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"Seeing Systems" Discussion Activity on Peace, Justice and Sustainability Issues
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Active, personally relevant learning is at the heart of an effective education. This discussion
activity takes students and other campus participants through a process of exploring sustainability through small group ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Powering A Bright Future Discussion Activity on Energy Issues
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Active, personally relevant learning is at the heart of an effective education. This activity takes students and other campus participants through a process of exploring sustainability through small group discussion ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Climate Change Discussion Activity
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Active, personally relevant learning is at the heart of an effective education. This
activity takes students or other campus participants through a process of exploring sustainability through small group discussion ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Food, Ethics and Sustainability Discussion Activity
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Active, personally relevant learning is at the heart of an effective education.
This activity takes participants through a process of exploring sustainability
through small group discussion and personal reflection designed ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Toward Instruments of Assessing Sustainability Knowledge: Assessment development, process, and results from a pilot survey at the University of Maryland
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Colleges and universities strive to educate all students for a sustainable future; however, few institutions assess students’ knowledge of sustainability concepts. Hundreds of institutions are currently measuring their overall sustainability ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Education for sustainability in business education programs: a question of value
This paper posits that sustainability is essentially a question of value, a notion that is situated within the context of an individual, organisational and community perspective. Each person or group ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Undergrad Perspectives: The Business of Changing the World
- Net Impact (CA)
Net Impact surveyed 1,650 undergraduate students on their beliefs about the current state of business, the role they see themselves playing in improving the world through their careers, and ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Building a Sustainability Road Map for Engineering Education
Major environmental, economic, and social trends are transforming the application of sustainability thinking within the engineering profession and within organizations that hire engineers. These include the growing demand for new ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Business Skills for a Changing World: An Assessment of What Global Companies Need from Business Schools
- Net Impact (CA)
The World Environment Center and Net Impact partnered to identify the core skills needed by business school students to prepare them better for future employment in companies with strong sustainability ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Culture of Disengagement in Engineering Education?
- Rice University (TX)
Much has been made of the importance of training ethical, socially conscious engineers, but does US engineering education actually encourage neophytes to take seriously their professional responsibility to public welfare ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Missing the wood for the trees: systemic defects and the future of education for sustainable development
The division in approaches to education for sustainable development (ESD) as described by Vare and Scott is revisited. A strong bias in ESD towards personal behaviour change and aspirations to ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Covering the Cost: Why We can no Longer Afford to Ignore High Textbook Prices
- The Student PIRGs (OR)
This report investigates the degree to which high textbook prices affect student financial standing and behavior.
Key Findings from the Report:
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Almost one-third (30%) of students replied that they had ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Sustainability Culture Indicator
- Awake (Victoria)
Developed in 2011 and since used in dozens of organizations around the world, the Sustainability Culture Indicator (SCI) is an online survey which measures the extent to which sustainability is ...
- Posted April 10, 2016
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Commonfund Study of Responsible Investing: A Survey of Endowments and Their Affiliated Foundations
- Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (DC)
- National Association of College & University Business Officers (NACUBO) (DC)
Commonfund Institute, NACUBO and AGB survey builds upon the 2014 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments by delving in to responsible investing practices, policies and portfolio strategies. Topics covered include:
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Defining responsible ...
- Posted April 8, 2016
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The State of Campus Resilience in the Face of a Changing Climate
- Haley & Aldrich, Inc. (MA)
- Society for College and University Planning (MI)
Climate-related events pose a major threat to college and university campuses across the country, and this is only expected to worsen as the climate continues to change. Along with an ...
- Posted April 8, 2016
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Institutional Pathways to Fossil-Free Investing: Endowment Management in a Warming World
- Responsible Endowments Coalition (PA)
- Sustainable Endowments Institute (MA)
This report provides an analysis of climate-related portfolio risk faced by educational and philanthropic endowments and presents three pathways toward reallocating an endowment portfolio into fossil-free investment opportunities, across asset ...
- Posted April 8, 2016
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The Reinvestment Handbook: Green Endowments Initiative
The Reinvestment Handbook is a resource for the next generation of responsible investors. It is designed to help students better understand their university endowment, the key pillars of SRI funds ...
