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Engaging Beyond the Sustainability Circle
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Our universities have the potential to create diverse ways of producing sustainable change both on and off campus. This student summit presentation would be a collaborative brainstorm cafe of ways ...
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MinuteEarth: Sustainability Science Education through Online Videos
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
We propose to discuss the diversity of approaches to sustainability science education. As one example, we will share some of our MinuteEarth videos (https://www.youtube.com/minuteearth) with the ...
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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Bike Tour
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Participants - limited to 20 - will take the Green Line light rail from DT Mpls. to the University's East Bank station. Once on campus, participants will be provided with bikes ...
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Ark of the Anthropocene a model for preservation and survival in a changing climate
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Sean Connaughty has been making biosphere floats, they are self sustaining ecosystems that float in water. they range from seven feet in diameter to a few inches. The largest of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Degrees to Careers: A Case Study on How Letting Students Work with Professionals Prepares them for Life After Graduation
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
In the Spring of 2014, a group of students from various disciplines at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities partook in the DOE Challenge Home Student Design Competition. Throughout the ...
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Innovations and lessons learned in distributed graduate education on sustainability science: a replicable teaching model
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
We present innovations and lessons learned from teaching a distributed graduate seminar on sustainability science across multiple institutions in Latin America and the US. Sustainability science is a problem-driven science ...
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Sustainable polymers in the undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The topic of plastics and their negative effect on the environment and human health is a relevant and important topic appropriate for the diverse population of students enrolled in a ...
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Mitakuye oyasin (All My Relations): Manifesting Sustainability through Cultural Understanding
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Culture provides the structure for how we interact with our natural environment. For centuries, proclaiming a religious right to manifest destiny has justified actions that have enabled cultural values which ...
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Integrating sustainability education and workforce development: filling the gaps in research and education
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The green economy remains a poorly defined and it remains unclear what a green economy would look like. The most optimistic outlooks argue that it will be built on a ...
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Collective Action and Sustainability
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Sustainability problems including climate change, hyper-consumption, water stress, deforestation, etc. are all wicked problems. A few underlying elements are pervasive in these sustainability issues. Each problem is at a scale ...
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Sustainable Systems Management Curriculum
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
A new Sustainable Systems Management major is being planned for implementation in Fall 2015 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities for the first time. The context surrounding the introduction ...
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Cornercopia Student Organic Farm at The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Cornercopia is an organic farm that provides students hands-on whole farm learning opportunities, food for the local community and a place for community building, multi-disciplinary education, research and outreach. Started ...
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Student Farms and Gardens Meet-up
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Come meet Students, Staff and Faculty Members who work with Student Farms and Gardens at their Universities. We will exchange ideas about what's working, what's not and brain ...
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Custom Brewery Tour with Taste Twin Cities
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Join us for a fascinating behind the scenes insight into Minneapolis's local beers and what local breweries looks, sound and smells like. This tour is great for people visiting ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus Sustainability Tour
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus Sustainability Tour will take participants on a sustainability focused tour through all three distinct campuses in the Twin Cities. Stops on the Sustainability ...
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Urban Farming and Sustainable Agriculture Tour
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Participants will board a mini coach and names will be checked off tour registrant list before departing MCC. Enjoy an afternoon of eating, learning, and touring the fields at six ...
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Diversity & Inclusion in Campus Sustainability - A Networking Meeting to Explore Intersections
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
For sustainability projects to engage people across diverse identities, it is crucial for people who work on sustainability to commit to developing an atmosphere that is welcoming, respectful and in ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Food Systems Education: New Approaches for a Global Scope
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The University of Minnesota-- Twin Cities is home to several innovative courses in food systems. Despite differences in mode and focus of instruction, a key commonality among these courses is ...
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It doesn’t have to be LEED to be green
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
In the summer of 2013 the University of Minnesota completed construction on the 17th Avenue Residence Hall. The facility was built to meet the State of Minnesota’s sustainable building ...
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Smart Labs: Because no one wants a dumb one
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The University of Minnesota’s 2011 Climate Action Plan identified laboratory energy consumption as a key driver of campus emissions and as a prime opportunity for reducing those emissions. At ...
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Pack & Give Back: A Sustainable Move Out Program for On and Off Campus
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Pack & Give Back is a household waste diversion effort at the end of each semester for students moving out of on-campus residential hosing and in neighborhoods adjacent to campus ...
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Growing Sustainable Economies: From Seeds to Restaurant Tables
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The case study presentation, Growing Sustainable Economies: From Seeds to Restaurant Tables, located at and near Gandhi Mahal in Minneapolis, will tell the story of a special educational and business ...
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Immersion Education: Transcending Psychological Barriers to Action
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
In this briefing, we will bring together some of the best thinking on psychological barriers to action at local and global scales from the American Psychological Association and combine it ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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SELFsustain
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of Minnesota System Office (MN)
This panel will provide a glimpse into multiple approaches universities can apply to nurture resilient communities. Large public land grant institutions are especially rich with opportunity to apply interdisciplinary perspectives ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Incubation of a New Suite of Courses in Food Systems
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Five innovative new courses at the University of Minnesota--Twin Cities focus on issues of changing food systems and global sustainability. Responding to student interest, the courses developed independently. Even as ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Building Resilient Communities through Community-University Partnerships
- Saint Mary's University of Minnesota (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of Minnesota System Office (MN)
The University of Minnesota builds resilient communities throughout the state: At scales from neighborhood to community to regional to statewide; In duration, from months to semesters to year-long to multi-year ...
