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An Innovative Way to Adapt to a Changing Education Medium: Using Interactive Multimedia-based Information Graphics in the Sustainability Curriculum.
- University of Mount Union (OH)
265 first-year students at a small Northeast Ohio liberal arts university were asked 14 questions to measure their knowledge of issues relating to sustainability. The questions and answers provided the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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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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Developing an Integrated MBA and MPA Curriculum to Spur Innovative and Collaborative Solutions for Sustainability
- Presidio Graduate School (CA)
Intractable social and environmental problems increasingly call for collaborative solutions across the public and private sectors. Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco has offered a Masters in Business Administration (MBA ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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E-trash or E-treasure: An Innovative Approach to In-house Desktop Computer Dismantling and E-waste Disposal
- Purdue University (IN)
With the current pace of technological innovation and change, e-waste is on the rise and a reality all institutions of higher education have to address. Given the recent negative media ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Investing in the Future: Extending Enterprise Innovation through Biomimicry, Living Systems Design, and Systems Ecology in a Graduate Ecopreneurship Course
- Prescott College (AZ)
Two graduate faculty share their success strategies for cultivating student leadership in ecopreneurship to take sustainability deeper designing regenerative enterprises. Businesses using green practices and operations are a positive step ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Green League: An Innovative Tool for Employee Learning & Engagement
- Michigan State University (MI)
This presentation will discuss the criteria and outcomes of a web-based game designed to engage foster a deeper understanding of sustainability for non-credit faculty and staff who are volunteer "environmental ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Creating Hubs of Indigenous Innovation through Public/Private Partnerships: the Collaboration between MA`O Organic Farms and University of Hawai`i West O`ahu
- University of Hawaii Kapiolani Community College (HI)
- University of Hawaii - West Oahu (HI)
This panel will present an innovative partnership between Ma'o Organic Farms, Leeward Community College (LCC), and the University of Hawaii West O'ahu (UHWO). MAO is a non-profit youth ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Students as Change-makers: Engagement and Innovation for Small, Underfunded, Public Institutions
- Western Colorado University (CO)
How do you increase student engagement with campus sustainability initiatives, develop a sustainability plan when administrators have more pressing obligations, and implement it with next-to-no budget or dedicated staffing? These ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Harvesting Mesquite Flour at the University of Arizona: A Case Study in Local Innovative Food Production
- University of Arizona (AZ)
This talk presents first year results and plans for a student-run campus harvest of mesquite flour at the University of Arizona. Endemic to the Southwestern U.S., Texas and Mexico ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Innovating Parking; A Necessary Evil
- Lewis & Clark College (OR)
This session will describe recent efforts at Lewis & Clark College to design and build innovative and more environmentally friendly parking lots. While parking lots are often associated with all ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Innovative Tool for Integrated Energy Planning
- Michigan State University (MI)
One of the greatest challenges for universities is how to reliably meet the university's growing energy needs while reducing negative impacts of power generation. The presenting institution has its ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable University IdeaLab: Engaging Students Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
Universities have big budgets, big energy bills, and large carbon and waste footprints. They also waste a major resource: large numbers of students with great entrepreneurial, technological, and innovative potential ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Green Games at UNC-Chapel Hill: An Innovative Approach to Engaging Students in Peer Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
Green Games is an environmental competition among the residence halls at UNC-Chapel Hill. Since its inception in 1994, Green Games has evolved into an active and engaging tool for promoting ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Institutionalizing Innovation: Student Government "sustainability"" bodies and roles"
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Once students (via student clubs or individually) begin experimenting with efforts to make their programs/campuses/communities more sustainable, additional leaders pick them up and want to incorporate such experiences ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Innovative Investment Models for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
- Drexel University (PA)
- Blue Hill Partners (PA)
Innovative business models and financing solutions are required to drive the next level of efficiency and sustainability on campus. Blue Hill Partners, a Philadelphia based firm, has teamed with the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Collaborative Sustainable Building Practice: Innovative Curriculum Design
- Cornell University (NY)
There is no doubt that the unprecedented challenge of sustainable development calls for cross-disciplinary collaboration. For the building sector, recognizing the fact that technological solutions for low-energy high-performance buildings have ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Partnerships Achieving Breakthrough Energy and Greenhouse Performance Utilizing Innovative Investment Strategies
