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Sustainable Studies Bachelor
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
What the world needs more than ever are smart, creative people like you who are committed to getting a green education and implementing sustainable ideas and practices throughout all sectors …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Certificate in Environmental Education
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
The Environmental Education Certificate is a 12-credit post-baccalaureate professional development program designed for those seeking to develop or enhance their knowledge of and skills in environmental education. The certificate is …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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How Universities use the LEED Green Building Rating System
- College of William & Mary (VA)
Universities face mounting pressure to uphold public trust, account for outcomes, and cut costs. Adopting environmentally sustainable practices is one way to achieve such goals. Today, universities across the US …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Building a Carbon Footprint of Clemson University's Main Campus
- Clemson University (SC)
Greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories have become a popular means for colleges and universities to better understand their environmental impact and quantify sustainability efforts. Clemson University is one of the many …
- Posted April 6, 2018
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University of Missouri Energy Strategies Student Advisory Group: What's Our Potential?
- University of Missouri (MO)
Students and staff at the University of Missouri (MU) created the Energy Strategies Student Advisory Group (ESSAG) in 2012 to explore coal-free technologies for our on-site energy management facility. Through …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability in the University Student's Mind: Are University Endorsements, Financial Support, and Programs Making a Difference?
- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (WI)
- Purdue University (IN)
Despite the increasing awareness that sustainability is an issue needing ongoing attention, and despite millions of dollars spent yearly at universities to promote sustainable behaviors, previous research has found college …
- Posted May 21, 2018
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Department Bike Share Program
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The Global Institute of Sustainability at ASU established a Department Bike Share Program in May of 2010 to serve as a model for other departments interested in promoting sustainability. The …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability, Actions & Economics: Student Engagement-Green Roof Project
- Cleveland State University (OH)
- FirstMetrix Corporation (OH)
The University combined design standards with its commitment to sustainability at Cleveland State University's LEED certified Recreation Center. The Center was initially designed with a rooftop garden; however, the garden …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sparking Resilience in Your Region
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (MA)
What does it take to affect sustainable adaptations beyond the walls of your university to extend into your regional communities? UMass Dartmouth is inspiring waves of resilience and solution-seeking that …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Green Labs at Emory University
- Emory University (GA)
Sustainability Student Research Award Nomination
Emory Green Labs Project: Rachel Croessmann, Kate McDonald, Andrew Park, Erin Saven
Background
As part of the CSR & Sustainability class taught by Prof. Peter …
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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International Collaborative Approaches to Tackling Climate Change Through Higher Eduction
- Environmental Association for Universities & Colleges (EAUC) (Gloucestershire)
Following the success of the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), Scotland's universities and colleges have publicly declared their intention to address the challenges of climate change and …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Getting to 100% Renewable Electricity
- Colorado State University (CO)
- University of Denver (CO)
Colorado State University (CSU) signed the Climate Reality Pledge in January 2017 - pledging to achieve 100% renewable electricity by 2030. Since electricity is responsible for ~50% of CSU's GHG …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Shaping The Future Environmentally Sustainable Campus: What's Planning Got To Do With It?
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of California, Davis (CA)
As universities embark on large-scale planning efforts to consider new and renovated sites, buildings, and landscape; upgrade large infrastructure systems and utilities; design with new partnerships and ways to finance …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Piloting RecycleMania's 'Race to Zero Waste' competition: How to implement zero waste practices building by building
- Brigham Young University (UT)
- Harvard University (MA)
- University of Nevada Las Vegas (NV)
- Keep America Beautiful (CT)
This session will report on efforts to reduce waste in specific buildings on several campuses providing focused insight on the challenges and opportunities for waste reduction on college campuses. In …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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It's Everyone's Job! Sustainability Leadership at SUNY Cortland
- State University of New York at Cortland (NY)
This poster session will share the model of diffused sustainability used at SUNY Cortland. It will share how multiple areas of the campus community including the President and grounds crew …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Sorting It All Out: What's in Your Garbage and Why You Should Care. How Waste Characterization Data Can Help Your Institution.
