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Creating or Improving Green Office and Lab Certification Programs: Best Practices
- California State University, Stanislaus (CA)
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- AASHE (MA)
If your institution is considering creating a Green Office Certification Program (GOCP) or improving an existing one, you have company. In 2019, several universities and colleges were in the same …
- Posted July 22, 2021
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Higher Education’s Crucial Role: Building a Sustainable and Circular Economy
- Barnard College (NY)
- Association of College and University Housing Officers - International (OH)
- APPA: Leadership in Educational Facilities (VA)
- Society for College and University Planning (MI)
- AASHE (MA)
- Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association (IN)
- Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (MA)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
- Rheaply, Inc (IL)
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Join this webinar to learn how the circular economy* can help shape better procurement decisions and ways in which you manage your campus, facilities and supply of goods and services. …
- Posted July 1, 2021
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How Can Sustainability Education More Effectively Equip Students to Become Change Agents?
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- AASHE (MA)
Advancing sustainability, whether in one’s dorm, on a college campus, in a community, or at national and global levels, means enabling change, and educating change agents. Many sustainability competencies and …
- Posted June 11, 2021
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Climate Friendly Cooling Pledge and New Regulations Affecting Universities: Opportunities and Implications
- Bard College (NY)
- Yale University (CT)
- AASHE (MA)
- Project Drawdown (CA)
- The Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (DC)
Action is needed now by college staff in facilities, EHS, sustainability, student life, business offices, auxiliary services, housing, dining, planning, and procurement. Changes within all these staff areas to manage …
- Posted June 3, 2021
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Unpacking the ESD for 2030 Toolbox
- Portland Community College (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
The “ESD for 2030” roadmap highlights the urgent challenges facing the planet and aims to increase the many ways that education can help build a more just and sustainable world …
- Posted May 27, 2021
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Organic University Landcare Management with Sustainability Professionals
- Seattle University (WA)
- University of Tennessee System Office (TN)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- AASHE (MA)
- Re:wild Your Campus (TX)
As we look to the future of making universities a safe space for all–students, groundskeepers, community members and more–we discuss the ways university staff and students are creating solutions to …
- Posted May 12, 2021
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Webinar: Cleaning for Health: Using Natural Aqueous Ozone as an Alternative to Traditional Cleaning Chemicals
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
- AASHE (MA)
Please join us for this informative, lively discussion on the benefits of using natural aqueous ozone to clean higher education facilities instead of traditional chemical-based cleaners. Three highly knowledgable presenters–a …
- Posted April 29, 2021
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Mindfulness for Alleviating Climate Anxiety
- Santa Fe College (FL)
- AASHE (MA)
During the pandemic, many of us working remotely have experienced zoom fatigue, isolation, body aches and general exhaustion. A great way to feel relaxed yet energized is through the practice …
- Posted April 15, 2021
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Secrets for a Strong Course Affiliation Program
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- AASHE (MA)
This event is part of the AASHE Award Winner Webinar Series, featuring a presentation of the Campus Sustainability Achievement Award winning project.
What are the secrets to a strong course …
- Posted March 31, 2021
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Behavioral Strategies To Ditch Desktop Printers
- AASHE (MA)
- Root Solutions (CA)
Replacing individual desktop printers with shared ‘multi-function’ printers (MFPs) is one of the most impactful ways campuses can reduce paper use. It also generates a suite of other benefits, including …
- Posted March 26, 2021
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Webinar: Greenspace Town Halls and Make-A-Thon
- University of Central Florida (FL)
- AASHE (MA)
This event is part of the AASHE Award Winner Webinar Series, featuring a presentation of the Student Sustainability Leadership Award winning project.
This webinar will outline the Greenspace Sustainability Design …
- Posted March 25, 2021
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Mapping the (mis)alignment of HEIs with sustainability
- AASHE (MA)
This event is part of the AASHE Award Winner Webinar Series, featuring a presentation of the Campus Sustainability Research Award winning project.
Science, technology, and innovation have been recognized as …
- Posted March 18, 2021
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Sustaining a Community Garden
- Palo Alto University (CA)
- AASHE (MA)
In 2016, Palo Alto College launched a survey campaign to identify the most pressing issues for student retention and learning. The results showed that one of the most pressing issues …
- Posted March 10, 2021
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Vertically Integrated Projects for Sustainable Development (VIP4SD)
- AASHE (MA)
- University of Strathclyde
As we enter the Decade of Action on these global goals, the VIP4SD program provides a platform for HEIs to leverage the unique access they have to the enthusiasm, idealism …
- Posted March 3, 2021
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Engage in Climate Solutions: Help Get the Climate Policies We all Need
- AASHE (MA)
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
Do your students and staff want to do something more for climate change that creates a large positive impact? The Beyond Doom and Gloom: Climate Solutions initiative is collaborating with …
- Posted Feb. 24, 2021
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Intersectional Sustainability and Student Activism
- Southwestern University (TX)
- AASHE (MA)
In recent decades, universities have made significant progress toward environmental sustainability and have likewise tightened their budgets and restructured economic models in the name of financial sustainability. However, institutions of …
- Posted Feb. 4, 2021
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Reducing Dining Emissions: An Analysis of Beef and Milk Substitutions
- Smith College (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
The life cycle of food is responsible for over a quarter of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through production, processing, distribution, and waste. The environmental impact of specific foods varies …
- Posted Jan. 28, 2021
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Approaches to SDG-Based Curricular Pathways and Research Communities
- AASHE (MA)
- University of Toronto (ON)
- Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (MD)
Universities are increasingly being called to develop integrative approaches toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their research, educational, and operational capacities. This webinar will present on …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2020
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Higher Education Institutions: Partners in Social & Economic Community Resilience
- Central Community College (NE)
- University at Buffalo (NY)
- Second Nature (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
This webinar is is brought to you by the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) with support from Second Nature and the American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP).
