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Exploring a transformative orientation to sustainability in universities: a question of loose and tight framings
This review essay examines three new books on higher education and sustainability. It explores a number of the issues raised in the books, in particular, the meaning of a transformative …
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Toward Zero Waste: An Initiative for the Student Union
- Boston University (MA)
Campus dining is an intimate part of student life at any university, with the potential to have a major impact on culture. Learn how Dining Services can align with the …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Assessment of emission reduction as a function of biomass boiler installation
- Franklin Pierce University (NH)
Life cycle analysis of biomass (wood pellet) production demonstrates significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, when compared to the life cycle analysis of No. 2 heating fuel. Life cycle analysis …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Achieving Campus Sustainability through Service-Learning
- University of Alberta (AB)
How can you overcome budget cuts and staffing shortages while still achieving campus sustainability goals and empowering your student body? The University of Alberta's liberal arts campus, Augustana, has been …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Guide to Getting Your Hands Dirty: How Campus Green Spaces Promote Real World Problem Solving
- Western Michigan University (MI)
Green spaces on campus create opportunities for direct, participatory, interdisciplinary learning. They can include student gardens, campus garden-boxes, native landscape installations, greenhouses and even indoor displays. A number of student-led …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Stakeholder Connectedness on the Susquehanna River: An Ecosystem Approach to Fracking
- Susquehanna University (PA)
This paper proposes an inventory of the Susquehanna River Basin stakeholders as an initial step toward conceptualizing a self-sustaining, resilient ecosystem comprised of the natural environment and humans. The urgency …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Co-Designing a Sustainable, Native American Cultural Center with the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
- University of Virginia (VA)
Public engagement is a crucial way for higher education institutions to align their teaching and research activities around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This case study examines how an interdisciplinary …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Greening the Game at Collegiate Sports
- University of Arizona (AZ)
Like many universities, the University of Arizona has a strong tradition of athletics at the collegiate level. While sporting events are a key component to any university and it's students …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Institutionalizing sustianability within Student Government
- University of Florida (FL)
Institutionalizing Sustainability and infiltrating into your universities Student Government can open up many doors and opportunities for campus, local, and national sustainability campaigns. In 2009, the University of Florida founded …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Developing and Fostering Community Specific Sustainability Campaigns
- Cornell University (NY)
Cornell University is tackling the behavior change issue with a new approach. Instead of creating a campus-wide behavior change campaign for a very de-centralized university, the Energy and Sustainability department …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Methodological approach for the construction of environmental management indicators in universities
- Universidad Central de Venezuela
Universities have become interested in environmental management. In them, there are problems of inadequate residues and waste management; high energy consumption and demand; water and air pollution; impacts on biodiversity, …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Using STARS As A Change Management Tool
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Boston University (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
- GreenerU (MA)
STARS has the capacity to inform and encourage organizational change to advance sustainability. This session will provide tools for effectively leveraging a STARS report for tracking, assessing, and informing sustainability …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Scaling applied learning programs for sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
Applied learning opportunities, from internships, to community-based learning courses to student research provide training for students in addressing complex societal challenges. These endeavors are mostly designed to optimize the student's …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Creating a Community Conversation for Sustainability Strategic Planning
- Emory University (GA)
- University of Alberta (AB)
Strategic planning for sustainability requires broad outreach and engagement to mobilize, empower, and inspire community members. This panel presents the outcomes of two successful sustainability strategic planning efforts that focused …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Internationalisation of Higher Education and Climate Change: A Cognitive Dissonance Perspective
- San Diego State University (CA)
- Ghent University
- Eastern Institute of Technology
This article applies cognitive dissonance theory to the internationalisation of higher education sector to comment on tensions experienced by practitioners associated with their work's climate impact. The existing literature and …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Environmental Science & Policy (BS)
- Drake University (IA)
This interdisciplinary science degree prepares students in a liberal arts tradition to understand connections between human beings and their effects on the Earth's environment. Drake environmental science students are grounded …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Environmental Studies BA
- Franklin University Switzerland (Ticino)
