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Scrap It and Start Over: Reshaping Your Eco-Reps Program from the Ground Up
- Northwestern University (IL)
- University of South Carolina (SC)
Many sustainability staff members have experienced a moment when they had to decide whether they wanted to continue an existing sustainability program in the same way it had been run ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Cross-Institution Collaboration: Composting Pre-and-Post Consumer Food Scraps In An Urban Environment
- Dominican University (IL)
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
- Northwestern University (IL)
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
According to a 2011 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Global Food Losses and Food Waste, the average American wastes over 200 pounds of food ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Investing for Endowments: Solving the Problem
- Northwestern University (IL)
- Breckinridge Capital Advisors, Inc. (MA)
Our presentation focuses on empowering and motivating universities to adapt to a new world of sustainable investing. The presentation will address the limited amount of sustainable investment strategies currently available ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Dining Hall as a Classroom: A Unique Model for a Life-Cycle Analysis Course
- Northwestern University (IL)
Though students, faculty, and the dining service have all shown dedication to sustainable initiatives, there has been little academic research on the sustainability of our campus dining service. This year ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Breaking into the Sustainability and Higher Education Profession
- Northwestern University (IL)
After speaking with numerous sustainability coordinators and directors, it has become clear that this emerging field brings in creative, hardworking, and versatile professionals from varying backgrounds. This is both exciting ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Town-Gown Sustainability Partnerships: How to leverage efforts for mutual support & improved relations.
- Northwestern University (IL)
How can institutions of higher education partner with host cities to further sustainability efforts? From a landfill gas-to-energy project to a community reuse sale to a Green Ribbon Committee campuses ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Energy Competitions: Challenges and Opportunities
- Green Mountain College (VT)
- Old Dominion University (VA)
- Williams College (MA)
- Northwestern University (IL)
- Atrius (CA)
- University at Albany (NY)
How can institutions of higher education leverage resource reduction competitions to engage, educate, and motivate student behavior change?
Campus resource reduction competitions are a powerful platform to engage students in ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability in Higher Education: the Strategies and Implications of Campus Planning Decisions and Change Efforts
- Antioch University, New England (NH)
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Northwestern University (IL)
In the past year, members of AASHE have been asked to participate in a number of surveys. This presentation will offer summaries of three perspectives being studied, providing participants with ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability = Survival
- Northwestern University (IL)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- Chlorine Free Products Association (IL)
- Cascades Tissue Group (NY)
We are all working to do our best to move toward sustainable practices that are supported via our purchasing. So we will have a panel made up of managers of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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ANSER Solar Energy Research Center
- Northwestern University (IL)
The ANSER Center, founded in 2007, is a joint research effort between Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory that works to develop the fundamental understanding of molecules, materials and method ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Environmental Science (BA)
- Northwestern University (IL)
The major offers two tracks: science and policy. Both tracks share common foundation courses in science, mathematics, and social science and the same core curriculum. Advanced course work differs with ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Sustaining Campus Sustainability: Factors Leading to Success of Environmental Sustainability Initiatives in Higher Education
- Northwestern University (IL)
What factors lead to the successful implementation and ongoing success of environmental sustainability programs and policies on college campuses? To find out, one may examine institutions' self-reported successful environmental sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Creating a Green Community: Understanding Student Environmental Behaviors for Increased Campus Participation at Northwestern University
- Northwestern University (IL)
Today, the world is facing a crisis the likes of which has not been seen before. The onset of global warming in recent times has initiated the growth of environmental ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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17 kW Rooftop Array: Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
- Northwestern University (IL)
The Centennial Solar Panel System, a solar photovoltaic array covering nearly the entire available roof of Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center, was installed and connected to the building’s ...
- Posted Oct. 17, 2011
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Centennial Solar Panel System
- Northwestern University (IL)
- Engineers for a Sustainable World (CO)
The Centennial Solar Panel System (CSPS), a 17 kW solar photovoltaic array at Northwestern University, is a partner project between Engineers for a Sustainable World and the Northwestern Sustainability Fund ...
- Posted June 24, 2011
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