There is …
- Posted Oct. 29, 2020
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Developing University-Initiated Offsets and Using Peer Verification
- Duke University (NC)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of California, Davis (CA)
- AASHE (MA)
The Offset Network is an online platform for colleges and universities considering the development of their own emission-reducing projects to fulfill carbon neutrality commitments. Self-generated offsets offer greater flexibility than …
- Posted Oct. 15, 2020
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9 Things You Can Do This Week to Address Racial Equity, Social Justice, and Sustainability
- AASHE (MA)
9 things you can do this week to address racial equity, social justice, and sustainability on your campus or at your organization.
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Just Sustainability - Julian Agyeman Keynote from AASHE 2010 Conference
- AASHE (MA)
Julian Agyeman Keynote from AASHE 2010 Conference.
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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The Connected Classroom of the Future
- North Carolina State University (NC)
- University of Connecticut (CT)
- AASHE (MA)
- Legrand North America, LLC (CA)
Today’s higher education campuses are expected to prepare students for success in an increasingly connected world. Students, lecturers, and staff are seeking dynamic classroom experiences and new spaces to create …
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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ASHRAE Guidelines & Solutions for University Energy Programs Going Forward
- Weber State University (UT)
- AASHE (MA)
- DLR Group (WA)
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing university energy and sustainability teams to overcome new challenges in managing energy costs and reaching reduction goals. All three course delivery formats, in-person, remote, and …
- Posted Sept. 24, 2020
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Scaling the Ladder: Engagement Programs as Tools for Sustainability
- McGill University (QC)
- AASHE (MA)
There is often tension between the focus on individual behavioral action and systemic change in sustainability circles. How do we encourage the small steps that engage community members on a …
- Posted Sept. 17, 2020
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Racial Equity, Social Justice & Sustainability Discussion Series: Session 4
- Mount Holyoke College (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
Panelists discussed and reflected on the three earlier sessions that explored racial equity, social justice and its intersection with sustainability. Open Q&A took place throughout the recap session.
- Posted Sept. 11, 2020
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Racial Equity, Social Justice & Sustainability Discussion Series: Session 3
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
- AASHE (MA)
Panelists discussed how the only way to eradicate racism is to do the personal work of becoming antiracist and leverage our voices. Anyone who is not willing to do the …
- Posted Sept. 11, 2020
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Racial Equity, Social Justice & Sustainability Discussion Series: Session 2
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
- AASHE (MA)
- Power Shift Network (DC)
- RE Tech Advisors (VA)
Panelists discussed how we can’t continue to package sustainability efforts in the same way, but rather that we need to include the lens of racial equity and social justice (RESJ).
- Posted Sept. 11, 2020
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Racial Equity, Social Justice & Sustainability Discussion Series: Session 1
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
- Mount Holyoke College (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
Panelists discussed how Sustainability and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion managers need to work together, as well as the need to address how sustainability managers can elevate their status and have …
- Posted Sept. 11, 2020
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Higher Education for Sustainability after the Sh*t Hits the Fan
- West Chester University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- AASHE (MA)
This webinar will engage participants in deep dialogue and a thought experiment aimed at articulating transformational climate initiatives and generating momentum for overcoming barriers to action. The science tells us …
- Posted Sept. 10, 2020
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Sustainability Education in the Food-Energy-Water-Nexus
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
- AASHE (MA)
- Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (MD)
Worldwide, there has been growing interest in research, education, and discourse around the FEW-Nexus, which serves as a framework to describe and aid in addressing complex coupled human-natural systems and …
- Posted Aug. 27, 2020
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Data File: 2020 Higher Education Sustainability Staffing Survey
- AASHE (MA)
Along with publishing the 2020 Staffing Survey Report, AASHE is continuing in the tradition of making respondent data from the 2020 Higher Education Sustainability Staffing Survey available to AASHE …
- Posted Aug. 24, 2020
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2020 Higher Education Sustainability Professionals Survey & Report
- AASHE (MA)
The 2020 report presents the results of the 2020 Higher Education Sustainability Professionals Survey, and serves as an update to our 2017 report. It examines the nature of sustainability positions …
- Posted Aug. 24, 2020
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Arrive as Intern, Depart Further on the Path to Sustainabilista
- Auburn University (AL)
- AASHE (MA)
Change will not happen because we care about or understand sustainability issues. Change will happen because we are equipped and empowered to act on what we care and know about. …
- Posted Aug. 20, 2020
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#MakeClimateaClass: Resources for Online Education on Climate Solutions and Justice
- Bard College (NY)
- AASHE (MA)
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
Solve Climate by 2030 is mobilizing US educators of any discipline to engage their students in dialog about ambitious stabilizing the climate over the next decade. This project offers a …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2020
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Restoring College Sports Amid COVID-19: Leveraging Climate Action
