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EchoWorks: An Electronics Recycling Community Partnership
- Western Dakota Technical College (SD)
EchoWorks is a social enterprise that recycles electronic waste and employs people with disabilities. Located on the campus of Western Dakota Tech, a community college in Rapid City, South Dakota ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Pop-Up People's Pantry- Feeding those in need in response to COVID-19
- University of California, Merced (CA)
The Pop-Up People's Pantry at the 18th St. People's Garden popped up in response to COVID-19 to feed our food insecure community healthy and nutritious food, predominantly fresh ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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No Food Left Behind: A free text service to reduce food insecurity and food waste
- University of California, Merced (CA)
No Food Left Behind is a free text messaging service that connects students, staff and faculty at the University of California, Merced to events that might have food leftover. People ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Loyola University Chicago's Student-run Biodiesel Lab
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
The Searle Biodiesel Lab is a student-run initiative within Loyola University Chicago’s Institute for Environmental Sustainability (IES). Since 2007, the lab has produced biodiesel and BioSoap(Loyola’s all-natural ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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How to Start a Green Greeks Club on Any Campus
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Arizona State University at the Polytechnic Campus (AZ)
Historically, Greek Life and Sustainability Organizations have been disconnected from each other on college campuses. This is the odd reality despite the fact that the two groups share many of ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Sustainability Activation Program at the University of Dayton
- University of Dayton (OH)
The Sustainability Activation Program (SAP) is a peer-to-peer education program which takes a holistic and human rights oriented approach to sustainability education on campus and in the community. It began ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Vision 2020 Climate & Sustainability Action Plan (2017-2020)
- McGill University (QC)
Vision 2020: Climate & Sustainability Action Plan 2017-2020 (hereinafter ‘Vision 2020’ or the ‘Action Plan’)—McGill’s second sustainability strategy and the first to incorporate climate action—institutionalized concrete initiatives ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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UVA’s Equity & Environment Fund: Catalyzing student-driven, intersectional projects that connect and advance the work of community leaders
- University of Virginia (VA)
Historically, many UVA student-led projects focused on the environmental issues of sustainability, without much connection or thought to how these projects connect or address social or equity issues. To help ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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PSRF Final Project Report: Climate Community
- Swarthmore College (PA)
Mission
The Climate Community President’s Sustainability Research Fellowship (PSRF) project is dedicated to generating an engaged and purposeful climate community at Swarthmore College. This means breaking the mold of ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Transportation Project Final Report
- Swarthmore College (PA)
Project Name: Transportation Project Project Mentors: Anthony Coschignano and Greg Brown Project board members, faculty advisor, and sustainability sage: Anthony Coschignano, Greg Brown, Chris Kane, Alice Turbiville, Brenna Leary, Rachel ...
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Diversity Food Services: Leading the Way on Socially and Environmentally responsible Campus Dining in Canada
- University of Winnipeg (MB)
The University of Winnipeg Campus Sustainability Office would like to nominate Diversity Food Services for an AASHE Campus Sustainability Achievement Award.
Diversity Food Services is a joint venture of the ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Infusing Sustainability into the Curriculum at Swarthmore College
- Swarthmore College (PA)
Note that the full final report for this project is attached as a file at the end of this report. Please view for full in depth explanation of the project ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Building campus capacity for the SDGs: a case study of the SDG Summit conference
- University of Calgary (AB)
The SDG Summit is an annual training conference at the University of Calgary that is focused on engaging youth with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) through immersive opportunities for learning ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Swarthmore College Sustainability Research: Equitable Zero Waste
- Swarthmore College (PA)
A year long research project developed by students to help and develop an equitable zero waste mindset and framework of thinking.
