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Climate Studies (BA)
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
The program in climate and environmental studies offers a highly unique major in climate studies and a minor in environmental and sustainability studies. The program provides a timely opportunity for …
- Posted Oct. 9, 2025
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Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) (BA)
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
Students in EES participate in field and laboratory work as an important part of their studies. The relatively small size of the faculty and student body allows many opportunities for …
- Posted Oct. 9, 2025
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Environmental and Sustainability Studies (Minor)
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
Human beings and their societies interact with and alter Earth’s natural environment. The environmental and sustainability studies minor allows the student to examine human interaction with the environment from the …
- Posted Oct. 9, 2025
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Environmental Science (Minor)
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
Environmental science is the study of how the earth’s natural environmental processes work, how they have been or can be modified by humans and society, and how such modifications impact …
- Posted Oct. 9, 2025
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Energy and Environmental Systems (Minor)
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
The minor in energy and environmental systems is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of the fundamentals of energy systems and their impact on the environment. The future …
- Posted Oct. 9, 2025
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So Local It Has an Accent: Vanderbilt University Campus Dining’s Local Suppliers Program
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
Vanderbilt University Campus Dining has long been a major advocate for increasing its local supplier purchasing. Officially beginning in 2010, VU Campus Dining has held partnerships with a wide variety …
- Posted Jan. 27, 2025
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Advancing Sustainability Initiatives Beyond Campus to Communities
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
- Clearloop (TN)
- Panola Partnership (MS)
As more higher education institutions seek to reduce their carbon footprints and implement sustainability goals, a new partnership between Clearloop and Vanderbilt University showcases climate and community leadership in action …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Zero Waste Master Plan
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
In September 2015, Vanderbilt embarked on a strategic planning process FutureVU to create a holistic and sustainable long-term vision for the physical development of the campus over 20 to 30 …
- Posted Dec. 16, 2022
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Climate change belief, sustainability education, and political values: Assessing the need for higher-education curriculum reform
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
Educational attainment is generally a strong predictor of belief in climate change, but prior research indicates that for political conservatives a college education is not always associated with increased belief. …
- Posted May 13, 2019
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Vanderbilt Green Fund (VGF)
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
The Vanderbilt Green Fund (VGF) was designed to systematically reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and improve the sustainability of Vanderbilt University by funding student-initiated projects with both environmental and economic …
- Posted Feb. 7, 2019
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Climate change and higher education: Assessing factors that affect curriculum requirements
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
Pervasive misinformation about climate change might be reduced if colleges were to include the topic within general education curriculum. This paper analyzes the general education (or “core”) curriculum in the …
- Posted Feb. 12, 2018
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Examining Interdisciplinary Sustainability Institutes at Major Research Universities: Innovations in Cross-Campus and Cross-Disciplinary Models
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- University of Arizona (AZ)
- Cornell University (NY)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of Michigan (MI)
- Duke University (NC)
- Columbia University (NY)
- Northwestern University (IL)
- Stanford University (CA)
- Princeton University (NJ)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
- Brown University (RI)
- Boston University (MA)
- Texas A&M University (TX)
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
This is a study of the disctintive characteristics, activities, challenges and opportunities of a specific type of sustainability institute, one that spans the many disciplines of the university and, to …
- Posted June 5, 2017
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Vanderbilt University FutureVU Expo
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
More than 800 students, staff, faculty and others stopped by the Wond’ry April 19 to learn about FutureVU, Vanderbilt’s campus land use planning initiative, and how the university’s built environment …
- Posted May 1, 2017
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Service Learning and Sustainability: Students prepare environmental risk assessment reports for urban homeowners in Nashville
- Tennessee State University (TN)
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
In 2010 the Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement at Tennessee State University (TSU), a historically black college, presented a proposal to the federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Teaching Sustainability & Fostering Change at Vanderbilt University
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
Sustainability is the most pressing educational issue of the twenty-first century. In a crisis prone world of limited resources and rapid change, colleges and universities play a vital role in …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Vanderbilt University Power Plant Conversion
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
Vanderbilt University's on-campus co-generation, dual fuel power plant was recently converted from using coal and natural gas to exclusively natural gas. The plant produces 23% of the University's electricity and …
- Posted June 4, 2015
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Water Conservation Makes Cents at Vanderbilt University
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
VU has retrofitted 492 low-flow faucets, low-flow toilets and waterfree urinals resulting in the savings of ~9.1 million gallons of water and $64,000 annually. Additionally, VU captured nonpotable water infiltrating …
- Posted June 21, 2010
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