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Bridging the Academic and Operational Divide with WALLE: The Waste Audit Living Lab Experience
- Portland State University (OR)
Like many universities, Portland State University (PSU) is operationally challenged to collect concrete and robust data about the quantity and types of materials that are going through its waste stream. …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Deep Energy Retrofits: Warren Hall at Cornell University
- FXCollaborative (NY)
Learn how a pre-war, 130,000-square-foot classroom building at Cornell University was retrofitted to achieve LEED Platinum performance. The historic masonry building was fully renovated into a new, modern home for …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Three Zeros Environmental Initiative at UNC Chapel Hill: The Chancellor's Sustainability Charge
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
- SmithGroup (MI)
The University of North Carolina (UNC) has set a new global standard for sustainability in higher education's constantly evolving environment. UNC is scaling its impact through the Three Zeros Environmental …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Strategic Action Plan
- Roger Williams University (RI)
RWU's plan includes a Sustainable Futures framework that provides a list of campus initatives such as, reconstituting the university's Sustainability Committee, conducting and submitting an AASHE/STARS reports, hiring a Sustainability …
- Posted Oct. 19, 2022
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Small Changes Make a Big Impact: Sustainability Matters with Today's Students
- Boxed Water is Better (MI)
In today's environment, there is more discussion than ever about sustainable alternatives to single-use plastic and single-use aluminium. However, there is even more confusion about what steps each of us …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Elevating Your Campus Sustainability Month
- Saint Louis University (MO)
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
This combined session will be split into two parts. The first half of the session will be conducted by Toren Elste of University of Washington. Both the UW sustainability office …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Georgia Tech's Innovative Landscape Master Plan...Is A Living Learning Laboratory
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
While most universities have a Campus Master Plan, very few have a Landscape Master Plan. Fewer have a Cistern Master Plan. Learn how to think beyond a traditional Campus Master …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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University of Texas at Austin's Energy Conservation Campaign
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
Aligning with a building energy audit case study, UT Austin developed outreach materials to encourage technical and behavioral energy conservation. Areas covered include Conservation Conversations; Freezer Loaner Program; Horns Up, …
- Posted March 12, 2016
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Duquesne University's Sustainable MBA: Keeping our Facilities & our Students Ahead of the Pack
- Duquesne University (PA)
- AUROS Group (PA)
To stay at the top in their field, Duquesne University's thought leaders are embracing technology to inform and advise their choices on building renovations and upgrades. Duquesne University is one …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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California State University Sustainability Policy
- California State University, Chancellor's Office (CA)
This policy is intended to position the nation's largest university system as a leader in the teaching and use of applied research to educate climate literate students equipped to solve …
- Posted Oct. 19, 2022
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1 MW Solar Arrays: Music Building, Gymnasium, Meiklejohn Hall, and Arts & Education Building
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
- PowerLight Corporation (CA)
The university's solar electric system is estimated to generate 1.45 million kilowatt hours of electricity in a year - enough to serve 255 average homes and meeting 7.5 percent of …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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Sustainability Internship: Developing a Sustainable Design Document for the University of Minnesota
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Sustainability requires collaboration. The University of Minnesota's Sustainability Studies minor internship promotes collaboration between students and professionals to work together to further sustainable efforts. My specific assignment was with the …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Hitting the Reset Button: UT Austin's Process to Implement New Goals Within Existing Diversion Operations
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
As a state entity many of UT Austin's waste diversion programs and successes stemmed from state mandates. Due to changing priorities at the university level including the adoption of a …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Virginia Power Dialog: Lessons Learned and What's Next in the Commonwealth
- University of Richmond (VA)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (VA)
Motivated by the historic international climate agreement reached in Paris in December 2015 and by the adoption of the Clean Power Plan, The Virginia Power Dialog engaged college and university …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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We Are All In This Together: Arbor Day Tree Planting
- Roosevelt University (IL)
Arbor Day Observance in which kids from Bright Horizons Daycare (located on Roosevelt University's (RU) Schaumburg Campus), and RU tradesmen, staff, and students, and RU's arborist planted a tree. This …
- Posted May 6, 2016
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Center for Global Environmental Education
- Hamline University (MN)
For over two decades, teachers, students, community leaders, and concerned citizens have come to the Center for Global Environmental Education for inspired learning and outstanding educational resources. The Center's pioneering …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Washington and Lee Quick Hits: Sustainability Leadership Trip Explores Local Food
- Washington and Lee University (VA)
Washington and Lee University takes student leaders in sustainability on a trip to explore local foods and dining waste. It features the students visiting the campus's local garden that composts …
