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Rewild Your Campus with the Green Grounds Certification
- Seattle University (WA)
- University of Northern Iowa (IA)
- AASHE (MA)
- Re:wild Your Campus (TX)
- PJC Organic (MA)
Re:wild Your Campus’s Green Grounds Certification offers a new pathway for schools to reduce synthetic pesticide usage and implement organic grounds maintenance practices. This webinar will guide participants ...
- Posted Sept. 29, 2023
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Supplier Diversification program: Increasing procurement spending with diverse businesses
- Seattle University (WA)
Seattle University wants to lead a paradigm shift in how local, large institutions do business. The university specifically intends to address the gap between businesses in the local Black community ...
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Lightning Talks: Student Organizing & Activism
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Creighton University (NE)
- Harvard University (MA)
- Seattle University (WA)
This session consists of 3 15-minute Lightning Talk sessions related to student organizing and activism. The Lightning Talks are: Campus ESG: Development of Student-Run Sustainable Investing at Arizona State University ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Improving Campus Sustainability With RenewSU
- Seattle University (WA)
With the goal of reaching zero waste by 2025, our group teamed up with Seattle University's Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability and the Facilities Department to create a ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Climate Action Plan
- Seattle University (WA)
This Climate Action Plan (CAP) is intended to guide Seattle University in furthering its commitment to sustainability and to addressing climate change. The university envisions a campus community in which ...
- Posted Oct. 6, 2021
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Organic University Landcare Management with Sustainability Professionals
- Seattle University (WA)
- University of Tennessee System Office (TN)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- AASHE (MA)
- Re:wild Your Campus (TX)
As we look to the future of making universities a safe space for all–students, groundskeepers, community members and more–we discuss the ways university staff and students are creating ...
- Posted May 12, 2021
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Decoupling responsible management education: Do business schools walk their talk?
- Berry College (GA)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- Kennesaw State University (GA)
- Seattle University (WA)
- University of Mississippi (MS)
- Western Michigan University (MI)
Corporate scandals in recent decades have prompted business schools to advance programs to better develop the next generation of responsible business leaders. Despite these efforts, some scholars have raised concerns ...
- Posted Feb. 19, 2021
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Center for Environmental Justice & Sustainability
- Seattle University (WA)
CEJS serves as a clearinghouse for Seattle University’s environmental programs and sustainability initiatives. If you have any questions about CEJS, campus sustainability, CEJS events, or have an interest in ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Examining environmental fan engagement initiatives through values and norms with intercollegiate sport fans
- North Carolina State University (NC)
- Seattle University (WA)
The United Nations has asserted that sport organizations and/or allied sponsors can influence fans to engage in more sustainable behaviors intentions at sporting events and at home; however, more ...
- Posted June 13, 2019
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Seattle University’s Decision to Divest from Fossil Fuels
- Seattle University (WA)
One of Seattle University’s largest accomplishments in sustainability leadership has been the university’s recent decision to divest from fossil fuels. In September 2018, after six arduous years of ...
- Posted May 13, 2019
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Formation and Function of a Collegiate Athletics Sustainability Committee
- Georgia State University (GA)
- Seattle University (WA)
- University of Florida (FL)
Institutions of higher learning may be considered dual-identity organizations because of the perceived distinctiveness between universities’ academic and athletic missions. One way in which these barriers can be weakened is ...
- Posted May 6, 2019
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Sustainable Business Certificate
- Seattle University (WA)
The Sustainable Business Certificate will prepare you to lead firms to achieve acceptable profitability, while reducing their environmental footprints and assuring ongoing contributions to their communities. There are options to ...
- Posted Dec. 21, 2018
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Marine and Conservation Biology (BS)
- Seattle University (WA)
The bachelor of science (BS) major in marine and conservation biology allows students to develop an appreciation for the marine environments and ecology and conservation efforts. The curriculum includes several ...
- Posted Dec. 21, 2018
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Environmental Studies Minor
- Seattle University (WA)
Environmental Studies coursework in the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to critically assess and address complex environmental challenges.
- Posted Dec. 21, 2018
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Environmental Engineering Minor
- Seattle University (WA)
The Minor in Environmental Engineering provides a strong foundation in the areas of mathematics, basic and engineering sciences, and the humanities and social sciences.
It encourages further self development and ...
- Posted Dec. 21, 2018
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Environmental Science Minor
- Seattle University (WA)
The Environmental Studies minor has coursework in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, plus Geographic Information Systems.
- Posted Dec. 21, 2018
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Civil Engineering with a Specialization in Environmental Engineering (BS)
- Seattle University (WA)
The civil engineering program provides a strong foundation in mathematics, basic and engineering sciences, the humanities and social sciences. The environmental specialization gives prepares students for a career in developing ...
- Posted Dec. 21, 2018
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Fair Trade Fair at Seattle University
- Seattle University (WA)
In 2015, Seattle University was the first University in the Pacific Northwest to be designated as a Fair Trade University, building awareness about Fair Trade and getting Fair Trade products ...
