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Preparing Graduate Students to Teach Sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
This presentation outlines an innovative approach to training graduate students to be effective teachers of sustainability in academic, K-12, community, and professional environments. Because most of our graduate students will ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Out of the Trash Aquarium: How Do We Teach Teachers to Educate for Sustainability in Their Classrooms?
- Bridgewater State University (MA)
In the United States as well many other countries, teachers must fulfill a governmental authorization of the particulars of their curriculum. These curriculum mandates propose benchmarks in pupil academic expertise ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Energy Curriculum Development
- Eastern Connecticut State University (CT)
At Eastern Connecticut State University, we are developing on-campus and online courses which serve the general student as well as majors and minors in Sustainable Energy Studies. The course sequence ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Using IPCC DDC Scenarios and MAGICC-SCENGEN Model for Teaching Global Climate Change
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Global climate change is a very complex phenomenon: students need to understand the causes of climate change, its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences, and the adaptation and mitigation options to ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Ithaca College's Finger Lakes Project
- Ithaca College (NY)
Ithaca College's Finger Lakes Project (FLP) is a sustainability curricular education workshop inspired by AASHE's Sustainability Across the Curriculum Leadership workshops. The FLP, which began in 2006, has ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Campus and Community, Tools for Teaching Sustainability: An Examination of a Service-Learning Project
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
This presentation will focus on a service-learning project that utilized the campus and community as tools to help teach sustainability in an introductory undergraduate course in Environmental Humanities. In this ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Teaching Sustainability: Engaging Students in Developing Local Sustainability Indicators
- Oberlin College (OH)
Students play an important role in defining the culture and spirit of a campus and engaging them in sustainability initiatives on campus and beyond is an important component of the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Teaching Sustainability
- Otterbein University (OH)
This presentation offers a case study of how teaching sustainability can become a force for change on campus and the wider community. The paper examines the 10 week process by ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Educators as Architects of Living Systems
- Peralta Community Colleges District Office (CA)
Imagine a learning community as a wetland or a forest. Imagine a group of learners as a highly interdependent community, a vibrant living system not unlike an ecosystem in nature ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Promoting Sustainable Business Practices by Teaching Business Principles to Environmental Scientists
- University of Idaho (ID)
This presentation will report on a newly created course (spring 2008) to teach business principles to environmental science students. The course introduces the environmental scientist to how environmental sustainability is ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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You Can Take It With You: Practicing Sustainability Within and Beyond the Academy
- Western Illinois University (IL)
In his essay "Sustainable Composition," Derek Owens suggests that teachers have an ethical and social responsibility to their communities to consider more sustainable practices in our pedagogy and professional lives ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Campus Gardens & Farms: A discussion of best practices for student and faculty engagement
- Portland Community College (OR)
Sustainable agriculture on campuses in the form of farms or gardens have their own unique challenges for student and faculty engagement. During this moderated networking session we will facilitate the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Integrated Design: Linking Curriculum, Sustainability and Buildings that Teach
- Pierce College District 11 (WA)
- Opsis Architecture (OR)
Through a "cross-campus, multi-disciplinary" process, the Science and Technology Center was conceived as an interactive and sustainably-focused facility where the building becomes an integral part of math and science curriculum ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 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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Center for Sustainability Education
- Dickinson College (PA)
The Center for Sustainability Education (CSE) creates, enhances and connects opportunities for learning about sustainability in and out of the classroom. Working with a variety of partners, CSE supports activities ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
Rachel Carson’s work is the inspiration for the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education. Her contribution to human understanding of the environment is unparalleled. Silent Spring has been called ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Sustainable Engineering
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- Syracuse University (NY)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
The Center for Sustainable Engineering (CSE) is a partnership among five universities: Syracuse University (lead institution), Arizona State University, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Sustainability: A Bedford Spotlight Reader
Sustainability explores questions around the central concept of sustainability: What are its foundations and politics? How do crises challenge sustainability? How is sustainability connected to local and transnational environments? How ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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The Potential of Community-based Sustainability Projects for Deep Learning Initiatives
- Clark University (MA)
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA)
This paper provides and illustrates a generic framework for deep learning in a Sustainability-based course for higher education instruction. The use of Sustainability Consulting Projects is detailed with potential application ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Ten Ways to Integrate Sustainability into the Curriculum
- Towson University (MD)
Those of us in higher education who are concerned about the future of the planet realize that although cutting carbon emissions from campus operations is important, it is not enough ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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The Challenges of Sustainability Education
Sustainability has become a growing imperative in higher education in the United States of America (Calder & Dautremont-Smith, 2009). This paper examines sustainability education as it continues to emerge in ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Sustainability Curriculum in Higher Education: A Call to Action
- AASHE (MA)
This report is a culmination of the ideas presented during AASHE’s Summit on Sustainability in the Curriculum to address how higher education institutions can further infuse sustainability topics into ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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147 Practical Tips for Teaching Sustainability: Connecting the Environment, the Economy, and Society
- Colorado State University (CO)
All who work with sustainability issues realize that it is a community project. We must decide collectively about the earth and its future. As a community — be it a geographic ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Education for sustainable development at the university level: Interactions of the need for community, fear of indoctrination, and the demands of work
- Florida State University (FL)
The goal of this study was to describe the factors that influence education for sustainable development (ESD) in American universities. Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) was employed as the theoretical ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Teaching Sustainability at Universities: Towards curriculum greening
It is now beyond any doubt that higher education institutions around the world are beginning to recognize that they have a unique responsibility towards the goal of sustainability. Universities are ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Foothill College Sustainable Learning Community
- Foothill College (CA)
As part of the President's Climate Commitment, the incorporation of sustainability into the general curriculum was identified as a campus goal. The Sustainable Learning Community project is not only ...
- Posted May 9, 2013
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Sustainability Faculty Fellows Program at the University of Vermont (UVM)
- University of Vermont (VT)
The University of Vermont Sustainability Faculty Fellows Program serves as an example of successfully integrating sustainability into courses across disciplinary boundaries with a modest budget, Provost-level support, and a handful ...
- Posted June 25, 2010
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Sustainability Education Across the Province (SEAP): Faculty Train the Trainer Workshop at Simon Fraser University
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
This project's purpose was to train faculty members from across British Columbia, Canada to be sustainability education trainers. The workshop enabled them to not only integrate sustainability into their ...
- Posted June 9, 2010
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