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Centering Justice and Equity in Environmental Center Work
- Mount Holyoke College (MA)
The US environmental field has long been plagued with egalitarianism and exploitation of populations already disenfranchised. Unfortunately, this has led to an exclusionary approach to tackling the world’s greatest crisis, …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Making the invisible visible: how students make use of carbon footprint calculator in environmental education
- University of Gothenburg
Problems concerning carbon dioxide emissions and other climate change-related issues are on the global political agenda and constantly debated in media. Such issues are important for individuals to enable active …
- Posted Oct. 28, 2016
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The Process of Developing a Sustainability Certificate Program
- University of North Carolina, Asheville (NC)
This talk will cover the three-year process of developing and launching an interdisciplinary Sustainability Certificate at the University of North Carolina Asheville. The multi-step process included developing campus support (with …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Assessing climate solutions and taking climate leadership: how can universities prepare their students for challenging times?
- Trent University (ON)
Through this point-of-departure paper we aim to prompt discussion and action around redesigning university learning to help students tackle climate-related challenges in a personally and societally meaningful way. We use …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Defining Sustainability in Higher Education Institutions
- Loyola University Maryland (MD)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
People interact with each other based on shared meaning. In the absence of shared meaning, organizations fail to identify and achieve goals. Focus is generally placed on how to engage, …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Integrating Multiple Perspectives in an Urban Ecology Course
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
New approaches are needed to educate university students about urban sustainability challenges. In particular, students need opportunities to learn the importance of integrating not just biophysical issues (e.g. climate change, …
- Posted Feb. 17, 2021
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Learning and Teaching Interdisciplinary Skills in Sustainable Urban Development—The Case of Tampere University, Finland
- Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Developing the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of urban environments is challenging due to the complex and interconnected nature of the context and objectives. In order to be successful in …
- Posted April 8, 2021
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Master of Sustainability
- University of Sydney (NSW)
By tackling key global issues, the Master of Sustainability equips students to further their career in diverse areas from environmental science to finance, from law to urban planning, and from …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Universities as Potential Actors for Sustainable Development
- Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Universities can contribute to the solutions of major challenges of the 21st century such as increasing environmental and socio-economic crises, inequalities of income and wealth and political instabilities by integrating …
- Posted Nov. 6, 2019
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The ecological footprint evaluation of low carbon campuses based on life cycle assessment: A case study of Tianjin, China
Global warming is a very serious environmental problem. Universities, the most active organizations and locations for scientific research and social activities, have a responsibility to construct low carbon campuses and …
- Posted May 11, 2017
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Sustainable Energy for University Science Majors: Developing Guidelines for Educators
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Weizmann Institute of Science
This paper describes the basic tenets of a sustainable energy course for university science majors. First, it outlines the three core components of the course: 1. The scientific evidence for …
- Posted May 21, 2018
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Finding Solutions through Cycles of Hope
- Portland Community College (OR)
Knowledge is a powerful thing but it also can be debilitating, leading to cynicism and apathy. This is especially the case when we teach about topics like environmental crises and …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Through the Eyes of Nature
- Atwell, LLC (MI)
Important institutions and systems-including our governments, capitalist economies, food production systems, and urban designs-often seem to produce problematic political, economic, environmental, and social outcomes. In addition, many of these human-designed …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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PhD in Sustainability Education
- Prescott College (AZ)
Prescott College offers a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D. ) in Education with a concentration in Sustainability Education. Sustainability Education focuses on global citizenship and promotes environmental responsibility. This low-residency, four-year …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Establishing Sustainability as a General Education Directive
- Southern Oregon University (OR)
Colleges and universities nationwide continue to struggle with strategies for integrating sustainability within higher education curricula. While many universities have encouraged faculty to develop one or more courses that introduce …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Teaching Toxicology: Model courses and novel approaches
- Beyond Benign (MA)
Green Chemistry Education Webinar Series: A new webinar series for chemistry faculty and students highlighting relevant topics in green chemistry education.
