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Geography (BA)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
The geography curriculum at Rutgers provides the technical training and theoretical grounding to meet today’s environmental challenges while encouraging students to envision the world of the future in which ...
- Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Environmental Planning (BS)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
The Environmental Planning curriculum provides a broad educational experience emphasizing an understanding of planning and management of the physical and cultural environments. The program strives to consider our relationship with ...
- Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Sustainable Global Food Systems (Minor)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
The Minor in Sustainable Global Food Systems (18 credits) is designed for students who wish to expand their understanding of issues and challenges facing food systems that bridge the boundaries ...
- Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (Certificate)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
Climate Risk & Resilience certificate is open to professional masters’ students as well as research-based Masters and Ph.D. students. This program focuses on the theories, methods, knowledge, and practical ...
- Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Using Strategies Elites Understand: Divestment as an Approach to Social Change
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- University of Southern California (CA)
Over the past 50 years, student activists and community organizers on college campuses have advocated for divestment as a strategy to enact necessary change. These activists and organizers are often ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Community-responsive scholar-activist research: conceptualizing capacity building and sustainability in a Northern California community-university partnership
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- University of California, Davis (CA)
- University of California, Merced (CA)
We critically examine the ongoing development of a collaborative, responsive, activist research process between academics and farmworkers. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with community-based researchers and scholar-activists, we assess our team ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Engaged Learning in the Landscape
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
Land grant institutions have historically used the campus landscape as a classroom and laboratory for teaching, research and outreach on agricultural topics. Contemporary challenges urged us to expand this model ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Student representations and conceptions of ecological versus social sciences in a conservation course
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
There is consensus among scientists that it is important that students understand the nature of science (NOS) and are competent in using primary literature to support understanding of complicated environmental ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Coalition building to create university-wide change
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Camden Campus (NJ)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark Campus (NJ)
Two years ago, we formed the Rutgers Sustainability Coalition, a student-led group of representatives from about 20 student organizations working together to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We ...
- Posted May 20, 2019
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RU Sustainable event series
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
RU Sustainable events are designed with the purpose of bringing together faculty, students, and staff to engage with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). As described on the ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Rutgers Energy Institute
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
The Rutgers Energy Institute (REI) has four main purposes: to educate undergraduate and graduate students, to pioneer in energy research and innovation, perform community outreach to share information and engage ...
- Posted May 8, 2018
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Graduate Certificate in Energy
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
The Graduate Certificate in Energy is offered by the Rutgers Energy Institute to graduate students in a large variety of graduate programs at Rutgers. During the program, students are required ...
- Posted May 8, 2018
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Renewable and Alternative Energy Projects at Rutgers University
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
The presentation Informs you about various Renewable and Alternative Energy projects Rutgers University has done.
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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What should every citizen know about ecology?
- Radford University (VA)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- St. Petersburg College (FL)
The level of ecological literacy among the general population in the US and other countries is not known, although there is widespread concern that it is too low to enable ...
- Posted Feb. 13, 2017
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Rutgers University Online MPA – Specialization in Nonprofit Management
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
A great education starts with a great curriculum. The public administration degree from Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) gives students a broad understanding of the field and ...
- Posted Dec. 16, 2016
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Recycling as a result of “cultural greening”?
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- The College of New Jersey (NJ)
Purpose This study aims to test whether faculty and students who have developed the most pro-environmental values and concerns are also the most likely to reduce the on-campus waste stream ...
- Posted July 18, 2016
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The engaged university: providing a platform for research that transforms society
- National Science Foundation
- USDA (IL)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- Georgetown University (DC)
- Stanford University (CA)
- Boston University (MA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- University of Maine (ME)
- Florida International University (FL)
- New York University (NY)
Despite a growing recognition that the solutions to current environmental problems will be developed through collaborations between scientists and stakeholders, substantial challenges stifle such cooperation and slow the transfer of ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Environmental Analysis and Communications Group
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
EAC is a University-based center of research, outreach, training and service focused on the analysis and communication of environmental issues facing communities, governments, businesses and organizations.
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Rutgers Center for Green Building
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
Housed at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, the Rutgers Center for Green Building, forms a common umbrella for existing and proposed initiatives being carried out ...
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Center for Energy, Economic & Environmental Policy (CEEEP)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
The Center for Energy, Economic & Environmental Policy (CEEEP) conducts applied research to evaluate and help develop energy policy at the state, regional, national, and international levels. The Center explores ...
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Rutgers Climate Institute
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
The Rutgers Climate Institute is a University-wide effort to address one of the most important issues of our time through research, education and outreach. The Institute draws upon strengths in ...
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Concentration in Sustainability (Master of Business & Science)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
The Master of Business & Science with a concentration in Sustainability is designed to help students identify, analyze and better understand connections among social, environmental, technological and economic systems. Designed ...
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Human Dimensions of Environmental Change Graduate Certificate
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
The Department of Human Ecology coordinates an interdisciplinary graduate certificate on human dimensions of environmental change. A collaboration among faculty from several graduate programs, the certificate program allows students to ...
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Minor in Environmental Policy, Institutions, and Behavior
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
Students in this minor take a foundational course in Introduction to Human Ecology and 6 additional courses from a list of options.
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Environmental Policy, Institutions and Behavior (BS)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
Environmental Policy, Institutions and Behavior (EPIB) examines the human dimensions of environmental problems. It addresses such issues as how human actions affect the environment; how societies adapt to changes in ...
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Minor in Sustainability
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
Students in this minor complete 3 foundational courses, a practicum course, and a course in each of the following areas of inquiry: Resource Management Systems; Governance; and Economics and Social ...
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Moving Beyond the Hole: From Waste Stream to Resource Stream
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- GreenerU (MA)
- Waste Management (TX)
Solid waste management on campuses has gone from containers on the curb hauled to a hole in the ground, to iterations of recycling, to the once previously unfathomable and now ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Greening the Supply and Purchasing Chain
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- Chlorine Free Products Association (IL)
This presentation will address the need for third party accountability in the process of greening the supply chain. It will describe reliable information sources that are used in setting standards ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability = Survival
- Northwestern University (IL)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- Chlorine Free Products Association (IL)
- Cascades Tissue Group (NY)
We are all working to do our best to move toward sustainable practices that are supported via our purchasing. So we will have a panel made up of managers of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Master of City & Regional Planning
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
The Master of City and Regional Planning (M.C.R.P.) degree is generally recognized as the professional degree in the field. The M.C.R.P. program prepares students ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Environmental Planning Certificate
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
Environmental planning requires the integration of environmental information into the planning process and is concerned with the protection and enhancement of environmental systems while meeting demands for growth and development ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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AASHE Student Diary Series: The GREEN Life
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
This is the story of three Rutgers University students with a simple idea born in the hopes of educating and showing their peers the ever-expanding world of renewable energy. Three ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Rutgers Solar Canopy Array
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
The project consists of installing an 8.01 MW solar Canopy array over 28 acres of parking lots on its Livingston Campus. This solar array provides 50% of the power ...
- Posted May 17, 2013
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8 MW Solar Canopy (28 Acres)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- SunPower Corp (CA)
Covering 28 acres of parking lot at the Livingston Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, this is one of the largest solar canopy energy systems in the ...
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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1.4 MW Solar Field
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- SunDurance Energy (NJ)
Nearly half of the $10 million cost of the project – $4.9 million – will be subsidized by a rebate through the NJ BPU (Board of Public Utilities) Clean Energy Program ...
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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