- Posted May 15, 2020
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN K-12 SCHOOLS: A CASE STUDY IN FLORIDA
- Florida Institute of Technology (FL)
Buildings are one of the largest energy consumers in the United States. K-12 schools are responsible for nearly 8% of energy consumption by commercial buildings which is equivalent to 1 ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Emory University’s Virtual Earth Month Outreach Campaign
- Emory University (GA)
Traditionally, Emory University’s Office of Sustainability Initiatives (OSI) kicks off Earth Month by bringing together both on and off-campus organizations that are dedicated to sustainability for a one-day Earth ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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BCIT Wood-Waste-to-Energy Project
- British Columbia Institute of Technology (BC)
In pursuit of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, showcasing environmentally-sustainable projects for widespread use, and incorporating sustainability more broadly in curriculum, British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) has created a closed-loop ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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TAMU Urban Farm United (TUFU) Campus Food Forest Serves Aggies in Need
- Texas A&M University (TX)
The TAMU Urban Farm, TUFU for short, is a new concept organization on the campus of Texas A&M University (TAMU), whose mission is “Grow to Serve”. The project was made ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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One Million Trees
- Pepperdine University (CA)
- Santa Monica College (CA)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of Southern California (CA)
This project started in 2015 and the goal was to plant one million trees by 2020 in partnership with the National Forest Foundation. Our team came up with the idea ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Campaign on Creating Sustainable Futures: Bring Your Own Container
- DE LA SALLE LIPA (BATANGAS)
In Academic Year 2016-2017, DE LA SALLE LIPA (DLSL) re-aligned its institutional thrusts to align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In pursuit of its third Strategic Direction, Creating ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Grand Valley State University - Water Sustainability
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Abstract - Grand Valley State University - Water Sustainability
Having success in reducing energy consumption and costs, Grand Valley State University (GVSU) located in the state of Michigan, looked at other areas ...
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Kent State University Textile Reuse and Recycling Programs Divert 441,610 pounds (221 tons) From Landfill to Benefit Community and Campus Over Past 5 Years
- Kent State University (OH)
Kent State University has reduced the amount of materials sent to landfills while providing benefits to the local community, campus, and our students. For the past 5 academic years, 2014-2015 ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Gold Tree Solar Farm - Innovatively Advancing the Academic Mission
- California Polytechnic State University (CA)
Cal Poly's 4.5 MW Gold Tree Solar Farm demonstrates how collaboration between Facilities and academics can transform campus buildings and infrastructure into more impactful academic assets. In addition ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Addressing Food Insecurity on Campus
- Colorado State University (CO)
Approximately 10% of students at Colorado State University experience food insecurity. In the past five years, CSU has been aggressively tackling food insecurity through the creation of innovative programs under ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Energy Waste Reduction Program
- Suffolk County Community College (NY)
Since its inception in August of 2014, Suffolk County Community College’s Energy Waste Reduction Program has saved over 4.9 million dollars in unnecessary utility expenditure. We would like ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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The Development of Critical Success Factors, Benefits and Challenges for Higher Education for Sustainable Development Model (HESD) in Malaysian Public Higher Institutions
- Universiti Sains Malaysia
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Selangor)
- Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (Perak Darul Ridzuan)
Sustainable development as well as effective practices is important in higher education. Higher education institutions are facing challenges specifically in sustainability. Thus, the objective of this study is to identify ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Assessing the green behaviour of academics: The role of green human resource management and environmental knowledge
- Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (Terengganu)
Purpose Studies have highlighted concerns about the role of knowledge creation between human resource management practices and employee behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Sustainability in Brazilian HEI: practices overview
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to verify how Brazilian HEIs apply sustainability practices, as means to improve their effects towards society, making clear to the public, including current ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Teaching and mindsets regarding sustainable development – a Mexican case study
- Universidad de Sonora (Sonora)
Aim: The world has become increasingly interconnected and complex. This represents a very serious problem for sustainable development; therefore, the development of instruments that reduces ignorance as well as fragilities ...
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Assessment of the car-free day implementation on UTM campus using a shortest path method
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
A Car-Free Day (CFD) initiative was introduced on the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) campus and intended to reduce vehicle emissions, promote healthy lifestyle modes of transportation and improve environmental sustainability ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Sustainable Facilities Management: Interviews with FM practitioners for Malaysian universities
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Sustainability in Facilities Management (FM) is a new approach in managing buildings and may be influenced by practitioners involved within an organisation.Sustainability inthe organisation has a significant impact on ...
