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The patterns of curriculum change processes that embed sustainability in higher education institutions
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Implementing education for sustainable development (ESD) in higher education institutions (HEIs) is critical to facilitating a transition toward sustainable development. However, little is known about the specific implementation processes that ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Determinant Factors of SDG Disclosure in the University Context
- Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Universities are expected to have a leading role in the advancement, promotion, and achievement of the 2030 UN Agenda, embedding the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across their four dimensions ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Cultivating a Collaborative Culture for Ensuring Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education: An Integrative Case Study
- Mount Mercy University (IA)
- Wingate University (NC)
Higher education institutions (HEIs) are not insulated from the challenges facing the planet and have been tasked as key stakeholders in sustainable development (SD). The preliminary data presented in this ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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(Un)Subjugating Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Development
- Rowan University (NJ)
- Nottingham Trent University
The relationship between development and higher education has evolved to become co-generative. The most recent incarnation of development goals, the sustainable development goals (SDG) call for a more intentional integration ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Carbon footprint assessment tool for universities: CO2UNV
- Universitat Jaume I (Castelló)
Universities, as organisations engaged in education, research and community services, play an important role in promoting sustainability and should be an example of a sustainable organisation. The Carbon Footprint (CF ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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A Survey of Environmental Attitudes and Knowledge of University Undergraduate Students for the Purpose of Faculty Development in Teaching and Learning for Sustainability
- University of North Carolina, Pembroke (NC)
Because today's students will confront global climate change and its concomitant social and cultural disruption, it is vital that they graduate with ecological knowledge, environmental ethics, and civic skills ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Climate change concern among youth: Examining the role of civics and institutional trust across 22 countries
- Columbia University (NY)
Although scholars have long documented perceptions of climate change and the public’s evolving response to the perceived risk it poses, only more recently have these analyses begun to examine ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Social Responsibility and the World of Nature: an interdisciplinary environmental studies course for inspiring whole system thinking and environmental citizenship
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
Environmental educators face many challenges in university settings, including improving students’ capacity for systems thinking, the effective use of educational technology, and supporting a sense of agency for participation in ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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A Core Curriculum for Sustainability Leadership
- Stanford University (CA)
In response to the scale, complexity, and urgency of the sustainability challenges societies face, there has been both rapid growth in the broad field of sustainability science and technology, as ...
- Posted April 28, 2022
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The Role of Universities Towards a Sustainable Future: Integrating the Sustainable Development Goals
- York University
We live in an era of unprecedented planetary and social challenges, including: the climate crisis, globalization of economic markets, social injustice, inequalities, poverty, food insecurity, biodiversity loss, migration, technological automation ...
- Posted March 10, 2022
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Embedding sacred ecology in sustainability solutions: The role of post-secondary environmental science programs
- Central European University
There is increasing attention to the potential contribution of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) to addressing an unprecedented crisis in social-ecological systems. Approaches to the bridging of scientific and indigenous knowledges ...
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Energy use and CO2 emissions in the UK universities: An extended Kaya identity analysis
- Florida International University (FL)
- Australian National University
- Kingston University London
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Universität Duisburg-Essen
We investigate the progress of the UK universities in greening their energy sources in line with the UK's goal of becoming a net-zero economy by 2050. Using the HESA ...
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Action learning partnerships: carbon, commerce and community co-learning at a Canadian university
- University of Northern British Columbia (BC)
- Prince George Chamber of Commerce (BC)
- Carbon Realities Consulting (BC)
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss an innovative course offered as a partnership between the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) (Canada), the Prince George Chamber ...
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Sustainable development goals and higher education: leaving many behind
- Nelson Mandela University (Eastern Cape)
- International Education Association of South Africa
This paper critically interrogates the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to higher education in low-income countries. While the SDG Goal 4, Target 4.3, calls for ensuring ‘equal access ...
