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Waste Reduction Twister at Elon University
- Elon University (NC)
Elon student and Eco-Rep Tori Ippolito created a twister game which focuses on waste reduction. The spinner indicates different types of materials found on campus, with a guide to indicate ...
- Posted April 25, 2018
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Zero Waste Pilot at Earth Day Conference, Madison, WI
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
UW-Madison Office of Sustainability (OS) interns Anna Weinberg, Ally Burg, and Noemy Serrano monitor a zero waste station during the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Earth Day Conference at Monona ...
- Posted April 25, 2018
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Smoothie Bike at Elon University
- Elon University (NC)
Elon student uses human power to blend a delicious smoothie during Party for the Planet, a celebration of all things sustainable at Elon University!
- Posted April 25, 2018
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Clothing Swap at UW-Madison
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
Office of Sustainability intern Katie Piel and Outreach Director for the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) Sustainability Committee, Madalynne Bridge, hold piles of clothing donated for the ASM Clothing Swap ...
- Posted April 25, 2018
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Restoring our Lake
- University at Buffalo (NY)
The North Shore of Lake LaSalle is currently a non-vegetated section of shoreline. Erosion has left steep slopes, exposed soil, and undercut shorelines. Beginning in late April of 2018 a ...
- Posted April 25, 2018
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World's Challenge Challenge: Local University at Buffalo Competition
- University at Buffalo (NY)
The World's Challenge Challenge calls on students to solve some of the problems facing the world. In teams of three, students from diverse backgrounds will choose one idea and ...
- Posted April 25, 2018
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Identifying and Overcoming Obstacles to the Implementation of Sustainable Development at Universities
- National Taiwan Normal University
- Universidade Aberta
- University of Passo Fundo
- University of Aveiro
Although there have been proven and successful developments in the field of Higher Education for Sustainable Development over the past 15 years or so, there are still numerous challenges to ...
- Posted April 24, 2018
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Evaluating Core Competencies Development in Sustainability and Environmental Master's Programs: An empirical analysis
- Boise State University (ID)
- Global Council Science and the Environment (DC)
- University of Tokyo
- Hokkaido University (Hokkaido)
- Tohoku University
Interest in and understanding of the various competencies that university sustainability and environmental graduate degree programs should aim for has increased in recent years. Yet empirical efforts that assess the ...
- Posted April 24, 2018
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Sustainability at Universities: Students’ perceptions from Green and Non-Green universities
- Vytautas Magnus University
As institutions of higher education, universities have a significant impact on society and can play a key role in sustainability provision. Particularly, it is expected that green universities, because they ...
- Posted April 24, 2018
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Earth Week activities
- Dominican University (IL)
During Earth Week we provided various options to participate, from eating meatless meals, enjoying earth yoga, to taking a tour of campus highlighting the green spaces. We tried vegetarian snacks ...
- Posted April 24, 2018
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Texas A&M University Earth Day
- Texas A&M University (TX)
Texas A&M University | Sports & Recreation Texas A&M University Office of Sustainability - Kelly Wellman, Director & Ben Kalscheur, Sustainability Operations Coordinator Texas A&M University Earth Day Event Aggie participating in ...
- Posted April 24, 2018
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AUC EarthWeek 2018: “Collaborate, Create, Cultivate": Growing Green Culture at AUC”
- American University in Cairo (Cairo)
All Week: - RISE Greenhouse and Aquaponics Display - Description: Have you always wanted to have a green thumb? Come check out what AUC’s brilliant growers at RISE have been cultivating ...
- Posted April 24, 2018
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UCLA Earth Day Fair
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Students commune on campus green space to celebrate mother nature and advocate for various initiatives led across campus.
- Posted April 24, 2018
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NMSU Earth Day volunteers from the College of Business
- New Mexico State University (NM)
Business Council students volunteered to help out at our Southern New Mexico Earth Day Festival and we couldn't have done it without them. Thank you NMSU students!
- Posted April 24, 2018
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EarthFest at Cleveland State University
- Cleveland State University (OH)
EarthFest is an annual event on the CSU campus designed to raise awareness about campus and community sustainability initiatives and organizations. EarthFest is hosted by the CSU Office of Sustainability ...
