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Campus Commitments to Local, Sustainable Food Procurement: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities in Georgia

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

In recent years many colleges and universities have committed to increasing the proportion of locally sourced and sustainably produced food served on campus. My poster describes the results of an ...

  • Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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The Living Building at Georgia Tech - A Campus-Wide Engagement Approach

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

In partnership with The Kendeda Fund, Georgia Tech will build a fully certified Living Building Challenge 3.0 building to support instruction, research, campus engagement, and community outreach on its ...

  • Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Student Perceptions of Sustainability Education in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

For sustainable engineering to contribute to sustainability, curricular reforms are needed to train sustainability-conscious engineers. Examining student perceptions of sustainability education can provide insights for benchmarking the current quality of ...


Using Concept Maps to Explore the Impacts of a Learning-Cycle-Based Sustainability Module Implemented in Two Institutional Contexts

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
  • James Madison University (VA)
  • The Citadel (SC)

Because engineers are responsible for the design phase of projects where decisions impacting sustainability are most effectively made, it is important to ensure that students are equipped with the necessary ...

  • Posted July 28, 2016
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Social Justice Minor

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

The minor in Social Justice (SJ) is for undergraduate students who are interested in incorporating an in-depth awareness of social issues into their fields of study and careers. Humanities and ...

  • Posted April 20, 2016
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Minor in Energy Systems

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

The Energy Systems Minor provides students a 15-hour multidisciplinary educational opportunity to study energy systems. Requirements include courses which provide depth in an area relevant to energy that is within ...

  • Posted April 20, 2016
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Georgia Tech: Leading the Way to Sustainability Through Comprehensive Water Management (2015)

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
  • NextEra Distributed Water, Inc. (VA)

Georgia Tech has taken strides to understand and improve its water footprint. From its Stormwater Master Plan to wastewater reclamation/reuse, Georgia Tech is implementing a water management system to ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Data Visualization and Benchmarking Tools for Predictive Sustainable Decision-Making at Georgia Tech

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

Like many universities, we have a lot of data, but decision-makers do not always know how to interpret it or how to use it to set campus priorities. We also ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Georgia Tech: Leading the Way to Sustainability Through Comprehensive Water Management (2014)

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

Universities regularly implement advanced strategies to decrease and optimize energy and water usage. In a region riddled with issues, such as drought, legal disputes over water supply, and EPA consent ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Georgia Tech’s Stormwater Master Plan - Educational Overlay

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
  • NextEra Distributed Water, Inc. (VA)

In an effort to use the campus as a living learning laboratory, Georgia Tech is now developing an Educational overlay to the Stormwater Master Plan. This overlay intends to supplement ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Comprehensive Campus-wide Water Management Plan

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

As a campus, we are committed to sustainable growth in order to improve the human condition. Sustainable water management has become a critical issue for the region, which has struggled ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Georgia Tech's Innovative Landscape Master Plan...Is A Living Learning Laboratory

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

While most universities have a Campus Master Plan, very few have a Landscape Master Plan. Fewer have a Cistern Master Plan. Learn how to think beyond a traditional Campus Master ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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EcoCommons establishes Ecological Performance for entire campus, provides distinctive sense of identify, place, sustainability

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

In the higher education arena, our institute has one of the most advanced and forward-thinking sets of building standards for environmental stewardship, sustainable design, and energy management. Strategically, sustainability is ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Smart Growth Strategy realizes Green Honors and becomes an Immersive Sustainability Master Plan

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

In the higher education arena, our institute has one of the most advanced and forward-thinking sets of building standards for environmental stewardship, sustainable design, and energy management. The 1997 Campus ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Promoting Bicycle Commuting on Campus

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

This will be a presentation at the introductory level detailing possible steps that campuses can take in order to increase their population of students, faculty, and staff who use a ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Case Study in Water Management at Georgia Tech

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

Georgia's drought brought Atlanta's 5 million population, and Georgia Tech's 23, 500 daily population within 30-60 days of running out of water. The Governor mandated we stop ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Brooke Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

The Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems enhances Georgia Tech’s research, education, and service missions, and campus operations through leadership, communications, development, and decision making inspired and defined by ...

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Sustainable Engineering

  • Arizona State University (AZ)
  • Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
  • Syracuse University (NY)
  • University of Texas at Austin (TX)

The Center for Sustainable Engineering (CSE) is a partnership among five universities: Syracuse University (lead institution), Arizona State University, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of ...

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Environmental Engineering (BSEnvE)

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

The BSEnvE curriculum is designed to meet the needs of all students. The faculty of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) first developed the Program Educational Objectives for ...

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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City & Regional Planning (PhD)

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

The doctoral program has three main components: the coursework, which includes the program core, a major field and a minor field; the comprehensive exams; and the dissertation. The program of ...

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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PhD in Environmental Engineering

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

Ph.D. applicants must choose a CEE discipline or specific field of study. After consulting with faculty, the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies grants or denies the applicant admission to ...

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Master of City & Regional Planning with specialization in Environmental Planning & Management

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

In light of the highly interdisciplinary nature of environmental planning, coursework is designed to emphasize the functioning of natural and human-generated environmental systems, the design and implementation of environmental policies ...

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Concentration in High Performance Buildings (MS in Architecture)

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

The Master of Science with a major in Architecture and a concentration in High Performance Buildings is focused around the use of building physics and building technology for sustainable architectural ...

  • Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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An optimal investment tool for "greening the campus"

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

Buildings consume about 40% of total global energy production, and their greenhouse gas emissions and solid waste generation constitute a major part of global environmental impacts. Current "greening the built ...

  • Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Will Sustainability Take Root?

  • AASHE (PA)
  • Berea College (KY)
  • University at Buffalo (NY)
  • University of Florida (FL)
  • Middlebury College (VT)
  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

Do you know sustainability when you see it? The results of an institution’s commitment to environmental, social, and economic health are often subtle. Campus advocates and practitioners who have ...

  • Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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86 kW Rooftop Array: Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

The building’s sustainable features include innovative water recycling (89 percent projected reuse), 1.4 million gallon cistern, locally sourced materials, native landscaping and rooftop solar panel array – all of ...

  • Posted Sept. 28, 2011
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342 kW Rooftop Array: Aquatic Center

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

The array consists of 2,856 PV modules, each one containing 72 multicrystalline silicon solar cells connected in series. Each module can produce 120W of DC electrical power from an ...

  • Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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