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UT Farm Stand
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
UT Farm Stand is a student-led project that provides local and organic fresh foods to the University of Texas at Austin students, faculty, and staff. Our mission is focused on ...
- Posted June 16, 2016
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Zero Waste Game Day at Duke University
- Duke University (NC)
Leading up to the 2014 Duke Football season, a formal partnership was created between Duke Athletics, Duke Recycling, Duke Stores, and the Duke Sustainability Office in order to successfully achieve ...
- Posted June 10, 2016
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Academic staff engagement in education for sustainable development
- University of Southampton
The research presented in this paper emerged from the need to identify the factors influencing academic staff members when engaging in Education for Sustainable Development in real practice. The aims ...
- Posted June 10, 2016
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Implementation of sustainability in universities as perceived by faculty and staff – a model from a Swedish university
Education for sustainable development creates new challenges for universities where faculty and staff are expected to prepare students to meet complexities in society and take responsibility for sustainability, which scientists ...
- Posted June 10, 2016
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UBC Okanagan Whole Systems Infrastructure Plan - Aspiring toward Regenerative Sustainability
- University of British Columbia (BC)
This case study describes how UBC Okanagan created and leveraged an opportunity to develop an innovative, holistic campus sustainability plan that responds to UBC’s regenerative aspirations; what the Plan ...
- Posted June 10, 2016
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Living labs and co-production: university campuses as platforms for sustainability science
Living labs and co-production are increasingly popular strategies for universities to address sustainability challenges and yet the links between them remain largely implicit. This paper discusses the potential of living ...
- Posted June 7, 2016
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University of Minnesota, Morris student leads implementation of the Student Engagement Leadership Forum on Sustainability (SELFsustain) across the University of Minnesota-system
- University of Minnesota, Crookston (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Rochester (MN)
The University of Minnesota (U of M) is leading the way in cultivating student-driven sustainability leadership across Minnesota -- from the prairies to Lake Superior. For five years, U of M ...
- Posted June 7, 2016
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Raise Your Voice: Environmental Justice at Capilano
- Capilano University (BC)
The idea for this event was to have an open idea sharing and focusing event regarding sustainability and environmental justice on campus. It was a chance to bring students together ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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A Model for Creating a Campus Sustainability Plan
- California State University, Northridge (CA)
There are ample excellent reasons why all workplaces should create a sustainability plan, including most importantly the health of the planet. Climate change threatens the biosphere, ocean, atmosphere, our water ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Unifying Campus Efforts in Pursuit of Green Restaurant Certification at UC Irvine's East Food Court
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
UC Irvine's East Food Court became a Certified Green Restaurant on November 5, 2015 and upgraded its certification from 2-Star to 3-Star on April 22, 2016 through significant interdepartmental ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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SRU Earth Days 2016
- Slippery Rock University (PA)
“Earth Days 2016” was Slippery Rock University’s annual Earth Day celebration involving fun and educational events aimed at increasing awareness and knowledge regarding sustainability, climate change, and preserving resources ...
- Posted May 31, 2016
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NC State University Facilities, Academic Affairs Collaborate For Summer Energy Savings
- North Carolina State University (NC)
A hot, humid North Carolina summer isn’t when you might expect NC State University to save nearly $900 a day in avoided energy costs. But thanks to a new ...
- Posted May 26, 2016
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UC San Diego Earth Day: Annual Sustainability Fair & Tree Planting
- University of California, San Diego (CA)
UC San Diego celebrated Earth Day with student organizations, campus departments and vendors at their annual sustainability fair. Tablers included: AQUAholics, ASEJA, CALPIRG, Dr. Bronner, EcoGrounds, EcoNauts, EWS, Green Office ...
- Posted May 6, 2016
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Earth Week at University at Buffalo 2016
- University at Buffalo (NY)
From lectures and luncheons to clean-ups and competitions, to art exhibits and SLICE awards, this year’s Earth Week line up had something for everyone. Thanks to everyone for all ...
