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Highlights from the 2017 Higher Education Sustainability Staffing Survey

AASHE (MA)

The 2017 Higher Education Sustainability Staffing Survey Report examines the nature of sustainability positions at colleges and universities, providing insights into salaries, funding, supervision, job satisfaction, challenges and more. AASHE ...

Posted Oct. 6, 2017
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Core Concepts for Teaching Sustainability: Using “Tips” to Deepen Learning across the Disciplines, Grade Levels and Cultures

Colorado State University (CO)
AASHE (MA)

Sustainability is one of those big, complex concepts that defy easy definition or simple responses yet demand attention to our collective well-being. Some Native Americans would judge the worth of ...

Posted Sept. 28, 2017
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Campus and Community Involvement in Move-Out Programs

University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
Wilfrid Laurier University (ON)
AASHE (MA)

Classes end and our students vacate the rooms in their residence halls, cleaning up so that other students may become the new occupants. In the process, students discard lots of ...

Posted Sept. 22, 2017
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AASHE Award Winner Webinar – Generating and Maintaining Hope and Agency through Sustainability Education

Colorado Mountain College (CO)
AASHE (MA)

Indigenous educator Gregory Cajete articulates the motivations and questions that drive the presenter’s research. For Cajete, effective education entails ‘finding heart,’ an active process within and beyond the person ...

Posted Sept. 14, 2017
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Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems and Communities: A Mindfulness-Based Pedagogy

University of North Carolina, Asheville (NC)
AASHE (MA)

Human and non-human communities have varying capacities to respond to disturbance while maintaining the same basic functions. That is the main argument behind resilience theory and practice, which seek to ...

Posted Sept. 11, 2017
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Preparing for Campus Sustainability Month 2017

Arizona State University (AZ)
Chemeketa Community College (OR)
University of Nebraska at Omaha (NE)
AASHE (MA)

October is Campus Sustainability Month! Watch this webinar to gain ideas and inspiration for how you can leverage CSM to engage and inspire incoming students and other campus stakeholders to ...

Posted Aug. 31, 2017
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Sustainability at Work: Finding Purpose and Profit in Your Career

AASHE (MA)
Engineers for a Sustainable World (CO)

This webinar provides career guidance for pursuing sustainability in every imaginable career. Using the SURF Framework that the presenter developed, and professional narratives from various sectors (agriculture, health, science & ...

Posted Aug. 17, 2017
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Greening the Heart of Postsecondary Education

Royal Roads University (BC)
AASHE (MA)

What does “greening the heart of education” look like at the postsecondary level? What are the big questions we must pose — and answer — if colleges and universities are to contribute ...

Posted Aug. 3, 2017
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How Are Campuses Harnessing Renewable Energy? New Report Tracks Trends in Higher Ed

University of New Hampshire (NH)
AASHE (MA)
Edison Energy (CA)

As a whole, campuses are getting more energy efficient. But space growth counter-weighs these gains. Hundreds of campuses have onsite solar. But the arrays are small, and sometimes the SCRECs ...

Posted July 27, 2017
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How Federal Programs and Partnerships can Help Reduce Wasted Food on Campuses

Central Michigan University (MI)
AASHE (MA)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)

Food is the single largest waste stream sent to landfills and incinerators each year in the United States –over 70 billion pounds, which accounts for 21 percent of Americans’ everyday ...

Posted July 25, 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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Moving the Needle on Commute Mode through Transportation Demand Management (TDM)

Cornell University (NY)
Stanford University (CA)
University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
AASHE (MA)

Offering sustainable transportation options to students and staff is the easy part. What more can you do to foster improvements in sustainable commute mode share? Transportation demand management (TDM) professionals ...

Posted June 30, 2017
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Rethinking Thinking about Sustainability Curriculum

AASHE (MA)

“You cannot solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it.” Albert Einstein

If a snap of the fingers could reverse the environmental destruction of the past ...

Posted June 9, 2017
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Put a Price on It: Bringing Higher Education into the Carbon Pricing Dialog

Swarthmore College (PA)
AASHE (MA)

This webinar explores the role of institutions of higher education in the emerging national carbon pricing dialog. Institutions of higher education have an immense capacity to educate a broad audience ...

Posted May 25, 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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Leveraging college sports to advance campus sustainability, stakeholder engagement, and community inclusion

Arizona State University (AZ)
University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
AASHE (MA)
Bonneville Environmental Foundation (OR)

By launching from collegiate sports’ high profile platform, sustainability efforts have the reach to more broadly engage stakeholders on and off campus and enhance sustainable behaviors among fans such as ...

Posted May 15, 2017
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Greening Federal Grants: Why there is a need to connect efficiency to federal funding for research at universities

University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
AASHE (MA)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (CO)

This webinar will includes two parts: PART 1: The Department of Energy (DOE) will provide an overview of the DOE Smart Labs Accelerator Program which was launched at the 2016 ...

Posted May 4, 2017
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Leveraging Sub-Meter Data as Feedback to Engage Community Members and Save Energy on Shoestring Staffing and Funding

Macalester College (MN)
AASHE (MA)

Macalester College has leveraged no-cost and open-source solutions to provide feedback to community members while, simultaneously, informing facilities about energy-saving opportunities to further advance its sub-metering initiatives. Whether you find ...