- Posted April 24, 2018
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UT Dallas Earth Week
- The University of Texas at Dallas (TX)
Each year, the UT Dallas community comes together to celebrate sustainability and environmental practices through interactive and educational events and programs during Earth Week.
- Posted April 23, 2018
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Earth Day Garden Preperation
- St. John's University, New York (NY)
Earth Day celebration incorporates Academic Service Learning for students to work in the Student Community Garden on the Queens Campus. During the growing season, student workers maintain, harvest and transport ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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Creighton University Leads Pledge to End Plastic Pollution
- Creighton University (NE)
During its Earth Week celebrations, Creighton University's Office of Sustainability Programs led a pledge to end plastic pollution campaign. Earth Day Network's global theme for Earth Day 2018 ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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Green Your Room
- Princeton University (NJ)
This is an educational video created by James Tralie, Princeton University student, to inform students about how to be sustainable in dorm rooms. He describes ways to conserve energy including ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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University of Vermont Eco-Reps "Curb Your Consumerism" Campaign
- University of Vermont (VT)
While the consumption of goods and services is a crucial component of modern economic systems, the culture of consumerism contributes to waste, resource depletion, pollution, and social and economic inequities ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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Sustainability: Why Universities Can Lead by Example
- North Central College (IL)
This TEDx Talk describes the benefits of adopting more energy-efficient systems and technology on college campuses. Such practices pay off for these institutions in the long run while also helping ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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Florida Gulf Coast University Eagles' Earth Day
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
"At Florida Gulf Coast University, celebrating environmentalism and sustainability are too important to be limited to just one day.
So, while the rest of the world marks Earth Day later ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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New Bikeshare Program Gets Rolling at UVM
- Champlain College (VT)
- University of Vermont (VT)
- Gotcha (SC)
Undaunted by grey skies and cold temperatures, about a dozen hardy UVM students, faculty and staff helped launch Phase I of Greenride Bikeshare, the first public bikeshare program in Chittenden ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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Water Cage at Northeastern University
- Northeastern University (MA)
Water cage demonstration created on campus quad. Filled large cage with water bottles and attached facts and data about plastic bottle usage around the outside of the cage. Very effective ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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Pass Up Plastic Challenge
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
In celebration of Earth Day on April 22nd, the Sustainability Institute at the University of New Hampshire coordinated a Pass up Plastic Challenge. Students, faculty, and staff collected single-use plastics ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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UConn Earth Day Spring Fling
- University of Connecticut (CT)
Earth Day Spring Fling is UConn’s largest annual environmental awareness event and celebration. This year’s event took place on April 18th from 11am-2pm on Fairfield Way, the heart ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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2018 Earth Week at Lehigh University
- Lehigh University (PA)
Lehigh University celebrated Earth Week by hosting a week of educational and engaging events. Earth Week is an opportunity to celebrate the beauty and bounty of our planet, while also ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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UC Merced Engineers for a Sustainable World
- University of California, Merced (CA)
UC Merced's Engineer's for a Sustainable World talk to students, staff and faculty about current projects including aquaponics.
- Posted April 23, 2018
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Reducing Electricity Use in Campus Residence Halls
- Radford University (VA)
- AASHE (MA)
Our quasi-experimental design exposed first-year students in four matched residence halls to three different interventions designed to encourage energy conservation, specifically electricity conservation. We employed active and passive programming and ...
- Posted April 20, 2018
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2018 Earth Week at Wake Forest
- Wake Forest University (NC)
Students, faculty, staff, and friends from the community worked together to remove leaf litter and tree limbs from the Wake Forest cross-country trails on Friday, March 23, as part of ...
- Posted April 19, 2018
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The place of content and pedagogy in shaping sustainability learning outcomes in higher education
- University of Haifa
This research investigates the ways in which undergraduate courses dealing with the environment address sustainable development (SD), and contribute to the development of sustainability learning outcomes (SLO). The participants in ...
- Posted April 18, 2018
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The personal context of student learning for sustainability: Results of a multi-university research study
- Victoria University (Victoria)
The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005–2014) was an important framework and catalyst for increasing Sustainable Development (SD) efforts within academic institutions, worldwide. Tertiary institutions began ...