- Posted Aug. 3, 2018
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Comparing Faculty and Student Sustainability Literacy: Are We Fit to Lead?
- Seattle University (WA)
The importance of teaching sustainability literacy is readily accepted, but relatively little attention has been paid to the adequacy or preparation of faculty to accomplish this task. At Seattle University ...
- Posted June 29, 2018
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Is Going Green Worth It? Assessing Fan Engagement and Perceptions of Athletic Department Environmental Efforts
- North Carolina State University (NC)
- Ohio University (OH)
- Seattle University (WA)
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which environmentally themed activities within an intercollegiate sport context impact fan engagement. A total of 557 fans responded to ...
- Posted May 3, 2017
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Seattle University On-Site Composting Facility
- Seattle University (WA)
In 2002 Seattle University (SU) built a state-of-the-art, on-campus composting facility. The composting facility is a unique, sustainable, closed-loop system that processes pre-consumer food and yard waste that is produced ...
- Posted April 20, 2017
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Advances in Greening College Sports to Leverage Campus Sustainability, and White House Support of Sports and Climate Action
- Seattle University (WA)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- Green Sports Alliance (OR)
This year, AASHE and the Green Sports Alliance jointly developed a comprehensive Collegiate Athletics Sustainability Survey to shed new light on the state of sustainability in collegiate athletics-and how this ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Seattle University Wellbeing & Work Initiatives
- Seattle University (WA)
The LiVE (Lead, Inspire, Value, and Enrich) wellness program at Seattle University is designed to reward employees for taking the small steps that lead to healthy habits. Employees can earn ...
- Posted Sept. 14, 2016
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Seattle University - Sustainability Video
- Seattle University (WA)
Published on Jun 9, 2014
As a Jesuit institution, Seattle University is called to ground its teaching, research and service in social and environmental justice. Sustainability is a way of ...
- Posted April 28, 2016
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Sport Sustainability Leadership Certificate at Seattle University
- Seattle University (WA)
The first of its kind in the world, the fully online Certificate in Sport Sustainability Leadership addresses the global concern for increased environmental and ecological sustainability in the sport industry ...
- Posted April 22, 2016
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Sport Sustainability Leadership Certificate (online)
- Seattle University (WA)
The first of its kind in the world, the Certificate in Sport Sustainability Leadership addresses the global concern for increased environmental and ecological sustainability in the sport industry. We empower ...
- Posted April 22, 2016
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In-Room Composting at Seattle University
- Seattle University (WA)
Presentation will cover the the process of implementing an in-room composting system that includes all student residence rooms. It will start with the collecting pre-consumer food waste in the University ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Business and Social Justice: Review and Analysis
- Seattle University (WA)
BACKGROUND: Today we academics consider ‘sustainability’ to encompass social impacts and resulting justice implications as well as environmental impacts and long-range implications, but in the realm of ‘Sustainable Business,’ the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Literacy--Assessment Development by Carl Obermiller & April Atwood
- Seattle University (WA)
Introduction This presentation will provide an overview of the ‘measuring sustainability literacy’ project that is underway at Seattle University. A sustainability literacy scale (SUstlit) has been developed, tested, and refined ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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From Creating a Carbon Footprint Baseline to Achieving Climate Neutrality: A Structured Approach to Meeting your ACUPCC Goals
- Seattle University (WA)
- University of Central Oklahoma (OK)
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)
- Johnson Controls, Inc (WI)
- City of Saint Anthony Village (MN)
Panelists will discuss how their ACUPCC activities have been couched within a broader master planning context, an energy management program context, and a dedicated process focused on meeting the terms ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Big Ideas and Faculty Learning Communities: A Strategy for Integrating Sustainability across the Curriculum
- Peninsula College (WA)
- Seattle University (WA)
- Evergreen State College, The (WA)
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
If sustainability perspectives and practices are to become part of college graduates' thinking, they must start appearing across the curriculum in ways that are meaningful for students. In the Puget ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Global Perspectives for a Sustainable Campus Master Plan
- Seattle University (WA)
- Mithun (WA)
The growth in sustainable initiatives on campuses has focused on the physical environment with an emphasis on green buildings. As the President's Climate Commitment collects a growing list of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Environmental Science (BS)
- Seattle University (WA)
The Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science degree at Seattle University provides the technical background necessary for students who wish to develop a career studying environmental systems. The major provides ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Environmental Studies (BA)
- Seattle University (WA)
Students develop a broad, interdisciplinary environmental perspective through the courses in the Environmental Studies core—those courses required of all our majors—and cultivate a more focused expertise in a ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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5 kW Rooftop Array: Admissions & Alumni Building
- Seattle University (WA)
The Admissions & Alumni building's rooftop solar panels generate 3% of the building's electrical needs. The Student Center has solar panels mounted on a pole, the south wall ...
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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5 kW Rooftop, Wall and Pole Mount Arrays: Student Center
- Seattle University (WA)
- Seattle City Light (WA)
Seattle University's solar electric installation was a joint effort between seniors in the School of Science and Engineering and the Facilities department. The students determined the best location for ...
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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