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Renewable Energy at Harvey Mudd: The Design, Construction and Life Cycle Analysis of a Solar-Powered ParaSOL
- Harvey Mudd College (CA)
Colleges across the country are beginning to integrate renewable technologies on their campuses. Privately and publicly funded projects have brought large solar arrays to parking lots and rooftops, but have ...
- Posted June 1, 2016
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Leading by Collaboration: Institutional composting on a non-residential campus
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
JCCC's composting initiatives have changed operational practices and enriched campus culture in many ways. Those directly involved in our composting work are passionate about reducing food waste, handling it ...
- Posted June 1, 2016
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Solar Energy Justice in Portland
- Lewis & Clark College (OR)
Project Description We are two Environmental Studies majors pursuing a project to put solar panels on affordable housing in Portland. We are working with Central City Concern (CCC) to put ...
- Posted June 1, 2016
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The Sustainable Bookstore: Giving New Life to Discarded University Library Books
- Appalachian State University (NC)
When the Appalachian State University library culled its stacks, close to 80,000 books were slated to be recycled. Many of these books, some dating back to the late 1800s ...
- Posted June 1, 2016
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Student Sustainability Sculptures Contest
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
Beginning in 2011, Johnson County Community College art faculty member Mark Cowardin assigned his Sculpture II students a project requiring the design, proposal, planning, and installation of a public art ...
- Posted June 1, 2016
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Study to Reduce Peak Electrical Demand Charges for the John C. Hodges Library
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
The goal of this project is to design electrical and thermal storage systems that will reduce electrical consumption during periods of peak demand and thereby save the University money in ...
- Posted June 1, 2016
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Report on the Study Group on Climate Change Participatory Workshop
- Smith College (MA)
New England’s climate is projected to experience signifiant changes in the near future, including warmer temperatures, varied precipitation and extended periods of drought, with more extreme rainfall and snowfall ...
- Posted June 1, 2016
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The Transition to Resilience: A Comparative Case Study of Two Communities
- Berea College (KY)
- Oberlin College (OH)
- University of Kentucky (KY)
This dissertation examines the question of how communities understand their risk related to global economic and environmental problems and how communities respond to those risks. Specifically, using comparative case study ...
- Posted June 1, 2016
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Gaucho Certified Farmers Market
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
In the Fall of 2014, myself and a group of 5 other faculty members founded the first ever successful farmers market on the UC Santa Barbara campus.
The project was ...
- Posted June 1, 2016
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USF “Share-A-Bull” Bicycle-Share Program
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
Deployed a smart bike-sharing program with 100 GPS enabled bikes, multiple bicycle parking stations, and a mobile phone app to facilitate locating, reserving and returning bikes. With this program, USF ...
- Posted June 1, 2016
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SRU Earth Days 2016
- Slippery Rock University (PA)
“Earth Days 2016” was Slippery Rock University’s annual Earth Day celebration involving fun and educational events aimed at increasing awareness and knowledge regarding sustainability, climate change, and preserving resources ...
- Posted May 31, 2016
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The role of students in the co-creation of transformational knowledge and sustainability experiments: Experiences from Sweden, Japan and the USA
- Clark University (MA)
- Oberlin College (OH)
- University of Tokyo
- Lund University
Accompanying realizations that engagement of multiple societal sectors (academia, industry, government, citizenry) and disciplines are required for formulating effective responses to complex sustainability challenges, calls for new forms of knowledge ...
- Posted May 31, 2016
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UIC Heritage Garden
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
The Heritage Garden at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is a hands-on learning project with an internship program where students work with faculty, staff, and community members to ...
- Posted May 31, 2016
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NC State University Students Leverage Partnerships To Eliminate Plastic Bags on Campus
- North Carolina State University (NC)
Over a three-year period, the NC State Stewards collaborated with the university’s Campus Enterprises division to move toward the elimination of single-use plastic bags in the most wasteful locations ...
- Posted May 31, 2016
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Creating Tree Ambassadors: Fostering a campus culture of sustainbility through urban trees
- University of Kentucky (KY)
Urban trees contribute substantially to ecological, economic, and social sustainability, but are often overlooked both as a method to achieve greater sustainability and as a vehicle for engagement in sustainability ...
