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Green Globes Certification: A Practical Approach for Sustainable Campuses
- University of Florida (FL)
- Green Building Initiative (OR)
Green Globes is an affordable and practical, yet comprehensive nationally recognized sustainability certification for commercial and multifamily buildings. The Green Globes platform was modified and developed through the public, collaborative, …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Fair Trade Chocolates: Raising the Challenge with Sweets
- University of North Carolina, Wilmington (NC)
UNCW is one of over 46 universities nationally that have embarked on a campaign to achieve Fair Trade (FT) Status by ingraining FT practices, principles, and policy into their campus …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Go Green or Get Gone: Teachers College as a Case Study
- Teachers College, Columbia University (NY)
What is the role of graduate schools of education in the face of local and global environmental challenges? This session explores this question by presenting the development process and implementation …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Sustainable development in Portuguese higher education institutions from the faculty perspective
- Polytechnic Institute of Santarém
- University of Aveiro
Higher education institutions play a fundamental role and have great responsibility in promoting sustainability and achieving sustainable development goals. It is therefore essential to study the teacher's perceptions of incorporating …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Go DefaultVeg: Using Behavioral Nudges to Reduce Food-Related GHG Emissions at Your Institution
- Harvard University (MA)
- Better Food Foundation (DC)
Colleges and universities are increasingly attempting to measure and reduce their Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. Among the largest contributors of Scope 3 emissions are transportation and food. In 2019, …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Building Your Campus Energy Workforce: Opportunities for Students, Faculty and Staff
- Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
- United States Department of Energy (DC)
Energy efficiency and renewable energy are exploding with interest from students while colleges and universities across the country are working to rapidly deploy both solutions. How can these interests be …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Developing Sustainability Learning Outcomes & Assessment
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Developing a sustainability major, minor, certificate, or school? If so, you are likely crafting or updating learning outcomes and related assessments. This interactive Learning Lab will enable participants to be …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Transitioning from Sustainability Planning to Meaningful Implementation
- Ohio University (OH)
With the formal adoption of the Sustainability Plan occurring in Summer 2011 and the Climate Action Plan in Winter 2012, Ohio University is in its first year of transitioning from …
- Posted May 9, 2013
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Building the Capacity of Change Agents
- University of Alberta (AB)
Building a movement to advance sustainability culture requires both institutional changes and changes to personal behaviour. Nestled in this movement of creating a sustainable culture is the important role of …
- Posted June 11, 2015
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SUSTAIN Supporting UTSA Sustainability Through Action, Initiatives and Narratives
- University of Texas at San Antonio (TX)
Funding provided by UTSA based on 3% of semester credit hour or generally $5 per student per semester for Fall and Spring, and $2.50 for Summer sessions. The funding can …
- Posted Sept. 21, 2021
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Biological and Ecological Engineering (PhD)
- Oregon State University (OR)
The graduate program in Biological & Ecological Engineering deals with diverse issues in the design and analysis of a wide range of biological and hydrologic systems. Focus areas are in …
- Posted Sept. 5, 2019
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Minor in Sustainable Design
- Western Washington University (WA)
Huxley College of the Environment and the Engineering Technology Department jointly offer a minor in Sustainable Design. Design is the process of conceptualizing, representing, and creating projects, processes, or products …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Certificate in Holistic Landscape Design
- Bastyr University (WA)
Bastyr's Certificate in Holistic Landscape Design offers training for those who want to build upon their knowledge of medicinal and edible plants and apply that expertise by developing sustainable landscapes. …
- Posted Aug. 22, 2016
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Attract a Bigger Audience by Saying Goodbye to Green
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
This session is PART 2 of the ways in which Penn State is attracting a bigger audience to sustainability by saying 'goodbye to green.' What we identify as 'sustainability' has …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Taking sustainability to next level – The UAF Sustainability Plan
- University of Alaska Fairbanks (AK)
UAF is already a high performing institution with respect to sustainability. In 2009 a student sustainability fee of $20 per semester was implemented after a vote by the student body. …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Overcoming Barriers to Sustainability Education for International and Culturally Diverse Students
- Portland State University (OR)
A sure way to transform sustainability education is to make it more inclusive and incorporate multiple perspectives. To do this, the dominant sustainability education culture must engage in a paradigm …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Using Whole Systems Design to Teach Sustainability Leadership
