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Is Your Institution Ready for the Future of Sustainable Procurement?
- Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (MA)
Leading organizations in government, industry, academia and the non-profit sector came together in 2013 to launch the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) in an effort to solve the biggest obstacle ...
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ECOPUMA, the strategy for Sustainable University of UNAM
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is the main cultural project of Mexico and the most important university in Latin-America. Attends 330,382 students and produce 35.2% of ...
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Education for Sustainability at UNAM
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
- Environmental Leadership Program (MD)
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) contributes to the formation of new generations, providing a vision that allows them to build multidisciplinary solutions for increasingly large and complex problems ...
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Food Systems Northwest: A collaborative traveling summer course
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
- Willamette University (OR)
Around the country, scholars are beginning to recognize the centrality of food and agriculture in questions of sustainability, social justice, economic development, and international affairs (Poppendleck, 2000; Hinrichs 2003; Werkerle ...
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Using campus farms to engage students in experiential learning
- Linfield College (OR)
- Linn-Benton Community College (OR)
- Pacific University (OR)
- Portland State University (OR)
- Willamette University (OR)
Growing food on college campuses is deeply rooted in many institutions of higher learning. There are many reasons for engaging in food production at these institutions and these reasons change ...
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Innovation & Partnership for Landfill Waste Diversion
- Emory University (GA)
Creativity, innovation, and partnership are essential for successful campus waste minimization and landfill diversion efforts. A series of collaborative efforts have recently emerged in order to work towards meeting Emory ...
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University Research in Support of Local Sustainable Food Systems
- Portland State University (OR)
In this poster presentation, faculty researchers from Portland State University will share examples of meaningful partnerships with the local community and demonstrate the reciprocal relationship between research and practice. During ...
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Institutionalizing Sustainability Bringing Academics & Operations
- Lane Community College (OR)
At Lane Community College, Sustainability is one of six Strategic Directions. Lane has embarked on a process to develop policies and procedures that support and encourage students and staff to ...
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The Art of Hearing: the journey of AASHE’s Listening Project
- Ball State University (IN)
- Princeton University (NJ)
The Listening Project, launched in 2013, was the first collaborative organizational and member-driven effort of its kind for AASHE and has since been the subject of keen interest by other ...
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Food Composting in the Real World
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Since 2007, incremental successes have taken our campus food composting weights from 0 to 419 tons, increasing every year! The Pittsburgh region food composting initiative started with stakeholder food audits ...
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Sustaining Self: Prioritizing Personal Well-Being
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
Sustainability professionals need to do a better job of taking care of themselves. Far too many in our field routinely push themselves to an emotional and physical limit, due largely ...
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Beyond Eco-Reps: Deepening Engagement through an Effective Residential Life Partnership
- University at Albany (NY)
UAlbany’s Office of Environmental Sustainability has partnered with Residential Life to provide a communication and training channel to students as well as robust peer-to-peer education program in resident housing ...
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Co-Creating Education for the Future: Constructing Highly Effective Programs in Sustainability Studies
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
- Littleglobe (NM)
Institutions of higher education are transforming their curriculum to better equip students for the complex challenges of the 21st Century and beyond. In this concurrent session workshop, faculty, students, and ...
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Studying Sustainability Studies: A Comparative Analysis of 42 U.S. Degree Programs
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
What does a degree in Sustainability Studies look like? Institutions of higher education are in the process of transforming their academic offerings to better equip students for the complex challenges ...
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Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure: The Campus as a Living Lab
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
In 2012-13, the Provost of the California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) funded an innovative program to engage campus faculty, staff, and students in Programmatic Excellence and Innovation in Learning ...
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Learning for Sustainability Scotland
- Environmental Association for Universities & Colleges (EAUC) (Gloucestershire)
There is an undeniable need for a world that is sustainable: where people and communities value and are engaged with the natural environment; societies are inclusive and equitable; and a ...
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Energy Hog in the House: Bringing Energy Efficiency to Life
- Alliance to Save Energy (CA)
The Energy Hog program is an entertaining and extremely effective outreach tool for college students to engage interested audiences from their community on topics related to energy. For many people ...
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Sustainability Committee Structures
- University of North Carolina, Charlotte (NC)
Committees are a common organizational tool for sustainability on campuses and in our communities and businesses. Leaders and sustainability staff have needs that can be met by committees, including expertise ...
