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PARK(ing) Day!
- University of Louisville (KY)
PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists, and activists collaborate to transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places for a day ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Scholars Roundtable: Stimulating Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- University of Louisville (KY)
Learn about how one university has stimulated transdisciplinary research collaboration in sustainability and resilience, despite four major obstacles. First, sustainability can mean different things in different disciplines, preventing common understandings ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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“You Can’t Measure That!” Measuring Affective Learning Outcomes in an Undergraduate Urban Sustainability Course
- University of Louisville (KY)
Traditional classroom assessments are unable to measure students’ development of the affective competencies and behavioral dispositions implicit in education for sustainability. This original research addresses the question of how to ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Mindfulness in Energy Use: Course Participants Driving Conservation
- University of Louisville (KY)
Universities face an increasingly challenging financial landscape. In our state, government officials have cut funding for higher education for 12 years running. This budgetary crisis, combined with increasing enrollment, has ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Green Infrastructure at the University of Louisville
- University of Louisville (KY)
On August 4, 2009 a storm hit the University of Louisville with 7" of rain in 30 minutes. Although not located on a stream or river, flooding damage exceeded $22 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Partnership for a Green City - public partners promoting sustainability
- University of Louisville (KY)
The Partnership for a Green City is an innovative sustainabiity collaboration of a metropolitan research university, a large metropolitan school district and the merged municipal government, three of the largest ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Power and the Art of Weaving Sustainability into New Employee Orientation
- University of Louisville (KY)
Many of us are passionate about campus sustainability because we understand that important lessons are learned not only in classrooms, but in everyday surroundings and the broader campus culture. Students ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Think Outside The Car! - Surveying Commuter Choices
- University of Louisville (KY)
As a large urban institution with three distinct campuses, the University of Louisville has historically been a commuter school in a city built almost exclusively for cars. With about 9 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Creating Sustainable Urban Infrastructure One Seed at a Time
- University of Louisville (KY)
Rationale: Many students and universities are interested in the integration of sustainable systems but don't have a means to empower students, faculty and the wider community to take an ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Growing GRASS and other sustainability initiatives at University of Louisville
- University of Louisville (KY)
This panel will focus on the sustainability challenges that face a large commuter-based urban university and discuss efforts to overcome these obstacles. Using a three-pronged model of Encouraging Involvement, Inclusion ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research
- University of Louisville (KY)
The Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research promotes partnerships among the state's colleges and universities, private industries, and non-profit organizations to actively pursue federally and privately funded research and ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
- University of Louisville (KY)
The University of Louisville's Housing & Neighborhood Development Strategies (HANDS) is a multifaceted program bringing the University's resources to bear on the problems of an impoverished African-American neighborhood ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Master of Urban Planning
- University of Louisville (KY)
The Department of Urban and Public Affairs offers a Master of Urban Planning (MUP) degree in cooperation with the Department of Geography and Geosciences. The MUP Program prepares students to ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Earn-A-Bike Program
- University of Louisville (KY)
Changing commuting habits has been one of the thorniest sustainability issues for the University of Louisville, but we have finally begun to crack that nut through a popular, innovative program ...
- Posted April 11, 2014
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Weaving Sustainability into New Employee Orientation
- University of Louisville (KY)
At the University of Louisville, we took advantage of an existing, mandatory day-long New Employee Orientation to begin educating all new full-time employees about the fundamentals of sustainability, our institutional ...
- Posted July 2, 2012
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