Posted April 20, 2017
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Empowering the New Energy Workforce: Best Practices for Campus Energy Education & Internships

AASHE (MA)
California State University, Bakersfield (CA)
University of California, Merced (CA)
Skyline College (CA)
College of the Desert (CA)
Strategic Energy Innovations (CA)

Hear first-hand from a diverse set of California colleges that are creating student internships and work-based learning opportunities to support energy and sustainability career pathways. This webinar highlights campus outcomes ...

Posted April 17, 2017
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Using Model-Based Reasoning and Experiential Learning to Understand and Improve Sustainability in a Campus Food System

Warren Wilson College (NC)
AASHE (MA)

The webinar describes an introductory sustainability course at Warren Wilson College that explores the campus food system. Warren Wilson College has a sustainable dining policy and has adopted the Real ...

Posted April 7, 2017
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How to Reduce Your School's Carbon Footprint – For Free!

University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
AASHE (MA)
TerraPass (CA)

UCapture offsets users’ carbon footprint, for free, when they shop with 2000+ partners. Their platform harnesses the power of consumers to build the “cost of carbon” into every transaction – and ...

Posted April 3, 2017
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Green Gigawatt Partnership: Reinventing Renewable Power Purchase Agreements for Higher Education

AASHE (MA)
Edison Energy (CA)

The higher education renewable energy market has grown dramatically in recent years as campus buyers have executed power purchase agreements (PPAs). But for all of the successes, two substantial obstacles ...

Posted March 30, 2017
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From Reactive to Proactive: Findings From Analyzing 400 School Buildings

AASHE (MA)
CopperTree Analytics (WA)

Facility teams are extremely busy, and have a growing workload that is tackled with resources that are spread increasingly thin. Automating even a small portion of their jobs can free ...

Posted March 21, 2017
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Developing High Impact Applied Learning for Sustainability Programs

Arizona State University (AZ)
Portland State University (OR)
AASHE (MA)

This webinar explores leading examples of applied learning in sustainability programs that are designed create exceptional student experiences and a lasting impact on the sustainability goals pursued by the community ...

Posted March 15, 2017
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STARS & Beyond: Adventures of an Embedded Librarian in the Campus Sustainability Office

University of Utah (UT)

Webinar [30 mins], presented by Amy Brunvand for the American Library Association Sustainability Round Table (SustainRT) on 3/9/17. Amy Brunvand, an academic librarian at the University of Utah ...

Posted March 15, 2017
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Sharing the Load: Aggregating Renewable Energy Purchases with Others

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
AASHE (MA)
Coho Climate Advisors (MD)

The idea of pooling resources to increase bargaining power is not new. But it is being newly applied to renewable energy purchases. Now, no matter the size or location of ...

Posted March 9, 2017
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AASHE Award Winner Webinar - Sustainability, Food Systems and Entrepreneurship

Portland Community College (OR)
Temple University (PA)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
AASHE (MA)

The food movement comes in many shapes and sizes. People wonder more now than ever, where does my food come from? How is it grown? Who grows it? Who has ...

Posted March 7, 2017
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Getting Started with STARS 2.1

University of Vermont (VT)
AASHE (MA)

Watch this webinar for an overview of STARS 2.1, AASHE's Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System launched Spring 2016. STARS 2.1 includes a number of new features ...

Posted March 7, 2017
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University of Chicago New Construction Procurement Case Study: Securing Your Investment in Sustainability

University of Chicago (IL)
Second Nature (MA)
AASHE (MA)
Seventhwave (WI)

Join AASHE and Second Nature for an in-depth look under the hood of the University of Chicago’s innovative procurement approach to establish a measurable energy performance requirement in their ...

Posted March 7, 2017
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Preparing for Campus Sustainability Month 2016

University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
University of North Florida (FL)
University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
AASHE (MA)

October is Campus Sustainability Month (CSM)! Watch this webinar to gain ideas and inspiration for how you can take advantage of CSM to engage and inspire incoming students and other ...

Posted March 7, 2017
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AASHE Award Winner Webinar - Using a Design Competition to Expand Bee Habitat On and Off-Campus

University of Manitoba (MB)
AASHE (MA)

BEE / HOUSE / LAB was an international design competition at the University of Manitoba that resulted in innovative bee houses built, installed around campus and used for research. The reasons for ...

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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AASHE Award Winner Webinar - Taking Carbon Off-Setting Beyond the Campus

Furman University (SC)
AASHE (MA)

This webinar tells the story of the Community Conservation Corps (CCC), a community weatherization program run through the David E. Shi Center for Sustainability at Furman University. The CCC was ...

Posted Feb. 23, 2017
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AASHE Award Winner Webinar - Developing Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation Strategies Through Student Research

University of Houston (TX)
University of Michigan (MI)
AASHE (MA)

Student groups at the University of Houston and University of Michigan have developed strategies for energy efficiency and water conservation on campus through research.

At the University of Michigan, a ...

Posted Feb. 16, 2017
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Green Gigawatt Partnership: How to Apply for AASHE's On Campus Solar Project Support

AASHE (MA)
Edison Energy (CA)
Dallas College (TX)

AASHE is offering cost-free support for up to five campuses (http://greengigawatt.org/aashe-campus-project.php) to develop and implement on-campus (or near campus) solar projects.This webinar presents how the ...

Posted Feb. 9, 2017
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The Sustainability Literacy Test: Implementation strategies for campuses

McGill University (QC)
AASHE (MA)
U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
KEDGE Business School (Bordeaux)

The Sustainability Literacy Test provides higher education institutions, companies and other organizations around the world with an internationally recognized and locally relevant tool to measure and improve sustainability literacy. This ...

Posted Jan. 31, 2017
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