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Developing Campus Sustainability Plans in a Capstone Course
- Furman University (SC)
- AASHE (MA)
Sustainability education high impact practices emphasize the importance of project-based, applied learning experiences as well as collaborative learning. Higher education professionals also emphasize the importance of capstone signature experiences. Students ...
- Posted April 5, 2018
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Sustainability PhD
- University of South Dakota (SD)
The Doctor of Philosophy in Sustainability–dissertation only–is available for students seeking a doctoral degree in sustainability.
The concept of sustainability encompasses a wide range of topics and endeavors ...
- Posted March 15, 2018
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Sustainability (MS)
- University of South Dakota (SD)
The Master of Science in Sustainability–thesis and nonthesis option; is ideal for students studying social and/ or environmental aspects of sustainability.Sustainability is an interdisciplinary field of study, and ...
- Posted March 15, 2018
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Exposing Students to Environmental Sustainability in Accounting: An Analysis of its Impacts in a U.S. Setting
- Illinois State University (IL)
- University of Northern Iowa (IA)
In this research study, we examine whether the introduction of two different forms of an environmental sustainability intervention into differing sections of an introductory-level managerial accounting course at a US ...
- Posted March 5, 2018
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Sustainability Science (MS)
- Columbia University (NY)
The program is designed for full-time and aspiring sustainability professionals, who wish to develop their skills in Earth systems observation, analysis, projection, and environmental remediation.
The program requires the completion ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2018
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Sustainable Water Management
- Tufts University (MA)
Launched by the Tufts Institute for the Environment, the one-year interdisciplinary master’s program offers four tracks, encompassing such areas as urban water infrastructure, the water-energy-food nexus, water diplomacy, and ...
- Posted Feb. 20, 2018
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Leveraging Sustainability Reporting in Higher Education Institutions— A Multidimensional Research Agenda
- University of Hildesheim
Sustainability has become increasingly important to research and practice. In order to determine impacts, identify improvement potential and to disclose efforts towards sustainability, an organization needs appropriate reporting. Thus, sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 15, 2018
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An Investigation of University Students' Attitudes Toward Environmental Sustainability
The adoption of pro-environmental behavior is critical to reduce negative environmental impacts and move toward a more sustainable future. The role of higher education in training professionals to protect the ...
- Posted Feb. 5, 2018
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‘The learning sticks’: reflections on a case study of role-playing for sustainability
- RMIT University
Use of role-plays to develop deep student-learning has many advocates. Role-play is a powerful approach for learning that develops relevant skills in a range of disciplines and situations. In Higher ...
- Posted Feb. 5, 2018
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Summer REU in Urban Ecology and the Environment
- City University of New York, Brooklyn College (NY)
The Brooklyn Urban Ecology and Environment Program (BUEE) is a NSF-sponsored Research Experiences for Undergraduates hosted at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. BUEE supports the training ...
- Posted Feb. 5, 2018
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Sustainable Food Systems minor
- Wells College (NY)
This minor investigates the challenges of the current global food system. With a focus on the cultural meanings of food, and the social and physical conditions under which we grow ...
- Posted Jan. 25, 2018
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Sustainability Minor
- Wells College (NY)
The minor in Sustainability examines the interplay among the environmental, social, and economic forces involved in addressing the challenges to a sustainable future.
- Posted Jan. 25, 2018
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Sustainability Bachelor
- Wells College (NY)
This major recognizes the environment as a physical, social, cultural and psychological construct that is threatened by many forms of human activity. It further recognizes that humanity can make a ...
- Posted Jan. 25, 2018
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MS in Sustainable Natural Resource Management
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
This online master’s degree in Sustainable Natural Resource Management uses a transdisciplinary process for understanding and managing the natural world. Important factors impacting natural communities include climate change and ...
- Posted Jan. 25, 2018
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MS in Sustainability Science
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
Sustainability science is a problem-based, solution-oriented framework for creating a resilient civilization. The framework combines technical sustainability with skills based in the social sciences and humanities to create effective change ...
- Posted Jan. 25, 2018
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Sustainable Forest Management Minor
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
The Sustainable Forest Management minor offers students the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills to measure and assess forest and other natural resources in order to understand the ecology ...