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Critical Pedagogy and Eco-pedagogy: Discussing Ethics and Radical Environmentalism at Business School
- The Hague University of Applied Science
This article discusses critical pedagogy and ecopedagogy, which stimulate active citizenship through the lessons of environmentalism, exposing students to the critique of the underlying power structures of society. This article ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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The Smart Classroom as a Means to the Development of ESD Methodologies
- Rovira i Virgili University
Educational institutions are envisioned as principal agents for addressing the current sustainability challenge that society is facing. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is transformational and concerns learning content and outcomes ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Sustainability funding in higher education: a literature-based review
- Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report a literature review on sustainability funding in higher education and an analysis of the theoretical influence on academic research. The theoretical ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Sustainability in management education: a Biggs’ 3P model application
- Loyola University Maryland (MD)
- Centro Universitário da FEI
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the main factors that contribute to teaching and learning sustainability in management education (SiME), which is defined as a body of ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Graduate ability to show workplace sustainability leadership: demonstration of an assessment tool
- RMIT University
Information associated with the assessment of graduate attributes, in the workplace, is limited. Yet if the many environmental and social problems that confront communities are to be managed, we need ...
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Using sustainability audits to enhance responsible management education and develop personally and professionally responsible work-ready graduates
- University of Worcester
It is widely held that responsible management education within UK business schools is lagging behind the needs of graduates in the changing world of work, leaving a UK-wide skills shortage ...
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Learning to be an interdisciplinary researcher: incorporating training about dispositional and epistemological differences into graduate student environmental science teams
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
- University of Texas at El Paso (TX)
- Queensland University of Technology
- Vincent Evaluation Consulting (OK)
The interdisciplinary research (IR) that is necessary for the creation of innovative solutions for the many complex environmental challenges facing society requires collaboration and the sharing and integration of knowledge ...
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Incorporating the sustainable development goals in engineering education
- Tecnológico de Monterrey (Nuevo Leon)
This paper aims to open the discussion on the incorporation of sustainable development goals (SDG) in the curricular plans of engineering programs. The United Nation has recognized the development SDG ...
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Knowledge management, the missing piece in the 2030 agenda and SDGs puzzle
- University of São Paulo
Purpose This paper aims to analyze some knowledge management (KM) frameworks that sustainable development goals (SDGs) can apply to such a challenging implementation.
Design/methodology/approach To accomplish this, a ...
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Learning to collaborate while collaborating: advancing interdisciplinary sustainability research
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Interdisciplinary collaboration has become mainstream practice for sustainability researchers. However, interdisciplinary research teams encounter numerous challenges for which they may find themselves under-prepared. In this article, we challenge the often-held ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Using Vertically Integrated Projects to embed research-based education for sustainable development in undergraduate curricula
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- University of Strathclyde
Purpose This paper aims to share the University of Strathclyde’s experience of embedding research-based education for sustainable development (RBESD) within its undergraduate curricula through the use of an innovative ...
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Improvement of a Sustainable World through the Application of Innovative Didactic Tools in Green Chemistry Teaching: A Review
- Wrocław University of Science and Technology
- War Studies University/Akademia Sztuki Wojennej (Warszawa)
This article aims to analyze the potential of new technologies in the area of green chemistry didactics. When viewed through the lens of systems thinking, the use of these ubiquitous ...
- Posted May 14, 2020
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Using a Solutions Lens to Engage Students on the UN Global Goals
- AASHE (PA)
- 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 (PA)
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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Application of the Modified College Impact Model to Understand Chinese Engineering Undergraduates’ Sustainability Consciousness
- Beihang University
- University of Science and Technology Beijing
- Beijing University of Technology
The college impact model provides a valuable framework for explaining various college student learning outcomes. However, few quantitative studies have examined the effectiveness of college impact model in explaining engineering ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Transgressing Boundaries between Community Learning and Higher Education: Levers and Barriers
- Wageningen University
- Corporación Nuh Jay
- Aldeafeliz ecoaldea (Cundinamarca)
- Alianzas para la Abundancia
- Fundación Mentes en Transición
In times of global systemic dysfunction, there is an increasing need to bridge higher education with community-based learning environments so as to generate locally relevant responses towards sustainability challenges. This ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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An ISM Approach for the Barrier Analysis in Implementing Green Campus Operations: Towards Higher Education Sustainability
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
- Lithuanian Sports University/Lietuvos Sporto Universitetas (Kaunas sav.)
Although various initiatives have been undertaken by the universities worldwide to ensure that their campus operates sustainably, there are emergent barriers that pose serious challenges to the practitioners and subsequently ...
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Effective Teaching and Activities of Excellent Teachers for the Sustainable Development of Higher Design Education
- National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (Yunlin)
- Tainan University of Technology
Education for sustainable development (ESD) is regarded as a key element of high-quality education. Hence, the United Nations proposed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, in an attempt to ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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