- Appalachian State University (NC)
- Kessler Consulting Inc. (FL)
Many universities are setting the recycling bar higher and higher, often targeting zero waste goals. However, 'to manage it, you need to measure it.' Before you identify strategies to divert …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Universities as catalysts for Sustainable City Design
- University of Oregon (OR)
The Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) is a ground breaking new sustainability-based service learning program located at the University of Oregon. We tackle issues of sustainable city design with a cross"disciplinary …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Site Initiatives: Incorporating Reuse Water and On-Site Storm Water Management Techniques
- Georgia Southern University (GA)
As a major regional university located in the southeast, this presentation will focus on sustainable techniques used to address both drought and storm water management issues. Be it climate change …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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University of California's Presidential Initiative for Carbon Neutrality: A Multi-Institutional, Multi-Dimensional Perspective
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, Riverside (CA)
- University of California, San Diego (CA)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
- University of California, Merced (CA)
The 2014 UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative builds on pioneering work on climate research to make all ten campuses carbon neutral in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2025. All UC …
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Developing Energy Management Programs for a More Sustainable Campus
- California State University, Dominguez Hills (CA)
- Enlighted Inc. (CA)
In 2012, California State University Dominguez Hills' Central Plant Manager, Kenny Seeton, was tasked with finding a way to limit energy expenditures on campus in order to meet the university's …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Break out of a Social Media Slump: How to Create a Strategy, Build Community & Engage Your Audience
- Agnes Scott College (GA)
- University of Florida (FL)
By 2021, it's estimated that there will be more than 3 billion social media users around the world. If universities and colleges are going to be leaders in addressing the …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Putting the Action in a Climate Action Plan: Sustainability Planning with Community Input as the Foundation
- Virginia Commonwealth University (VA)
Virginia Commonwealth University has been a leader in sustainability since signing onto the ACUPCC in 2008. VCU drafted its first Climate Action Plan in 2010, and submitted its first STARS …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Furman's CCC weatherizes it's 100th home
- Furman University (SC)
The Community Conservation Corps (CCC), coordinated by Furman's David E. Shi Center for Sustainability, partners with a local utility company and Habitat for Humanity to provide needed home weatherization services …
- Posted Sept. 1, 2016
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Imagining a Sustainable World: Duquesne University's Multi-Disciplinary Course on Sustainability
- Duquesne University (PA)
In mid-2012 the University Academic Sustainability committee at Duquesne University began
development of a three-credit undergraduate course on sustainability to be taught by a multi-
disciplinary team of faculty from …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Getting to 30% Greenhouse Gas Reduction from Energy Consumed in Buildings
- St. John's University, New York (NY)
St. John's University - New York (STJ), a leader in PLaNYC 2030's "University Challenge", first private university to sign a MOU with EPA, and charter participant in AASHE STARS contracted …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Mentoring Underrepresented Students in Sustainability: Preparing the Next Generation of Leaders!
- University of Iowa (IA)
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential in the field of environmental sustainability. However, it's often the people most impacted by unsustainable practices and climate change who have the least representation …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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FreshU: A Sustainable Model for Reducing Food Insecurity on College Campuses
- University of Central Florida (FL)
The University of Central Florida (UCF) is located in the heart of a food desert; a region defined by the USDA as 'a low-income community that lacks ready access to …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Sustainable Justice in Wisconsin: Strategies for Program Growth in Harsh Climates
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls (WI)
As evidenced by AASHE's recent Keynote presenters--from Julian Agyeman (2010) on 'Just Sustainabilities' to Marsha Chatelain's creation of the #fergusonsyllabus (2016)--AASHE's present and future directions foreground strengthening connections between environmental …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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The Pittsburgh Higher Education Climate Consortium: A Partner in Community Climate Action
- Duquesne University (PA)
The Pittsburgh Higher Education Climate Consortium (HECC) is one of the four sector-based elements of the Pittsburgh Climate Initiative (PCI) formally adopted by Pittsburgh City Council in August 2008. PCI …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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University-Sponsored Travel at the University of Michigan: A Report Developed for and Supported by the U-M President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality
- University of Michigan (MI)
This report was compiled during the academic year of 2019-2020 for the University of Michigan (U-M) President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality by the University-Sponsored Travel Internal Analysis Team. The University-Sponsored …
- Posted Nov. 17, 2021
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Bicycle awareness day
- Concordia University
Two days before the global main event in 2017, Concordia University held an early Earth Day celebration with a focus on the benefits of cycling.