The Environmental Studies major provides students with the interdisciplinary background to think critically about, analyze, and understand environmental issues facing today's society. This major prepares students for careers in government, …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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PhD in Engineering with a Concentration in Environmental Engineering
- University of Alaska Fairbanks (AK)
Engineers use knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences to develop economical uses of materials and forces of nature for human benefit. The professional practice of engineering requires sophisticated skills, …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Certificate in Sustainable Engineering
- Wayne State University (MI)
The program complements the College of Engineering's Alternative Energy Technology graduated degree program, now in its fifth year. The sustainability certificate program will develop a structured educational supplement to existing …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Sustainability and the Built Environment Certificate Program
- University of California, Davis (CA)
UC Davis Extension's Sustainability and the Built Environment Certificate Program expands upon the highly successful Green Building and Sustainable Design classroom program. This certificate offers a comprehensive curriculum on how …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Plant Biology Major
- University of California, Riverside (CA)
The Plant Biology major’s mission is to conduct cutting-edge research in plant biology to advance fundamental scientific knowledge and solve critical issues for the state of California, and to educate …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Bachelor of Environmental Systems (honours)
- University of Sydney (NSW)
The Bachelor of Environmental Systems (Honours) comprehensively examines both natural and agricultural systems. How we manage our environment and natural resources will arguably determine Australia's economic future, and ensuring ecologically-sustainable …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Environmental Studies (BA)
- Tulane University (LA)
Bachelor of Arts degree focused on understanding the relationships between humans and the environment. Through coursework offered by several of Tulane's most prestigious Schools and Colleges, internships, and opportuhe Environmental …
- Posted Oct. 9, 2025
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Sustainability Concentration, Business (BA)
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The W. P. Carey BA degree program in business with a concentration in sustainability is an innovative, transdisciplinary program intended to prepare students for positions in a variety of professions …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Environmental Science Major - Biology Emphasis
- Calvin University (MI)
Students develop a deeper understanding of how creation works and the diverse impact the growing human population is having on the world that sustains it—then learn how to do something …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Environmental & Resource Management (BS)
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The BS program in environmental and resource management provides critical scientific and management skills for graduates who will work in industry or government to ensure the health of natural ecosystems …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Centre For Law & the Environment
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
The Centre seeks to establish a network of scholars and policymakers from a variety of disciplines, professions, and institutions throughout the world. Only by sharing knowledge across many walks of …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Environmental Law Centre
- University of Victoria (BC)
The ELC works for community groups, conservation organizations and Indigenous communities across British Columbia building legal capacity to tackle today’s complex environmental challenges. The Centre's work has three focus areas: …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Custom Brewery Tour with Taste Twin Cities
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Join us for a fascinating behind the scenes insight into Minneapolis's local beers and what local breweries looks, sound and smells like. This tour is great for people visiting the …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Community Development (BA/BS)
- Portland State University (OR)
The first of its kind in the nation, our undergraduate program in Community Development prepares students for careers as leaders and change agents in addressing myriad social challenges. The Toulan …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Certificate in Environmental Sustainability and Business
- University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (WI)
The Certificate in Environmental Sustainability and Business consists of a supporting course structure (at the 100 and 200 level) that is complementary to the campus' existing general education requirements, consistent …
- Posted June 13, 2018
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Environmental Science Minor
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
This minor is for students who want an understanding of the various physical, chemical, and geologic processes that work within our planet and on its surface. Students gain the skills …
- Posted Sept. 27, 2018
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Environmental Geochemical Science (BS)
- State University of New York at New Paltz (NY)
The Environmental Geochemical Science major at New Paltz equips students with the scientific background necessary to address a wide variety of environmental issues. With a location near the Hudson River, …
- Posted Jan. 12, 2019
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Senior Sustainability Professional Certificate
- Loyola Marymount University (CA)
The Senior Certified Sustainability Professional Online Training Program will prepare students for an exciting career as a leader in the green-collar economy. As a certified sustainability professional, students will be …
- Posted Jan. 25, 2019
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RBC Sustainability Leadership Certificate
- Dalhousie University (NS)
In October 2012, Dalhousie's College of Sustainability launched an innovative new program—the RBC Sustainability Leadership Certificate (SLC).
