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Environmental Policy & Decision Making (Bachelors)
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
EDPM is a field of study that focuses on how individual and collective decisions interact with the environment. This includes a critical examination of the social, political, economic, and scientific …
- Posted Oct. 9, 2025
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Environmental Arts & Humanities (Bachelors)
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
The Environmental Arts and Humanities major is a secondary major that can be chosen only after a primary major in another field is chosen. A major in Environmental Arts and …
- Posted Oct. 9, 2025
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Major in Earth and Environmental Science (BS)
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
This degree trains students as scientists with the skills to connect human environmental impacts to policy and management. Students develop a fundamental understanding of Earth’s systems (land, climate, water, biota) …
- Posted Oct. 9, 2025
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Environmental Policy and Decision Making (Minor)
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
This minor focuses on how individual and collective decisions interact with the environment. This includes a critical examination of the social, political, economic, and scientific contexts for decision making and …
- Posted Oct. 9, 2025
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Beyond Excuses: Banning Bottled Water on Your Campus
- Eastern Washington University (WA)
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
Over 100 North American universities have enacted policies banning bottled water and promoting tap water as a more preferable choice. This workshop will outline the steps of banning bottled water, …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Greeks Go Green: Promoting Student Sustainability via Social Media
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
Greeks Go Green is an annual Instagram competition between our Greek houses where they post pictures of themselves performing sustainable actions throughout campus. The sustainable actions can be anything from …
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Grizz's Garage: Dorm Item Resale
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
During Spring Move-Out, students donate their unwanted but still usable dorm items, such as shower caddies, rugs, and hangers, and then the items are re-sold to first-year students during Fall …
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Is My Recycling Bin Full? Yep, there’s an App for that.
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
While technology is allowing for greater expediency and efficiency of recycling operations; one area that is in most need of a technological upgrade is our ability to know when a …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Food Systems Northwest: A collaborative traveling summer course
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
- Willamette University (OR)
Around the country, scholars are beginning to recognize the centrality of food and agriculture in questions of sustainability, social justice, economic development, and international affairs (Poppendleck, 2000; Hinrichs 2003; Werkerle, …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability across the Curriculum: Promising Strategies
- Skagit Valley College (WA)
- Evergreen State College, The (WA)
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
- Western Washington University (WA)
- Whatcom Community College (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 not only meaningful for students; sustainability …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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How do the arts and culture fit in the undergraduate sustainability curricula?
- Pacific Lutheran University (WA)
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
How do the arts and culture fit in to sustainability curricula? This briefing will inform participants about efforts to highlight and increase the role of arts and culture in Xavier …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Washington State Higher Education Sustainability Coalition Meeting (2014)
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
Individuals from Washington state higher education institutions attended this business lunch held by the Washington State Higher Education Sustainability Coalition (WAHESC). During this session, WAHESC advisory committee members discussed the …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Navigating by the STARS: Using STARS to Re-Organize Campus Decision-Making
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
This session examines the evolution of sustainability efforts in higher education from principle-based proclamations such as the Talloires Declaration, to goal-based agreements such as the Presidents Climate Commitment, to metric-based …
- 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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To the Heights: Sustainability at the University of Puget Sound
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
In a city with 37 inches of annual rainfall, effective stormwater management in the Tacoma region is essential to a safe water supply and healthy Puget Sound. The effects of …
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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