- Creighton University (NE)
For the last three years, I have successfully taught a course that I designed entitled 'Sustainability Leadership: An Interdisciplinary Approach' to doctoral students in a leadership program. This presentation will …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Putting Classroom Skills into Practice: From Curriculum to Community Sustainability Planning
- Indiana University South Bend (IN)
This session will share a case study about how faculty can engage in sustainability in the community, and in the process provide pathways for positive change, increased awareness of sustainability …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Active learning for sustainability education
- James Madison University (VA)
Active learning engages students in to promote critical thinking and alignment of course material. In an environmental health course, students spend approximately 2 hours working at the campus recycling center, …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Collective Action and Sustainability
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Sustainability problems including climate change, hyper-consumption, water stress, deforestation, etc. are all wicked problems. A few underlying elements are pervasive in these sustainability issues. Each problem is at a scale …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Surveying the Landscape of Sustainability Studies Programs
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
As the educational landscape of sustainability continues to emerge and transform, this presentation offers a significantly refined and expanded survey of Sustainability Studies and other similar programs in the United …
- 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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A New Sustainable Method for Filtering Storm Water Runoff
- University of California, Riverside (CA)
Storm water runoff is a major source of surface water contamination that contains oil and sediment. Conventional filters create waste because they cannot be recycled and have to be thrown …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Development and Implementation of the Calvin Energy Recovery Fund
- Calvin University (MI)
Typically, the first and least expensive recommended step in addressing climate change and peak energy concerns at an institutional level is improved energy efficiency. Yet, few organizations move forward with …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Faculty Development for Sustainability Across the Curriculum
- Calvin University (MI)
The five panelists, faculty at a MidWest comprehensive liberal arts college, were participants in a cross-disciplinary workshop enacting the idea of sustainability across the curriculum. The workshop, which grew out …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Using Planning to Integrate Sustainability across the Campus
- Stockton University (NJ)
The submitting College, located in the Pinelands of southern New Jersey near the Atlantic shore, has had a distinct sustainability orientation since its founding in 1969. For example, the College …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Evaluating the Role of a Baccalaureate Degree in Sustainability and the Built Environment
- University of Florida (FL)
Our institution has created a new degree program entitled the Bachelor of Science in Sustainability and the Built Environment (BSSBE) first offered to students in Fall 2008. The degree was …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Adaptation and Resilience in Sustaining Ourselves - A Micro-Retreat
- Macalester College (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Join sustainability professionals across Minnesota in discovering how a model of stepping away from our various institutions, discovering common challenges and building cross-institution relationships helps us sustain ourselves. The planning …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Stretching Your Sustainability Leadership Career: Future Business/Facilities Officer
- National Association of College & University Business Officers (NACUBO) (DC)
Many sustainability directors possess the requisite skills to position themselves for future leadership at a campus. Additionally, that stretch in their career path to more senior leadership positions could significantly …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Environmental Activism in the age of Social Media
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Whether or not you're an active user of social media, you cannot deny the power that it possesses to spread information and ideas globally. In the last few years, there …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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College Students' Emissions “Foodprint”: Can Eco-Labels Shift Diet Types?
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Due to the higher greenhouse gas emissions from livestock food production compared to plant-based food production, it is imperative that consumers shift their diets away from meat. One possible method …
- Posted Dec. 12, 2017
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Learning for Biosphere Security in a Crowded, Warming World
- University of Northern British Columbia (BC)
Among all the pressing needs for educational innovations that humanity faces today, arguably the most imperative is the need to elicit the learner's active involvement in a 'Great Transition' that …
- Posted May 8, 2018
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147 Practical Tips for Teaching Sustainability: Connecting the Environment, the Economy, and Society 2nd Edition
- Colorado State University (CO)
Forewords by David Orr and by AASHE's inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Dr. Anthony “Tony” Cortese in recognition for his tremendous impact in advancing sustainability in higher education.
