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“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Northern State University (SD)
- University of Cincinnati (OH)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Teacher education is pivotal to advancing pedagogies, practices, and content knowledge that promote sustainability literacy in formal education settings. To explore preservice teachers’ (PST) readiness to implement transformative sustainability learning ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Systems thinking for systems leadership: promoting competency development for graduate students in sustainability studies
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Purpose: This paper aims to offer a case study for teaching specific systems thinking competencies that promote leadership for systems change. It uses leadership as a novel way to identify ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Landscape Architecture
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Landscape Architecture, a dynamic and complex field, is one of the most consequential design arts today. Landscape architecture has become one of today’s premier occupations, ranking among the best ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Pathways to Sustainability Minor
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Set in a student-centered learning community, the Pathways to Sustainability minor begins with an introductory two-course series focused on systems thinking across natural, social, and economic contexts. This is followed ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Civic Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) Minor
- Virginia Tech (VA)
The Civic Agriculture and Food Systems Pathways minor embodies a commitment to developing and strengthening an economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable agriculture and food systems through building community capacity, using ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Graduate Certificate in Economic Development
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Virginia Tech’s Urban Affairs and Planning Program offers a Graduate Certificate in Economic Development. It is designed for those who are interested in acquiring a basic understanding of urban ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Graduate Certificate in Environmental Politics and Policy
- Virginia Tech (VA)
This graduate certificate in Environmental Politics and Policy is designed for non-degree-seeking students and graduate students at Virginia Tech who wish to demonstrate special competence in the research area of ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Engineering students’ agency beliefs and career goals to engage in sustainable development: differences between first-year students and seniors
- Virginia Tech (VA)
- Purdue University (IN)
This paper aims to explore the differences in first-year and senior engineering students’ engineering agency beliefs and career goals related to sustainable development. The authors also sought to understand how ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Are LEED campus buildings universally designed? Assessments at Virginia Tech
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Purpose
As many of the next generation leaders are currently on college campuses, endorsing green buildings can foster environmental stewardship among the student body. However, marshalling in the social sphere ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Climate Action Commitment Roadshow Series
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Virginia Tech recently approved a revised version of the Climate Action Commitment. To educate the campus community about it, our Climate Action, Sustainability, and Energy (CASE) Office went on a ...
- Posted May 19, 2022
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Greening on-campus housing: blending commercial and higher education contexts
- Virginia Tech (VA)
With the United States higher education sector representing over five billion square feet and expending over six billion dollars annually on energy costs, the higher education institution has an opportunity ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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We Need the Leaders to Make it Happen
- Radford University (VA)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
The world is facing unprecedented sustainability challenges. While overcoming these challenges is daunting, it is reassuring to know that viable solutions already exist, and that in many cases we simply ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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University Stormwater Management within Urban Environmental Regulatory Regimes: Barriers to Progressivity or Opportunities to Innovate?
- Monash University (VIC)
- The Nature Conservancy (VA)
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- University of California, San Diego (CA)
- University of Louisville (KY)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
U.S. public university campuses are held directly responsible for compliance with many of the same federal- and state-level environmental regulations as cities, including stormwater management. While operating as ‘cities ...
- Posted Feb. 10, 2021
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The Power Game: Developing Influence and Negotiation Skills for Sustainable Development
- Virginia Tech (VA)
This paper describes the outcomes of a game designed to teach advanced leadership skills, specifically influence and negotiation strategies, to current and aspiring sustainability professionals at Virginia Tech’s Center ...
- Posted Feb. 10, 2021
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Empirical evidence that concept mapping reduces neurocognitive effort during concept generation for sustainability
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Sustainable development is a systems problem that requires a shift in thinking from individual parts to the relationships between them. Enabling those involved in the development process to more quickly ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Developing a Resilience Tool For Higher Education Institutions: A Must-Have in Campus Master Planning
- Virginia Tech (VA)
- Hanbury (VA)
Resilience has become a prominent topic in the planning and design industry over the past several years. States, cities and entire regions face an ever-growing threat of environmental and societal ...
- Posted April 30, 2019
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Measuring development of environmental awareness and moral reasoning: A case-study of a civil engineering course
- Virginia Tech (VA)
- University of Queensland (QLD)
- Swinburne University of Technology
Environmental awareness and ethical moral reasoning are important aspects of the engineering profession. Yet, engineering programmes have been struggling to teach these topics and measure the effectiveness of these educational ...