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Bioregional Urbanism on Campus: Building Regional Leadership Models
- EcoMotion (CA)
- Earthos Institute (MA)
Bioregional Urbanism is a practice methodology that helps cities and regions become more resilient and self-sustaining in ways that measurably contribute to global sustainability. Campus communities are influential centers for ...
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Curricular Engagement in Building Sustainable Communities
- Dickinson College (PA)
Dickinson College is leading the way in integrating sustainability across the curriculum. As an innovative liberal arts college, over 90% of our graduating students are taking sustainability-focused and related courses ...
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Liberal Arts Institutions Networking Meeting (2014)
- Dickinson College (PA)
- Linfield College (OR)
- Lewis & Clark College (OR)
- Sewanee - The University of the South (TN)
- Willamette University (OR)
A lunch meeting for representatives of liberal arts colleges and universities. A similar lunchtime networking event was hosted by others in Nashville with approximately 100 attendees.
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A trans-disciplinary strategy to energy efficiency at a university
- University of Johannesburg (Gauteng)
In recent years, the costs of electricity in South Africa have increased significantly (cumulative 230% increase between 2008 and 2014), thus many institutions of higher education are seeking ways to ...
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Health Promotion: a vehicle for partnerships
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Public Health and Health Promotion on campus is uniquely positioned to partner and provide leadership on sustainability goals for higher education. Through a public health lens, we can offer support ...
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How to Justify the Cost of a Compost Facility for your Campus and/or Community
- Xavier University (OH)
Appalachian State University began an in-house composting program on campus in 1999, and built a state-of-the-art positive forced aeration facility to expand composting opportunities, which opened in October 2011. This ...
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Local APPetite: Partnering with Rural Farms to Grow Our Economy
- Appalachian State University (NC)
During the fall of 2013, Appalachian State University Food Services launched Local Appetite, a partnership that brought together farmers, community organizations and the university to grow our economy. Being self-operated ...
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Navigating the Renewable Road at Appalachian State University
- Appalachian State University (NC)
With seventeen standalone systems built on campus over the past seven years, Appalachian State University has the most diverse portfolio of renewable energy systems in the University of North Carolina ...
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Modernizing your Microscopes: Light Source Retrofits
- Alliance to Save Energy (CA)
Research laboratories are a universal fixture on higher education campuses, and as a result of outdated technology, present a prime opportunity for energy efficiency upgrades. Many of these labs rely ...
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Minding the Gap: Connecting Academic and Operational Sustainability
- Appalachian State University (NC)
- North Carolina State University (NC)
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
This workshop considers three different models currently in practice to bridge operational and academic sustainability in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system. An interactive beginning will lay the groundwork ...
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Advancing Student-Led Community-Based Health Equity Research: CPHE
- Portland State University (OR)
Since 2009, the Community Partnership for Health and Equity (CPHE), an interdisciplinary group of students, faculty, and community leaders, has focused on promoting social sustainability in the Portland, OR metropolitan ...
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Redefining the Norms of Waste Management Through Behavioral Changes
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
The UC-wide goal of Zero Waste by 2020 continues to encourage campuses to increase their waste diversion practices. At UCSB, we believe that we need to gain a better understanding ...
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Integrating Sustainability- the Land Grant University Lesson
- College of Charleston (SC)
Programs in sustainable agriculture do more than teach how to farm sustainably. They actually expand and deepen the understanding of many dimensions of sustainability. When a sustainable agriculture curriculum is ...
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Evolution of Zero Waste in a Retail Food Court
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
- Aramark (PA)
The objective of UC Irvine’s Zero Waste Food Court Pilot Program is to expand practices from campus residential dining locations to Phoenix Food Court as a model for additional ...
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Blending Sociology and Environmental Science at a Community College
- Highline Community College (WA)
We developed and co-taught a coordinated study class combining Sociology 101 and Environmental Science 101 at Highline Community College. In this class, we explored the foundations and intricacies of the ...
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Campus Models for Sustainability from Audubon International
- University of Florida (FL)
- Audubon International (NY)
During this presentation, AI staff will describe how two of its programs, the Signature Program and the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program, have promoted sustainable practices at educational institutions. The presentation ...
