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Plenary: Campus Sustainability: The Next 10 Years
- Emory University (GA)
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Western Michigan University (MI)
- AASHE (MA)
The campus sustainability movement has grown enormously since AASHE's founding in 2005. The members of this all-star panel of leading campus sustainability practitioners and advocates will reflect on this growth …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Student Leaders Symposium Meet Up
- Bentley University (MA)
- Boston University (MA)
- Tufts University (MA)
Take some time to connect or reconnect with sustainability student leaders across various colleges and universities. Hosted by three board members for the Annual Sustainability Student Leaders Symposium, this networking …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Launching the Social Innovation Incubator at Portland State University
- Portland State University (OR)
The Portland State University Social Innovation Incubator (SII) accelerates the impact of social innovations by addressing the specific needs of a growing cadre of social entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs (i.e., within …
- Posted June 8, 2010
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President's Commission on Sustainability Annual Budget
- California State University, Long Beach (CA)
The President’s Commission of Sustainability (PCS), formerly the Sustainability Task Force (STF), was established by the university’s President to integrate sustainability into all aspects of campus life. As part of …
- Posted Sept. 21, 2021
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Student Sustainability Centers and Offices' 3 R's: Resources, Roles, and Revenue
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
This round table session seeks to share the successes, challenges, and lessons learned related to founding and managing student focused sustainability resource centers. Discussion topics will include: Topic 1: Revenue …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Service Learning Course that Engages a Student Workforce to Help Implement Stanford's Sustainability Programs
- Stanford University (CA)
As a leader in resource management, demonstrated through infrastructural improvements and efficiency programs, Stanford has great potential to couple operational achievements with program-based local actions that promote both resource conservation …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Education for Sustainability, Not Less Unsustainability: WCU's EFS Certificate Programs
- West Chester University of Pennsylvania (PA)
This paper/presentation is for those who are drawn to the work of education for sustainability (EFS), yet who suspect that tinkering with or even overhauling what happens in formal education …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Blending Sustainability & Community Engagement in STEM: Models from 4 Diverse Universities
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- Stony Brook University (NY)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
- Villanova University (PA)
From diverse institutional perspectives, this interactive session explores community engagement through course-based sustainability projects done in collaboration with community partners. We will outline important opportunities and challenges of this work …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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SDG101: Sustainable development integration in the classroom with the SDG Academy
- United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (NY)
The SDG Academy creates and curates the best available educational content on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and makes it available as a public good. As the flagship education …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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An Evaluation of Effective Structures for Campus Sustainability Programs at Institutions of Higher Education
- College of William & Mary (VA)
The need for sustainability in both the education and operations of colleges and universities has inspired many to launch sustainability programs on their campuses. As institutions of higher education invest …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Looking through the “greenwashing glass cage” of the green league table towards the sustainability challenge for UK universities
Purpose – This paper aims to critically focus on the UK's People & Planet's “green league table” in order to explore to what extent such league tables contribute to the …
- Posted June 21, 2016
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External facilitators as ‘Legitimizers’ in designing a master's program in sustainable business at a Swedish business school – A typology of industry collaborator roles in RME
- Örebro University
This article offers new knowledge on the role of industry as external facilitators in the case of designing responsible management education (RME). Drawing on a case of a Swedish business …
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Marine Science Minor
- Slippery Rock University (PA)
The Marine Science program is a natural complement to a major in mathematics or natural sciences. A student's coursework will include general biology, chemistry, oceanography, marine biology, chemical oceanography and …
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Environmental Policy Minor
- George Mason University (VA)
Students must successfully complete 21 credits with a minimum 2. 00 GPA. At least 8 credits of courses taken for the minor must be exclusive to the minor and not …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Environmental Science Minor
- University of Massachusetts Boston (MA)
The minor in environmental science includes required courses in environmental science and policy, as well as the opportunity to select four additional courses from among the School for the Environment's …
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Geography & Environmental Sciences (BS)
- Western Kentucky University (KY)
The B. S. in Geography and Environmental Sciences explores human-environment relationships, and equips students to meet challenges brought about by such relationships.
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Forestry (BS)
- University of Montana (MT)
The College of Forestry and Conservation's undergraduate degree program in Forestry teach students about forest ecology, silviculture and timber harvesting. It also allows students to focus in the areas of …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Earth Fest 2017
- Bentley University (MA)
Bentley's Sustainability group "Students for Sustainable Business" holds a festival called Earth Fest each year. This is an opportunity for the campus to acknowledge Earth Day.
