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Cultivating the Globally Sustainable Self Summit Series - Advancing Education for Sustainable Development Through Research and Practice
- James Madison University (VA)
The Cultivating the Globally Sustainable Self Summit Series is a multi-year, multi-institution initiative that promotes transformative teaching, training, and learning in research and practice (www.jmu.edu/summitseries). The innovative ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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The U-Challenge at Texas A&M
- Texas A&M University (TX)
- Johnson Controls, Inc (WI)
- Siemens Industry, Inc. (IL)
The U-Challenge is a semester-long research competition for students that has evolved over the past two years to encompass both graduate and undergraduate teams from all majors. Student teams of ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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UC Merced's 1st Annual Earth Month Celebration
- University of California, Merced (CA)
Earth Month was an opportunity for UC Merced organizations and departments as well as Merced Community members to come together in an effort to increase student engagement with our campus ...
- Posted May 17, 2018
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Students' Perception of and Engagement with Sustainability at Humber College
- Humber College (ON)
ProjectSustainability aims to explore Humber College students’ perception of sustainability, and their engagement with the Office of Sustainability - including the effectiveness of current sustainability initiatives, as well as improvement and ...
- Posted May 14, 2018
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The Razorback Food Recovery
- University of Arkansas (AR)
Food recovery – the practice of preventing surplus foodstuffs from being dumped in the trash – takes numerous forms and provides a variety of social, economic, and environmental benefits. According to the ...
- Posted May 11, 2018
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UCLA Earth Day Fair
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Students commune on campus green space to celebrate mother nature and advocate for various initiatives led across campus.
- Posted April 24, 2018
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Earth Day Garden Preperation
- St. John's University, New York (NY)
Earth Day celebration incorporates Academic Service Learning for students to work in the Student Community Garden on the Queens Campus. During the growing season, student workers maintain, harvest and transport ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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Tackling mobility environmental impacts through the promotion of student active travel
- Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia
Concern about sustainability is rooted in the growing awareness that human activities have significant environmental impacts. Tackling impacts generated by mobility practices can pass through active mobility promotion. However, this ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Engaging Across Boundaries: The Power of Civic Engagement in Sustainability
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- Portland Community College (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
- Campus Compact (MA)
Speakers will offer an introduction to the broader concept of civic engagement and will share experiences, best practices, models and frameworks:
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in setting up a a multiple semester student engagement ...
- Posted March 27, 2018
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Campus Sustainability Month 2015 - Opportunities to Engage
- AASHE (MA)
- Yale University (CT)
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
- University of Alberta (AB)
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
- Boston University (MA)
October is Campus Sustainability Month! Join this webinar to learn more about this event which will provide unparalleled opportunities to engage and inspire incoming students and other campus stakeholders to ...
- Posted March 22, 2018
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Beyond Campus: Engaging Students in Sustainability, Resilience and Climate Policymaking
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- AASHE (MA)
- Elected Officials to Protect America (SC)
In the aftermath of President Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris Agreement, universities, cities, states, and companies have stepped up to lead. A coalition representing fully half the U ...
- Posted Dec. 7, 2017
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Is students’ energy literacy related to their university’s position in a sustainability ranking?
- University of Plymouth (Devon)
University rankings are increasingly important internationally, and in the UK include a sustainability ‘Green League’. However, there is little evidence about experiences of studying in ‘sustainable universities’. We report an ...
- Posted Nov. 7, 2017
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The Kaleidoscope Project
- University of Calgary (AB)
The Kaleidoscope project at University of Calgary envisions a more pluralistic and inclusive campus community and invites students to engage in learning, conversation and action with others who may have ...
- Posted Oct. 14, 2017
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Niagara College Sustainability Engagement
- Niagara College Canada (ON)
The following images depict various events and initiatives that take place at Niagara College that can be used towards students' Co-Curricular Records, and the LEAD Sustainability stream. These events include ...
- Posted Oct. 11, 2017
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Not Business as Usual: Fostering Civic Engagement on Climate Change
- AASHE (MA)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
- Citizens' Climate Lobby (CA)
Scientists are in consensus that the world needs to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, and this cannot be accomplished by ...
