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Sustainability and the Humanities
- Canterbury Christ Church University
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
This book explores the strong links between sustainability and the humanities, which go beyond the inclusion of social sciences in discussions on sustainability, and offers a holistic discussion on the ...
- Posted Sept. 7, 2018
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Professional Skills in Sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- AASHE (MA)
There is often a mismatch between the learning outcomes of higher education programs and the professional skills required for sustainability jobs. This webinar provides an overview of professional skills in ...
- Posted Sept. 6, 2018
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Campus Sustainability Month 2018: Nonpartisan Engagement and the November Elections
- National Association of Independent Colleges & Universities (DC)
- AASHE (MA)
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
The theme for this year’s Campus Sustainability Month is Nonpartisan Engagement and the November Elections. Please join AASHE and the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) as we explore ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Food, Energy, & Water in Society Minor
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
The Food, Energy, and Water in Society (FEWS) minor, will provide integrated, multidisciplinary, learner-centered instruction in science and science-informed decision-making about FEW issues. The FEWS minor is designed to offer ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Energy Sciences Minor
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
The Energy Science minor comprises four introductory core courses that provide a comprehensive overview of energy in society, fundamental energy principles, the economics of energy, and environmental issues related to ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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California State University East Bay Climate Action Plan 2018
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
Cal State East Bay made a commitment to climate neutrality when President Morishita signed the Carbon Commitment (formerly the American Colleges and Universities Presidents’ Climate Commitment) in January 2015. Once ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Society and the Environment Minor
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
The society and the environment minor will prepare students to contribute solutions for current and future local, regional, and global environmental challenges. Stewardship and the efficient, sustainable use of environmental ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Environmental Education Minor
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
A minor in environmental education is designed to provide additional qualifications for students interested in pursuing a career in the field of environmental and natural resources education. Career options for ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Grassland Ecology & Management (BS)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
This major focuses on the management of rangeland, the world's most abundant type of land. About 45 percent of the world's land area and half of Nebraska's ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Fisheries and Wildlife (BA)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
The fisheries and wildlife major is designed to produce professionals who will manage wild populations of fish, birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. Fisheries and wildlife management involves management of people ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Water Science (BS)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's water science major includes instruction in water science, natural resources, biological and physical sciences and mathematics and statistics, as well as in the humanities, social ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Applied Climate Science (BS)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
The applied climate science major provides an interdisciplinary approach with courses in biology, chemistry, soils, water, ecology, mathematics and statistics, and Geographic Information Science (GIScience). These courses provide students with ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Environmental Restoration Science (BS)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
Environmental restoration initiates or accelerates the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged or contaminated from human activity or natural agents. Students interested in this major will receive ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Environmental Studies (BA)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
UNL’s Environmental Studies Program prepares students to solve current and future local, regional, and global environmental challenges. The program pairs a truly interdisciplinary curriculum with a student-centered approach that ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Sustainability Minor
- Emmanuel College (MA)
- Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MA)
- Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MA)
- Simmons University (MA)
- Wentworth Institute of Technology (MA)
The Colleges of the Fenway Minor in Sustainability is embedded in the international recognition that unsustainable pressures resulting from human activity threaten the natural systems on which human existence depends ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Forestry and Natural Resources Minor
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
A minor in Forestry and Natural Resources is for students who are interested in learning about the conservation and restoration of the earth's natural resources through hands-on study of ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Sustainable Technology BS
- Appalachian State University (NC)
The Bachelor of Science degree in Sustainable Technology helps students develop the skills needed to design, build and maintain technological systems that will help create a more sustainable world.
In ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Environmental Earth Science Minor
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Environmental Earth Science minor focuses broadly on the natural sciences, using earth science as a base to expand outward. Interrelationships are key to this course of study and the ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Minor in Sustainable Technology
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Sustainable Technology reflects an approach to technological development, characterized by creative and sound engineering, that recognizes the social, environmental, political, economic, and technical aspects of a proposed technological solution to ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Environmental Engineering Minor
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Environmental Engineering Science (EES) minor is an interdisciplinary program pairing engineering fundamentals with courses in the environmental and natural sciences. The EES curriculum provides a broader foundation in the ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Sustainable Building Systems Concentration (Building Sciences BS)
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Energy efficiency matters. As state and federal agencies prioritize energy efficiency, they need leaders who understand how buildings work and how to find ways to make them work better.
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- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Environmental Economics & Policy Minor
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Students may pursue a minor in Environmental Economics and Policy as an adjunct to their chosen major field. This program offers interested students an opportunity to explore aspects of economic ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Indigenous Nations and Native American Studies BA/BS
- Portland State University (OR)
The major focuses on critical studies and practices of Tribal race theory, decolonizing methodologies, traditional and cultural ecological knowledge, and contemporary themes, such as community health, food sovereignty, Indigenous land ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Conservation and Resource Studies Minor
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Conservation and Resource Studies is an interdisciplinary program designed for those who are interested in environmental issues and areas of interaction among natural resources, population, energy, technology, societal institutions, and ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Sustainable Design Minor
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Sustainable design implies making decisions at various scales of the built environment (buildings, communities, land use patterns, urban support systems) in ways that support environmental quality, social equity, and economic ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Sustainable Environmental Design (BA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The sustainable environmental design major recognizes that the emergent, multidisciplinary field of sustainability science is growing rapidly. As the world population urbanizes, the planning and design of resilient, resource-efficient, healthy ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Sustainability Professional Studies Certificate
- Boston College (MA)
With a six-course curriculum offered entirely online, this program comprises courses such as Sustainability Science, Energy in the 21st Century, Water Resources, and Building Green Buildings. Students are exposed to ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Geophysics (MS)
- Boston College (MA)
The Geophysics program stresses a strong background in the earth sciences, as well as the ability to carry out research. It prepares students for successful careers as geoscientists in the ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Geology (MS)
- Boston College (MA)
The Geology (MS) program stresses a strong background in the earth sciences, as well as the ability to carry out research. It prepares students for successful careers as geoscientists in ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Faith, Peace and Justice minor
- Boston College (MA)
The Faith, Peace and Justice minor offers students the opportunity to explore, in an interdisciplinary manner, how their own serious questions about faith, peace and justice are related to concrete ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Managing for Social Impact and the Public Good Minor
- Boston College (MA)
The interdisciplinary minor in Managing for Social Impact and the Public Good seeks to provide Boston College undergraduate students with a well-defined, interdisciplinary program of study focused on analyzing the ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Environmental Geoscience (BS)
- Boston College (MA)
The field of Environmental Geoscience is interdisciplinary and evolving. This bachelor of science program serves as an excellent major for students who wish to concentrate in the scientific aspects of ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Water Audit: Campus Housing Residence Halls Restrooms
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
This project was set to evaluate the student residence restrooms of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) East and West campuses and to provide viable solutions to any problems ...
