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Sustainability Challenges and Solutions at CU-Boulder: Inception to Implementation
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
Implementing sustainability initiatives in large universities is a challenge. Taking an idea from the brainstorming period, through the many different departments, to implementing the projects, to finally measuring the effectiveness ...
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Teaching Ecological Citizenship within the Sustainability Curriculum
- Ohio University (OH)
Implicit in the discourse on sustainability is the need for ecological citizenship. Universities engaged in broad sustainability initiatives are well positioned to foster ecological citizenship norms through example and experiential ...
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Place-Based Sustainability Literacy: Using the Kanawha Model to Advance a University-wide Dialogue
- Ohio University (OH)
As universities implement comprehensive sustainability plans and work to build institutional cultures of sustainability a major challenge is developing a collective understanding of sustainability throughout the university community. Sustainability literacy ...
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Planning Campus Climate Action in a Service Learning Course
- Dickinson College (PA)
In spring semester 2011, students in the Sustainability Practicum course offered at our college were charged by our President's Commission on Environmental Sustainability with reviewing the college's climate ...
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Semester Immersion in Climate Change Science, Ecological History and Human Dimensions
- Dickinson College (PA)
We are team teaching an interdisciplinary program in fall 2011 in which a dozen students and three faculty members will immerse themselves in explorations of the science, human and ecological ...
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Using community-based social marketing to increase the visibility and usage of new ridesharing program
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
Our campus climate action plan identifies reducing single-occupancy vehicle (SOV) commuting as the largest opportunity for decreasing GHG emissions through behavior change. A team of graduate students designed, implemented, and ...
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Three bicycle programs that meet transportation, financial and Climate Action Plan goals.
- Portland State University (OR)
University support for bicycle riding can come in many forms, all of which can decrease demand for car parking facilities, offer an inexpensive and healthy transportation alternative for students and ...
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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 ...
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The Library as a Partner in Creating Curriculum for Sustainability
- University of Florida (FL)
Libraries play a central role in institutions of higher education and are dependent upon the educational objectives of these institutions. With the increasing focus on teaching sustainability across the curriculum ...
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Degrees Cooler - a behaviour change programme that resulted in institution-wide sustainability
- National Union of Students
The National Union of Students UK (NUS) was selected as part of the UK Government's Third Sector Strategy to promote greener living across England. Our two-year flagship programme, called ...
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Partnership and Collaboration: Establishing a farmers market program on a university campus
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The campus farmers market is in its second year. Success has been largely due to cross-departmental cooperation as well as partnerships with third-party market association vendors and University dining services ...
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Current Drivers and Barriers for the Implementation of Sustainability in Germanys Higher Education System
- University of Vechta
Sustainability was meant to be implemented into all levels of the educational system in Germany within the UN-Decade 'Education for Sustainable Development', driven by the governmental level with research programs ...
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Laboratory for a Sustainable Energy Course
- Eastern Connecticut State University (CT)
At our university all students are required to complete a general education science lecture course, a science and society lecture course, and a laboratory course that accompanies one of these ...
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UCSB's Student Services Renewable Energy Initiative and the Net Zero Project
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
The Student Services Renewable Energy Initiative is a major component of our University's Division of Student Affairs' goal to achieve Zero Net Energy and LEED EB Gold Status for ...
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Group Projects for a Sustainability Symposium
- Eastern Connecticut State University (CT)
Since we have 240 students enrolled in sections of the introductory sustainable energy course and 40 sustainable energy studies majors in upper division courses, we put on a Sustainability Symposium ...
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Assessment of Competency-based Sustainability Learning to Foster Systems Thinking and Critical Thinking
- Michigan State University (MI)
A land-grant university launched a competency-based undergraduate sustainability program in fall 2010. The approach reflects an emphasis on fostering the learning paradigm that links the domains of learner, assessment, knowledge ...
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A Focus on the Near-term: Analysis and Prioritization of Actionable Carbon Reduction Strategies
- Carleton College (MN)
XYZ College's Climate Action Plan was the product of an enthusiastic committee effort involving students, faculty and staff. The CAP goal was to prioritize actions for the near-term that ...