- Posted May 19, 2022
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Using S Designation to Build an Embedded Certificate and Create Coherence
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
The University of Hawaii 10 campus system uses common criteria and a process of interdiscipinary dialogue to designate sustainability focused courses across all ten campuses. A system-wide minor in sustainability …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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AU's Energy Team Partners with DOEE to educate the community
- American University (DC)
- United States Department of Energy (DC)
In efforts to promote American University’s Annual Campus Beautification Day, the Energy and Engineering Team at AU partnered with the DC Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) to locate and …
- Posted April 26, 2017
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Trash Talking: South Dakota State University's Effort to Increase Campus' Recycling Rate
- South Dakota State University (SD)
Like most universities, it is not unusual to find trash and recycling in the wrong bin at South Dakota State University. Sparked by SDSU's STARS 2016 report, the campus Sustainability …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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UQAM Fonds Vert (Green Fund)
- Université du Québec à Montréal (Québec)
The University's Green Fund aims to financially support the initiatives of members of the university community in the area of eco-responsibility. Goals
This fund makes it possible to encourage and …
- Posted Sept. 21, 2021
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MS in Architecture with a Track in Sustainable Design
- University of Minnesota, Crookston (MN)
The planet, for better or worse, is becoming urbanized. By 2050, according to former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, six billion people, representing two-thirds of humanity, will be living in …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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The David A. Tepper Quadrangle at Carnegie Mellon University
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Carnegie Mellon University's David A. Tepper Quadrangle, home of the university's Coulter Welcome Center and the Tepper School of Business, earned LEED Gold certification in 2019.
CMU will be recognized …
- Posted July 27, 2022
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Ohio University's Professional Development Program for the Advancement of Sustainability
- Ohio University (OH)
Ohio University's Office of Sustainability designed a Professional Development Program to advance the university's sustainability profile, particularly with its built environment. On a monthly basis staff from Architecture, Design and …
- Posted June 10, 2016
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Anabel's Grocery
- Cornell University (NY)
Anabel's Grocery student run grocery sells quality food.
- Posted July 31, 2018
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Marquette's Water Quality Lab
- Marquette University (WI)
Dr. Brooke K. Mayer, P.E. and student working in Marquette's Water Quality Lab
- Posted Aug. 25, 2023
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UCLA Men's Basketball Sustainability
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Sustainability PSA about UCLA Men's Basketball Sustainability funded by The Green Initiative Fund.
- Posted March 11, 2016
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Communication Network Among Campus Sustainability Influencers
- Loyola Marymount University (CA)
Systems of all types require efficient communication between its parts and units in order to be successful and effective. It is thus important to understand a system's units in order …
- Posted May 8, 2017
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Stanford's Building Sustainability Rating System
- Stanford University (CA)
Stanford's building sustainability rating system recognizes buildings that are meeting their performance targets and motivates occupants to reduce their environmental footprint to improve their building's performance score.
- Posted Sept. 8, 2016
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How to Design an Annual Report People Actually Read
- Pomona College (CA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
Have you struggled with keeping up with annual reporting for your sustainability program? Are you somebody who's on top of their annual reporting but feel like nobody reads your report …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Let's Develop a Sustainability Literacy Assessment!
- Colorado State University (CO)
Many institutions of higher education are interested in assessing their students' sustainability literacy, however developing a reliable and valid assessment tool is a difficult and time-consuming task. In this presentation …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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The Greening of America's Campuses
- Berea College (KY)
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- Emory University (GA)
- Portland State University (OR)
- University of South Carolina (SC)
Colleges have long marketed their campus amenities, their rosters of scholars, their selectivity and study-abroad programs. To that list, add one more thing: their green credentials. From Berea College in …
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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University of Denver's Renter Efficiency Program for Students
- University of Denver (CO)
The University of Denver's Renter Efficiency Program for Students offers free energy audits to students who are renting off campus houses or apartments. The goal of these energy audits is …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Regionalizing the Food System While Achieving Sustainability Goals: NIU's Edible Campus Program
- Northern Illinois University (IL)
In response to the critical need for regionalization of our food system heightened by the challenges of the pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions, Northern Illinois University (NIU) launched the innovative Edible …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Urban Planning and Development (MS)
- Saint Louis University (MO)
Saint Louis University's urban planning and development program teaches students the essential knowledge, skills, and values central to the planning and development professions.
