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Parametric analysis for cost-optimal renewable energy integration into residential buildings: Techno-economic model
- Illinois State University (IL)
- Hanyang University
Determining the optimum penetration of renewable energy systems and their associated aggregated technical and economic benefits is a growing concern for both researchers and policy makers. The purpose of this ...
- Posted March 31, 2019
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Impact of environmental knowledge and product quality on student attitude toward products with recycled/remanufactured content: Implications for environmental education and green manufacturing
- City University of Hong Kong
- University of Sheffield
- Monash University Malaysia
This study investigates the impact of environmental knowledge and perceived product quality on purchasing intention and purchasing behavior of recycled products: A4 paper, mobile phones and printers. The intent is ...
- Posted March 31, 2019
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Facilitating work performance of sustainability-driven entrepreneurs through higher education: The relevance of competencies, values, worldviews and opportunities
- University of Vechta
- Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- Terra Institute
This article explores the work performance of sustainability-driven entrepreneurs in order to be able to provide better learning settings in higher education for sustainability-driven entrepreneurship (SDE). Sustainability-driven entrepreneurs are actors ...
- Posted March 31, 2019
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Colleges That Funded Scooter Startups Don’t Love Them on Campus
- Michigan State University (MI)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
- AASHE (MA)
- Bloomberg (NY)
- Bird (CA)
This article examines why campus safety offices and the endowment managers may feel differently about scooter startups.
- Posted March 30, 2019
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SEED Center
- National Council for Workforce Education (FL)
The Sustainability Education, and Economic Development (SEED) Center aims to advance sustainability and clean technology education programs at community colleges by sharing innovative practices to help college administrators, faculty, and ...
- Posted March 30, 2019
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Examining the effect of an environmental social marketing intervention among university employees
- University of Birmingham
- Queen Mary University of London
- University of Sheffield
- Global Action Plan
This paper examines the impact of an environmental social marketing intervention on employees’ energy saving intentions in a higher education institution (HEI) in the UK. The study examines the influence ...
- Posted March 30, 2019
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability (CSRS) Initiatives among European and Asian Business Schools: A Web-based Content Analysis
- GIFT University
- University of Rome Tor Vergata
The purpose of this study is to explore the extent to which MBA programmes offered by top European and Asian B-schools have a corporate social responsibility and sustainability (CSRS) orientation ...
- Posted March 30, 2019
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Potential of integrating power generation with solar thermal cooling to improve the energy efficiency in a university campus in Saudi Arabia
- King Abdulaziz University
Along with the rapid ongoing developments and expansions of the King Abdulaziz University campus, it is sensible to rethink the way electrical and cooling energy is generated and to explore ...
- Posted March 30, 2019
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How Water Bottle Refill Stations Contribute to Campus Sustainability: A Case Study in Japan
- Ritsumeikan University
The purpose of this study was to explore the feasibility of installing Water bottle Refill Stations (WRSs) and their contributions to campus sustainability by means of encouraging pro-environmental behavior in ...
- Posted March 30, 2019
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The challenge of sustainability and integrated reporting at universities: A case study
- University of Cadiz
- University of Zaragoza
This study contributes to research on integrated and sustainability reporting at higher-education institutions in the context of voluntary reporting by focusing on an innovative Spanish university. It examines the developments ...
- Posted March 30, 2019
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The impact of neoliberalism on higher education tourism programs: Meeting the 2030 sustainable development goals with the next generation
- George Mason University (VA)
Neoliberal influences can change the role of higher education towards training, which reduces their ability to instill the critical thinking skills needed to sustain the Sustainable Development Goals by future ...
- Posted March 30, 2019
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Hampshire College’s R.W. Kern Center- A Living & Learning Building
- Hampshire College (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
Located at the heart of Hampshire College campus, the R.W. Kern Center is a certified Living Building: generating its own energy, capturing and treating its own water, and processing ...
- Posted March 21, 2019
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Building a business case for implementation of a circular economy in higher education institutions
Various frameworks have been developed to guide organisations in embedding circular economy principles in their strategy and operational practice. However, there is a lack of studies analysing practical implementation of ...
- Posted March 15, 2019
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Sulitest®: A Mixed-Method, Pilot Study of Assessment Impacts on Undergraduate Sustainability-related Learning and Motivation
- Pittsburg State University (KS)
A United Nations international collaboration between the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) resulted in the creation of Sulitest® (aka Sustainability Literacy Test ...
- Posted March 15, 2019
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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Zero Waste Program
- University of Southern California (CA)
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum has influenced generations across the world through events such as the Olympics, World Series, and Super Bowls as well as community events like papal and ...
- Posted March 15, 2019
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A sustainable consumption teaching review: From building competencies to transformative learning
- University of East Anglia
Sustainable consumption (SC) is a growing area of research, practice and policy-making that has been gaining momentum in teaching programs among higher education institutions. Understanding how, in what way, and ...