- Drexel University (PA)
Innovative business models and financing solutions are required to drive the next level of efficiency and sustainability on campus. Blue Hill Partners, a Philadelphia based firm, has teamed with the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Cleantech business incubation on campus: Accelerating the Journey from innovation to impact
- Polytechnic Institute of New York (NY)
The University-managed clean energy business incubator aspires to have a positive impact on the economic and environmental health of New York City by maximizing the success of emerging cleantech companies ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Students Take the Lead for Innovative Sustainability Programs at America's most Northern University
- University of Alaska Fairbanks (AK)
The students of University of Alaska Fairbanks, in 2009 voted a $20 dollar sustainability fee, which is matched by the Chancellor and anticipated to raise $5,000,000 over its ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Universities, Entrepreneurs and Business Incubators: Social Innovation as Economic Solution
- University of Kentucky (KY)
This paper will explore one university's attempt to help small businesses maximize their use of social innovation to solve social and/or environmental problems. The idea of social innovation ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Graduates Achieving Global Learning Outcomes Through Innovative Curricular Design
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- Haley & Aldrich, Inc. (MA)
In spite of challenges that many are facing with integrating sustainability into curricula, Northern Arizona University (NAU) has tackled this on an even larger scale by purposefully infusing environmental sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Green Billion-Dollar Challenge: Innovative Endowment Investing in Energy Efficiency
- Sustainable Endowments Institute (MA)
- Clean Air-Cool Planet (NH)
- GreenerU (MA)
Facing burdensome budget cuts and unstable energy costs, many colleges are grappling with how to finance urgently needed, but capital-intensive, energy efficiency retrofits. In response to this need, the panel ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Implementing and Studying an Innovative University Food Waste Reduction Program
- Loyola Marymount University (CA)
This session will describe the processes of planning, implementing, and studying an innovative food waste reduction program at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). With the challenges of limited space and the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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An Innovative Approach to "Going Green" While Addressing Deferred Maintanence
- University of Central Missouri (MO)
- Trane (TX)
Going green is becoming increasingly important for schools to attract students. 63% of college applicants are looking for a green campus, according to the Princeton Review (2008). However, many college ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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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
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Feeding Innovation in Sustainability: Ithaca's Comprehensive Dining Energy Plan
- Ithaca College (NY)
Sodexo's Facility Management team approached Ithaca College with a proposal to conduct a comprehensive energy audit of all food service facilities on campus (3 board dining halls, 1 food ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Innovative Campus Sustainability Initiatives at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida
- Eckerd College (FL)
Eckerd College signed the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) in 2007. The College has data on campuswide greenhouse gas emissions since 2002. We will present this data ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Innovations in environmental curriculum: from environmental problems to sustainable solutions
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
Traditional environmental sciences curricula have focused on the application of established disciplinary expertise to air, water, soil, and political environmental problems. Commonly the focus had been on the identification, and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Making SENS at the University of Saskatchewan: Innovation, Collaboration, and Transformation
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
The School of Environment and Sustainability (SENS) at the University of Saskatchewan emerged in 2007-2008 from the university integrated planning process, which considered the coordination of academic priorities with financial ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Gaian Methodologies - An Emergent Confluence of Sustainability Research Innovation
- Prescott College (AZ)
Gaian Methodologies flourish as a green and growing global research convergence. Sustainability extends beyond campus infrastructure; nature's design and organizing insights and patterns can inform research methods and guide ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Ralphies Green Stampede: Innovative Zero Waste Events at CU-Boulder
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
In 2008, Folsom Field became the first major sports stadium in the nation, professional or collegiate, to collect all materials in recycling or compost containers, eliminate trash cans and transform ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Pushing energy sustainability through innovative partnerships
- University of Wyoming (WY)
We will share the challenges and rewards of working toward energy sustainability through an innovative partnership. In April 2010, we began working with the Jackson Hole Energy Sustainability Project (JHESP ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Engaging Students in Campus Sustainability Initiatives through Innovative Courses
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
Universities that strive to make their campuses more sustainable face challenges of curriculum reform and engaging their students in sustainability initiatives. At Loyola University Chicago (LUC), we are meeting both ...