- Posted May 31, 2016
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Sustainability reporting in higher education: a comprehensive review of the recent literature and paths for further research
Over the last decade, sustainability reporting (SR) has gained importance in both profit and non-profit environments. In spite of the slowly emerging trend of SR in higher education, it is ...
- Posted May 27, 2016
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IT’S YOUR NATURE: The Art of Sustainability
- University of Dayton (OH)
IT'S YOUR NATURE: The Art of Sustainability was a year-long initiative using the arts to connect our campus with new ways of thinking about the environment and sustainability. Utilizing ...
- Posted May 26, 2016
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UMass New2U Reuse Collection and Tag Sale
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
New2U is a student-led program that is in its 3rd year of operation. New2U collects unwanted items from across campus each spring during move-out and resells these collected item each ...
- Posted May 26, 2016
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Community Garden 2.0 – transcending silos on campus and in the community
- Northern Kentucky University (KY)
Northern Kentucky University (NKU) has joined forces with local stakeholders to create a network of community gardens on campus and within the surrounding community. The network is comprised of fifty ...
- Posted May 26, 2016
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Compact Advanced Facility for Conversion of Waste Cooking Oil to Biodiesel to power the University Bus system
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
The University Bus system is powered by a Biodiesel mixture. The project investigated feasibility of generating its own Biodiesel from the waste cooking oil generated by the dining facilities and ...
- Posted May 26, 2016
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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 ...
- Posted May 26, 2016
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Sustainability Champions: Role Models in Sustainability Graduate Education
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
Sustainability champions are iconic men and women who have shaped the scholarly understanding of sustainability by considering broad, alternative, and visionary solutions to sustainability problems. For instance, sustainability champions such ...
- Posted May 26, 2016
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The Role of Pro-Environmental Behavior Change in Sustainability Planning and Programming in Higher Education
- Ohio University (OH)
Behavior change is a prominent topic among sustainability practitioners in higher education, but what role does pro-environmental behavior change play in sustainability planning and programming at institutions of higher education ...
- Posted May 25, 2016
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Future sustainability scenarios for universities: moving beyond the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
As achievements of the completed United Nations Decade (2005-2014) of Education for Sustainable Development are contemplated globally, along with potential steps forward for the future, Member States have urged that ...
- Posted May 25, 2016
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Organizational Change and Organizational Learning for Promoting Higher Education for Sustainable Development
- Dalhousie University (NS)
The scholarship of higher education for sustainable development has been criticised for its reliance on case studies and lack of theoretical rigour. This chapter provides a brief overview of several ...
- Posted May 25, 2016
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Field Guide to Teaching Sustainability
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Penn State’s Field Guide to Teaching Sustainability is for sustainability education what the Peterson guides are for birds, trees, or wildflowers. We have designed it to help our faculty ...
- Posted May 24, 2016
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Warriors Don’t Waste: Improving the Waste Stream at Eastern Connecticut State University.
- Eastern Connecticut State University (CT)
In early 2015 Eastern’s Green Campus Committee started to tackle the major initiative of improving the campus waste stream. In taking on this project the committee knew that there ...
- Posted May 24, 2016
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Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability in African Universities: Stories of Change
- United Nations Environment Programme
This document includes over 25 chapters on sustainability in African universities.
- Posted May 24, 2016
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Learning while transforming: solution-oriented learning for urban sustainability in Phoenix, Arizona
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Conventional educational settings struggle with enabling students to acquire competence in collectively solving sustainability problems. Such competence is best conveyed in real-world learning settings. Solution-oriented sustainability learning (SOSL) programs create ...
- Posted May 24, 2016
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Sustainability by Participation
- Central Connecticut State University (CT)
Central Connecticut State University wss an early signee to the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. CCSU has been working to make the issue more visible to our campus ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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Implementing sustainability education with undergraduate business courses, A case study
- Alfred State College (NY)
The purpose of this submission is to discuss experiential learning related to strategic management and environmental sustainability. The paper outlines one case of implementing project-based sustainability education within the BUAD ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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University of Redlands Proposal for Expanded Composting
- University of Redlands (CA)
We are currently living in a time with inequity, economic instability and environmental degradation. The University of Redlands campus claims to be sustainable, however, we lack many forms of renewable ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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Presidents’ Declaration on the Civic Responsibility of Higher Education
- Campus Compact (MA)
The purpose of this statement is to articulate the commitment of all sectors of higher education, public and private, two- and four-year, to their civic purposes and to identify the ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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University of Redlands Proposal for Expanded Composting
- University of Redlands (CA)
We are currently living in a time with inequity, economic instability and environmental degradation. The University of Redlands campus claims to be sustainable, however, we lack many forms of renewable ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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Anchor Institutions Toolkit: A guide for neighborhood revitalization
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
This is a Toolkit for Anchor Institutions to use as a guide to rebuild, revitalize, strengthen and improve their local communities.