- Posted March 15, 2019
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Does the knowledge economy advance the green economy? An evaluation of green jobs in the 100 largest metropolitan regions in the United States
- Australian National University
- Wageningen University
Institutions of higher education are significant economic engines and innovative places in local economies: they directly employ large numbers of people, often with well-paying jobs; they are magnets for businesses ...
- Posted March 15, 2019
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The sustainability of international higher education: Student mobility and global climate change
- University of Bath
Much literature discusses higher education as an agent for sustainable development, but the extent to which higher education contributes to unsustainable economic and social systems receives less attention. This paper ...
- Posted March 15, 2019
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Cognitive and behavioural environmental concern among university students in a Canadian city: Implications for institutional interventions
- University of Regina (SK)
Informed by Stern and colleagues’ value-belief-norm theory and their earlier empirical work, we examined levels and predictors of cognitive and behavioural environmental concern (EC) of university students in a Canadian ...
- Posted March 15, 2019
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University Contributions to the Circular Economy: Professing the Hidden Curriculum
- Cranfield School of Management
In a world dominated by linear economic systems, the road to improving resource use is multi-faceted. Whilst public and private organisations are making progress in introducing sustainable practices, we ask ...
- Posted March 15, 2019
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Expanding Student Engagement in Sustainability: Using SDG- and CEL-Focused Inventories to Transform Curriculum at the University of Toronto
- University of Toronto (ON)
- London School of Economics and Political Science
The Expanded Student Engagement Project (ESE) has developed three comprehensive inventories which aim to increase student knowledge of sustainability-related course content and increase student engagement in on- and off-campus, curricular ...
- Posted March 15, 2019
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The WaterHub at Emory - A Case Study for Water ReUse
- Emory University (GA)
- AASHE (MA)
- NextEra Distributed Water, Inc. (VA)
The Atlanta region has witnessed numerous water-related stresses, including severe drought, EPA mandates resolving critical infrastructure issues, and an extended political dispute over water rights. In 2013, Emory University explored ...
- Posted March 15, 2019
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Connecting Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches
- AASHE (MA)
- Tecnológico de Monterrey (Nuevo Leon)
Research into and practice of Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) have been increasing during the last two decades. These have focused on providing sustainability education to future generations of ...
- Posted March 11, 2019
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Sustainability Education and Organizational Change: A Critical Case Study of Barriers and Change Drivers at a Higher Education Institution
- Kennesaw State University (GA)
Integrating sustainability within institutions of higher education can have a tremendous impact on students, faculty, and the larger community. Sustainability efforts also experience many barriers to implementation within higher education ...
- Posted March 6, 2019
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From contracts to culture: Exploring how to leverage local, sustainable food purchasing by institutions for food systems change
- Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (ON)
In recent years, certain hospitals, schools, and campuses across Canada have shown that they can transform their practices to serve more local and sustainable food. These changes have often been ...
- Posted March 6, 2019
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Self-operated vs. corporate contract: A study of food procurement at two universities in Manitoba
- University of Manitoba (MB)
- University of Waterloo (ON)
Public institutions are increasingly being pressured to demonstrate how they are meeting their responsibilities and obligations to sustainability. Yet there is little academic research on food procurement at universities in ...
- Posted March 6, 2019
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Evaluating a dialogue-based approach to teaching about values and policy in graduate transdisciplinary environmental science programs
- Michigan State University (MI)
- Oregon State University (OR)
- University of Dayton (OH)
This article discusses a formal evaluation of new curricular materials and activities designed to foster understanding of three key issues–expertise, risk, and sociopolitical constraints–related to values and policy ...
- Posted March 6, 2019
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Educating for self‐interest or ‐transcendence? An empirical approach to investigating the role of moral competencies in opportunity recognition for sustainable development
- Wageningen University
Entrepreneurship education with a focus on sustainable development primarily teaches students to develop a profit‐driven mentality. As sustainable development is a value‐oriented and normative concept, the role of ...
- Posted March 6, 2019
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Greening to campus Landscape
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Convert the campus landscape maintenance equipment from gas electric
- Posted March 6, 2019
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Building actor-centric transformative capacity through city-university partnerships
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Cities worldwide are rising to the challenge of sustainable development, calling for large-scale and fast-paced transformations towards sustainability. Urban sustainability challenges are now being reframed as a lack of capacity ...
- Posted March 4, 2019
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Universities responding to the call for sustainability: A typology of sustainability centres
- University of Helsinki
Universities worldwide are experiencing a growing trend to respond to the need for sustainability. Sustainability centres are one key aspect in the sustainability transitions of universities. Until currently, these centres ...
- Posted March 4, 2019
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Graduate attribute for minimising environmental harm – Assessing effectiveness in the graduates’ workplaces
- Monash University (VIC)
- RMIT University
Over recent times concern about the physical environment has fluctuated. Even after the coverage of environment and sustainability issues in the education of many professions, a decline of community concern ...
- Posted March 4, 2019
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Higher Education for Professional and Civic Values: A Critical Review and Analysis
- University of Otago (Otago)
Education for sustainable development (ESD) is generally thought to involve some degree of education for particular professional and civic values, attitudes and behaviours (leading to, as examples, being environmentally, socially ...