During the program, participating students attend three weekend seminars and take part in …
- Posted Feb. 13, 2019
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Food Studies (BS)
- Syracuse University (NY)
Food Studies is one of the fastest-growing fields of study in North America. It has expanded to become a broad academic discipline, encompassing the study of food delivery systems, social …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Environmental Studies and Sustainability, BA
- University of Massachusetts Boston (MA)
The School for the Environment's nationally recognized Environmental Studies and Sustainability program emphasizes solutions integrating the humanities and social sciences with economics and business. As environmental and sustainability advocates, students …
- Posted July 10, 2020
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Shut the Stash Sticker
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
Chemical fume hoods used in research laboratories use up to 3.5 times the amount of energy as a single family house each day. Since Penn has over 1,000 fume hoods …
- Posted May 5, 2025
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60 kW Rooftop Array: Synergy House
- Stanford University (CA)
Synergy House cooperative members, who live near the top of San Juan Hill in a historic wood-frame mansion, had a nearly $30,000 windfall that they wanted to put toward installing …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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34.66 kW Roof Top Mount Queensland Bioscience Precinct
- University of Queensland (QLD)
The Queensland Bioscience Precinct (QBP) is a collaborative research facility dedicated to human, animal and plant biotechnological research.
With a footprint of 35,000 square meters, the QPB comprises four large …
- Posted Dec. 17, 2021
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25 kW Roof Top Mount Electrical Substation Building 8167
- University of Queensland (QLD)
Gatton's Building 8167 is an important element in the campus infrastructure.
It houses a major electrical substation and shelters a vital back-up power generator. Its location and orientation makes it …
- Posted Dec. 17, 2021
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25.2 kW Roof Top Mount Administration and Teaching Facility
- University of Queensland (QLD)
The administration and teaching blocks each have a 12.6 kWp roof-mounted PV array making the total installation 25.2 kWp.
Modules are installed parallel with the roof on the teaching block. …
- Posted Dec. 17, 2021
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Greek Sustainability: Leveraging Change, Empowering Leaders
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
Students have been organizing chapter houses to host a "Green Chair" or also popularly known as "Green Greek Reps". We will share our resources, strategy, and recent academic year's impact …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Lightning Talks: Campus Operations (Group 2)
- Stanford University (CA)
- Center for Resource Solutions | Green-e (CA)
- Timber Framers Guild (NH)
This session consists of 3 15-minute Lightning Talk sessions related to campus operations. The Lightning Talks are: Stanford Shines: A Decade-Long Decarbonization Journey .. and We've Just Gotten Started - …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Silence: a Luxury or Commodity
- Iowa State University (IA)
Today's luxury items are increasingly demanded with one caveat, that they are silent. Silent appliances, cars, vacations all come with a high price. While the upper middle class reach for …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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The Mueller Report: Moving Beyond Sustainability Indicators to Sustainability Action at Penn State
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
The assignment that we gave ourselves was: Cut the ecological impact of Mueller Building in half while creating healthier working conditions for all building occupants. The analysis on the following …
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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An Economical Analysis of the USFSP Solar Parking Garage
- University of South Florida St. Petersburg (FL)
This undergraduate student paper was accepted without revision as an oral presentation at the ICES 2016: 18th International Conference on Energy held in Paris. The topic is an economical analysis …
- Posted May 13, 2016
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A Statistical Analysis of the USFSP Solar Parking Garage
- University of South Florida St. Petersburg (FL)
This undergraduate student paper was accepted without revision as an oral presentation at the ICES 2016 : 18th International Conference on Energy held in Paris. The topic is a statistical …
- Posted May 13, 2016
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A Residential Green Rep Program: The Case for a Program Hosted in Residence Life
- State University of New York at Cortland (NY)
At SUNY Cortland, our student Green Representatives program is run out of the Residence Life office and has been since it's inception in 2008. Each residence hall is paired up …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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