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Can we Feed the World Without Destroying It?
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment (IonE) offered an innovative new course on the global challenges of agriculture, taught by Director Jon Foley and IonE colleague, Barrett ...
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Greening the Athletic Enterprise: A Journey
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Intercollegiate athletics are a large part of many institutions’ physical footprints, a core part of institutional identity, and among the most prominent interactions higher education institutions have with the general ...
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The Sustainable City Year Program: An Adaptable Model for Large Scale, University Engagement and Impact
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
In 2012, AASHE recognized the University of Oregon’s Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) leaders with the Faculty Innovation Award. The award recognized the Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP), which the ...
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Playing Like A Team: Advancing Campus Sustainability By Greening Sports
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- Green Sports Alliance (OR)
- Natural Resources Defense Council (DC)
With help from organizations such as AASHE and the U.S. EPA, colleges and universities across the nation are implementing campus-wide sustainability programs to enhance their environmental performance. Many of ...
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Motivating People Toward Sustainability: Applying Psychological Science to Green Behavior
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Achieving sustainability on university campuses requires engaging and changing the behavior of students, faculty, administrators, staff, and other members of the university community. New programs can suffer unexpected roadblocks if ...
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Sustainable Food Systems: From the Classroom to the Field
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Sustainable food system courses are uniquely situated to incorporate traditional, liberal-arts pedagogies and soft skills, with innovative experiential teaching techniques that engage students in different ways than traditional methods. The ...
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Building a World-Class Bicycle Commuter Program in an Age of Austerity
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- Dero Bike Rack Co. (MN)
Imagine a $4 electronic bicycle tag that automatically and reliably verifies and logs bike trips in real time. And then imagine: Health insurance companies that give payments to bicyclists; Retailers ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Making Every Drop Count - Impact of Irrigation Retrofit at the U of Minnesota
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
In the spring and summer of 2012 our university is conducting a joint applied research project with The Toro Company to evaluate the impact of optimizing irrigation control systems and ...
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Mentoring Student Workers to Increase the Potential for Advancing Sustainability
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Traditional mentorship models, similar to traditional internship models, often feature a top-down relationship with knowledge flowing in one direction. In this model a power structure is established that can make ...
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Supporting and Strengthening Student Work Through Statewide Networks
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Statewide networks for young people working on sustainability are sprouting up across the country. They are connecting, supporting, and amplifying the work of young people who are advancing sustainability on ...
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Students Step Up Sustainability in Minnesota's Cities: the Green Step Cities Project
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Students from University of Minnesota - Twin Cities create sustainability plans and actions in Minnesota as part of the Sustainability Studies Minor capstone course. With faculty direction, students work on city ...
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Towards a Zero Plus Campus
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The Zero Plus Campus Project (Z+ Project) is developing an innovative interdisciplinary curriculum focused on modeling the performance of the buildings integrated in the landscape to regenerate the campus environment ...
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Engaging Communities in Planning for Sustainability: Lessons from Community-University Partnerships in the Twin Cities
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The Community Growth Planning Assistance Center (CGPAC), housed at a university in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan region, provides land-use planning assistance to local communities on the developing edge of the ...
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Engaging Students to Generate a Zero Plus Campus
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The Zero Plus Campus Project (Z+ Project) is developing an innovative interdisciplinary curriculum focused on modeling the integrated performance of buildings in the landscape to regenerate the campus environment with ...
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The Resource Recovery Pilot: A Recycling Rehab
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Although the recycling rates have been slowly increasing over the past few years, we are not satisfied with the current rate and began to look for new ways to jump-start ...
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Community organizing for energy conservation: The Power Police
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The Power Police is a project of the Energy Efficiency Student Alliance (EESA) and Energy Management. The Power Police install powerstrips, timers, and light switch stickers in consenting offices during ...
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When virtue's not enough: rewarding sustainable transportation choices through improved bicycle infrastructure and wellness programs.
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
In this session you'll learn how the University of Minnesota leveraged federal funds to construct the University Bike Center, a facility that gathered in one place all those things ...
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The Forgotten Art: Art Toxins and Safety
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Dining plays a central role in campus life, as has been reflected in a plethora of recent dining-related initiatives—from trayless cafeterias to composting to community gardens on campus. A ...
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Designing Sustainability Curricula to Foster a New and Diverse Generation of Leaders
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of Vermont (VT)
- Queen's University
Utilizing case studies of sustainability curricula at multiple universities, we will engage in a dialogue on how to educate a new generation of leaders on interdisciplinary sustainability thinking for a ...
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University of Minnesota System-Wide Sustainability
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Put a cougar, a bulldog, a gopher, and an eagle in one room - do you find sustainability? You betcha!
The University of Minnesota community has created new, regional models of ...
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Sustainability Internship Course Best Posters
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
In a Sustainability Internship course offered at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus, students designed posters telling the story of their experiences interning at non-profits, local government offices, businesses ...
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Sustainability Internship: Developing a Sustainable Design Document for the University of Minnesota
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Sustainability requires collaboration. The University of Minnesota's Sustainability Studies minor internship promotes collaboration between students and professionals to work together to further sustainable efforts. My specific assignment was with ...
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Sustainability Science at a Land Grant Institution: Linking Community Visioning and Scientific Analysis
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The need for academic researchers to have meaningful co-learning experiences with leaders in the broader community has been highlighted in much of the literature on sustainability. Scientists and community leaders ...
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