- Posted April 28, 2017
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Sustainability at Stanford 2020-21 Year In Review
- Stanford University (CA)
Explore the 2020-21 academic year milestones, key initiatives, and performance metrics that underscore Stanford's pledge to meaningful progress and applied innovation on sustainability.
- Posted Oct. 6, 2021
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Comprehensive Operational Analysis of Green Granting Programs in US Higher Education
- New York University (NY)
After three years and 52 funded projects awarded more than $250,000 NYU's Green Grants program took a year off from calling for new project proposals, and instead conducted an innovative …
- Posted June 24, 2011
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Weatherization Programs: Partnerships to Address Community Issues
- Furman University (SC)
- University of Florida (FL)
The benefits of weatherization programs are extensive. These programs have the capacity to address social and economic inequality, the historical effects of gentrification, and the growing impacts of climate change …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Overcoming the Challenges of Calculating your Carbon Footprint: An American University Case Study
- American University (DC)
- Facility Engineering Associates (VA)
As institutions that mold our future leaders and professionals, colleges and universities have a duty to set an example in promoting sustainability. Today, American colleges and universities are calling for …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Lead your school to carbon neutrality and 100% renewable energy.
- Second Nature (MA)
- Environment America (MA)
The Climate Leadership Network comprises more than 600 colleges and universities in every state and the District of Columbia who have committed to take action on climate and prepare students …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Energy Markets 101: Everything a Sustainability Officer Needs to Know
- Harvard University (MA)
- University at Albany (NY)
- EYP (NY)
- Campus Climate Solutions (FL)
Energy market costs and volatility pose both a threat and an opportunity for advancing sustainability initiatives in the higher education market. Reducing energy consumption has the greatest immediate and long-term …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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From Zero to Mass-timber in 20 Months.
- University of Denver (CO)
- Lake Flato Architects (TX)
- PCL Construction (CO)
How the University of Denver went from having no experience with mass-timber buildings to topping out the first entirely mass-timber structure in Denver in 20 months. We know many institutions …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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To LEED or not to LEED: University Makes the Case for Third Party Verification
- WRNS Studio (CA)
Today, when everyone is claiming green from cereal brands to coal companies, can we really say that we are building sustainably outside a framework of industry-accepted standards and objective third …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Innovative Programs from UNC's Center for Sustainable Enterprise
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
UNC's Center for Sustainable Enterprise at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business has developed two innovative sustainability programs: 1) CSE Consulting is a one of a kind, award-winning program that leverages …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Strategies for Environmental Assessment: Leveraging Sustainability Reporting to Engage Change
- New York University (NY)
From the first Environmental Assessment (EA) that our university performed half a decade ago through the process of institutionalizing assessment using STARS 1.0, our university's Office of Sustainability has deeply …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Procurement in Laboratories: It's Time to Act
- My Green Lab (CA)
Recent years have seen an increased focus on sustainable procurement across a multitude of industries. Yet with little information or sustainability standards for laboratory products, it has been challenging for …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems: National Science Foundation (NSF) Initiative to Examine Critical Issues in Today's World
- National Science Foundation
At the end of 2015, the NSF put out its first request for proposals for the INFEWS program. Over the next five years the program plans to fund interdisciplinary projects …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Higher education's response to the Covid-19 pandemic - Building a more sustainable and democratic future
- Council of Europe
Public health was the immediate concern when the Covid-19 pandemic struck in Asia, then in Europe and other parts of the world. The response of our education systems is no …
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Appalachian State University students have a hands-on sustainability experience
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Appalachian State University’s leadership in sustainability education can be traced back to more than 25 years. The university houses the nation’s longest running Sustainable Development Program (est. 1991) and has …
- Posted Sept. 12, 2016
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University of Dayton Student Neighborhood
- University of Dayton (OH)
The University of Dayton owns more than 400 residences in its student neighborhood. Launched in fall 2017, the Energy GPA program provides students in University-owned neighborhood housing with a grade …
- Posted July 24, 2018
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Sustainable Carolina: A Case Study in Student Sustainability Leadership
- University of South Carolina (SC)
The Sustainable Carolina Leadership Program, a sustainability-focused, professional development student engagement program housed at the University of South Carolina, was conceived and developed over the course of six years to …
- Posted June 11, 2015
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Facing of Failure and How to Use it to Work Towards Your Sustainability Goals
