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Put Your Best Report Forward: STARS Data Quality Boot Camp
- AASHE (MA)
Gain the tools you need to submit a high-quality STARS report in time for the Princeton Review and Sierra sharing deadline! Every STARS 2.1 report undergoes a standard collaborative …
- Posted Feb. 8, 2018
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Uncovering Risk in the Voluntary Carbon Market
- AASHE (MA)
- Urban Offsets, Inc.
Carbon offsets are often viewed by voluntary buyers as untrustworthy and providing little to no overall value to their core business. Six billion metric tons of carbon offsets trade annually, …
- Posted Feb. 1, 2018
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Don’t Get Left Out: Navigating New Processes for Sharing STARS Data with Sierra and Princeton Review
- AASHE (MA)
- Sierra Club (DC)
- The Princeton Review (MA)
Since 2012, AASHE has collaborated with Sierra magazine and The Princeton Review to allow colleges and universities to use the STARS Reporting Tool to share their sustainability data for potential …
- Posted Jan. 25, 2018
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Infusing Sustainability Principles and Practices into Study Abroad
- Concordia College-Moorhead (MN)
- Delta College (MI)
- Lawrence University (WI)
- AASHE (MA)
As colleges and universities simultaneously promote both sustainability and study abroad, it is vitally important to ensure that these initiatives are working in harmony. Infusing sustainability principles and practices into …
- Posted Jan. 18, 2018
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Building a Strong Local Foods Program for Your Campus
- Seattle Central College (WA)
- Smith College (MA)
- Towson University (MD)
- University of Vermont (VT)
- AASHE (MA)
- Farm to Institution New England (VT)
Food systems have become an increasingly important element of campus sustainability efforts and planning, with varying levels of commitment and institutionalization across campuses. This topic has a variety of focus …
- Posted Dec. 14, 2017
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Beyond Campus: Engaging Students in Sustainability, Resilience and Climate Policymaking
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- AASHE (MA)
- Elected Officials to Protect America (SC)
In the aftermath of President Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris Agreement, universities, cities, states, and companies have stepped up to lead. A coalition representing fully half the U.S. population …
- Posted Dec. 7, 2017
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Introducing the new STARS Peer Review Protocol
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
- AASHE (MA)
As part of our efforts to continuously improve STARS data quality, AASHE is considering implementing a new STARS Peer Review protocol beginning with the launch of STARS 2.2 in 2018. …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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State of the Association Address: AASHE Member Meeting
- AASHE (MA)
Come join the AASHE Board and Staff while we present the AASHE 'state of the organization' address. You'll hear highlights from the member survey, programmatic priorities, and AASHE's vision for …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Mentor Meet Up
- AASHE (MA)
Matched pairs of the Mentorship Program are invited to join us AASHE staff for a brief meeting immediately after the opening keynote. We'll say a few words about the program …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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AASHE International Networking Meeting
- Portland Community College (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
Members of the international community who are attending the AASHE conference and those who are interested in international issues are invited to join in a networking meeting to share challenges, …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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STARS Town Hall
- Colorado State University (CO)
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
- AASHE (MA)
This interactive session will feature a presentation from AASHE staff about the ongoing technical development of STARS and a high-level discussion about potential improvements to the program. This session will …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Breaking Through the "Green Ceiling": Sustainability as a Path to Executive Leadership
- Princeton University (NJ)
- University of Connecticut (CT)
- National Association of College & University Business Officers (NACUBO) (DC)
- AASHE (MA)
- Korn Ferry International (PA)
One way to measure the value of sustainability in higher education is to determine whether any of our more experienced and successful members have climbed the ladder and been promoted …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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EMERGE: Mindshifting Through Emergent Leadership
- AASHE (MA)
- The EMERGE Leadership Project (WA)
If mindset is the most important place to leverage change in an institution, that that’s the place we want to intervene, but our own mindset is as important if we …
- Posted Nov. 30, 2017
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Sustainability Academic Programs Database
- AASHE (MA)
AASHE’s academic programs listing is among the largest and most comprehensive public databases of academic programs in sustainability and related fields. It includes everything from professional certificates to doctoral degrees.