- Posted May 6, 2016
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Eco Hawks: Sustainability @ UIowa
- University of Iowa (IA)
Climate change is the greatest issue of our time and sustainability is the solution. Here at the University of Iowa, a place that provides services to not only Iowans but ...
- Posted April 22, 2016
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Building the Best Team for a Sustainable Operation
- Western Michigan University (MI)
- PortionPac Chemical Corporation (IL)
- Green Seal (DC)
- Georgia-Pacific (GA)
As green as your school may be, achieving and maintaining the level of sustainable operational performance that today's students expect can be challenging. As a facilities manager, how do ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Moving towards Water Sustainability on Campus: A Collaborative Approach
- Weber State University (UT)
Rising water stress in the American West demands that campuses in this region plan proactively for wiser water use. At WSU, a partnership between faculty researchers and operations staff has ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Team Waste Reduction: Using Departmental Collaboration to Transform Your Surplus Program
- Bowling Green State University (OH)
What do an 8 foot tall plywood cutout of the 'Lorax', a warehouse full of desks and 100 bicycles all have in common? They are all examples of surplus items ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Partnering for an equitable, sustainable school: 3 approaches for building partnerships and programs that connect sustainability
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
- North Carolina State University (NC)
- University of Virginia (VA)
As diversity and sustainability become more embedded into a campus culture, the connections between diversity and sustainability become more apparent and critical to create a thriving campus. This panel discussion ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Collaborating Campus Efficiencies with Finance Folks
- Carleton College (MN)
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
- National Association of College & University Business Officers (NACUBO) (DC)
Campus finance officers have the unique opportunity to develop, support, and implement campus sustainability goals. All campuses have major leaders in these finance officers that may, or may not, be ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Creating a Health Culture at NAU: How Partnership Between Campus Dining and Health Promotion Leads to Interdepartmental Success
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
Northern Arizona University, located in Flagstaff, Arizona, is host to 20,000 students, with over 8,900 who live on campus. To keep students involved and engaged in campus activities ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Horizontally and Vertically Integrated Campus Engagement Strategies
- Fanshawe College (ON)
- Fleming College (ON)
- Niagara College Canada (ON)
- Laurentian University (ON)
The panel discussion will provide an open dialogue and best practice sharing on how to engage any campus community to create a horizontally and vertically integrated culture of sustainability that ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Best Practices for Collaborating with Student Affairs
- Boston University (MA)
- Colorado State University (CO)
NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, is 'the leading voice for the student affairs profession worldwide.' One critical way for NASPA members to get involved with various interest areas ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Blueprint: A Residence Life Perspective on Sustainability Education
- Texas A&M University (TX)
The purpose of this presentation is to highlight practices and programs that residence life departments can introduce on their respective campuses to create a foundation for sustainability education. Utilizing several ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Fostering Sustainability in Residence Life Programming: Creating Sustainable Campus Communities
- College of Charleston (SC)
The Office of Sustainability at the College of Charleston has worked on Residence Life Programming since 2012 and is now in its third phase of interns. In those years we ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Engagement through Dining Partnerships and Programming
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
- Aramark (PA)
Want to get more people engaged in the sustainability conversation on your campus? Let's face it, food connects us all and everyone needs to eat. Your campus dining partner ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Sustainable Agriculture Project at Univ of MN Duluth: A Site-Based Land Lab for Sustainability
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
This proposal presents multiple perspectives on the creation and use of the Sustainable Agriculture Project (SAP). Founded in 2009, the SAP Farm is a site based laboratory for sustainability with ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Mapping A University's Sustainability Network: Visualization for Inspiration, Participation and Impact at Emory
- Emory University (GA)
Over the last decade, sustainability has gained an impressive foothold in higher education institutions around the world. There are many examples of campus infrastructure improvement projects, faculty sustainability education efforts ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Educating Sustainability Ambassadors: Insights from a campus-wide sustainability initiative
- Macalester College (MN)
Achieving sustainability is one of the grand challenges confronting society. To answer this challenge, in 2014 Macalester embarked on a campus-wide initiative to infuse sustainability throughout the college curriculum and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Engaging Beyond the Sustainability Circle
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Our universities have the potential to create diverse ways of producing sustainable change both on and off campus. This student summit presentation would be a collaborative brainstorm cafe of ways ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Advancing Mutual FM/Academic Goals through Strategic Partnerships