- American University (DC)
- College of Charleston (SC)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
AASHE Conferences are great for discussing successes: they help guide burgeoning institutions, provide expansion support to veteran institutions, and help build the case for sustainability. But what about failures? This …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Exploring the Capacity of Canadian Intercollegiate Athletics Departments to Engage in Environmentally Sustainable Operations
- University of Windsor (ON)
Despite an increased understanding about the role of sports in environmental sustainability (ES), little is known about the nature of ES operations in Canadian university athletics departments. The purpose of …
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Squeezing Water Out of Rocks: Two Years of the Sustainability Fee at Western Michigan University
- Western Michigan University (MI)
On April 15, 2010 our Board of Trustees approved a student initiated Sustainability Fee. Fourteen-thousand square feet of student gardens, ten-thousand travel mugs, hundreds of worms, fifty internships, sixteen grant …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Organizing for Sustainability: How Student Sustainability Groups Make a Difference
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- Trinity University (TX)
- University of Arizona (AZ)
- University of Northern Iowa (IA)
From clubs to official classes, internships to independent volunteering, students are often the primary drivers of campus sustainability efforts. Yet student organizations can also face real challenges, including group continuity …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Advancing Sustainability Through Health and Wellness Partnerships
- Indiana University South Bend (IN)
- Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
Thomas will highlight key partnerships between the Office of Sustainability and Human Resources at Washington University (WashU): the expansion of a Community Supported Agriculture program that encourages students and employees …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Leverage Your Renewable Energy Impact Through Emerging Avoided Emissions PPA Strategies
- Boston University (MA)
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- Trio (CA)
- WattTime (CA)
Renewable energy procurement is a critical strategy for reducing an institution's greenhouse gas emissions. However, not all renewable energy projects avoid the same amount of GHG emissions per kWh. The …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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GRI Reporting for Academic Institutions
- University of Texas at Arlington (TX)
The intended audience for this GRI report includes The University of Texas System and State of Texas; University administration, faculty, and staff; current and prospective students, and their families; alumni; …
- Posted April 3, 2014
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The Place of Sustainability in the University Strategic Plan
- DePaul University (IL)
Sustainability plans can often inform broader university strategic plans. At DePaul University in Chicago, we draft a new university strategic plan (USP) every six years. Our USP usually contains six …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Embedding Sustainability in University Governance
- McGill University (QC)
Campus sustainability movements often begin as student-led, grassroots efforts, which lead to impactful operational changes and commitments to sustainable practices. At McGill University, these efforts helped create an Office of …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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The state of sustainability reporting at Canadian universities
- University of Waterloo (ON)
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to describe the state of sustainability reporting in Canada's higher education sector, while understanding who is reporting on sustainability performance, how is information …
- Posted May 6, 2016
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Food Systems Carbon Footprint Analyzed by Students and University Stakeholders
- Elon University (NC)
The University's Sustainability Master Plan has targeted carbon neutrality across the institution by 2037. To help meet this goal, students in the Environmental Studies Senior capstone course worked with the …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Aggieware - Moving to Zero Waste Events within UC Davis Student Housing
- University of California, Davis (CA)
Aggieware, the reusable tableware program, was created by UC Davis Student Housing for use with all student programs in the residence halls to reach the University of California's goal of …
- Posted July 1, 2010
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Using Power Purchase Agreements for Solar Deployment at Universities
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (CO)
This fact sheet may be useful to colleges and universities interested in using PPAs for solar deployment. Page four includes a figure drawing from AASHE's Campus Solar PV database. …
- Posted April 22, 2016
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Saving Iowa's Remaining Natural Jewels - an ecological restoration and renewable energy partnership
- University of Iowa (IA)
The University of Iowa (UI) will convert 40 percent of its energy portfolio to renewable energy by or before 2020. Central to this effort is developing regional and sustainable biomass …
- Posted May 16, 2013
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Green Living Certification: Rewarding Residents for Environmentally Friendly Lifestyles
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
The Green Living Certification certifies and rewards residents living in on-campus residential buildings for making day-to-day choices that reduce their environmental footprint. Residents fill out an online survey that calculates …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2014
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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 estate …
- Posted May 28, 2021
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