- Posted Nov. 30, 2017
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Black Hills State University recognized for sustainability projects
- Black Hills State University (SD)
- AASHE (MA)
Black Hills State University is one of three winners for the international AASHE Sustainability Awards. BHSU is being honored by AASHE for the Black Hills Food Hub, a program launched …
- Posted Nov. 30, 2017
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2017 Sustainable Campus Index
- AASHE (MA)
This publication highlights top-performing colleges and universities in 17 impact areas and overall by institution type, as measured by the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS). This report also …
- Posted Nov. 28, 2017
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Beyond the Right Thing to Do: The Value of Sustainability in Higher Education
- AASHE (MA)
This document is intended to help higher education sustainability practitioners more powerfully articulate the value of sustainability to higher education leaders as well as the general public. As different points …
- Posted Nov. 28, 2017
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Spreadsheet: Publications related to the role of access to nature in education
- Princeton University (NJ)
- University at Buffalo (NY)
- AASHE (MA)
- Dallas College (TX)
Response to a 11/6/17 GreenSchools listserv request for Academic literature concretely linking access to the natural environment and enhanced educational outcomes (e.g., an evidence-based assessment of correlations between exposure to …
- Posted Nov. 16, 2017
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The Key to Sustainable Purchasing - Radical Supply Chain Transparency
- Georgetown University (DC)
- Harvard University (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
- Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (MA)
By definition, you can’t really know what is happening in your institution’s supply chain if you don’t even know where your supply chain is. Yet, few purchasers demand that level …
- Posted Nov. 7, 2017
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Art and Science Collaboration: The Key to a Sustainable Future
- Antioch College (OH)
- Pacific Northwest College of Art (OR)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Camden Campus (NJ)
- AASHE (MA)
This webinar is dedicated to art and science collaboration. As this topic has increased in importance to both artistic and scientific communities, Art and Science Collaboration: The Key to a …
- Posted Nov. 2, 2017
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Education for Sustainable Development
- AASHE (MA)
Article recaps a survery co-sponsored by Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), that found that 75 percent or more believed strongly that the curriculum should include coursework on environmental sustainability, …
- Posted Nov. 1, 2017
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UNH gets top ‘green campus’ status
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- AASHE (MA)
Fosters.com article captures the University of New Hampshire's STARS Platinum achievement.
- Posted Oct. 25, 2017
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Highlights from the 2017 Higher Education Sustainability Staffing Survey
- AASHE (MA)
The 2017 Higher Education Sustainability Staffing Survey Report examines the nature of sustainability positions at colleges and universities, providing insights into salaries, funding, supervision, job satisfaction, challenges and more. AASHE …
- Posted Oct. 6, 2017
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Core Concepts for Teaching Sustainability: Using “Tips” to Deepen Learning across the Disciplines, Grade Levels and Cultures
- Colorado State University (CO)
- AASHE (MA)
Sustainability is one of those big, complex concepts that defy easy definition or simple responses yet demand attention to our collective well-being. Some Native Americans would judge the worth of …
- Posted Sept. 28, 2017
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Campus and Community Involvement in Move-Out Programs
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
- Wilfrid Laurier University (ON)
- AASHE (MA)
Classes end and our students vacate the rooms in their residence halls, cleaning up so that other students may become the new occupants. In the process, students discard lots of …
- Posted Sept. 22, 2017
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AASHE Award Winner Webinar – Generating and Maintaining Hope and Agency through Sustainability Education
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
- AASHE (MA)
Indigenous educator Gregory Cajete articulates the motivations and questions that drive the presenter’s research. For Cajete, effective education entails ‘finding heart,’ an active process within and beyond the person evident …
- Posted Sept. 14, 2017
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Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems and Communities: A Mindfulness-Based Pedagogy
- University of North Carolina, Asheville (NC)
- AASHE (MA)
Human and non-human communities have varying capacities to respond to disturbance while maintaining the same basic functions. That is the main argument behind resilience theory and practice, which seek to …
- Posted Sept. 11, 2017
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Redacted Data: 2017 Higher Education Sustainability Staffing Survey
- AASHE (MA)
For the first time, AASHE is making a redacted version of the Higher Education Sustainabilty Staffing Survey available to AASHE members for further analysis. Our hope is that this resource …
- Posted Sept. 1, 2017
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2017 Higher Education Sustainability Staffing Survey
- AASHE (MA)
The 2017 staffing survey report examines the nature of sustainability positions at colleges and universities, providing insights into salaries, funding, supervision, job satisfaction, challenges and more. This year’s survey and …
- Posted Sept. 1, 2017
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Preparing for Campus Sustainability Month 2017
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Chemeketa Community College (OR)
- University of Nebraska at Omaha (NE)
- AASHE (MA)
October is Campus Sustainability Month! Watch this webinar to gain ideas and inspiration for how you can leverage CSM to engage and inspire incoming students and other campus stakeholders …
- Posted Aug. 31, 2017
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Sustainability at Work: Finding Purpose and Profit in Your Career
- AASHE (MA)
- Engineers for a Sustainable World (CO)
This webinar provides career guidance for pursuing sustainability in every imaginable career. Using the SURF Framework that the presenter developed, and professional narratives from various sectors (agriculture, health, science & …
- Posted Aug. 17, 2017
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Greening the Heart of Postsecondary Education
- Royal Roads University (BC)
- AASHE (MA)
What does “greening the heart of education” look like at the postsecondary level? What are the big questions we must pose — and answer — if colleges and universities are …
- Posted Aug. 3, 2017
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How Are Campuses Harnessing Renewable Energy? New Report Tracks Trends in Higher Ed
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- AASHE (MA)
- Trio (CA)