SLU’s interdisciplinary urban planning program operates in …
- Posted Jan. 12, 2019
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Better Together: Using an S Designation to Create Visible, Coherent, Trans-disciplinary Curriculum Out of What You Already Have
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
How the University of Hawaii ten campus system is using AASHE STARS curriculum designation criteria to transform courses across the curriculum. This session will cover all aspects of creating sustainability …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Edible Campus Garden at UNC Chapel Hill
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
Edible Campus UNC at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a program of the North Carolina Botanical Garden that incorporates edible, medicinal, and pollinator-friendly plants into existing landscapes …
- Posted July 30, 2018
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Edible Campus UNC Student Volunteers
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
Edible Campus UNC at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a program of the North Carolina Botanical Garden that incorporates edible, medicinal, and pollinator-friendly plants into existing landscapes …
- Posted July 30, 2018
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Edible Campus UNC Student Volunteers
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
Edible Campus UNC at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a program of the North Carolina Botanical Garden that incorporates edible, medicinal, and pollinator-friendly plants into existing landscapes …
- Posted July 30, 2018
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Foam-Free Dining at the University of Florida
- Aramark (PA)
Gator Dining Services/ARAMARK removed all foam food packaging from all dining location, including the dining halls, Classic Fare Catering, and the national brands on University of Florida's campus. The elimination …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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It's All About the People! Let's Talk About Social Sustainability
- Texas A&M University (TX)
- Value social sustainability as a necessity for advancing campus sustainability.
- Identify strategies for including social sustainability on your campus.
- Posted April 25, 2017
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Western Michigan University GHG Inventory (Baseline Year 2007)
- Western Michigan University (MI)
We believe that a prerequisite to thoughtfully assessing the feasibility of signing the ACUPCC, is to have a rich understanding of Western Michigan University's (WMU) current GHG emissions. For our …
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Engaging the Campus, Community, and Future: A Student's Guide to Organization Development
- University of Kentucky (KY)
Developing an organization, especially one that deals with a sustainability issue, may seem to be a daunting task. By examining the case-study of Lexington Environmental Youth Outreach (LEYO), a sustainability …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Oregon State University's Implementation of the Saferide App
- DoubleMap, Inc. (IN)
SafeRide began serving Oregon State University's students in 1989 as a sexual assault prevention service by women, for women. SafeRide has grown immensely to meet OSU students' continuing demands. Since …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Environmental Science Minor
- Saint Louis University (MO)
Saint Louis University's undergraduate major in environmental science will develop your understanding of Earth's natural systems and their interconnections with human society. The program is designed to help you thoroughly …
- Posted Jan. 12, 2019
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sustainNU Holds Hybrid Planting Workshop
- Northwestern University (IL)
Northwestern University's Office of Sustainability's (sustainNU) first hybrid event was during Earth Month. With the help of Wild Roots, a student-run garden on campus, and Northwestern Dining, sustainNU hosted a …
- Posted May 4, 2021
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Using Smartsheets, Dashboards and ArcGIS Insights to Track and Analyze Waste Stream's Weights
- University of Kentucky (KY)
The University of Kentucky's (UK) Waste and Recycling Department is using Smartsheets, Dashboard and ArcGIS Insights to collect and analyze the different waste streams. UK has about 300 dumpsters and …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Helping Small Businesses near Anderson University, SC
- Anderson University (SC)
Anderson University's SIFE team partnered with the local Sam's Club to help business members in efforts to help their facilities become environmentally friendly. We performed energy audits at these restaurants …
- Posted June 23, 2010
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University of Vermont Dining Services Vendor RFP
- University of Vermont (VT)
- Real Food Challenge (AZ)
Request for Proposals for the University of Vermont's dining services provider, specifying ways that the Real Food Challenge and other sustainability measures are to be incorporated into the vendor's services.
- Posted Jan. 11, 2019
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Institutional and Industry Partnership Yields Spokane's First Net Zero Energy Building
- Eastern Washington University (WA)
- McKinstry (WA)
Many higher education campuses across the globe are committing to sustainable operations with some charting pathways toward zero energy and net positive campuses. This session will highlight Eastern Washington University's …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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