Search Results
Rising-seas.org Project
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
RISING-SEAS.ORG is an online alliance of passionate individuals dedicated to bridging climate awareness and action from all angles. It features visual advocacy campaigns to visualize the communities most endangered ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
- Case Studies
- View more
AASHE Celebrates Campus Sustainability!
- Harvard University (MA)
- Portland State University (OR)
- Stanford University (CA)
- AASHE (MA)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) invited several distinguished higher education sustainability professionals to share their thoughts on where sustainability has been and where it ...
- Posted March 3, 2016
- Videos & Webinars
- View more
Impact Advocacy - Fair Trade in Your Life and on Campus
- Fair Trade Colleges & Universities
Fair Trade empowers farmers and workers and promotes economic development, social justice, and environmental stewardship. The world of Fair Trade includes a wide range of groups and interests; businesses, non-profits ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Building Self-Care, Resiliency and Emotional Intelligence Into Your Sustainability Career and Advocacy
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Sustainability issues have reached a critical peak of importance. We need all hands on deck to address the urgent goals of environmental justice by utilizing the best political and personal ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Critical Perspectives on Sustainability
- Earlham College (IN)
Sustainability education can take on value stances that are, at times, taken-for-granted and uninterrogated. In an effort to educate students and raise awareness, advocacy can justifiably take the place of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Effectiveness of a Student-led Sustainability Advocacy Coalition
- Stephen F. Austin State University (TX)
Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA), located in East Texas, formed a Sustainability and Energy Management Committee, made up of mid-high level administrative and academic staff. Their primary function was ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Collaborative Advocacy in the Southeast: Creating a Southeast College and University Coalition
- University of Arkansas (AR)
- Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (GA)
National organizations, such as AASHE, convene institutions of higher education on the premise that the exchange of ideas, resources and best practices better enable the design and adoption of sustainable ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Story of Self: Defining Your Story to Connect to the Sustainability Movement and Advance Your Career
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
Every person has taken their own path to develop passion and drive in the sustainability field or chosen career. In “Story of Self,” we will define and leverage each journey ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Why Your Campus Needs a Distributed Network of Sustainability Advocates
- New York University (NY)
Improving the environmental performance of higher education institutions is not only a question of infrastructural development through decisions made in the upper echelons of university administration; it is also intimately ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Meaningful Advocacy in the Age of Permanent Crisis: Strategies for Preventing Burnout and Creating Sustainable Change
- New York University (NY)
This dynamic workshop aims to explore the "binary star system" represented by a pair of interrelated challenges that confront all leaders and advocates working to advance sustainability in higher education ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
UVA's Sustainability Advocacy Program
- University of Virginia (VA)
The Sustainability Advocacy program's purpose is to reach all incoming students about sustainability during their first year. By reaching them early we hope that they can learn how to ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
The Power of Networking, The Importance of Advocacy
- Utah State University (UT)
Sustainability is a concept that needs more awareness through advocacy and networking. Sustainability is not a passing fancy, but a powerful movement that is progressive and growing bolder every day ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Is it Time for a Revolution?