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- University of Miami (FL)
- Wake Forest University (NC)
- AASHE (MA)
As college sports programs plan their recovery from Covid-19 impacts, leveraging existing campus assets and fan preferences opens up sports sustainability operations that generate revenues, cost savings, and significant campus/community …
- Posted Aug. 4, 2020
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Reframing the Climate Conversation: Telling the Story to Bring About Productive Climate Action
- Ramapo College of New Jersey (NJ)
- New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability (NJ)
- AASHE (MA)
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
This webinar is is brought to you by the New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability (NJHEPS), the FrameWorks Institute and the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation …
- Posted July 30, 2020
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On-Campus Composting: How to Start, Evolve, and Overcome Challenges
- Colorado State University (CO)
- Fort Lewis College (CO)
- Princeton University (NJ)
- St. John's University, New York (NY)
- Western Michigan University (MI)
- AASHE (MA)
Is your campus considering starting an on-site composting program, but doesn’t know where to start or which system to choose? Or does your campus want to grow its program or …
- Posted July 16, 2020
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STARS Aligned: Using the Sustainability Tracking Assessment & Rating System to Report on Contributions to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
- AASHE (MA)
This guide demonstrates how institutions can use the Sustainability Tracking Assessment & Rating System (STARS) to report on their contributions to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.
- Posted July 13, 2020
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A Holistic Approach and Model for a Sustainable Food System
- Harvard University (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
The Harvard Office for Sustainability (OFS) convened a multi-disciplinary committee of world-renowned faculty to translate their research into action on campus to create a more sustainable food system that contributes …
- Posted July 9, 2020
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The Intersection of Safety and Sustainability
- University of Georgia (GA)
- AASHE (MA)
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
Co-hosted with the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) – a network of higher education associations with a commitment to advancing sustainability within their constituencies and the entire system of …
- Posted June 25, 2020
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Racial Equity & Social Justice Resources for the Sustainability in Higher Education Community
- AASHE (MA)
This collection of racial equity and social justice resources includes links to programs and resources related to solidarity and messaging, understanding racial/social/environmental justice, race and sustainability, anti-racism, prominent influencers, podcasts, …
- Posted June 24, 2020
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Connecting Food Security, Community, and Sustainability
- AASHE (MA)
- Daytona College (FL)
At a time when college costs continue to climb considerably faster than general inflation and more students are facing food insecurity, tying food security to sustainability can show students the …
- Posted June 12, 2020
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Teaching Local Sustainability Online
- Prescott College (AZ)
- AASHE (MA)
- Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (MD)
While online learning may conjure up images of isolated students alone at their computers, this medium also provides ways to help people become locally engaged in the creation of sustainable, …
- Posted June 4, 2020
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Curriculum, Sustainability and Success: Your Curriculum Needs a Reality Check
- AASHE (MA)
- Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (MD)
This webinar is part of the joint SCC — AASHE series of webinars on sustainability in the curriculum
"Your Curriculum Needs a Reality Check" Wednesday, March 4, 2020 3:00 pm …
- Posted May 28, 2020
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Doing Good While Doing Your Job – Moving Toward a Circular Economy (during this time of Coronavirus)
- Stony Brook University (NY)
- AASHE (MA)
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (DC)
- Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (MA)
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Brought to you by the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) and its members – a network of higher education associations with a commitment to advancing sustainability within their constituencies …
- Posted May 28, 2020
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No budget? No mandate? No problem! Sustainability from the Inside-out
- San Mateo County Community College District Office (CA)
- AASHE (MA)
Establishing a sustainability program is new, exciting and often arduous. Sustainability professionals, especially in higher ed, however, have proven resilient, resourceful and audacious despite lacking resources and organizational buy-in. At …
- Posted May 21, 2020
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COVID-19 & Sustainability Discussion: Recap & Reflection
- Emory University (GA)
- Portland Community College (OR)
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- The New School (NY)
- University of Missouri (MO)
- AASHE (MA)
During the month of April, AASHE will be leading a discussion series for our community to engage with one another to talk through opportunities and challenges related to COVID-19 and …
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Using a Solutions Lens to Engage Students on the UN Global Goals
- AASHE (MA)
- Babson College (MA)
Today more than ever, students need to learn not only how society is working to solve its most challenging problems, but also how to think critically and creatively about solutions. …
- Posted May 14, 2020
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Staff Engagement: Embedding Sustainability into Campus Culture and Operations
- University of Calgary (AB)
- AASHE (MA)
Empowering staff to become campus sustainability leaders can be challenging. Concerns about time commitment, competing workplace priorities, and support from senior leaders can make working with staff different from engaging …
- Posted May 14, 2020
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