- Posted Jan. 25, 2018
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Sustainable Energy Management (BS)
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
This program allows students to develop their talents and skills as applied scientists, entrepreneurs, business managers, and planners in the fields of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and related responses to ...
- Posted Jan. 25, 2018
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Sustainability Program
- St. Lawrence University (NY)
The Sustainability Program is a living-learning community at SLU’s Sustainability Farm, where you will live with other students committed to creating a more sustainable world. Students will live and ...
- Posted Jan. 25, 2018
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Sustainable Living and Learning: A Learning Community for First-Year Students
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges (NY)
First-year students have the opportunity to participate in a special, two-semester long Learning Community that will investigate the intersection of sustainability and consumption with a particular emphasis on the relationship ...
- Posted Jan. 23, 2018
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Sustainable Development Minor
- Lehigh University (PA)
The minor in SDEV consists of a minimum of at least 15 hours of study that includes a combination of core courses and approved electives. To declare a minor in ...
- Posted Jan. 18, 2018
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Implementing a Sustainability Internship Program at Siena Heights University
- Siena Heights University (MI)
Michigan is experiencing numerous environmental health threats, and the SHU Sustainability Internship Program was created to engage students to address environmental challenges. Using the AASHE Guide to Creating & Managing ...
- Posted Jan. 3, 2018
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Transdisciplinary Research and Sustainability: Collaboration, Innovation and Transformation
Transdisciplinarity is a new way of scientifically meeting the challenges of sustainability. Indeed, interdisciplinary collaboration and co-operation with non-academic ‘practice partners’ is at the core of this; creating contextualised, socially ...
- Posted Dec. 7, 2017
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Learning Our Way Toward Resilience
- Island Press (DC)
- Post Carbon Institute (OR)
This is an excerpt of Chapter 14 from The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval. Resilience education is about building our individual and community capacities to ...
- Posted Nov. 1, 2017
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Bates College Students Install Solar
- Bates College (ME)
Working with local solar installer Revision Energy, Bates College students work on the roof of our Shortridge Research Facility to install enough solar panels to cover 100% of the building ...
- Posted Oct. 20, 2017
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Bates College Students Install Solar Panels on Research Faciltiy
- Bates College (ME)
Working with local solar installer Revision Energy, Bates College students work on the roof of our Shortridge Research Facility to install enough solar panels to cover 100% of the building ...
- Posted Oct. 20, 2017
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Niagara College Sustainability Engagement
- Niagara College Canada (ON)
The following images depict various events and initiatives that take place at Niagara College that can be used towards students' Co-Curricular Records, and the LEAD Sustainability stream. These events include ...
- Posted Oct. 11, 2017
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Sustainable Business Courseware
- Point B (WA)
AASHE has partnered with Sustainable Business Consulting to provide plug-and-play online sustainable business courseware to help members accelerate the integration of sustainability into their curriculum. The content is consistent with ...
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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Sustainable Business Certificate
- Point B (WA)
This program has been created to bring students the leading skills and tools for integrating sustainability into any organization - current or future. It is designed to prepare students for practical ...
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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The World Climate Simulation
- University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)
The importance of sustainability will only grow during our students’ lifetimes, as will the need for sustainability-literate citizens and professionals of all types. We have developed an interactive and engaging ...
- Posted July 21, 2017
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Learning for change: an educational contribution to sustainability science
Transition to sustainability is a search for ways to improve the social capacity to guide interactions between nature and society toward a more sustainable future and, thus, a process of ...
- Posted June 20, 2017
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Creation of an Innovative Sustainability Science Undergraduate Degree Program: A 10-Step Process
- Kean University (NJ)
This publication explains the process used at Kean University (New Jersey) to create an innovative undergraduate degree program in sustainability science. This interdisciplinary program provides students with the strong science ...