- Dickinson College (PA)
- Ithaca College (NY)
- Pacific University (OR)
- Second Nature (MA)
We've come a long way baby... but are we moving fast enough? Although great strides have been made in the sustainability movement in higher education, is the pace of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
sustainability and the arts of democracy, innovating engaged learning
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
this four person panel showcases an innovative engaged learning project. attached to graduate and undergraduate courses with parallel content, the project brings first year students, graduate students, faculty, and community ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Administrative advocacy: fostering sustainability champions at the top
- University of Missouri (MO)
Having administrative champions on your side can help your campus sustainability efforts to move faster, receive more support, and be more effective. But how do you develop a rapport with ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Advocating Sustainability: Learning from Campus, Teaching the Community
- Furman University (SC)
The dissemination of campus-based sustainability efforts provides both general knowledge and specific updates to several audiences, on campus and beyond. This communicated information is critical for evaluating and assessing sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Ecological Design Center
- University of Oregon (OR)
The Ecological Design Center (EDC) promotes a sustainable relationship between the built and natural worlds. The EDC educates University of Oregon design students with the awareness, sensitivity, and expertise necessary ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
- Research Centers & Institutes
- View more
Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility
- Queen's University
The mission for the Centre for Social Impact at Smith School of Business is to educate students and foster outreach and advocacy on issues of social impact. The Centre does ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
- Research Centers & Institutes
- View more
Environmental Law Centre
- University of Victoria (BC)
The ELC works for community groups, conservation organizations and Indigenous communities across British Columbia building legal capacity to tackle today’s complex environmental challenges. The Centre's work has three ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
- Research Centers & Institutes
- View more
Center for Environmental Law and Land Use
- Loyola University New Orleans (LA)
Loyola’s Center for Environmental Law brings together dedicated students, inspiring professors, expert lawyers, and active members of the community to study and respond to the Gulf Coast’s most ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
- Research Centers & Institutes
- View more
MS in Environmental Studies, Advocacy for Social Justice & Sustainability
- Antioch University, New England (NH)
Students can prepare for careers as environmental activists with Antioch University New England's Master of Science in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Advocacy for Social Justice and Sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
- Academic Programs
- View more
MA in Sustainable Development: Advocacy, Leadership, and Social Change
- SIT School for International Training (VT)
SIT’s Master of Arts in Sustainable Development: Advocacy, Leadership, and Social Change program prepares graduates for positions in organizations working toward a more equitable and sustainable use of the ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
- Academic Programs
- View more
AASHE Attends the White House’s American Campuses Act on Climate Round Table
- AASHE (MA)
On Nov. 19, I joined college and university executives, student leaders, nonprofit representatives and Obama administration officials at the American Campuses Act on Climate Round Table organized by the White ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
- Publications
- View more
Opportunity - Upcoming White House Day of Climate Action to Feature Campus Climate Leadership
- AASHE (MA)
On November 19th, the White House and the State Department will bring together leadership from higher education institutions, including school administrators and student leaders, to collectively call for action on ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
- Publications
- View more
AASHE @ Clinton Global Initiative University
- AASHE (MA)
President Clinton launched the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) in 2007 to engage the next generation of leaders on college campuses around the world. Each year, CGI U hosts ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
- Publications
- View more
Rio+20 Outcomes Document-What will it say?
- AASHE (MA)
As the heads of state have been meeting in Rio the past two days there appears to be little effort or desire to take on changing the text of the ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
- Publications
- View more
Rio+20 Has Officially Begun
- AASHE (MA)
Earlier this morning the official opening of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) occurred amid dreams, hopes and disappointment. The watering down of the language to achieve ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
- Publications
- View more
Rio+20 - Fear and Hope
- AASHE (MA)
As the negotiations continue at both Rio+20 and the G-20 Summit I'm seeing reports of both hope and fear. The hope seems to be coming from the non-government ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
- Publications
- View more
Rio Update – Monday June 18, 2012
- AASHE (MA)
The international sustainability scene is getting increasingly complex. Not only is UNCSD aka Rio+20, the world’s biggest meeting on sustainability, taking place this week but the agenda for ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
- Publications
- View more
What’s going on at Rio+20
- AASHE (MA)
As we go into the last few days before the official Rio+20 conference, I think it is important to reflect on not only what is happening there but how ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
- Publications
- View more
Campus Climate Action and Multilevel Environmental Governance
The growing recognition that the future of the climate regime may also lie in strong local and regional initiatives (Dimitrov, et al., 2004) stems from the belief that our familiar ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
- Publications
- View more
AC Climate Aware
- Algonquin College (ON)
AC Climate Aware is a collaborative grassroots effort designed to promote sustainability and internationalization. Under the leadership of SEATS, the campaign encourages dialogue within the Algonquin College community about these ...
- Posted June 10, 2015
- Case Studies
- View more
WinterBlitz: Williams College students Weatherize Low-income Homes in the Local Community
- Williams College (MA)
For the past 2 years, Williams College students and community volunteers have weatherized a total of over 75 homes in 3 towns near Williams College during a one-day event in ...
- Posted June 21, 2010
- Case Studies
- View more
- 1
- 2