Presented by:
Dr. Marty Mulvihill
Executive Director
Berkeley Center …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Environmental Studies Minor
- University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (WI)
This interdisciplinary minor combines information from a wide range of courses, all of which focus on some aspect of environmental studies. Participating departments and programs include Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Economics, …
- Posted July 10, 2019
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Mind Mapping: A Systems Thinking Application for Change Management
- University of Vermont (VT)
- Environmental Leadership Program (MD)
A growing number of students, faculty, and staff are increasingly concerned about their environmental impacts and demand immediate action to be taken. Despite good intentions, these same people can act …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Effectiveness of a Seagoing Immersion Program in Fostering Environmental Awareness
- Coastal Carolina University (SC)
- University of Virginia (VA)
In Spring 2010, approximately 700 students, faculty, staff and life-long learners circumnavigated the globe as participants in the University of Virginia's Semester at Sea study abroad program. Over the course …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Integrating geoscience into undergraduate education about environment, society, and sustainability using place-based learning: three examples
- Metropolitan State University (MN)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
- Utah State University (UT)
- West Chester University of Pennsylvania (PA)
From water to energy, and from climate change to natural hazards, the geosciences (marine, Earth, and atmospheric science) have an important role to play in addressing a wide range of …
- Posted Aug. 22, 2016
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Sustainable Cities Minor
- The New School (NY)
This minor looks at the social sustainability of urban life, community-based design practices and processes, and the multiple scales of the modern city. In the minor, the environmental resilience of …
- Posted May 13, 2019
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Student Leadership Institute for Climate Resilience: A Just Transition Introductory Curriculum
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
Developed at UC Irvine and in its ninth year, the Student Leadership Institute for Climate Resilience (SLICR) is an annual three-day residential program that provides a select cohort of incoming …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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When the Silos Break: Creating Connections and Coalescing Sustainability Efforts
- University of Oregon (OR)
Through research, and teaching, and by serving as a testing ground or model for sustainable physical spaces, colleges and universities have the potential to help solve the most complex environmental …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Learning to Change the Game: What Should Management Education for Sustainability Look Like?
- Bard College (NY)
- Swarthmore College (PA)
Sustainability requires business to radically reimagine how to keep the lights on, put food on the table, and provide housing, transportation, and education for a population that is headed for …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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The UTRGV Graduate Sustainability Research Fellowship
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (TX)
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Graduate Sustainability Research Fellowship (GSRF) was designed to support student scholarship, present intentionally visible contributions to sustainability in research, and exemplify UTRGV’s …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Increasing University Competitiveness through Assessment of Green Content in Curriculum and Eco-Labeling in Higher Education
- University of Novi Sad
- Educons University
Growing environmental problems and increasing requirements of green jobs force universities around the world not only to transform their curricula but also to enrich existing ones with contents related to …
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Sustainable Product Design Education: Current Practice
- UNSW Sydney (NSW)
- Technische Universiteit Delft
- Nottingham Trent University
- University of Sheffield
- Technical University of Denmark
- 3Drivers
Current production and consumption patterns are unsustainable, causing irreversible damage to the environment and human health and well-being. Designers play a vital role in resolving this problem—their decisions affect product …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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The adoption of corporate social responsibility active learning methodology with management accounting students
- University of Jaén
The aim of this paper is to integrate active methodology on corporate social responsibility (CSR)1 learning into management accounting studies. The linkages between sustainable management and management accounting demand those …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Engaging students in redesigning a local urban space to improve ecosystem services
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
Ecosystem services are an important, but often invisible component of the urban landscape. Humans have altered the environment in cities, leading to degraded or missing ecosystem services in many cases. …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Integrating Sustainability into Higher Education Curricula through the Project Method, a Global Learning Strategy
- Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Higher levels of material well-being lead almost inevitably to giving priority to individualism and personal advancement, often at the expense of civic conscience. A proposal for integrating sustainability into the …
- Posted April 30, 2019
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Language Education for Sustainable Development
Nowadays, education for sustainable development starts covering wider and wider spheres of interest and human activity. Out of the three main spheres of interest, such as environmental, economic, and socio-cultural, …
- Posted Feb. 9, 2017
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Sustainability Education: A Pedagogy of Complexity
- Ohio University (OH)
College graduates entering the work force increasingly are confronted with 'wicked' sustainability issues regardless of profession. In response, models of instruction that transcend disciplinary boundaries are emerging in higher education …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Systems: Coming in at the ground floor