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STARS: Challenges and Opportunities for Implementation
- American University (DC)
The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS) is rapidly becoming the leading sustainability reporting tool for higher education. This research presents an analysis of STARS' strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities ...
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The Power and the Art of Weaving Sustainability into New Employee Orientation
- University of Louisville (KY)
Many of us are passionate about campus sustainability because we understand that important lessons are learned not only in classrooms, but in everyday surroundings and the broader campus culture. Students ...
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Sustainability beyond the campus with service-learning: Case study with village street trees
- Colgate University (NY)
The Environmental Studies Program at our university is emphasizing community-based service and research in a recently-revised curriculum. A required service-learning course connects students with the sustainability mission of our institution ...
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Think Outside The Car! - Surveying Commuter Choices
- University of Louisville (KY)
As a large urban institution with three distinct campuses, the University of Louisville has historically been a commuter school in a city built almost exclusively for cars. With about 9 ...
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A Framework for Integrating Sustainability Education, Research, Engagement, and Operations through Experiential Learning
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
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This paper summarizes the University of Illinois' four-step strategy for experiential learning, integrating research, education, engagement, and operations. As a first step in this strategy, a task force created a ...
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Student Designed Sustainability Curriculum Intended to Create Shift in Campus Culture
- Babson College (MA)
Creating a culture of sustainability is a challenge for all colleges. The Eco Reps here recognized this problem and strived to create a solution to generate a positive culture of ...
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Campus Sustainability XLR8R: Zero to Sixty in Twelve Months
- George Washington University (DC)
"Campus Sustainability XLR8R: Zero to Sixty in Twelve Months" will be a combined field report and a series of take-away recommendations for attendees to put toward practical use. The session ...
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Continuous and Retro Commissioning in High Performance Buildings
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
In the summer of 2010, our university contracted with a third party to perform a continuous commissioning and retro-commissioning pilot project for two LEED Silver Certified buildings. These buildings were ...
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Hoosier to Hoosier: Reducing Student Move-out Waste with the City
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
Student move-out is one of the busiest times of year, and students at Indiana University find themselves pressed for time with an apartment full of items they no longer need ...
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Creating a Water Action Plan: Water Footprinting at Higher Education Institutions
- George Washington University (DC)
Universities are increasingly well versed in the measurement and tracking of their carbon emissions. While it is important for institutions to continue to tackle global climate change, water scarcity is ...
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From Acid Rain to Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Drilling: Student Benefits of Community-based Learning
- Dickinson College (PA)
A co-curricular, service learning program (CCSLP), housed in the Environmental Studies Department at a small liberal arts college, promotes a national model for college-community partnerships by 1) building and enhancing ...
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Destination Green: Its Within Reach
- University at Albany (NY)
Transportation choices will continue to play an important role in the development of a carbon neutral society. Like many other institutions, single occupancy vehicles account for the third largest piece ...
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The Cost of Printing vs. iPads: A Paperless Student Union at University of British Columbia
- University of British Columbia (BC)
As touchscreen technologies continue to advance in functionality and decrease in cost, more organizations will need to carefully examine their ability to replace paper use with such devices. A group ...
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Internships to Implement Institutional Change: Sustainability on a Shoestring
- Ohio Dominican University (OH)
While many institutions are developing sustainability offices or hiring sustainability coordinators, economic constraints may play a role in limiting this option for all universities. In order to begin institutional reporting ...
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Program Recognizing Offices Practicing Sustainability: A New Approach to Green Office Certification
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
By applying research of community based social marketing techniques and utilizing funds from grants produced through student fees, students and staff housed under the campus sustainability office have developed Program ...
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Weaving Sustainability Education through the Undergraduate Curriculum
- Ohio Dominican University (OH)
As centers of education, research, and outreach, universities have the potential to become the catalyst in a change to more sustainable societies. The university provides a learning laboratory for combining ...
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Sustainable Cities Network: Bridging the University with Arizona Communities
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The Sustainable Cities Network was created to be a bridge between Arizona State University's (ASU) research and technical capabilities in sustainability and the front-line challenges facing Arizona communities. Convened ...