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Discourse of ‘helping the poor’: rethinking global poverty and its pedagogical possibilities in higher education
- Xiamen University
As the global community strives for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly, the first goal of ‘ending poverty in all its forms everywhere’, university students’ learning experiences and understanding about ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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SCECon 21: Our World, Our Time, Our Voices
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
SCECon 2021: Our World, Our Time, Our Voices aims to recenter the environmental narrative around environmental justice by giving intentional space for students to learn about unique and intersectional environmental ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Inclusive Sustainability: Collaborative Approaches through UC Santa Cruz’s People of Color Sustainability Collective
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
The People of Color Sustainability Collective (PoCSC) works to make the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) a leader in sustainability and environmental justice, in recognition of our changing demographics ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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California State University System-wide Climate Justice and Intersectional Sustainability Speaker Series
- San Diego State University (CA)
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
- California State University, Channel Islands (CA)
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
- California State University, Chancellor's Office (CA)
- California State University, Chico (CA)
- California State University, Fullerton (CA)
- California State University, Long Beach (CA)
- California State University, Northridge (CA)
- California State University, Sacramento (CA)
- Cal Poly Humboldt (CA)
- California State University, Los Angeles (CA)
- California Polytechnic State University (CA)
- California State University, Stanislaus (CA)
During the 2020-21 academic year, Sustainability Officers from across the 23-campus California State University (CSU) system, the largest public university system in the U.S., joined forces to coordinate a ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Integrating racial equity, social justice, and sustainability through general education learning outcome assessment
- University of Utah (UT)
In 2014, the University of Utah administration received a poignant letter from a group of passionate students suggesting that granting an undergraduate degree to any student without ensuring that they ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Virtual Energy Treasure Hunt Event
- Suffolk County Community College (NY)
In April 2021, Suffolk County Community College hosted our first US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Treasure Hunt Event. The DOE describes the Treasure Hunt as “One of the best ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Brown University's Thermal Efficiency Project-2
- Brown University (RI)
Brown University is a 6.5 million sq. ft. research university campus founded in 1764 in Providence, Rhode Island. Its annual energy bill is $20 million. It serves 7,000 ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Incorporating Social Equity and Climate Justice into Climate Action Planning in Higher Education
- Portland Community College (OR)
Portland Community College’s 2021 Climate Action Plan: Resiliency, Equity and Education for a Just Transition (the CAP) centers people at the heart of creating benefits and solutions to the ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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MaryPIRG Student Climate Action Coalition (MSCAC)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
The FUTURE Act is a piece of legislation which aims to commit all of Maryland’s Public Universities to carbon neutrality by 2035 or sooner. The legislation was introduced by ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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UIUC Solar Farm 2.0: Ultra-Sustainable on-campus solar array
- University of Illinois University Administration (IL)
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Referred to as “Solar Farm 2.0,” a new 54-acre, 12.32 megawatt (MWdc) utility-scale array is located on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) campus, north of Curtis Road ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Reducing Scope Three Carbon Emissions Through Behavior Change & Menu Labeling
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
In October 2020, UC Berkeley’s Cal Dining implemented carbon emission labels to better inform customers about the carbon impact of the recipes served in the dining hall. Student researchers ...
- Posted May 25, 2021
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What's in Your Paper? Organizational Fiber Consumption and the Purchasing Decisions that Drive it
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Institutions of higher education (HEI) today often pursue sustainability in a holistic manner, integrating sustainability into their day to day operations as well as their long-term strategic plans. One challenge ...
- Posted May 25, 2021
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What makes an effective campus climate action plan?
- Montana State University (MT)
Over the course of Spring Semester 2021, eight undergraduate students from a wide variety of majors and disciplines enrolled in a 3 credit directed independent study course in Human Geography ...
- Posted May 25, 2021
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Climate Action Plan Sustainability Ambassador Course
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
The Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) ambassador course was piloted in the spring 2021 semester as an opportunity for students to have a direct role in assessing and recommending building-level ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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University of St. Thomas Stewardship Garden
- University of St. Thomas (MN)
The Stewardship Garden (SG) at the University of St. Thomas (MN) is an innovative urban agriculture project that combines undergraduate-driven research, teaching, and community engagement. Established in 2010, the SG ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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The People’s Fridge- A Community Fridge to Reduce Food Insecurity and Food Waste
- University of California, Merced (CA)
The People’s Fridge is a community fridge in Merced, California at a local community garden which also holds a free food distribution every Saturday called the Pop-Up People’s ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Glass Recycling at a Rural Georgia College Campus
- Georgia College & State University (GA)
Glass has quickly become a hard to recycle material in many places in the U.S. and around the world. This is especially true for geographically rural areas with an ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design – A Certified Living Building
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
In September 2015, the Georgia Tech Institute of Technology received a commitment for $30 million from The Kendeda Fund to building what the partners expected to become the most environmentally ...
- Posted May 18, 2021
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Planting the Pond
- Western Dakota Technical College (SD)
For this project, Western Dakota Tech formed an interdisciplinary team comprised of Environmental Engineering, Controlled Environment Agriculture, Electrical Trades, Computer-Aided Design, and Farm and Ranch Management students to design and ...
- Posted May 18, 2021
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Campuses as living labs for sustainability problem-solving: trends, triumphs, and traps
- Princeton University (NJ)
Colleges and universities around the world are increasingly using their campuses as living laboratories for sustainability problem-solving and engagement. “Campus-as-lab” (CAL) projects emphasize experiential learning and campus sustainability through the ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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Emotional reactions to climate change and associated coping strategies: a grounded theory study on graduate students of sustainability-related programmes
- Uppsala University
Climate change is happening. Yet this phenomenon does not only concern the environment, but also has various notable and important psychological implications for individuals in particular and society in general ...
