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Fostering Sustainability Engagement: My Cardinal Green
- Stanford University (CA)
Founded in 2008, Stanford's Office of Sustainability aims to expand upon the success of infrastructure innovation to educate and engage the campus community through seasonal, targeted conservation efforts: Cardinal ...
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Use This, Not That: Best Practices in Green Event Consulting
- Stanford University (CA)
For the past 30 years, Stanford has designed and implemented innovative, campus-wide infrastructural programs to address sustainability in energy, water, waste and building efficiency. Stanford's Office of Sustainability, founded ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Art and Sustainability: Creative Problem Solving, Visual Communication, Active Learning and Sustainability Awareness
- State University of New York at Geneseo (NY)
I am a practicing artist and a former tenured faculty member that recently switched paths to the administrative side of the college, to more directly address sustainability on our campus ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Building a Campus-Wide Sustainability Network from the Ground Up, a Case Study
- State University of New York at Geneseo (NY)
In this presentation I will detail the work and progress made in developing our campus sustainability structure. At SUNY Geneseo, sustainability has been part of the conversation on campus for ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Campus Carbon Offset Initiatives in Action
- Sterling Planet, Inc. (GA)
Colleges and Universities can reduce the impact of direct greenhouse gas emissions and achieve marketing value through study abroad and campus parking carbon offset programs. These innovative programs allow students ...
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The Hive Project: Three Short Plays with Music
- The Hive Project (MN)
The Hive Project is a triptych of short plays with music exploring the relationship between humans and bees. Inspired by the techniques Bertolt Brecht developed in the Lehrstuck (or 'learning ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Creative Assessment Strategies for Learning Outcomes
- The Ohio State University (OH)
Setting learning outcomes for student programs is easy, but figuring out how to measure what they learn has been a challenge for us at Ohio State. Come hear how we ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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98% of the Clothes We Buy Are Made Overseas
- TS Designs (NC)
Eric Henry will discuss the impact that fashion moving overseas has had not only on the finished product we wear but also on the world. Eric breaks down why a ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Storytelling: The Buzzword That Can Actually Get You A Job
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
Your last year of school looms ahead, perhaps even that dreaded G word in May. All those times your advisors tried to convince you to follow their career path, or ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Service Learning a tool for teaching sustainability and local development
- Universidad de Monterrey
For Universidad de Monterrey, Service - Learning is a pedagogy that fosters the improvement of academic quality and civic education, promoting an active participation and solidarity contributions for the local development ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Setting up a MOOC on Sustainable Development: The Case of Université Laval
- Université Laval (QC)
Université Laval in Québec City is the oldest French-language university in North America. UL has some 45,000 students and 10,000 employees, offers over 400 programs, and is one ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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New York Coalition for Sustainability in Higher Education (NYCSHE)
- University at Albany (NY)
Networking meet up for those involved with sustainability in New York State higher education institutions.
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Integrating Research, Learning, and Community: A Curriculum Model for Sustainability Science in Higher Education
- University of Alaska Fairbanks (AK)
Are you interested in developing an interdisciplinary course with a research component around an important sustainability issue (i.e. water, energy, food security)? This session provides a working model that ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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University of Alberta - Leaders in Energy Management since 1975
- University of Alberta (AB)
A very successful Energy Management Program has been in place at the University of Alberta since the mid-1970s. In the four decades since, the university has reduced its energy costs ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Case Study Based Research in the Education of Sustainable Architecture
- University of Arkansas (AR)
Among the variety of employed methodologies, case study based research has been a commonly utilized approach in law, medicine, and business administration. As with these disciplines, case studies are also ...
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The Mass Balance of Humanity: Attempting A Global Inventory
- University of Arkansas (AR)
The non-renewable resource base on which human technological society depends is finite. While this is quite well-understood, estimating the total mass of those non-renewable resources presents a daunting challenge. In ...