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
Universities have long been places for intense dialogue about sustainability issues. However, the emerging paradigm is that dialogue alone is insufficient for addressing the challenges of environmental, economic, and social ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Multiplying Impact: Shifting Culture and Driving Outcomes through Network Management
- Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
Human capital is our greatest asset and an integral part of the change process, with individuals ready to serve as catalysts in departments, offices, labs, and peer groups throughout any ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Proactive Sustainability Council
- Appalachian State University (NC)
How do you engage faculty, staff, and students in a Sustainability Council? What initiatives take place in a successful Council? How do you keep the momentum? These questions and more ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Overcoming the Hostile Environment: Steps to Incorporating Sustainability at a Reluctant Institution and in a Divided Community
- Prescott College (AZ)
At first glance, the small liberal arts college where I teach and the St. Louis Metro region do not seem to have much in common: one is a predominately white ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Designing collaborations: proposing a campus sustainability pedagogy network
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
Although Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) houses organizations like the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute's (NYSP2I) as well as a college devoted to sustainability, most RIT undergraduates seem ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Building a Campus-Wide Sustainability Network from the Ground Up, a Case Study
- State University of New York at Geneseo (NY)
In this presentation I will detail the work and progress made in developing our campus sustainability structure. At SUNY Geneseo, sustainability has been part of the conversation on campus for ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Embedding Sustainability across The University of British Columbia
- University of British Columbia (BC)
The poster session will provide a visually engaging overview of how the University of British Columbia is integrating sustainability across teaching, learning and research, operations and infrastructure, and community. Through ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Working Differently Together
- University of Wisconsin-Stout (WI)
"Working Differently Together" will examine the differences, similarities, and advantages found in proven as well as up-and-coming Systems Thinking Methodologies as tools for creative thinking and problem solving. Too many ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Central New Mexico Community College: Journey to sustainability
- Central New Mexico Community College (NM)
This project outlines the evolution of sustainability initiatives at Central New Mexico Community College and explains how our experience can serve as a guide for facilities personnel and faculty at ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Finding Carrots - engaging others in sustainability
- National Union of Students
Sustainability is engaging, empowering & enabling, but sometimes getting other people on board is a bit like herding cats – frustrating, resource intensive, and with no one correct way of ensuring ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Utilizing campus partnerships to enhance sustainability campaigns
- Stanford University (CA)
For the past 30 years, Stanford has designed and implemented innovative, campus-wide infrastructural programs to address environmental sustainability in energy, water, waste and building efficiency. Stanford’s Office of Sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Buy Less, Buy Better: Defining Success in Green Purchasing
- University of Arizona (AZ)
- Office Depot, Inc. (TX)
In 2012, the University of Arizona enacted a Green Purchasing Policy directing that equal consideration be given to environmental and social factors as is given to typical purchasing considerations such ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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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 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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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 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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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 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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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 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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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 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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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 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Sustainability Liaison Network
- Santa Clara University (CA)
We think we have found the key to establishing a community of engaged and active citizens for sustainability! By targeting our programming toward individuals (rather than whole departments or organizations ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Creative Strategies at the Nexus of Academics & Operations
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
- Purdue University (IN)
In order for campuses to achieve climate neutrality and reach a future state of sustainability and resiliency, more attention needs to be paid to existing facilities and infrastructure. However, this ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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