- Posted April 29, 2019
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Green RFP Program
- Virginia Tech (VA)
The Request for Proposal for Sustainability Initiatives by Student Organizations (Green RFP Program), was established in 2010 to give students an opportunity to help make Virginia Tech a national leader ...
- Posted Feb. 7, 2019
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Wicked Leadership Competencies for Sustainability Professionals: Definition, Pedagogy, and Assessment
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Sustainability professionals need specialized leadership competencies to effectively influence the complex, uncertain, conflicted, and dynamic (i.e., wicked) sustainability challenges of our time. Higher education programs can teach these leadership ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2018
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Teaching decision-making for sustainable infrastructure: a wind energy case study module
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Purpose This paper aims to introduce a case-based module teaching sustainable engineering, linking the Envision rating system with behavioral decision science. Three complete modules are publicly available in a repository ...
- Posted Nov. 13, 2018
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Blending Sustainability & Community Engagement in STEM: Models from 4 Diverse Universities
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- Stony Brook University (NY)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
- Villanova University (PA)
From diverse institutional perspectives, this interactive session explores community engagement through course-based sustainability projects done in collaboration with community partners. We will outline important opportunities and challenges of this work ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Teaching Sustainability in the Landscape Architecture Field
- Virginia Tech (VA)
The purpose of this mixed method study is 1) to describe the current status of sustainability teaching in the landscape architecture programs and 2) to explore landscape architecture faculty perspectives ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Pedagogy and Evaluation of an Envision Case Study Module Bridging Sustainable Engineering and Behavioral Science
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Designing for sustainability demands systems thinking and problem-based learning focused on the types of ill-structured problems found in the real world. The approach detailed in this paper uses the Envision ...
- Posted Oct. 23, 2018
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Boot Camp Trainees Pitch Ideas to Potential Employer
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Virginia Tech students Tyneshia Griffin and Virginia Pellington pitch their ideas to the Sustainability Boot Camp's Founding Partner, Trane, during an on-site Think Tank Challenge in Ashland, VA. The ...
- Posted July 30, 2018
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Watershed Management Graduate Certificate
- Virginia Tech (VA)
In the 21st century, challenges that relate to watershed management and the need to protect water quantity and water quality will be intensified in Virginia and the nation, owing to ...
- Posted June 28, 2018
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Water: Resources, Policy, and Management (BS)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Few undergraduate degree programs provide integrated training in water science, policy, and management; yet, professionals are required to have interdisciplinary expertise in these areas to solve critical problems facing society ...
- Posted June 28, 2018
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Environmental Science (BS)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
The Environmental Science program emphasizes ecosystem function and protection, land-use planning, waste management, water quality, recycling, decontamination, revegetation of disturbed sites, and agriculture's impacts on the environment.
- Posted June 28, 2018
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Crop and Soil Sciences (BS)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
The Crop and Soil Sciences program is focused on sustainable means of crop production, utilization of soils, and stewardship of the environment. It is concerned with feeding the world, protecting ...
- Posted June 28, 2018
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Environmental Policy & Planning (BS)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
The B.S. in Environmental Policy and Planning (EPP) provides students the opportunity to study environmental problems and their solutions from an interdisciplinary perspective involving humanities, natural and social science ...
- Posted June 28, 2018
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Academic Research in the 21st Century: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and Hypercompetition
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Over the last 50 years, we argue that incentives for academic scientists have become increasingly perverse in terms of competition for research funding, development of quantitative metrics to measure performance ...
- Posted June 20, 2018
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Teaching Engineering Students about Cognitive Barriers during Design for Sustainable Infrastructure
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Sustainability is a complex socio-technical challenge that requires new ways of thinking. To help meet this challenge, I have created three case-based modules that teach engineering students how to apply ...
- Posted April 11, 2018
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The Importance of Incentives and Grants for Green Buildings
- Virginia Tech (VA)
The aim of this manuscript is to reconsider the building lifecycle cost of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) buildings certified within the higher education sector. It adds to ...