- Posted Aug. 29, 2018
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New designation accelerates development of UH sustainability curriculum
- University of Hawaii - West Oahu (HI)
- AASHE (MA)
The University of Hawaiʻi Office of Sustainability has been designated by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) as one of only 13 Centers for Sustainability ...
- Posted Aug. 29, 2018
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Election Imperatives: Ten Recommendations to Increase College Student Voting and Improve Political Learning and Engagement in Democracy
- Tufts University (MA)
Drawing from our research on college student voting and the campus climates of highly politically engaged institutions, this report offers ten recommendations to increase student voting and to improve campus ...
- Posted Aug. 29, 2018
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Engagement Experiments for the CMC Sustainability Action Plan
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
The Colorado Mountain College's Spring Valley campus conducted a couple experiments in the "Fostering Sustainable Behavior" class of Fall 2017. This included an action team, survey team, and an ...
- Posted Aug. 29, 2018
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FishChoice
- Food Alliance (OR)
- Monterey Bay Aquarium (CA)
- Marine Stewardship Council (WA)
- FishChoice Inc. (CO)
The FishChoice platform offers purchasers and STARS participants the ability to run seafood sustainability assessments and find products that meet sustainability standards such as Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification, Fair ...
- Posted Aug. 29, 2018
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If We’d Known Then: Lessons in Sustainability Engagement
- AASHE (MA)
- MacEwan University (AB)
- National Union of Students
In 2012 MacEwan University entered an unique and innovative partnership with the National Union of Students (NUS) to be the first non-UK university to run the award winning Green Impact ...
- Posted Aug. 23, 2018
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UW-Madison has long list of sustainability efforts. So why isn't it a 'green college'?
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
- AASHE (MA)
UW-Madison explores why they have not submitted an AASHE STARS report and why it is one of thee Big 10 schools not to make The Princeton Review's list. With ...
- Posted Aug. 21, 2018
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Carbon Neutral Campus: Solar Research
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
This project was set out to analyze two UIC buildings, the Student Services Building and the Pharmacognosy Field Station, in order to determine their potential for solar energy along with ...
- Posted Aug. 10, 2018
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Food Recovery At UIC
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
At the University of Illinois at Chicago's (UIC) dining facilities, there is much food that is prepared but not eaten. It goes to the landfill, but it could be ...
- Posted Aug. 10, 2018
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UIC Campus Bike Rack Inventory
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
In the summer of 2018, this project was undertaken to inventory all bike racks at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Knowing for certain the capacities and locations of the ...
- Posted Aug. 10, 2018
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Meeting the food waste challenge in higher education
- Montana State University (MT)
Purpose: Food waste represents a major sustainability challenge with environmental, economic, social and health implications. Institutions of higher education contribute to generating food waste while serving as models in championing ...
- Posted Aug. 10, 2018
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1 MegaWatt Battery Energy Storage System
- California State University, Long Beach (CA)
In 2017, California State University, Long Beach installed a 1 Megawatt energy storage system on campus as part of a multiphase project with Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS) made possible through ...
- Posted Aug. 7, 2018
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Princeton University Vertical Farming Project
- Princeton University (NJ)
The Princeton University Vertical Farming Project, led by Dr. Paul Gauthier, uses a hydroponic and artificial lighting growing system to study the viability of feeding a rapidly growing world population ...
- Posted Aug. 6, 2018
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GIS Certicate
- Stockton University (NJ)
The program objective is to certify a student's satisfactory completion of a series of courses designed for professional GIS training and education at Stockton University. GIS is becoming increasingly ...
- Posted Aug. 6, 2018
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Marine Science (BA/BS)
- Stockton University (NJ)
Stockton's Marine Science (MARS) program encompasses two general areas of study: Marine Biology and Oceanography. The program is interdisciplinary and requires student competence in several areas of science. A ...
- Posted Aug. 6, 2018
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Geology Minor
- Stockton University (NJ)
Students in Stockton’s Geology (GEOL) program have the ability to explore the traditional disciplines of the geosciences while engaging in interdisciplinary subjects such as geophysics, geomorphology, environmental geology, coastal ...
- Posted Aug. 6, 2018
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Geology (BA/BS)
- Stockton University (NJ)
Students in Stockton’s Geology (GEOL) program have the ability to explore the traditional disciplines of the geosciences while engaging in interdisciplinary subjects such as geophysics, geomorphology, environmental geology, coastal ...
- Posted Aug. 6, 2018
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Environmental Sciences Minor
- Stockton University (NJ)
The Environmental Science Program provides a broad understanding of how physical, biological and human components of the environment interact to prepare students to become environmental professionals.
- Posted Aug. 6, 2018
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