While currently …
- Posted Sept. 19, 2018
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Building Our Capacity for Taking Action Together
- Daemen University (NY)
- Green Mountain College (VT)
Sustainability education needs more emphasis on developing skills necessary for students to engage in effective collective action (CA). This presentation will showcase coursework and projects at Green Mountain College and …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Featuring the Chemistry Department in Campus Sustainability Initiatives: Best Practices in the Lab and Curriculum
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- My Green Lab (CA)
- Beyond Benign (MA)
Chemistry laboratories have a long-standing reputation of being energy, water, and waste intensive. The emergence of high standards of environmental and social responsibility have lead to a particular need for …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Techniques to Foster Interpersonal Competences
- Nanyang Technological University
Interpersonal Competences (ICs) are vital for sustainability change agents. Evidence shows that ICs are also highly-prized career skills. A student with strong ICs can productively interact and empathize with collaborators …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Sustainability, Equity & Inclusivity: Diversifying the Conversation
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Sustainability Weekend is a conference organized by graduate and undergraduate students from various departments at CMU. This year's theme, 'Sustainability, Inclusivity & Equity' seeks to expand the scope of environmental …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Campus Sustainability: A Motivational Analysis for Change
- Chatham University (PA)
Current business practices are a leading source of environmental degradation, especially employee actions in the workplace that generate excessive waste to landfill, resource depletion, and other negative impacts. The UN's …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Engaging Students and Low-Income Community Members: Successes in Conservation and Social Equity
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
The FLOWS program (Foundation for Leaders Organizing for Water and Sustainability), is made up of diverse CU Boulder Environmental Center student staff and historically marginalized community members that team up …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Global Development and Sustainability (Minor)
- St. John's University, New York (NY)
The 18-credit minor in Global Development and Sustainability is designed to provide you with the skill set and knowledge to better address systemic challenges and promote global solidarity.
- Posted Oct. 9, 2025
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MS in Environmental Science
- University of Illinois, Springfield (IL)
The curriculum for the Master of Science in Environmental Sciences is designed to allow students to gain strong scientific understanding of ways to study, evaluate, and interpret environmental realities and …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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MSc in Carbon Management
- University of Edinburgh
Carbon management is at the heart of tackling climate change and has rapidly become a central part of the global business environment. This is a growing sector with excellent employment …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Entomology (MS)
- Clemson University (SC)
The Entomology graduate program offers three primary research areas: Agricultural and Applied Ecology, Urban and Medical Entomology, and Biodiversity, Systematics and Evolution. The MS degree requires students to conduct research …
- Posted July 10, 2019
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Applied & Environmental Biology (MS)
- Missouri University of Science and Technology (MO)
The program emphasizes research designed to understand responses and adaptations in biological systems at cellular and molecular levels as well as at the community and ecological level.
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Environmental Engineering (MS)
- Missouri University of Science and Technology (MO)
Current research activities encompass physical/chemical/biological wastewater treatment, hazardous waste treatment, drinking water treatment, groundwater and soil remediation, and indoor air pollution control.
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Environmental Studies (MA)
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
The M. A. Environmental Studies has an interdisciplinary focus encompassing the natural and social sciences. This foundation is necessary for understanding the complex, cross-disciplinary problems faced today by environmental policy …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Engineering & Public Policy (MS)
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Engineering and Public Policy offers a MS program that helps students with technical backgrounds address policy issues focused on science and technology.
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Sustainability and Environment (MS)
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
Focusing on the interconnectedness of social equity, the environment, the economy, and aesthetics, the customizable M.S. in Sustainability & Environment (MSS&E) is designed for professionals pursuing sustainability in any field.
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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NC State University Facilities, Academic Affairs Collaborate For Summer Energy Savings
- North Carolina State University (NC)
A hot, humid North Carolina summer isn’t when you might expect NC State University to save nearly $900 a day in avoided energy costs. But thanks to a new initiative, …
- Posted May 26, 2016
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Building Climate Resilience and Centering Equity: Case Studies from the University of California
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California San Diego (CA)
- Introba
Equity-Centered climate-resilient planning is a vital component of responding to the challenges posed by a changing climate. The University of California (UC) system has taken a proactive approach to developing …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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