- Posted July 13, 2017
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Green Awakenings Report 2011: Identifying the assets and barriers to creation care on Christian campuses
- Baylor University (TX)
- Eastern University (PA)
- Renewal: Students Caring for Creation (MI)
- Gordon College (MA)
- Calvin University (MI)
- Abilene Christian University (TX)
- Messiah University (PA)
Renewal’s 2011 Green Awakenings: Digging Deeper explores the conditions that lead to the success or failure of creation care initiatives on Christian campuses. As Renewal has witnessed more engagement ...
- Posted June 26, 2017
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Students Contribute Record-Breaking $6 Million to Student Green Energy Fund
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
The purpose of the Student Green Energy Fund is to provide an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to present formal proposals to a governing Fund Council with the goal ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Stanford University's R&DE Creatively Responds to the California Drought
- Stanford University (CA)
Sustainability is a core value to Stanford University's Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE). R&DE is responsible for about 1/3 of Stanford's campus, housing over 13,000 residents ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Reduce the Juice – Saving Energy in Halls of Residence
- AASHE (MA)
- University of London
At the University of London, in England, we have launched a behaviour change programme aimed at students living on campus in the University’s halls of residence. The aim of ...
- Posted May 18, 2017
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Johnson County Community College Student Sustainability Committee
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
As a broadly effective, innovative, engaging, and replicable project, Johnson County Community College’s Student Sustainability Committee [the SSC, the Committee] is a compelling and powerful tool for developing student ...
- Posted May 18, 2017
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GreenApps Eco-Reps Sustainability Leadership and Engagement Course
- Appalachian State University (NC)
The GreenApps: Eco-Reps Program was developed in order to recruit on-campus students to join the Office of Sustainability team to assist with education and promotion of campus sustainability through a ...
- Posted May 16, 2017
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Questions of Waste
- University of Georgia (GA)
A unique and creative video documenting the waste habits of one student for a week. The video documents a friend of the videographer as she collects her waste for one ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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University Colloquium | Service Learning Project
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
This video was created by students for a colloquium class project to address some of the projects and initiatives FGCU does to decrease our carbon footprint within the energy sector ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Ohio State University Student Sustainability Fair 2017
- The Ohio State University (OH)
The Student Sustainability Fair has become a fun tradition at Ohio State, educating students on the many organizations on campus they can join, as well as the community, government and ...
- Posted April 26, 2017
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Impact of a participatory analysis of a campus sustainability social network: A case study of Emory University
- Emory University (GA)
Social network analysis makes visible the invisible connections and flows that underlie complex social relationships. Applied organizational researchers have used social network analysis to assess and improve organizational and leadership ...
- Posted March 2, 2017
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Beyond Doom and Gloom - Include Solutions to Climate Change
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
Are you or your students worried about climate change impacts? Are you connecting your students to ways to be involved in solutions? This webinar focuses on expert materials to engage ...
- Posted March 2, 2017
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Engaging the Community Through Student Led Initiatives: Highlights and Opportunities
- University of Tennessee at Martin (TN)
- Beyond Benign (MA)
- American Chemical Society (DC)
Green Chemistry Education Webinar Series: A webinar series for chemistry faculty and students highlighting relevant and important topics in green chemistry education.
Presented by: Jennifer MacKellar ACS, GCI
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- Posted Jan. 31, 2017
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Greening Your ACS Student Chapter - Models of Success
- Beyond Benign (MA)
Green Chemistry Education Webinar Series: A new webinar series for chemistry faculty and students highlighting relevant topics in green chemistry education.
Presented by: Jennifer MacKellar Program Manager American Chemical Society ...
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Student Engagement and Learning at the UN Climate COPs
- Amherst College (MA)
- Dickinson College (PA)
- Macalester College (MN)
- Texas Southern University (TX)
- University of Connecticut (CT)
Youth have had a growing presence in recent years at the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This includes numerous US colleges ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Rating the New Campus Landscape: How SITES Can Engage Students + Energize your Sustainability Mission
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
SITES is to campus landscapes what LEED is to buildings. Two public institutions, Grand Valley State University (Michigan) and Nassau Community College (New York) have shown their highest commitment to ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Powering a New South: Sustainabilty through Student Engagement in the University Press and Beyond
- Coastal Carolina University (SC)
Through an examination of the processes, experiences, and outcomes of a yearlong, multi-disciplinary, experiential university press project, instructors and press advisors will examine energy through the lens of our local ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Students For Sustainability: A Transformative Workshop Approach to Student Engagement in Sustainability
- University of Arizona (AZ)
The Students for Sustainability workshop at the University of Arizona (UA) provides a model for how institutions of higher education can guide students in engaging with their communities on environmental ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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SustainaMondays at the University of Virginia: A Personal Approach to Promoting Sustainability
- University of Virginia (VA)
The promotions team of U.Va's Office for Sustainability student employees started an initiative called SustainaMondays. It promotes environmentally conscious eating, sustainable lifestyle choices, and U.Va Sustainability events ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Making it fun: Orienting new students to the college's sustainability goals with a graphic novel.