- Posted June 19, 2017
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Kauai Community College Tiny House Hydro Electric Micro Grid Project
- University of Hawaii Kauai Community College (HI)
During the Summer of 2016 a free Tiny House building course was offered free to the community of Kauai. The course ran for five days and focused on building the ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Cascadia Campus Climate Conversation (C4)
- Cascadia College (WA)
-On October 25th, 2016, the senior cohort of the Bachelors of Applied Science in Sustainable Practices (BASSP) program at Cascadia College, Bothell, WA, held the first campus dialogue to discuss ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions at the University of Calgary
- University of Calgary (AB)
At University of Calgary, our buildings are very large contributors to our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With the goal of being a leading Canadian post-secondary institution in the area of ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Sustainability Assessment Report for Philadelphia University by using AASHE STARS Credit System
- Philadelphia University (PA)
This project is a thesis research on sustainability at Philadelphia University. The University is known regionally for its sustainability initiatives and education. The university has won several awards and recognitions ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Using classroom schedule data to reduce energy consumption
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
Most Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems (HVAC) are designed to provide a ventilation based on the assumption that the rooms are fully occupied, when real occupancy is most often ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Integrated traditional and applied education in a public US university: exploring sustainable cities and regions in classrooms and communities
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
- University of Montevallo (AL)
The most effective and promising models for teaching sustainability sciences and studies in a university setting are a topic of vigorous debate. This paper discusses an integrated sustainability curriculum at ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Integration of interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability education and research and urban sustainability
- Global Council Science and the Environment (DC)
This article explores the results of the National Council for Science and the Environment’s 2012 census of interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability (IES) baccalaureate and graduate degree programs and the ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Community Engaged Scholarship and Learning in Urban Forestry helps UTRGV earn Tree Campus USA Designation
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (TX)
In 2014, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (through its legacy institution UTPA), one of the largest Hispanic Serving Institutions in the country, proposed and offered three iterations of ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Johnson County Community College Student Sustainability Committee
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
As a broadly effective, innovative, engaging, and replicable project, Johnson County Community College’s Student Sustainability Committee [the SSC, the Committee] is a compelling and powerful tool for developing student ...
- Posted May 18, 2017
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Project Green Step 2030: Catawba College Campus Solar Energy Installation
- Catawba College (NC)
Catawba College completed a solar energy project in 2016 that is projected to produce more solar electricity than all the other North Carolina colleges and universities combined. This was the ...
- Posted May 18, 2017
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Master of Arts in Food Studies
- Chatham University (PA)
Chatham University's Master of Arts in Food Studies is a part of their Falk School of Sustainability & Environment. The interdisciplinary program trains students to understand and analyze holistic ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Sustainability Certificate Program: Creating Community through Cohorts
- University of Georgia (GA)
The Certificate in Sustainability will enhance opportunities for integrative, applied learning in interdisciplinary settings as well as prepare students to address difficult global sustainability issues. The certificate will also work ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Oregon Climate Change Research Institute
- Oregon State University (OR)
The Oregon Climate Change Research Institute is an institute underneath Oregon State’s Advancing the Science of Earth’s Ecosystems center. The institution was created by the Oregon Legislature and ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Florida Gulf Coast University Emerging Technologies Institute
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
The FGCU Emerging Technologies institute is an off campus institute designed to facilitate projects and research in regards to sustainable technology. Projects will be geared towards environmental sustainability and renewable ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Biofuels and Bioproducts Research Lab
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
The focus of research at the Biofuels and Bioproducts research lab includes studying the chemical makeup of algae and the economic and physical feasibility of optimizing it as an alternative ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Center for Integrative Conservation Research
- University of Georgia (GA)
Established in 2007 after several years of planning and funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the CICR seeks to bring together conservation experts from across disciplines ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Linking Sustainability with Study Abroad
- Delta College (MI)
This project describes the planning, development, and implementation of integrating sustainability into study abroad in existing travel and through establishing new destinations. It also constructs a model that includes a ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Sustainability@BU / It's what you do.
- Boston University (MA)
The video from Boston University highlights the impact that each student at BU has on the environment. This includes individual footprints on things like carbon, water, waste, and electricity. After ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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The Drivers Behind Edible Food Recovery Programs at Institutions of Higher Education
- Messiah University (PA)
Food waste is a multi-faceted issue that affects societies on a social, economic, and environmental level. In 2014, more than 38 million tons of food were thrown away in the ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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