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NCSU Initiatives for Faculty Participation in Sustainability Efforts
- North Carolina State University (NC)
This project seeks to understand the perspectives of faculty members as it relates to sustainability at North Carolina State University. Specifically, an online survey of randomly selected 500 faculty was ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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Recommendations on Campus Sustainability Development at Duke Kunshan University
- Duke University (NC)
- Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Hong Kong)
- Duke Kunshan University (Jiangsu)
As the Sustainable Duke Office at Duke University determines the next steps on how best to integrate a satellite campus such as Duke Kunshan University (DKU) into its Climate Action ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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Green Revolving Funds: A Guide to Implementation & Management
- Sustainable Endowments Institute (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
- ICF International (VA)
Green Revolving Funds: A Guide to Implementation & Management combines the expertise of energy professionals and college administrators from dozens of institutions to establish best practices for designing and managing ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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Content trends in sustainable business education: an analysis of introductory courses in the USA
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
Purpose - This study aims to identify the content in introductory business sustainability courses in the USA to determine the most frequently assigned reading material and its sustainability orientation.
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- Posted May 11, 2017
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The Drivers Behind Edible Food Recovery Programs at Institutions of Higher Education
- Messiah University (PA)
Food waste is a multi-faceted issue that affects societies on a social, economic, and environmental level. In 2014, more than 38 million tons of food were thrown away in the ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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An Assessment of Sustainability Integration and Communication in Canadian MBA Programs
- Saint Mary's University (NS)
This paper explores how sustainability has been integrated into and communicated in Canadian Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) programs. We content analyzed university, business school, and MBA program mission ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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The ecological footprint evaluation of low carbon campuses based on life cycle assessment: A case study of Tianjin, China
Global warming is a very serious environmental problem. Universities, the most active organizations and locations for scientific research and social activities, have a responsibility to construct low carbon campuses and ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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University foodservices’ potential for providing environmental education to students
- University of Otago (Otago)
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University foodservices are potentially well placed to foster environmental education in a non-classroom setting and so could have the power to benefit communities through producing environmentally literate graduates. Buy-in ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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Love and social justice in learning for sustainability
- University of Edinburgh
The planet seems to be heading into an ecological catastrophe, in which the earth will become uninhabitable for many species, including human beings. At the same time we humans are ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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Analysing the inclusion of stand-alone courses on ethics and CSR: A study of the MBA curricula of the Financial Times top-ranked business schools
Purpose: This paper aims to examine how the Master of Business Administration (MBA) curricula of top-ranked business schools are offering stand-alone courses on ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR). To ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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PowerZee – Sustainable Change through User Engagement
- Nanyang Technological University
- ENGIE (TX)
PowerZee (formerly PowerZ) is a smartphone application (‘app’) developed by NTU, along with industry partner ENGIE, for energy conservation and sustainability through user engagement. The application fosters knowledge and nudges ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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NC State University Creates Make-a-thon To Inspire Sustainability Ideas
- North Carolina State University (NC)
Imagine. It's a Saturday night and dozens of students are packed in your school's library. They're crowded around 3D printers, circuit boards and laptops translating 3D AutoCAD ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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Temple Tiny House
- Temple University (PA)
The Temple University Tiny House project is a student designed and student constructed sustainable building located at Temple Community Garden on main campus. Completed in spring 2017, the 175 square ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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LEED® Platinum - University of Miami Frost School of Music Studios
- University of Miami (FL)
The Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music is one of the largest and best music schools located in a private university in the U.S., and one of the ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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Simon Fraser University’s Zero Waste Initiative
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
SFU was one of the first universities to implement a standardized, 4-stream Zero Waste system (including composting) uniformly across all three of its campuses, each of which lies in a ...
- Posted May 9, 2017
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Case Study: Oregon State University Becomes the First University to Accept Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP) at University Run Grocery Store
- Oregon State University (OR)
In January 2016, OSU began accepting SNAP at a campus grocery store, allowing individuals with SNAP to access these funds while on campus. OSU is the first to have a ...