- Posted April 8, 2016
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Faculty, Staff, and Adjunct Salary Database
- Chronicle of Higher Education (DC)
This interactive database gives you key data and insights on faculty, staff, and adjunct pay at more than 5,000 colleges and universities.
Explore Chronicle Data today and get industry-wide ...
- Posted April 7, 2016
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Learning and Teaching Academic Standards Statement for Environment and Sustainability
The Learning and Teaching Academic Standards Statement for Environment and Sustainability has been developed by the environment and sustainability higher education community. This statement describes the minimum or threshold learning ...
- Posted April 7, 2016
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Lecturers’ perspectives on how introductory economic courses address sustainability
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– The purpose of this article is to explore sustainability commitments’ potential implications for the curriculum of introductory economics courses. Universities have signed the Talloires Declaration, committing themselves to promoting ...
- Posted April 7, 2016
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The Efficient Drowning of a Nation: Is Economics Education Warping Gifted Minds and Eroding Human Prospects?
Humanity has put itself in great peril, as the impending demise of the nation of Kiribati due to global warming illustrates. This failure to act is in part due to ...
- Posted April 7, 2016
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Introductory economics courses and the university’s commitments to sustainability
- University of British Columbia (BC)
The three largest public universities in British Columbia, Canada have signed the Talloires Declaration, committing themselves to promoting students’ environmental literacy and ecological citizenship. As a result, there is pressure ...
- Posted April 7, 2016
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Teaching (un)sustainability? University sustainability commitments and student experiences of introductory economics
The three largest public universities in British Columbia, Canada have signed the Talloires Declaration, committing themselves to promoting sustainability and creating expectations that they will integrate sustainability across the curriculum ...
- Posted April 7, 2016
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Sustainability in the Curriculum and Teaching of Economics: Transforming Introductory Macroeconomics
- Bridgewater State University (MA)
Present models of economic growth primarily focus on the role of expenditures as captured in the commonly cited economic indicator, gross domestic product (GDP), where GDP is defined as the ...
- Posted April 7, 2016
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Introductory economics textbooks: what do they teach about sustainability?
In response to accelerating ecological deterioration, many universities have made commitments to integrate sustainability across the curriculum and to ensure they graduate ecologically responsible citizens. This study involves a content ...
- Posted April 7, 2016
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Systematic Change Through Reciprocal Partnerships
- Connecticut College (CT)
The Office of Sustainability at Connecticut College has demonstrated its commitment to community change in its collaborative support for the New London County Food Policy Council (NLCFPC). The NLCFPC is ...
- Posted April 6, 2016
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Internal Carbon Accounting at a Small Liberal Arts College
- Vassar College (NY)
As colleges and universities pursue greenhouse gas reductions, it has become clear that some
approach is necessary for putting a price on carbon emissions and communicating that cost to energy ...
- Posted April 6, 2016
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North D Compost Pilot
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MA)
After conducting a waste audit of the North Apartment Residential Complex in October of 2014, it was found that approximately 27% of the trash stream consisted of food waste and ...
- Posted April 6, 2016
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Compendium of Organics Recovery Programs at Colleges and Universities
- University of Louisville (KY)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
The Center for Environmental Policy and Management at the University of Louisville in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 and select southeastern U.S. schools have ...
- Posted April 6, 2016
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STARS Silver for NAIT
- Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (AB)
NAIT’s environmentally friendly programs and initiatives have earned the institute a STARS Silver sustainability ranking, the highest of any Canadian polytechnic. NAIT was the first Canadian polytechnic to achieve ...
- Posted April 3, 2016
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The Need for Social Ethics in Interdisciplinary Environmental Science Graduate Programs: Results from a Nation-Wide Survey in the United States
- Michigan State University (MI)
- Oregon State University (OR)
Professionals in environmental fields engage with complex problems that involve stakeholders with different values, different forms of knowledge, and contentious decisions. There is increasing recognition of the need to train ...
- Posted April 3, 2016
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Bachelor in Marine & Environmental Science
- Hampton University (VA)
Program includes a rigorous curriculum covering subject matters related to marine & environmental science, such as geology, biology, physics, chemistry, and more. Students enrolled in the program will receive real ...
- Posted April 1, 2016
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Environmental Science and Environmental Law Degrees
A degree in Environmental Law is just that, it isn't a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD, it is a “doctor of Law”, or Juris Doctor (JD). You may ...
