AASHE Campus Sustainability Hub

Introductory economics courses and the university’s commitments to sustainability

• University of British Columbia (BC)

The three largest public universities in British Columbia, Canada have signed the Talloires Declaration, committing themselves to promoting students’ environmental literacy and ecological citizenship. As a result, there is pressure ...

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Teaching (un)sustainability? University sustainability commitments and student experiences of introductory economics

The three largest public universities in British Columbia, Canada have signed the Talloires Declaration, committing themselves to promoting sustainability and creating expectations that they will integrate sustainability across the curriculum ...

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Sustainability in the Curriculum and Teaching of Economics: Transforming Introductory Macroeconomics

• Bridgewater State University (MA)

Present models of economic growth primarily focus on the role of expenditures as captured in the commonly cited economic indicator, gross domestic product (GDP), where GDP is defined as the ...

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Introductory economics textbooks: what do they teach about sustainability?

In response to accelerating ecological deterioration, many universities have made commitments to integrate sustainability across the curriculum and to ensure they graduate ecologically responsible citizens. This study involves a content ...

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Indispensable But Invisible: A Report on the Working Climate of Non-Tenure Track Faculty at George Mason University

• George Mason University (VA)

According to institutional data, during the 2012-2013 academic year, adjunct and other

contingent faculty made up 71 percent of the total faculty at George Mason University. Like

contingent faculty at ...

• Posted March 11, 2016
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Mapping Campus Connections: Using GIS Story Maps as part of Place-based, Art-led Environmental Education

• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
• River's Edge Academy (MN)
• National Park Service (DC)

Place-based, art-led environmental education can engage students and community with the immediate world around them and help them make connections between local sustainability issues in a community and global context ...

• Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Applying geographic information systems (GIS) and survey data to transportation demand management

• Skyline College (CA)
• University of San Francisco (CA)

In 2013, Skyline College launched a transportation initiative to improve access for students and employees and make travel to campus more efficient and equitable while reducing reliance on single-occupancy vehicles ...

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Integrating Environmental Issues Into Social Sciences, Business, And Humanities Courses Using Ecological Worldview Principles

• University of St. Thomas (MN)

Environmental problems are actually human behavior problems. Social sciences and humanities are important contributors for addressing environmental sustainability as they investigate and explain human behavior. Yet for faculty, integrating sustainability ...

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What role can moral agency & collective efficacy play in college-level science education? Defining new territory

• Northern Arizona University (AZ)

This proposal will look at the role of moral agency and collective efficacy when thinking about environmental sustainability issues, within college-level science education. We will look at reports from scientists ...

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Restructuring Sustainability: Implementing Economicology through a Governance Redesign

• Aquinas College (MI)

Are your sustainability committees simply not meeting your expectations any longer? After an 8 year stretch with the same committee format, Aquinas College decided to redesign its internal sustainability structure ...

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Interactive Tree Map of SUNY Geneseo

• State University of New York at Geneseo (NY)

Our project is an interactive map of the trees on the SUNY Geneseo campus, created utilizing GIS technology. It would act as an interactive digital field guide that would emphasize ...

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Northern Roots: Growing Food in the Western Lake Superior Region: A Participatory, Public Ethnography in Film Form

• University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)

Planting and cultivation instructions: 1) Combined engaged students, hard-working farmers, a supportive university, dedicated nonprofit leaders and the fertile potential of participatory media. 2) Seed the ground with community coordination ...

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GIS Field Collection to Support a Tree Inventory for Campus Sustainability

• University of West Georgia (GA)

To promote sustainability on the University of West Georgia campus a GIS-based field collection application was developed. It is being utilized to collect and maintain characteristics of trees on campus ...

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Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Sustainability Program at the University of British Columbia

• University of British Columbia (BC)

Participants will explore the foundations that underpin our award-winning program which partners operational staff, faculty and students to catalyze campus sustainability efforts. Our program has coordinated more than 1000 diverse ...