- Posted April 18, 2018
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The importance of international conferences on sustainable development as higher education institutions' strategies to promote sustainability: A case study in Brazil
- University of Georgia (GA)
- University of Cambridge
This paper analyzes the significance of international conferences for higher education institutions (HEIs)’ promotion of sustainability. The paper has undertaken a detailed review of the scientific literature on strategies of ...
- Posted April 18, 2018
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The glocal curriculum: A model for transnational collaboration in higher education for sustainable development
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Transnational collaborations between universities provide an underutilized opportunity to teach sustainability competencies emphasizing the global and local nature of (un)sustainability. This article asks: what kind of curricula and teaching-learning ...
- Posted April 18, 2018
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The FIU Nature Preserve: Achieving Biological Conservation Through Diversification of Stakeholders
- Florida International University (FL)
Many institutions of higher education have sustainability initiatives; however, not all consider the importance of proximity to nature in the psychological well-being of their associated human community. Florida International University ...
- Posted April 18, 2018
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The efficacy of real-world experiences and service learning for fostering competences for sustainable development in higher education
- KU Leuven
One of the main challenges for teachers of higher education is to design learning activities that will allow students to effectively acquire sustainability competences. Education therefore needs to be re-oriented ...
- Posted April 18, 2018
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The ecological domain in the sustainability science research and education
- University of Tokyo
A single disciplinary approach fails to tackle problems threatening the sustainable development. Thus, the sustainability science – focused on the problem, normative, and covering many disciplines – has been developed and recognized ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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MUSC Earth Day and Local Food Fest 2018
- Medical University of South Carolina (SC)
On Wednesday April 11th, thousands of people attended MUSC Earth Day & Local Food Festival. Almost a dozen food vendors and trucks served up fresh and local produce from nearby ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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The concept of woonerf zone applied in university campuses: the case of the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Kentriki Makedonia)
In this paper, the concept of transferring the idea of woonerf zone from residential areas to university campuses is examined and the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Testing Ecocentric and Anthropocentric Attitudes toward the Sustainable Development (EAATSD) Scale with Bachelor Students
- Leiden University
- The Hague University of Applied Science
The Ecocentric and Anthropocentric Attitudes toward the Sustainable Development (EAATSD) scale is adapted from other scales measuring environmental concern with the aim of specifically targeting the subject of sustainable development ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Teaching Environmental Sustainability Across the Sport Management Curriculum
- University of South Carolina (SC)
The push to engage in the “green movement” has now shifted from a passing thought to a central focus of higher education. Environmental sustainability has the capacity to be an ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Tackling mobility environmental impacts through the promotion of student active travel
- Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia
Concern about sustainability is rooted in the growing awareness that human activities have significant environmental impacts. Tackling impacts generated by mobility practices can pass through active mobility promotion. However, this ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Sustainability in university campus: options for achieving nearly zero energy goals
- University of Coimbra
Purpose The purpose of this study was to design a renovation plan for a university campus building (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) with the aim to achieve nearly zero ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Systems Structure of Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education Institution
- National University of Malaysia
To understand the enactment of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in higher education institution (HEI) and why very unequal ESD activity that mostly focused on campus greening rather than on ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Sustainability Reporting by Australian Universities
- Victoria University (Victoria)
There is continuing debate about the consequences of climate change and an increasing emphasis placed on the disclosure of social and environmental indicators by organisations. Universities have been traditionally known ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Sustainability in higher education: A review of contributions from Portuguese Speaking Countries
- University of Aveiro
- University of Brasilia
The Portuguese-speaking countries (PSC) have a population of close to 250 million and occupy an area of about 10.7 million square kilometers across four continents. Most of these countries ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Sustainability education: how evolving STEM benefits underserved populations
- Evergreen State College, The (WA)
This research explores ways in which sustainability education efforts can create an advantageous learning environment for women and underrepresented minority students in STEM. By drawing on key literature that discusses ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Sustainability competencies in teacher education: Making teacher education count in everyday school practice
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
The need for sustainable development and societal transformation is gaining more and more relevance. Social learning processes will be needed to contribute to real change which is why the 2030 ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Sustainability-oriented higher education networks: Characteristics and achievements in the context of the UN DESD
- University of Zurich
- Charles University
Higher education institutions (HEIs) are, as a sector, an important actor in society and their role in sustainability transition has been acknowledged. However, their commitments to sustainability expressed through the ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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