- Posted March 31, 2016
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Plastic Free Campus Manual
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
This document will help guide you through the process of helping your campus go plastic-free. Comprised of over 60 pages worth of training, best-practices guidance, case studies and project resources ...
- Posted March 31, 2016
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Pulling Up the Higher-Ed Ladder: Myth and Reality in the Crisis of College Affordability
This brief attempts to pinpoint the cause(s) of spiraling tuition by taking a deep dive into public university revenue and spending data from the National Center for Education Statistics ...
- Posted March 31, 2016
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Pursuing Sustainability: A guide to the science and practice
- Harvard University (MA)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
The book Pursuing Sustainability suggests that the ultimate determinants of intergenerational well-being should be thought of as the stocks of assets on which people now draw and will draw in ...
- Posted March 31, 2016
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Guidance for Leadership in Sustainable Purchasing
- Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (MA)
The Guidance for Leadership in Sustainable Purchasing Version is intended to help organizations improve the environmental, social, and economic performance within their supply chains—across the entirety of product and ...
- Posted March 30, 2016
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Challenge the Label
- ISEAL Alliance
Sustainability claims have become widespread in the modern marketplace, and with it greenwashing has expanded. The practice of making empty, unfounded or exaggerated sustainability claims risks alienating buyers committed to ...
- Posted March 30, 2016
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Committing to Equity and Inclusive Excellence: A Campus Guide for Self-Study and Planning
- Association of American Colleges and Universities (DC)
Committing to Equity and Inclusive Excellence: A Campus Guide for Self-Study and Planning provides a framework for needed dialogue, assessment, and action to address inequities in higher education institutions. Focusing ...
- Posted March 30, 2016
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Sustainable Development Primer for Higher Education Presidents, Chancellors, Trustees and Senior Leaders
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
This primer describes the sustainability related, crucial roles and tasks for presidents, trustees and senior leadership and explains how sustainability is a robust national trend in higher education. The primer ...
- Posted March 30, 2016
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Water Footprint Calculator
- GRACE Communications Foundation (NY)
Learn about the water "hidden" in food, energy and the things you buy. The Water Footprint Calculator provides a snapshot of how your daily activities and routines impact your water ...
- Posted March 30, 2016
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Seasonal Food Guide
- GRACE Communications Foundation (NY)
Use our Seasonal Food Guide to learn when and where produce is at its peak: choose the state and time of year you’re interested in and click 'Go'. By ...
- Posted March 30, 2016
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Eat Well Guide
- GRACE Communications Foundation (NY)
Search over 25,000 hand-picked restaurants, farms, markets and other sources of local, sustainable food. Useful for college and university dining services, students, employees and community members.
- Posted March 30, 2016
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College Affordability and Transparency Center
The College Affordability and Transparency Center includes information for students, parents, and policymakers about college costs at America’s colleges and universities. The Center includes several lists of institutions based ...
- Posted March 29, 2016
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Choosing an LGBTQ-Friendly College
As a prospective student, it’s your job to find a college where you can thrive. This is particularly important for those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or ...
- Posted March 29, 2016
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Learner-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies
The broad goal of this volume from Springer International Publishing is to help advance environmental education practices that help increase students’ environmental literacy through learner-centered teaching activities.
- Posted March 29, 2016
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RecycleMania
- Keep America Beautiful (CT)
- College & University Recycling Coalition (DC)
RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over an 8-week period each spring, colleges ...
- Posted March 29, 2016
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Flying along the supply chain: accounting for emissions from student air travel in the higher education sector
Higher education institutions (HEIs) can play a key role in facilitating the transition to a low carbon economy, where reporting greenhouse gas emissions is an important step in this process ...
- Posted March 29, 2016
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Waste Reduction Model (WARM)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
The US EPA's Waste Reduction Model (WARM) calculates and totals GHG emissions of baseline and alternative waste management practices—source reduction, recycling, combustion, composting, and landfilling. The model calculates ...
- Posted March 29, 2016
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Bicycle Friendly University Program
- League of American Bicyclists (DC)
The Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) program recognizes institutions of higher education for promoting and providing a more bikeable campus for students, staff and visitors. Specifically, it evaluates applicants’ efforts to ...
- Posted March 29, 2016
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