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Innovative Pedagogies: Linking Learning to Communities

• Bucknell University (PA)
• Rice University (TX)
• Utah Valley University (UT)
• Wells College (NY)
• Willamette University (OR)

This discussion will involve participants in thinking critically about how infusing sustainability into humanities and social science curricula can create innovative pedagogical strategies that connect students with their campus and ...

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A Geodesign Approach to GIS for Sustainability Management

• University of Washington, Seattle (WA)

Geodesign is an emerging approach to using geographic information systems (GIS) for addressing complex sustainable systems problems, e.g., improving land use, transportation, and water resources that have impacts on ...

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GIS for Sustainability Management in Higher Education

• University of Washington, Seattle (WA)

Geographic information systems (GIS) are commonly formed from a combination of data, software, hardware, people, institutional arrangements and motivations for collecting, analyzing and displaying spatial and temporal referenced data that ...

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Sustainability 3.0 - Navigating the New Economic Frontier in Higher Education

• Harvard University (MA)
• University of California, Irvine (CA)
• University of British Columbia (BC)
• Purdue University (IN)

Like many organizations, higher education is going through a time of transformation. We are called to action to respond to competing demands, funding pressures, risk mitigation and governance, all while ...

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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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Teaching Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences

• Earlham College (IN)
• Luther College (IA)
• Rice University (TX)
• Stephen F. Austin State University (TX)
• Wells College (NY)
• Willamette University (OR)

The purpose of this session is to provide an informal discussion forum for faculty teaching in the humanities and sciences who are engaged in integrating sustainability into their courses. Each ...

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Addressing Campus Sustainability Challenges with the Social Sciences: Linking Applied Learning to Student Performance

• Portland Community College (OR)

What do the social sciences have to offer for understanding and addressing campus sustainability challenges? This is the question undergraduate environmental science and studies students explore as part of a ...

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Learning How to Apply Social Science Research by Solving Campus Sustainability Challenges

• University of Michigan (MI)

“Social Sciences and Environmental Problems,” a 75-student class at taught annually at the University of Michigan (U-M), introduces six social sciences and how each can help understand and address environmental ...

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Integrating Sustainability Sciences into a Social Science Discipline: An Exploration in the Fiber, Textile & Clothing Field

• Oklahoma State University (OK)

Climate change is a multifaceted global issue that is transforming Earth’s surface and atmosphere in response to human influences. The $2 trillion fiber, textile, and clothing (FTC) industry contributes ...

• Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Enforced Dependency in Globalized Political Economy

• Prescott College (AZ)

This presentation examines mutually- and self-reinforcing systems of concentrated political and economic power of neoliberal globalization. The presenter defines the concept of enforced dependency and then analyzes the structural and ...

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Ecological Economics 101: Integrating Core Principles into Science and Social Science Courses

• Creative Change Educational Solutions (MI)

For sustainability to take hold across the curriculum, educators must gain the skills to integrate ecological economics concepts into science and humanities courses. Yet the disciplinary boundaries of secondary and ...

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Relationship Economics: Causal Measurement Connects Sustainability Initiatives to Critical Outcomes

• University of Chicago (IL)

To establish the first comprehensive and fully integrated university-wide sustainability system, a robust causal measurement system was created to guide strategic decision making, prioritizing the implementation of sustainability programs and ...

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Economics, Business and the Environment: Team-Teaching Sustainable Enterprise

• St. John's University, New York (NY)

Business may be the fastest way to transform society towards sustainability so teaching about the process to business and economics students is vital as we try to head off catastrophic ...

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Geospatial sustainability: what is geospatial about sustainability, and what does it mean to students' learning of sustainability?

• DePaul University (IL)

In this presentation I will promote the concept of geospatial sustainability with respect to sustainability curriculum. Geospatial sustainability highlights the geographic nature of sustainability with the help of digital and ...

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GIS and Sustainability: Project based Introductory GIS Course Curriculum

• Furman University (SC)

An introductory level GIS course was modified to incorporate a sustainability focused term project. Students in the class learn the basics of GIS through lectures, intense classroom discussions, and structured ...