- 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 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Innovative Methods in Renewable Energy Education and Training and the Integration of Campus Sustainability at Cape Cod Community College
- Cape Cod Community College (MA)
Cape Cod Community College (CCCC) has a dynamic and vibrant environmental program that includes two degree and multiple certificate options, including three certificates in Clean Energy Technologies: Photovoltaic, Solar Thermal ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Generating Campus-Wide Sustainability Innovation through Multiple Course Collaboration
- Western Illinois University (IL)
While campus sustainability initiatives are often motivated by students, these efforts can also begin as top-down strategic plans. In the latter case, how do post-secondary institutions engage their communities including ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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An Innovative Strategy for the Deployment of Solar Power Equipment
- Envision Solar International, Inc. (CA)
The extent to which sustainability programs are communicated across a campus community can impact perceptions of institutional commitment; therefore, programs with high visibility and transparency are critical. Though solar power ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Innovation in Action: Leveraging a Whole Systems Approach to Sustainability Planning at UBC’s Okanagan Campus
- University of British Columbia (BC)
Higher education is called to advance, demonstrate and model best practices in sustainability. But how can sustainability leaders move this agenda forward against the backdrop of current funding pressures and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Growing a Crop of 21st Century Innovators: Adapting our Learning Garden to Changing Times at Portland Community College’s Rock Creek Campus
- Portland Community College (OR)
This interactive session will provide the historical perspective of developing a large learning garden at Portland Community College’s Rock Creek Campus. The Learning Garden includes 51 raised beds, 2 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Fostering Resilient Communities through Innovative, Integrated Partnerships and Projects: UBC Okanagan Campus Sustainable Community Development
- University of British Columbia (BC)
Universities provide a leadership role by developing and mobilizing knowledge and innovation to meet societal needs. In fulfilling this mission, universities can also serve as agents of sustainable change and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Center for Social Innovation
- Stanford University (CA)
The Center for Social Innovation's mission is to bring social and environmental change to the world. Through research, education, and experiential learning, the Center strengthens the capacity of individuals ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Research Group in Energy, Innovation & the Environment
- University of Vigo
Formed in 2004, the Research Group's priorities are in the field of innovation, energy and the environment, resulting in more than one hundred articles.
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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National Center of Excellence (NCE) on SMART Innovations
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The National Center of Excellence (NCE) on SMART Innovations provides climate and energy system solutions based on sound science and engineering to governments and industries around the globe. Its research ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Campus of Energy and Innovation
- University of Toledo (OH)
The campus will serve as a hands-on alternative energy laboratory used for teaching, research and demonstration, as well as to generate energy and reduce the University’s carbon footprint.
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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PgCert Carbon Innovation
- University of Edinburgh
The online PG Certificate in Carbon Innovation is a ground-breaking development of the award-winning MSc in Carbon Management programme at the University of Edinburgh. Building on the proven success and ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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MA in Social Innovation & Sustainability
- Goddard College (VT)
The Master of Arts in Social Innovation and Sustainability is a 48-credit degree intended for students who seek low-residency, interdisciplinary and self-designed graduate studies, focusing on social innovation and sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Master in Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation
- Blekinge Institute of Technology
The world today is increasingly demanding products and services that consider sustainability. At BTH, we believe that combining an overarching approach to socio-ecological sustainability with a disciplined approach to meeting ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Advanced Certificate in Campus Sustainable Innovation
- University of Vermont (VT)
As we stand at a critical moment in Earth’s history, colleges, universities, and other institutions must play a critical role in developing innovative practices for sustainable systems, campuses, and ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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STARS Quarterly Review: Summer 2012
- AASHE (PA)
The Summer 2012 SQR: Innovations in Campus Sustainability, explores the critical linkages between education, innovation, and sustainability. This issue highlights new and ground-breaking practices within the Innovation (IN) category of ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Innovations in Sustainability Curriculum: Teaching Full Cost Analysis through Student-Produced Documentaries
- Furman University (SC)
The David E. Shi Center for Sustainability at Furman University sought to increase teaching of full cost analysis as a suite of tools that can be used as a framework ...
- Posted June 4, 2015
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