- Middlebury College (VT)
The first few days in a new environment are key for establishing the environmental norms and expectations of a new community. At Middlebury, we took this opportunity to use a ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Leveraging Campus Natural Areas for Urban Ecology Research, Education, and Management
- University of Central Florida (FL)
The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a 1,415-acre urban campus, of which 876 acres (62%) is undeveloped green space that includes 337-acres (24%) of upland and wetland conservation ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Student Environmental Resource Center at UC Berkeley
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) at UC Berkeley advises 50 environmental registered student organizations and student campaigns and 45 The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) projects, directs the Zero Waste ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Launching your Student Outreach Team
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
- University of Denver (CO)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Students have been involved with sustainability offices since the beginning, working as interns, lobbying for operational and administrative change and supporting our events and outreach. Increasingly, students are providing the ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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University of Michigan Building Consumption and Waste Assessment
- Resource Recycling Systems (RRS) (MI)
This poster will explore how new and existing sustainability projects at the University of Michigan are being integrated into a pathway for student sustainability engagement and leadership as we aim ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Paul Quinn College Transforms Football Field to Organic Farm, Shifting Value to Students
- Paul Quinn College (TX)
At Paul Quinn College, where 83 percent of students are Pell Grant eligible (2016), students obtain both a liberal arts education and real-world work experience. This video showcases the historically ...
- Posted Sept. 20, 2016
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Student Beekeepers: Almost as Busy as Bees
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
This photograph was taken on April 22 (Earth Day!), 2016. It shows members of the Beekeeping Club at Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs tending their bees and teaching students ...
- Posted Sept. 6, 2016
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ReCycle Bikes
- Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TX)
ReCycle Bikes is a bike rental program designed to allow students, who demonstrate a need, access to free, eco-friendly transportation in exchange for sustainability project-related volunteer hours and peer-to-peer education ...
- Posted June 11, 2016
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Students and Sustainability: Mechanism for making Green Leaders
- Ball State University (IN)
Introduction: Lead primarily by student initiative, a sustainability program has evolved into a new program whose mechanics are meant to make action, foster sustainable leaders, and educate a sustainable culture ...
- Posted June 11, 2016
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Students for Sustainability
- University of Arizona (AZ)
The University of Arizona’s Students for Sustainability program empowers students, builds leaders, and pursues institutionalized sustainability. The program embodies the University’s 100% student engagement model through its organizational ...
- Posted June 11, 2016
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University of La Verne Sustainability Challenge 2016
- University of La Verne (CA)
University of La Verne organized a Sustainability Challenge with the theme of electricity conservation in Spring of 2016 to promote sustainability for the campus community at large.
- Posted June 7, 2016
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Tufts University Earth Fest Celebration
- Tufts University (MA)
The Tufts community came out to celebrate our planet on Earth Day with Tufts Sustainability Collective (TSC) and the Tufts Eco Reps! A clothing swap, food, prizes, music and a ...
- Posted May 19, 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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Portland Community College Sustainability: We're all in this together
- Portland Community College (OR)
Published on Mar 30, 2015
Sustainability at Portland Community College
Visit pcc.edu/sustain
Video produced by the PCC Office of Sustainability and the PCC Video Production Unit
Producers: Michael ...
- Posted April 26, 2016
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A Culture of Sustainability at the University of Montana
The University of Montana Office of Sustainability and ASUM Sustainability Center partnered with a student production company, KPCN, to produce a video that represents the grassroots culture of sustainability at ...
- Posted April 26, 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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Re-growing the Penn State Student Farm: Designing a Living Lab Experience by Bringing All Partners to the Table
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
In response to the need for greater integration of sustainability in higher education, many institutions have created student farms on their campuses. Founded originally as an agricultural college, The Pennsylvania ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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