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Embedding Sustainability across The University of British Columbia
- University of British Columbia (BC)
The poster session will provide a visually engaging overview of how the University of British Columbia is integrating sustainability across teaching, learning and research, operations and infrastructure, and community. Through ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Sustainability Program at the University of British Columbia
- University of British Columbia (BC)
Participants will explore the foundations that underpin our award-winning program which partners operational staff, faculty and students to catalyze campus sustainability efforts. Our program has coordinated more than 1000 diverse ...
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UC Berkeley Plastic Disclosure Project
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Plastic Disclosure Project (PDP) at UC Berkeley discloses the campus' plastic footprint, making it the first University to publicly reveal this information. The objectives of PDP is to measure ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Student Sustainability Centers and Offices' 3 R's: Resources, Roles, and Revenue
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
This round table session seeks to share the successes, challenges, and lessons learned related to founding and managing student focused sustainability resource centers. Discussion topics will include: Topic 1: Revenue ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Cultivating a Zero Waste Culture on Campus
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
In 2014, UC Berkeley was at 48% waste diversion, well behind the UC wide goal of Zero Waste by 2020. We are just coming to the tipping point where we ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Integrating Composting and Recycling in University of California Berkeley Residence Halls
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Achieving Zero Waste at any college campus is riddled with obstacles and push back. The campus residence halls offer a huge opportunity to capitalize on reducing campus generated waste and ...
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The UC Global Food Initiative; Leveraging University Research and Best Practices to Achieve Ambitious Global Goals
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
In July 2014, UC President Janet Napolitano challenged the University of California system to leverage the innovative research and best practices that we have developed through our operations and curriculum ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Green Sports Alliance networking lunch
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
One of the most visible and global platforms for sustainability leadership is sports. In the past five years, hundreds of collegiate and professional sports teams, conferences, and leagues have rapidly ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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COP21 : Making the Most Out of Your Trip to Paris in December
- University of Connecticut (CT)
If you're planning to send a team of students, faculty, and/or sustainability staff to COP21 this December, please join us to share information about schedules, including educational and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Waste Minimization Pilot Projects at the University of Denver
- University of Denver (CO)
In this case study, I will go over the successes and failures of student run pilot projects. As a student, I have experienced what is needed to make a pilot ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Automating Key Steps in the STARS Rating Process: Using Content Analysis to Perform Sustainability Course Inventories
- University of Florida (FL)
This presentation focuses on a practical and innovative approach to conducting the sustainability course survey that is required of the STARS rating system. If you are a sustainability coordinator or ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Existential Sustainability: From Crisis to Celebration
- University of Florida (FL)
This presentation details a practical approach to sustainability education that is rooted in students' everyday experiences of the world. Against the common approach of crisis and impending doom, the approach ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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SLIM: A Sustainability Bridge Linking Campus to Community
- University of Hawaii Maui College (HI)
The Sustainable Living Institute of Maui (SLIM) at UH Maui College is nine years old. It has successfully presented numerous trainings in sustainability specialties such as renewable energy, green building ...
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University of Iowa Biomass Fuel Project: Miscanthus as a Dedicated Energy Crop
- University of Iowa (IA)
The University of Iowa (UI) is working to decrease its use of fossil fuels to meet its goal of 40 percent renewable energy by 2020. The UI currently burns coal ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Growing a Successful RecycleMania Campaign
- University of Iowa (IA)
RecycleMania has grown at the University of Iowa from a quiet program in 2013 and a 5th place finish in the Big Ten to a well-known time of the year ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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UKnTrees: Growing urban forestry awareness, outreach, and education
- University of Kentucky (KY)
Many aspects of sustainability in urban environments, from environmental (stormwater management, climate regulation, urban heat island effects, air pollution removal) to economic (neighborhood and retail desirability, property values) to social ...