- The New School (NY)
Our case study presents the development of a required course for all first year students, a cohort of approximately 900 students. Students learn about the challenges and opportunities presented by …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Systems Management Curriculum
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
A new Sustainable Systems Management major is being planned for implementation in Fall 2015 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities for the first time. The context surrounding the introduction …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Continuous Improvement: Restructuring Western Michigan University’s Office for Sustainability Internships to Facilitate Greater Comprehensive Success
- Western Michigan University (MI)
In an effort to be more relevant and more resilient, the WMU Office for Sustainability is adapting their internship program protocol and process to ensure greater success for the students, …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Semester Immersion in Climate Change Science, Ecological History and Human Dimensions
- Dickinson College (PA)
We are team teaching an interdisciplinary program in fall 2011 in which a dozen students and three faculty members will immerse themselves in explorations of the science, human and ecological …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Comparison of How Colleges Promote Greenhouse Gas Inventory Strategies
- Bridgewater State University (MA)
Ideally, everyone should care the environment because a clean planet is a necessity for the survival of the human race. The problem is however, not all students or college campuses …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Graduate Certificate in Conservation Ecology
- University of Georgia (GA)
Students enrolled in any graduate degree program in the University of Georgia may apply to the Graduate Certificate Program in Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development. This program is designed for …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Plant & Soil Sciences BS
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
The UMass Plant and Soil Sciences program prepares students to tackle real-world problems from a sustainability perspective by integrating and applying the knowledge they learn from different disciplines. This program …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Bachelor of Applied Science in Sustainable Practices
- Cascadia College (WA)
Cascadia College’s Bachelor of Applied Science in Sustainable Practices provides a pathway to careers in the green industry. Graduates will learn the skills necessary to plan and implement sustainable approaches …
- Posted Aug. 19, 2016
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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 …
- Posted Nov. 1, 2017
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Collaborative thermal heating conservation project at the College of the Holy Cross
- College of the Holy Cross (MA)
- GreenerU (MA)
The College of the Holy Cross's Student Government Association (SGA), Environmental Liaison program, and Physical Plant department developed a comprehensive program to reduce the common practice of opening windows in …
- Posted April 11, 2014
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Niizhoo-gwayakochigewin: Two Ways of Making Things Right
- Bemidji State University (MN)
Named for an Ojibwe phrase which translates to 'two ways of making things right,' Niizhoo-gwayakochigewin draws from Bemidji State University's (BSU) Sustainability Office, Department of Languages and Indigenous Studies, Department …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Embracing higher education leadership in sustainability: A systematic review
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Education has long been praised for its economic benefits, which stem from the developed technical skills and improved health conditions it promotes. Nonetheless, improving the quality of education, including sustainability, …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Promoting sustainability education through hands-on approaches: a tree carbon sequestration exercise in a Singapore green space
- National University of Singapore
- Maejo University
During a university class project related to climate change mitigation strategies, we utilized a university green space as a “living laboratory” for collaborative learning exercise to estimate landscape-level carbon biomass …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Development of Organic and Sustainable Agricultural Education at the University of California, Davis: A Closer Look at Practice and Theory
- University of California, Davis (CA)
In the mid-1970s, University of California, Davis, students concerned about the environmental and social consequences of modern agriculture were interested in exploring the practice and theory of “alternative” agriculture. These …
- Posted April 28, 2016
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Engineering Education for Sustainable Development: The European Project Semester Approach
- Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia)
- Polytechnic University of Catalonia
- Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Porto)
Contribution: An analysis of the extent to which sustainability is present in the syllabi, project briefs, report templates, and student final reports of the three Iberian European project semester (EPS) …
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Addressing food insecurity in Australia through education for sustainability
- Deakin University
Within Australia food insecurity affects an estimated 4 million people annually. Health promotion degrees traditionally prepare pre-service graduates to address food insecurity from a social determinants perspective, little consideration of …
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Longitudinal Study of the Impacts of a Climate Change Curriculum on Undergraduate Student Learning: Initial Results
- Stonehill College (MA)
The present study assesses the efficacy of a semester-long undergraduate sustainability curriculum designed from a systems approach. The three-course curriculum, which incorporated environmental science and ethics courses along with an …
- Posted June 29, 2018
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The Partnership for a Green City - public partners promoting sustainability
- University of Louisville (KY)
The Partnership for a Green City is an innovative sustainabiity collaboration of a metropolitan research university, a large metropolitan school district and the merged municipal government, three of the largest …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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