Each of the tools in this kit was developed ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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Netter Center for Community Partnerships
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
Founded in 1992, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships is Penn’s primary vehicle for bringing to bear the broad range of human knowledge needed to solve ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crossroads
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
A growing number of universities are dedicating resources to support their surrounding communities, but much potential for advancement remains. A university’s mission as an “anchor institution,” as defined by ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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Calling the Question: Is Higher Education Ready to Commit to Community Engagement?
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)
This document reflects the collaborative work of the assembled participants of the 2004 Wingspread conference: Institutionalizing University Engagement. It notes that, despite a decade of calls to action, engagement has ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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Personal values and attitudes towards societal and environmental accountability: a study of MBA students
Efforts to promote corporate societal and environmental accountability (SEA) should be informed by an understanding of stakeholders’ attitudes toward enhanced accountability standards. However, little is known regarding current attitudes on ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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Carbon On-Setting: Community Impact through Home Weatherization in Greenville, SC
- Furman University (SC)
The Community Conservation Corps (CCC), a program of the David E. Shi Center for Sustainability at Furman University, provides free home weatherization to low-income homeowners in the greater Greenville, South ...
- Posted May 20, 2016
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MBA Concentration in Sustainable Business
- City University of New York, Baruch College (NY)
Students in the Zicklin School Of Business MBA program may specialize in Sustainable Business during their second year. The four-course major is conceptually anchored in strategy, with the understanding that ...
- Posted May 20, 2016
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Sustainable Entrepreneurship MBA (SEMBA)
- University of Vermont (VT)
The University of Vermont’s accelerated one-year Sustainable Entrepreneurship MBA (SEMBA) was designed from the ground up to challenge the traditional MBA. The curriculum has been reinvented to address the ...
- Posted May 20, 2016
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Master of Science in Sustainability Management (MScSM)
- University of Toronto (ON)
The Master of Science in Sustainability Management (MScSM) program provides the training for graduates to act outside the traditional disciplinary black boxes; integrate knowledge from management, social, and natural sciences ...
- Posted May 20, 2016
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Rian Fried Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
- Sterling College (VT) (VT)
Recognizing that building a healthy and just food system is among the most critical challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, the Rian Fried Center for Sustainable Agriculture & Food ...
- Posted May 20, 2016
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Center for Sustainable Business Practices
- University of Oregon (OR)
Part of the Business Innovation Institute at the Lundquist College of Business and housed in one of the nation's most environmentally friendly business school facilities, the Center for Sustainable ...
- Posted May 20, 2016
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Tufts University Earth Fest Celebration
- Tufts University (MA)
The Tufts community came out to celebrate our planet on Earth Day with Tufts Sustainability Collective (TSC) and the Tufts Eco Reps! A clothing swap, food, prizes, music and a ...
- Posted May 19, 2016
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A Strategy for Energy Performance Analysis at the Early Design Stage: Predicted vs. Actual Building Energy Performance
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
Developments in information technology are providing methods to improve current design practices, where uncertainties about various design elements can be simulated and studied from the design inception. Energy and thermal ...
- Posted May 19, 2016
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Center for Education on Social Responsibility
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
The purpose of the Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR) is to advance the Leeds School of Business’ commitment to preparing future leaders to confront social, environmental, economic, and ...
- Posted May 19, 2016
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Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement describes the contradictions, unrealized potential, and unrecognized urgency of the causes as well as the risks and rewards of ...
- Posted May 19, 2016
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Prairie Climate Atlas
- University of Winnipeg (MB)
The new Prairie Climate Atlas is an interactive, online tool that uses climate data, geovisualizations and multimedia to map the dramatic changes predicted for the Canadian Prairies. The Atlas is ...
- Posted May 17, 2016
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