Concordia's Environmental Health and Safety …
- Posted Aug. 8, 2024
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Presidential Voices Interview Series: Jo Ann M. Gora, Ball State University
- Ball State University (IN)
Jo Ann M. Gora, our guest for this interview, became President of Ball State University in 2004. She was one of 12 charter signatories to the American College & University …
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Financing Renewable Energy Installations on University and College Campuses
- Eastern Connecticut State University (CT)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)
When you evaluate the plans filed with ACUPCC for achieving Zero-Carbon by 2050, virtually every plan dependents on the installation and operation of on-site renewable energy. With today's difficult economic …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Procurement: Strengthening the Voice of Sustainability When Partnering With Procurement
- New York University (NY)
Strengthening relations between sustainability and procurement is key to making far reaching impact university wide. NYU's Office of Sustainability has been working closely with the university's procurement department to develop …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Colleges Compete to Shrink Their Mark On the Environment
- Berea College (KY)
- College of the Atlantic (ME)
- Harvard University (MA)
- Princeton University (NJ)
- University at Buffalo (NY)
- Tufts University (MA)
From the College of the Atlantic's zero-waste graduation this month in Maine to Ball State University's biodiesel-powered shuttle fleet in Indiana, schools are moving in ways large and small to …
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Sustainable tea and tea bags
- Ohio University (OH)
Ohio University's Office of Sustainability partnered with Ohio University's Environmental Affairs Commission on student senate to host a sustainable tea and tea bag event. This event used loose leaf tea …
- Posted Nov. 7, 2019
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Mobility Electrification at the University of Michigan: A Report Developed for and Supported by the U-M President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality
- University of Michigan (MI)
This report was compiled during the academic year of 2019-2020 for the University of Michigan (U-M) President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality by the Mobility Electrification Subgroup. Through its work, the …
- Posted Nov. 16, 2021
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Vernadsky's biosphere and noosphere: A ready-to-use conceptual framework for teaching sustainability
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
Although the world recognized the importance of education for a sustainable future and we now live through the sixth year of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Innovatively Adding The Skills That Tomorrow's Workers Need, Into Today's Curriculum
- Sustainable Design Consulting (VA)
Sustainability is a topic that is constantly changing. Regulations are changing constantly and the market is moving so fast that the skills that entry level employees need is shifting so …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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What's the plan for LED lighting and it's environmental impact?
- Circadia Group (PA)
LED Lighting is here to stay and very soon you will not have another any other option to purchase. Many have come to know how beneficial the technology is in …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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LED Lighting in New York University's Student Center
- New York University (NY)
This past year, New York University undertook a lighting project in the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life, resulting in a 100% LED fitted building. This project reduced …
- Posted June 19, 2015
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Harvard's Campus Sustainability Innovation Fund: Bringing Students, Faculty, and Staff Together
- Harvard University (MA)
In 2016, Harvard University enhanced its Living Lab Initiative by launching the Campus Sustainability Innovation Fund. This fund supports projects that use Harvard's campus or the neighboring community as a …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Transforming the WKU Office of Sustainability's Front Yard into an Edible Landscape
- Western Kentucky University (KY)
The Western Kentucky University (WKU) Office of Sustainability, located in a University-owned residential property, seeks to demonstrate sustainability best practices for current and future homeowners. Since May 2014, the office's …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Integrating Sustainability with Education and Community Engagement at USF
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
The University of South Florida's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has created several community and international programs for students to engage in sustainability projects. Three projects explored in the …
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Sustainability: A Solution to Student Retention
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (IL)
Recent statistics from The Princeton Review indicate that 69 percent of college applicants now cite an institution's level of commitment to environmental sustainability as a factor in their college choice, …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Gannon University's Campus Greening "Curriculum Auction Catalog"
- Gannon University (PA)
The Campus Greening "Curriculum Auction Catalog"" is an annual publication, which is aimed at faculty across a wide variety of academic disciplines. It contains descriptions of approximately 30 campus greening …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Organic Recycling - It's Here!
- NatureWorks (GA)
Noting the growing success of food waste diversion and composting, NatureWorks LLC(www.natureworksllc.com) and one of its key partners (R3/Bunzl Distribution) will showcase commercial success of organic recycling (or composting) in …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Building Standards at the University of Michigan: A Report Developed for and Supported by the U-M President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality
- University of Michigan (MI)
This report was compiled during the academic year of 2019-2020 for the University of Michigan President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality by the Building Standards Internal Analysis Team. The Building Standards …
- Posted Nov. 17, 2021
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From Atrophy to Agility: Disruptive Organizational Design To Accelerate Change
- Harvard University (MA)
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
This program introduces sustainability practitioners to a new conceptual framework designed to enable organizations to undertake deep transformation by positioning sustainability as the problem that can solve their organization's need …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Reporting at Ball State University 2013
- Ball State University (IN)
In 2013, a team of interdisciplinary graduate and undergraduate students prepared Ball State University's fourth sustainability report. This report was prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting initiative (GRI) G4 …
- Posted April 7, 2014
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