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Lights Off Cornell: Students Use Mobile Apps for Energy Conservation
- Cornell University (NY)
Launched in Spring 2010, Lights Off Cornell (LOC) is a student-led energy conservation program that organizes Cornell students, faculty, and staff to turn off lights after hours Monday through Friday ...
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Coming Together to Create an Alternative Transportation Program: The Stone Soup Approach
- California State University, Chico (CA)
There are many challenges for Universities when they work to address alternative transportation. Located in a small city, the local transportation infrastructure is limited. The Vice President for Business and ...
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Adopting and Promoting a Campus Bike Share Program Through Social Media
- North Georgia College & State University (GA)
One project recently undertaken by the North Georgia College & State University (NGCSU) sustainability task force is a bicycle share program in which safe and durable bicycles are readily available ...
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An Interdisciplinary Sustainability Coordinator Associate of Applied Science at Lane Community College
- Lane Community College (OR)
The Sustainability Coordinator Associate of Applied Science is an interdisciplinary degree developed through a collaborative process. It is the first program of its kind in the nation. Unlike other, discipline-specific ...
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Using STARS to transform sustainability pedagogy
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
STARS is being adopted across the country by institutions wishing to assess sustainability initiatives in education, operations, and research. A key attribute of STARS educational assessment is the classification of ...
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Towards Green Campuses In Egypt: Using Simulation Tools for Optimization of Drawing Halls in Egypt
- Mansoura University
The paper describes the use of simulation tools for optimizing the energy demands of drawing halls in Mansoura University, as a part of the strategy "Towards green campuses in Egypt"".
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Realizing sustainability across curricula and campuses, lessons from George Mason University in Northern Virginia
- George Mason University (VA)
In 2007, the university leaped into sustainability initiatives with a commitment to climate neutrality, hiring of full-time energy and sustainability managers, and creation of "sustainability across the curriculum" faculty workshops ...
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Collaborative Sustainable Building Practice: Innovative Curriculum Design
- Cornell University (NY)
There is no doubt that the unprecedented challenge of sustainable development calls for cross-disciplinary collaboration. For the building sector, recognizing the fact that technological solutions for low-energy high-performance buildings have ...
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Changing Travel Behavior One Trip at a Time: Meeting the Challenge of the Large Suburban Campus
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
In the late 1950s, a small suburban university was built on old farmland. It was envisioned that this school would primarily serve students in the region and would operate as ...
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Barriers and Opportunities for Communicating Sustainability on Campus
- University of Nevada Las Vegas (NV)
Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) have progressively committed to become more sustainable in recent years. Despite this commitment, academic publications in the sustainability field describe that most IHEs have found ...
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Understanding, teaching, and influencing campus sustainability from a systems perspective
- University of Vermont (VT)
One of the first steps in developing a campus sustainability program is to assess the degree to which sustainability currently exists on campus and trends toward or away from this ...
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A New Approach to Offsetting: The College of William and Mary Carbon Offset Program
- College of William & Mary (VA)
Carbon offsets are a means by which individuals or groups (i.e. corporations) compensate for their carbon footprint. These parties donate a calculated proportion to a project that reduces carbon ...
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Campus Greenhouse Provides Local Food and Research on Vegetable Production in Cold Climates
- Clarkson University (NY)
A student team designed and built a 450 sq. ft. pilot greenhouse to test the feasibility of maximizing produce yields while minimizing energy requirements for local food production in cold ...
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Exploiting In-State Rivalries for Energy Conservation - the Take Charge! Challenge in Kansas
- Kansas State University (KS)
Energy conservation competitions are increasingly common at colleges and universities, but few move beyond the boundaries of individual institutions. This presentation will report on the results of the Take Charge ...
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Sustainability in Campus Operations at Three Higher Education Institutions in Tompkins County, New York.
- New York Institute of Technology - Manhattan Campus (NY)
This paper demonstrates how the three higher education institutions in Tompkins County, New York are making good progress in the planning and implementation of actions to make campus operations more ...
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Fostering a Culture of Sustainability in a Japanese University
- Hokkaido University (Hokkaido)
Hokkaido University is committed to the creation of an environmentally friendly campus. Its 65,000 hectares of campus resources, which include experimental forests and a variety of other facilities, are ...
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