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Sustainability doesn't mean everything to everybody.' A foundational vocabulary for courses in urban sustainability
- University of Louisville (KY)
There is growing consensus on learning outcomes in sustainability education, including systems thinking, interdisciplinarity, ethical growth, team problem-solving, and more. This paper explores the knowledge and learning outcomes students should ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Build a Quick, Convincing Business Plan That Gains Administration Support And Transforms Your Campus Sustainability
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
Learn the proven mechanics of developing and delivering a plan for your sustainability initiative in the business language and format that decision makers in higher education understand and expect. Presenter ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Real Food Campus Commitment; Student and Community Partnership at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
The Real Food Campus Commitment is a pledge for colleges and universities stating that they will buy at least 20% Real Food by 2020. Signing onto the commitment can be ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Self-Sustain Conferences - connecting sustainability students within the multi-campus, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities system.
- University of Minnesota, Crookston (MN)
In 2008, a multi-disciplinary, system-wide sustainability committee was organized at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities to improve sustainability related communication and collaborations between campuses at Minneapolis, St. Paul, Morris ...
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Design, Installation and Evaluation of Sustainable Concrete Sidewalks on UMD Campus for Research and Learning
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
Concrete is the most commonly used man-made material on the planet; however, the production of cement, the binder that holds concrete together, is responsible for 5-8% of global anthropogenic CO2 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Art & Design Students Collaborate with University and Community to Mitigate Birdstrikes on Campus Buildings
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
Summary: We present an innovative, grant-funded partnership between the university department of Art & Design, department of Writing Studies, Office of Sustainability, UMD Facilities Management, local wildlife rehabilitators, and local ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Decade of Clean Energy Implementation at University of Minnesota, Morris and a New Collaboration with the City of Morris
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
In 2014, University of Minnesota, Morris (Morris) earned the Second Nature Climate Leadership Award. Over the past decade, Morris has underwent a radical physical transformation. Morris is home to biomass ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Bike Tour
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Participants - limited to 20 - will take the Green Line light rail from DT Mpls. to the University's East Bank station. Once on campus, participants will be provided with bikes ...
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Ark of the Anthropocene a model for preservation and survival in a changing climate
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Sean Connaughty has been making biosphere floats, they are self sustaining ecosystems that float in water. they range from seven feet in diameter to a few inches. The largest of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Degrees to Careers: A Case Study on How Letting Students Work with Professionals Prepares them for Life After Graduation
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
In the Spring of 2014, a group of students from various disciplines at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities partook in the DOE Challenge Home Student Design Competition. Throughout the ...
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Innovations and lessons learned in distributed graduate education on sustainability science: a replicable teaching model
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
We present innovations and lessons learned from teaching a distributed graduate seminar on sustainability science across multiple institutions in Latin America and the US. Sustainability science is a problem-driven science ...
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Sustainable polymers in the undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The topic of plastics and their negative effect on the environment and human health is a relevant and important topic appropriate for the diverse population of students enrolled in a ...
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Mitakuye oyasin (All My Relations): Manifesting Sustainability through Cultural Understanding
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Culture provides the structure for how we interact with our natural environment. For centuries, proclaiming a religious right to manifest destiny has justified actions that have enabled cultural values which ...
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Integrating sustainability education and workforce development: filling the gaps in research and education
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The green economy remains a poorly defined and it remains unclear what a green economy would look like. The most optimistic outlooks argue that it will be built on a ...
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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 ...
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Sustainable Systems Management Curriculum
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
A new Sustainable Systems Management major is being planned for implementation in Fall 2015 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities for the first time. The context surrounding the introduction ...
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Cornercopia Student Organic Farm at The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Cornercopia is an organic farm that provides students hands-on whole farm learning opportunities, food for the local community and a place for community building, multi-disciplinary education, research and outreach. Started ...
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Student Farms and Gardens Meet-up
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Come meet Students, Staff and Faculty Members who work with Student Farms and Gardens at their Universities. We will exchange ideas about what's working, what's not and brain ...
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