- Posted March 29, 2018
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Searching for the Higher Ed Context in the Analysis of Green Building Costs and Benefits
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Green building certification on campuses is relatively new. When determining the financial feasibility of a certified green building at an Institution of Higher Education (IHE), the full building lifecycle perspective ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Connecting Community Partnerships with Curriculum to Strengthen Sustainability Education
- University of St. Thomas (MN)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
This session will discuss the role of community partnerships (CP) for strengthening sustainability education at the University of St. Thomas (UST), a liberal arts university, and Virginia Tech (VT), a ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Comparison of Occupant Behavior in a Traditional, Green Featured, and LEED Certified Building Case
- Virginia Tech (VA)
In developed nations, 20-40% of greenhouse gas emissions and more than one-third of energy consumption are attributable to buildings. Among various available strategies, the building sector has the greatest potential ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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High school experiences and climate change beliefs of first year college students in the United States
- Purdue University (IN)
- University of Virginia (VA)
- Oklahoma State University (OK)
- University of North Carolina, Charlotte (NC)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
- Florida International University (FL)
Climate change has not been well understood by high school students in the US and the topic is often connected to misconceptions, which is especially damaging since accurate understandings of ...
- Posted March 7, 2017
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Graduate Certificate in Natural Resources
- Virginia Tech (VA)
This 12-credit graduate certificate prepares natural resources, environmental, and sustainability professionals to succeed in a global, transboundary world. It includes 1 required course (Conservation Ecology) and 3 electives, giving students ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2017
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Graduate Certificate in Global Sustainability
- Virginia Tech (VA)
This 9-credit graduate certificate is designed for students and professionals seeking training and experience in international sustainable development, with a particular emphasis on environmental sustainability in emerging economies. Students pursuing ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2017
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Making Sustainable Development Real Through Role-Play: “The Mekong Game” Example
- Georgetown University (DC)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
This paper describes a role-playing, negotiation “game” based on the Xayaburi Dam in Laos. We have used this activity in our graduate programs as a tool for bringing to life ...
- Posted Feb. 20, 2017
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Barriers to adoption of campus green building policies
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Purpose - The focus of this paper is on environmental protection, specifically within the context of green building at institutions of higher education (IHEs). One major reason why many IHEs are ...
- Posted Feb. 7, 2017
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Sustainability Marketing and the Arts
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Briefly covers general popular advertising avenues on campus and ways to uncover new marketing platforms through faculty and staff engagement. Focus is placed on an interaction with the arts and ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Savings by Design: Implementing a Reusable To-Go Program with savings in mind.
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Virginia Tech Dining Services has implemented a robust Reusable To-Go container program with the help of partner campus organizations. The program is available at three dining centers and averages 3 ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Opening Keynote - Marc Edwards
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Marc Edwards is the Charles Lunsford Professor of Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech. A renowned expert on water contamination and MacArthur 'genius' grant recipient, Dr. Edwards led the research teams ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Engaging Undergraduates in Soil Sustainability Decision-Making Through an InTeGrate Module
- Santa Rosa Junior College (CA)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
- Wittenberg University (OH)
Continued agricultural productivity hinges on understanding how to manage soil resources. A 2-week undergraduate introductory-level module: A Growing Concern: Sustaining Soil Resources Through Local Decision Making was collaboratively developed through ...
- Posted Nov. 17, 2016
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The Virginia Tech Green RFP Program
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Student engagement is an important factor in advancing sustainability at Virginia Tech. The University created the “Request for Proposal for Sustainability Initiatives from Student Organizations Program (Green RFP Program)” to ...
- Posted June 9, 2016
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OZZI & Reusable To-Go Containers: Reducing Waste & Saving Money
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
This interactive and engaging session will highlight a new system of collecting reusable to- go containers via a machine called, OZZI. Panelists from diverse higher education institutions, student populations and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Expanding Sustainability Horizons - Educational Tourism and the Virtual Classroom
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Graduate and professional (non-credit) programs offered through Virginia Tech's Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability prepare students for careers in an increasingly interconnected, urbanizing, and global workplace by combining ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Building a Volunteer-Based Student Internship Program
- Virginia Tech (VA)
A student internship program is an excellent way to expand the efforts of sustainability offices and engage and train student leaders to be environmental professionals after graduation. However, many offices ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Lessons from Lama: The Importance of Community in Sustainability
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Sustainability creates communities. Or perhaps it is that communities create sustainability. We in the sustainability field have known for a long time that to get the job done, we need ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Boundary Crossing, Experiential Learning, and Sustainable Agriculture at Virginia Tech
- Virginia Tech (VA)
A diverse team of faculty, staff, students, and community partners collaborated to conceptualize, develop, and propose undergraduate curriculum for a transdisciplinary and experiential-based Civic Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) Minor ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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