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Climate Action Fund
- Portland Community College (OR)
The Portland Community College (PCC) Climate Action Fund (CAF) supports climate action goals while further advancing the college’s leadership in sustainability. Projects are awarded to improve the college’s ...
- Posted Feb. 7, 2019
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Universities as Catalysts for Transformative Sustainable Change
- Agnes Scott College (GA)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- Emory University (GA)
- University of Georgia (GA)
- Portland Community College (OR)
- Spelman College (GA)
This session will explore how universities can serve as anchor institutions in their communities, advancing their own goals and regional sustainability at the same time, through education about and implementation ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Student Funded Initiatives & the Intersections of Social Justice & Sustainability
- Portland Community College (OR)
This is going to address clear and tangible ways students can have agency and autonomy over some of their Student Activity Fees in order to create more than just a ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Education as the Engine for the Global Goals
- Portland Community College (OR)
In 2016, 750 experts from around the world came together in Ahmedabad, India, to drill down into each of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), or Global Goals, to identify how ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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International Networking Meeting
- Portland Community College (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
Members of the international community who are attending the AASHE conference and those who are interested in international issues are invited to join in a networking meeting to share resources ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Addressing Sustainable Development Goals: Non-profit, Campus and Community Collaborations
- Portland Community College (OR)
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
With a theme of 'Global Goals: Rising to the Challenge,' this year's conference examines the role of higher education in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This workshop ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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How to Podcast Your Way to a More Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Just Future
- Portland Community College (OR)
In this session we'll be looking at the journey of starting a Higher Education Sustainability Podcast and how it can be something that could benefit nearly every college or ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Student Funded Initiatives & the Intersections of Social Justice & Sustainability
- Portland Community College (OR)
This is going to address clear and tangible ways students can have agency and autonomy over some of their Student Activity Fees in order to create more than just a ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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PCC Earth (Extended) Week events across the district!
- Portland Community College (OR)
A look at a couple great moments from this years extended Earth Week! There were so many events, service projects, and good times to choose from that I'm going ...
- Posted April 30, 2018
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Environmental Studies Bachelor
- Portland Community College (OR)
Environmental Studies is the interdisciplinary field that incorporates social sciences, mathematics, chemistry, biology, and geology in order to examine the interactions between human beings and the natural world.
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Sustainability Focus Award
- Portland Community College (OR)
The Sustainability Focus award recognizes students who have completed a broad range of sustainability related courses. The award is designed to encourage students to learn to see environmental issues from ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Engaging Across Boundaries: The Power of Civic Engagement in Sustainability
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- Portland Community College (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
- Campus Compact (MA)
Speakers will offer an introduction to the broader concept of civic engagement and will share experiences, best practices, models and frameworks:
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in setting up a a multiple semester student engagement ...
- Posted March 27, 2018
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Gaining Hope and Resilience During Troubling Times
- Portland Community College (OR)
Learning about environmental, social, and economic sustainability issues can be daunting and overwhelming, especially when considering how to create solutions to pressing problems. In these times of accelerating change and ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Advancing Innovation through Sustainability Research and Scholarship
- Portland Community College (OR)
During this monumental time in history, it is essential to be educated, connect with good people, find hope, and discover new ways to make a difference. To do so, the ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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AASHE International Networking Meeting
- Portland Community College (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
Members of the international community who are attending the AASHE conference and those who are interested in international issues are invited to join in a networking meeting to share challenges ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Utilizing the Garden to Integrate Community-Based Learning in the Classroom
- Portland Community College (OR)
The purpose of this presentation is to explore, discuss and reflect on Community-based Learning (CBL) as a form of civic education utilizing a school learning garden or community garden. CBL ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Sustainability Planning: Year One Into Implementation
- Portland Community College (OR)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (VA)
- University of Virginia (VA)
Virginia Commonwealth University began drafting their sustainability plan in 2015. The planning process relied heavily on input from both internal and external stakeholders. The planning process was so inclusive and ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Sustaining Food and Housing Insecure Students on College Campuses
- Portland Community College (OR)
Food insecurity or the lack of reliable access to sufficient quantities of affordable, nutritious food is common at colleges and universities across the country, undermining the educational success of thousands ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Finding the Sustainability Sweet Spot: Where Operations and Education Converge
- Portland Community College (OR)
- University of Calgary (AB)
Education for sustainable development requires an interdisciplinary approach. Yet, few organizations are ready to embrace the dynamism that breeds collaborative academic success. Like academic disciplines, college operations are too frequently ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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From the Southeast to the UN: Reflections from GA & SC on Applying for and Launching New Regional Centres of Expertise
- Coastal Carolina University (SC)
- Emory University (GA)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- Portland Community College (OR)
Using sustainability education as a platform for building community and catalyzing social and environmental change in our regions has never been more important than it is right now. Sustainability education ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Portlandia Farmstandia
- Portland Community College (OR)
Student volunteers and learning garden staff host the first farm stand of the season, affectionately known as Portlandia Farmstandia, at Portland Community College Rock Creek campus.
- Posted Oct. 14, 2017
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Give bees a chance!
- Portland Community College (OR)
Portland Community College's sustainability director gives away pollinator education swag during Earth Week!
- Posted April 27, 2017
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