- Posted March 4, 2019
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Management Education and Earth System Science: Transformation as if Planetary Boundaries Mattered
- Stockholm University
- Jönköping University
- Berlin School of Creative Leadership
Earth system science (ESS) has identified worrying trends in the human impact on fundamental planetary systems. In this conceptual article, we discuss the implications of this research for business schools ...
- Posted March 4, 2019
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How to Measure Procedural Knowledge for Solving Biodiversity and Climate Change Challenges
- University of Göttingen
To cope with biodiversity and climate change challenges, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) needs to emphasize knowledge that considers multiple perspectives. Optimizing teacher education requires knowledge about the prerequisites of ...
- Posted March 4, 2019
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Towards a Definition of Environmental Sustainability Evaluation in Higher Education
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Madrid)
- Universidad de Granada
Sustainability is increasing their presence at universities, so it is convenient to reflect on the impact and effectiveness that university sustainability actions are having. Several authors have recognized mature experiences ...
- Posted March 4, 2019
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Driving factors for having visibility of sustainability contents in university degree titles
- Universitat de València
Given the increasing concern about sustainability issues in society, graduates and postgraduates going into the labour market benefit from the inclusion of sustainability contents in university studies. Visibility of these ...
- Posted March 4, 2019
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Competing priorities: lessons in engaging students to achieve energy savings in universities
- De Montfort University
- Imperial College London
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
This paper aims to present findings from an EU-funded international student-led energy saving competition (SAVES) on a scale previously unseen. There are multiple accounts of short-term projects and energy saving ...
- Posted March 4, 2019
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Hodgdon Hall Solar Panel Project
- Tufts University (MA)
This project, spearheaded by the Tufts Energy Group, provides a real life educational experience to the campus community to learn about and use renewable energy in an accessible fashion. The ...
- Posted March 1, 2019
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Harvard's Challenge: Institutional Green Power
- Harvard University (MA)
This case study examines the options that Harvard University has for complying with one aspect of its Climate Action Plan, which was announced in February 2018. It specifically focuses on ...
- Posted March 1, 2019
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Regional Centers of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development
- University of Texas at Arlington (TX)
- University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (TX)
- The University of Texas at Dallas (TX)
- Dallas College (TX)
Why UT Arlington Deserves the Excellence in Sustainability Award
Under the leadership of Office of Sustainability at the University of Texas at Arlington, North Texas was recognized on Feb 7 ...
- Posted March 1, 2019
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Changes in Pre-Service Teachers’ Values, Sense of Agency, Motivation and Consumption Practices: A Case Study of an Education for Sustainability Course
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Teacher education has a critical role to play as people around the world strive to reach the Sustainable Development goals. Education for sustainability (EfS) aims to motivate and prepare educators ...
- Posted March 1, 2019
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Seeking sustainability competence and capability in the ESD and HESD literature: an international philosophical hermeneutic analysis
- University of Otago (Otago)
- University of Vechta
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Education for sustainable development (ESD) and higher education for sustainable development (HESD) are complex, multidisciplinary fields of enquiry, drawing on concepts and terms from different disciplines and languages. Although the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2019
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Social Justice (MA)
- Methodist Theological School in Ohio (OH)
A 39-hour professional master’s degree. The Master of Arts in social justice (MASJ) offers an interdisciplinary core curriculum combining ethics, theology, public leadership, sacred texts and spirituality. Students choose ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2019
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PCC, Sustain Me! A Higher Education Sustainability & Environmental Justice Podcast
- Portland Community College (OR)
This has been an ongoing project that has blossomed from a local/regional production and has now been promoted, recognized, listened to, and presentations have been given nationally and internationally ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2019
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The Challenges of Sustainability Education
- St. Thomas University (FL)
Abstract: Sustainability has become a growing imperative in higher education in the United States of America (Calder [HTML_REMOVED] Dautremont-Smith, 2009). This paper examines sustainability education as it continues to emerge ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2019
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Central College Student Green Fund
- Central College (IA)
What is Green Fund? The purpose of the Central College Student Green Fund is to promote innovative student projects that further the vision of sustainability at Central College.
Who can ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2019
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Education for Social Justice
- University of San Diego (CA)
Online Flexibility with Real-World Impact
Offered by the Department of Learning and Teaching. Ph.D. graduates of this program emerge with a rich understanding and experience of how to use ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2019
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Changing evangelical minds on climate change
- Dallas Baptist University (TX)
- Houghton College (NY)
- Tyndale University College & Seminary (ON)
One quarter of Americans self-identify as evangelical and a strong majority of these reject human-induced climate change. Can one lecture on climate science from a Christian perspective change their minds ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2019
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Sulitest: A collaborative initiative to support and assess sustainability literacy in higher education
- Kingston University London
- KEDGE Business School (Bordeaux)
This paper highlights the contribution of the Sulitest (the Sustainability Literacy Test) to the global agenda of integrating sustainability into higher education. The Sustainability Literacy Test is an open online ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2019
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