- Posted May 4, 2021
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Synchronizing Sustainability Education Across Higher Education Community Orientations
- University of British Columbia (BC)
With increased concerns surrounding the global climate emergency, the need to address the issue emerges across individuals and large organizations alike. The University of British Columbia is one of the ...
- Posted May 4, 2021
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Assessing Undergraduate Sustainability Knowledge at California Polytechnic State University
- California Polytechnic State University (CA)
Sustainability education has become an important focus of many higher education institutions (HEIs), with the inclusion of many sustainability-related learning objectives for undergraduate students. As sustainability is a new, rising ...
- Posted May 4, 2021
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The Emotional Experience of Sustainability Courses: Learned Eco-Anxiety, Potential Ontological Adjustment
- Concordia University (QC)
- Queen's University
- York University
The knowledge content of university-level introductory sustainability courses elicits emotional reactions by students that are novel within the typical classroom context. Common negative reactions include ‘sadness’, ‘worry’, ‘guilt’ and ‘disgust ...
- Posted May 4, 2021
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Carbon footprinting of universities worldwide: Part I—objective comparison by standardized metrics
- Nanyang Technological University
- Trier University of Applied Sciences
Background Universities, as innovation drivers in science and technology worldwide, should be leading the Great Transformation towards a carbon–neutral society and many have indeed picked up the challenge. However ...
- Posted May 4, 2021
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Designing an extension Climate Stewards volunteer program: incorporating sense of community, social practice, and self-efficacy theories
- Cornell University (NY)
This paper examines the feasibility of developing a new Master Volunteer training program to help communities adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Traditional models of volunteer training ...
- Posted April 22, 2021
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Community-based climate action planning as an act of advocacy: a case study of liberal arts education in a rural community
- Colgate University (NY)
The current lack of comprehensive federal climate policy highlights the critical need for effective subnational climate policy and programs. We describe our efforts to create and cultivate a community-based multi-stakeholder ...
- Posted April 8, 2021
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Teaching Sustainability Practice through Service Learning: A Case Study of Reducing Food Waste
- University of Southern Maine (ME)
- University of Wyoming (WY)
This case report details the collaboration and integration of three distinct courses using a service-learning approach for a grant-based environmental project at the University of Southern Maine (USM). The focus ...
- Posted April 8, 2021
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A futuring approach to teaching wicked problems
- Utrecht University
This paper investigates how the teaching and learning about “wicked” environmental problems may be fostered through an educational approach premised on futuring – the active imagination of the future. The growing ...
- Posted Feb. 19, 2021
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A Resource-Efficient Modular Course Design for Co-Teaching Integrated Sustainability in Higher Education: Developing the Next Generation of Entrepreneurial Leaders
- Babson College (MA)
Society faces mounting pressures related to economic growth, social injustice, and environmental degradation. Building upon scholarly consensus regarding the necessity of multidisciplinary approaches to address such complex problems, the entrepreneurship ...
- Posted Feb. 10, 2021
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Towards climate justice education: views from activists and educators in Scotland
- University of Edinburgh
In the context of a resurgence of civic activism to address climate change, we present findings from an exploratory research project on climate justice education (CJE). We conducted deliberative focus ...
- Posted Feb. 10, 2021
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“I teach it because it is the biggest threat to health”: Integrating sustainable healthcare into health professions education
- Monash University (VIC)
Background Steering planetary and human health towards a more sustainable future demands educated and prepared health professionals.
Aim This research aimed: to explore health professions educators’ sustainable healthcare education (SHE ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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“Just Sustainability” Environmental Justice Campaign Case Study
- University of Vermont (VT)
The UVM Eco-Reps have long existed to encourage sustainable behaviors in UVM students, faculty, and community members. After a summer of Black Lives Matter protests, six months of a global ...
- Posted Feb. 8, 2021
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Impact of “healthier” materials interventions on dust concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, and organophosphate esters
- Harvard University (MA)
- New York University (NY)
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), and organophosphate esters (OPEs) are found in building materials and associated with thyroid disease, infertility, and impaired development. This study’s ...
- Posted Jan. 12, 2021
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Campus Sustainability Plans: A Descriptive Analysis of Sustainability Plans from Institutions of Higher Education in the United States
- Texas State University System Office (TX)
As the sustainability movement gains traction around the globe, institutions of higher education are increasingly being looked to for leadership. One established method of improving a campus’s environmental, economic ...
- Posted Jan. 12, 2021
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Carbon Negative: Reducing Dining’s Carbon Foodprint at Penn State
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Abstract Diet is an often unrecognized, but large contributor to our carbon footprint. An average American diet has a carbon footprint of 1.72 metric tons of CO2-eq every year ...
- Posted Sept. 11, 2020
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