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Permaculture pedagogy: Critically engaging students through place
- Portland State University (OR)
The Learning Gardens Laboratory (LGL) is a 4-acre garden-education site in southeast Portland that facilitates hands-on and place-based education in sustainable gardening, healthy nutrition, and permaculture design for k-12, college ...
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Say Goodbye to Green: How to Mainstream Sustainability Messaging
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Over the 50 years since the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, sustainability has been linked primarily with environmentalism—and guilt. The earth has been hurt, and we are ...
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Water Action Plan - How to achieve real water savings
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
The University of California (UC) has committed to reducing their per capita potable water use by 20% by 2020. All UC Campuses are writing water action plans that outline strategies ...
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Making Greener Labs Programs a Value Add
- Brown University (RI)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of California, Riverside (CA)
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA)
- GreenerU (MA)
Research and teaching laboratories have a special set of circumstances that impact sustainability intervention efforts. Labs are high-impact both in terms of resource use and in terms of student learning ...
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Learning by Living: The Berea College Deep Green Student Residence Experience
- Berea College (KY)
- Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects (MO)
The Berea College LEED Platinum Deep Green Residence Hall, also seeking Living Building Challenge Petal Recognition, will have over a full year of occupancy by October 2014. Residential life, facilities ...
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STARS 101: Everything You Need to Know
- Santa Clara University (CA)
- AASHE (MA)
Since 2006, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), a membership organization of colleges and universities committed to building a sustainable world, has engaged in a ...
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Can you Hear me Now? Metrics for Sustainability Communications
- American University (DC)
- College of Charleston (SC)
- Duke University (NC)
- Northwestern University (IL)
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- Princeton University (NJ)
Whether you are marketing an event, campaign, or simply advertising a service your office offers, tracking your communications success is essential to growing your audience and engaging your community. Every ...
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Preparing for the Real World: Kickstarting Your Sustainability Career Pathway
- Northwestern University (IL)
- University of Vermont (VT)
While students will still have to determine the exact career they would like to pursue, and maybe pick out what they will wear on interview day, at the end of ...
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Building Bike Culture from College Campus to Corporate Campus
- Michigan State University (MI)
- University of California, Davis (CA)
- Bikes Make Life Better (CA)
- Meet your Bike (CA)
Building Bike Culture from College Campus to Corporate Campus Sustainable transportation strategies in all fifty states embrace the bicycle to meet their sustainability goals. But not all efforts are successful ...
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Vegetated roofs at UAB: Operations and research collaboration
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (AL)
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is the largest single-site employer in Alabama, with more than 120 buildings encompassing 93 city blocks. As a core component of Alabama’s ...
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Repair Fairs: Promoting waste reduction in community involvement
- Oregon State University (OR)
One of the largest challenges in engaging students in sustainability is creating meaningful experiences. Encouraging students to practice reuse is particularly challenging, as it requires a personal commitment. Likewise, educating ...
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Food Bikes: Mobile Food That’s Low Capital, Low Footprint
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Food Bikery seeks to prove that food bikes are a safe, legal, low-capital, and low-footprint alternative to food trucks. In transitioning mobile food off of trucks and onto bicycles ...
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Sustainability Officers’ Workshop: Essential Facilitation Tools & Technology to Advance Communication Skills, Leadership, and Project Management on Your Campus
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
- University of Hawaii at Manoa (HI)
Having strong facilitation skills enables sustainability staff and leadership to engage their communities in designing and implementing successful programs. From effectively facilitated meetings to purposeful project designs, these skills are ...
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Green Building Education through Certification
- Roosevelt University (IL)
- SERF Foundation (MI)
The Society of Environmentally Responsible Facilities (SERF) is a green building certification system that promotes a streamlined, user-friendly and cost effective approach to certification. In addition to certification, SERF is ...
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Building a Statewide Sustainability Strategy in Higher Education (2014)
- University of Hawaii at Hilo (HI)
This case study will describe the first two years of developing the system-wide University of Hawaii (UH) Sustainability Strategy. In January 2014 the Board of Regents of the University of ...
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At the Intersection of Wellness and Sustainability is your Worksite
- Lane Community College (OR)
This workshop will define the links between worksite wellness and sustainability. Employees spend a large portion of their daily lives at work. Workplace wellness is a key element in the ...
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