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Using GIS to Promote Sustainability

• University of Oklahoma (OK)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have widespread applicability to many facets of the Sustainability world. In fact, GIS has its mid-1960's roots in the sustainability subfield of natural resources management ...

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SEE and Sustainability Across the Curriculum: Cooperation Among the Natural Sciences, Humanities and the Social Sciences

• University of Dayton (OH)

The University of Dayton, a Catholic Marianist institution, is currently developing an interdisciplinary program, Sustainability, Energy and the Environment (SEE). SEE is not a new major in environmental studies, but ...

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Ecological Footprint Journal Assignment

• Bellevue College (WA)

This is a journal assignment that I ask students to do after calculating their ecological footprint. The prompt from the last time I gave this assignment is attached.

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Citizen Pledge Assignment

• Bellevue College (WA)

As a Political Science instructor, one of my primary goals is to help students realize their rights and responsibilities as citizens. By “realize” I mean both knowing and appreciating what ...

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Global Trade Game

• Bellevue College (WA)

One of the ways I like to assess student learning is through class games. I use this particular game to assess knowledge about globalization and the stake holders involved in ...

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Facebook Project

• Bellevue College (WA)

Here is a quarter long project that I use in my SOC:278 Global Sociology class. The Project Outline includes weekly assignments that require students to spend 50 minutes on ...

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Externalities in Microeconomics

• Harper College (IL)

This assignment will be introduced when externalities is being taught in the course. In microeconomics externalities is a cost (negative) or benefit (positive) that is not passed on to the ...

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Brooke Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems

• Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)

The Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems enhances Georgia Tech’s research, education, and service missions, and campus operations through leadership, communications, development, and decision making inspired and defined by ...

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Economics and Environment Network

• Australian National University

The Economics and Environment Network (EEN) at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra was established in 2002 by the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (CRES), now part of ...

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Institute of Strategic Economic Studies

• Victoria University (Victoria)

The Victoria Institute of Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) is led by Professor Bruce Rasmussen, and incorporates the Centre for Policy Studies (CoPS). CoPS will continue to operate in a semi-autonomous ...

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Economic and Social Studies of the Environment

• Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels Region)

The CEESE was created shortly after the first UN Conference on Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972. It consists of a multidisciplinary team of researchers focusing on quantitative assessment ...

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Centre for Applied Business Research in Energy and the Environment

• University of Alberta (AB)

The Centre for Applied Business Research in Energy and the Environment (CABREE) is an independent research centre located within the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta. Given ...

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Research Center for Environmental Economics

• Heidelberg University

The Research Center for Environmental Economics is the focal point of environmental research and teaching of the Department of Economics (Alfred-Weber-Institute). It consists of a number of individual researchers and ...

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade

• Leibniz Universität Hannover

The Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade is one among several institutes of the Faculty of Economics and Management. The research agenda of this institute mainly includes topics related ...

• 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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Institute for the Economy and the Environment

• University of St. Gallen

The institute's research focuses on strategic sustainability management and the development and implementation of sustainablilty innovations.

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Harvard Environmental Economics Program

• Harvard University (MA)

HEEP is a university-wide initiative addressing today's complex environmental challenges and is based in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy

• North Carolina State University (NC)

The Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy (CEnREP) advances environmental solutions for North Carolina and the nation by providing leadership in research and outreach, and by training of the ...

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Global Development and Environment Institute

• Tufts University (MA)

The Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE – pronounced "gee-day") was founded in 1993 to combine the research and curricular development activities of two Tufts programs: the Program for Sustainable Change ...

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Integrative Environmental Research

• University of Maryland, College Park (MD)

The Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER) at the University of Maryland addresses complex environmental challenges through research that explores the dynamic interactions among environmental, economic and social forces and ...

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Gund Institute for Environment

• University of Vermont (VT)

The Gund Institute for Environment mobilizes scholars and leaders to understand and solve critical environmental issues.

From its home at the University of Vermont, the institute accelerates research and connects ...

• Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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