As a whole, campuses are getting more energy efficient. But space growth counter-weighs these gains. Hundreds of campuses have onsite solar. But the arrays are small, and sometimes the SCRECs …
- Posted July 27, 2017
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How Federal Programs and Partnerships can Help Reduce Wasted Food on Campuses
- Central Michigan University (MI)
- AASHE (MA)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
Food is the single largest waste stream sent to landfills and incinerators each year in the United States –over 70 billion pounds, which accounts for 21 percent of Americans’ everyday …
- Posted July 25, 2017
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Not Business as Usual: Fostering Civic Engagement on Climate Change
- AASHE (MA)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
- Citizens' Climate Lobby (CA)
Scientists are in consensus that the world needs to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, and this cannot be accomplished by …
- Posted July 13, 2017
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Moving the Needle on Commute Mode through Transportation Demand Management (TDM)
- Cornell University (NY)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
- AASHE (MA)
Offering sustainable transportation options to students and staff is the easy part. What more can you do to foster improvements in sustainable commute mode share? Transportation demand management (TDM) professionals …
- Posted June 30, 2017
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Rethinking Thinking about Sustainability Curriculum
- AASHE (MA)
“You cannot solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it.” Albert Einstein
If a snap of the fingers could reverse the environmental destruction of the past …
- Posted June 9, 2017
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AASHE Green Power Projects Data Export
- AASHE (MA)
The Google Sheet includes a list of campus solar and wind power projects collected by AASHE. This includes those projects that were once part of the Solar Renewable and Wind …
- Posted June 5, 2017
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4 Simple Ways to Reduce Food Waste at Colleges
- University of Houston (TX)
- AASHE (MA)
- The Campus Kitchens Project (DC)
The average U.S. college student produces 142 pounds of food waste per year, adding up to hundreds of thousands of pounds wasted at each school. According to Julian Dautremont-Smith of …
- Posted June 2, 2017
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Put a Price on It: Bringing Higher Education into the Carbon Pricing Dialog
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- AASHE (MA)
This webinar explores the role of institutions of higher education in the emerging national carbon pricing dialog. Institutions of higher education have an immense capacity to educate a broad audience …
- Posted May 25, 2017
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Reduce the Juice – Saving Energy in Halls of Residence
- AASHE (MA)
- University of London
At the University of London, in England, we have launched a behaviour change programme aimed at students living on campus in the University’s halls of residence. The aim of the …
- Posted May 18, 2017
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Leveraging college sports to advance campus sustainability, stakeholder engagement, and community inclusion
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- AASHE (MA)
- Bonneville Environmental Foundation (OR)
By launching from collegiate sports’ high profile platform, sustainability efforts have the reach to more broadly engage stakeholders on and off campus and enhance sustainable behaviors among fans such as …
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Green Revolving Funds: A Guide to Implementation & Management
- Sustainable Endowments Institute (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
- ICF International (VA)
Green Revolving Funds: A Guide to Implementation & Management combines the expertise of energy professionals and college administrators from dozens of institutions to establish best practices for designing and managing …
- Posted May 11, 2017
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Greening Federal Grants: Why there is a need to connect efficiency to federal funding for research at universities
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- AASHE (MA)
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (CO)
This webinar will includes two parts: PART 1: The Department of Energy (DOE) will provide an overview of the DOE Smart Labs Accelerator Program which was launched at the 2016 …
- Posted May 4, 2017
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Leveraging Sub-Meter Data as Feedback to Engage Community Members and Save Energy on Shoestring Staffing and Funding
- Macalester College (MN)
- AASHE (MA)
Macalester College has leveraged no-cost and open-source solutions to provide feedback to community members while, simultaneously, informing facilities about energy-saving opportunities to further advance its sub-metering initiatives. Whether you find …
- Posted April 20, 2017
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Students see promise in careers in the business of sustainability
- Colby College (ME)
- College of the Atlantic (ME)
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
- AASHE (MA)
- International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) (OR)
Two small, isolated Maine colleges that focus on sustainability and the environment know they aren’t for everyone.
Students have to work in the local community, where they experience the real …
- Posted April 20, 2017
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Empowering the New Energy Workforce: Best Practices for Campus Energy Education & Internships
- California State University, Bakersfield (CA)
- College of the Desert (CA)
- Skyline College (CA)
- Strategic Energy Innovations (CA)
- University of California, Merced (CA)
- AASHE (MA)
Hear first-hand from a diverse set of California colleges that are creating student internships and work-based learning opportunities to support energy and sustainability career pathways. This webinar highlights campus outcomes, …
- Posted April 17, 2017
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Using Model-Based Reasoning and Experiential Learning to Understand and Improve Sustainability in a Campus Food System
- Warren Wilson College (NC)
- AASHE (MA)
The webinar describes an introductory sustainability course at Warren Wilson College that explores the campus food system. Warren Wilson College has a sustainable dining policy and has adopted the Real …
- Posted April 7, 2017
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How to Reduce Your School's Carbon Footprint – For Free!
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
- AASHE (MA)
- TerraPass (CA)
UCapture offsets users’ carbon footprint, for free, when they shop with 2000+ partners. Their platform harnesses the power of consumers to build the “cost of carbon” into every transaction – …
- Posted April 3, 2017
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Green Gigawatt Partnership: Reinventing Renewable Power Purchase Agreements for Higher Education
- AASHE (MA)
- Trio (CA)
The higher education renewable energy market has grown dramatically in recent years as campus buyers have executed power purchase agreements (PPAs). But for all of the successes, two substantial obstacles …
- Posted March 30, 2017
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