- Posted May 9, 2017
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CING, CSMM and the Municipality of Saint Dometios joined forces with Let’s Do it Cyprus to clean two local parks!
- The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics
The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics (CING) and its postgraduate school, the Cyprus School of Molecular Medicine (CSMM) together with the local Municipal Council of Saint Dometios in Nicosia ...
- Posted May 9, 2017
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EarthFest 2017 at the University of Dayton (Ohio)
- University of Dayton (OH)
- Posted May 9, 2017
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Next Generation Sustainability Strategy and Structure: Whole-Institution Approaches to Sustainability in Universities and Colleges
- Environmental Association for Universities & Colleges (EAUC) (Gloucestershire)
Across the U.K. and beyond there is growing recognition of the important contribution that the post-16 education sector can make towards a more sustainable future, well beyond addressing the ...
- Posted May 9, 2017
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The Urban Agriculture Community-based Research Experience (U-ACRE) Project
- California State University, Fullerton (CA)
- Fullerton College (CA)
- Santa Ana College (CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
In Orange County, 36% of low-income households experience hunger at least once a day and well over 1/3 are children. Engaging students in experiential learning that addresses sustainability in ...
- Posted May 9, 2017
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Sustainability Marketing, Messaging and Design for Good at Chemeketa Community College
- Chemeketa Community College (OR)
Chemeketa Sustainability served as a client to the college's Visual Communications program to create cohesive marketing for use in future sustainability campaigns and promotions.
- Posted May 8, 2017
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Communication Network Among Campus Sustainability Influencers
- Loyola Marymount University (CA)
Systems of all types require efficient communication between its parts and units in order to be successful and effective. It is thus important to understand a system's units in ...
- Posted May 8, 2017
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A comparative analysis of the anti-Apartheid and fossil fuel divestment campaigns
- University of Waterloo (ON)
Divestment from the fossil fuel industry is campaigned as a means to address carbon-induced anthropogenic climate change, much like the anti-Apartheid divestment movement that was campaigned as a mean to ...
- Posted May 8, 2017
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Fossil fuel divestment: implications for the future of sustainability discourse and action within higher education
- Salem State University (MA)
This paper provides a critical overview and analysis of the student-led fossil fuel divestment (FFD) movement and its impact on sustainability discourse and actions within US higher education. Analysing higher ...
- Posted May 8, 2017
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Proposal for Implementation of an E-Receipt System and Non-Toxic Compostable Receipt Paper at UMass Dining Facilities
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
For our junior year writing course, we were given the assignment to write a proposal to fix something on campus. As students passionate about sustainability, our group elected to improve ...
- Posted May 8, 2017
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Developing a Bike-Share Program for Salinas and CSUMB
- California State University, Monterey Bay (CA)
Our goal for this semester in Sustainable City Year Program was to research and understand the intricacies of pre- and post bike-share implementations in both downtown and urban areas, as ...
- Posted May 8, 2017
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Promoting Sustainable Transportation with Campus Car Policies and Public Outreach
- California State University, Monterey Bay (CA)
In fall of 2016 at California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), the Environmental Studies undergraduate program began offering its first group-based capstone course that was based on its first Projects ...
- Posted May 8, 2017
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Sustaining education for sustainability in turbulent times
- James Cook University (Queensland)
A study of two schools in northern Australia demonstrated the impact on Education for Sustainability (EfS) initiatives of a disruptive policy environment set in motion by neoliberal reforms focused on ...
- Posted May 8, 2017
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Helping Others, Helping Myself: Collegiate Experiences and Graduates’ Altruistic and Wealth Aspirations
- Niagara University (NY)
- Georgia Gwinnett College (GA)
National statistics disclose that college graduates are more prone to volunteerism than nongraduates. These statistics motivate the question of exactly what college experiences are most likely to change a student ...
- Posted May 8, 2017
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Using emoticons to encourage students to recycle
- Boston University (MA)
Uncovering inexpensive, simple techniques to encourage students to act in a pro-environmental manner is of critical importance. Through a four-week field study at a large, environmentally focused elementary school, it ...
- Posted May 8, 2017
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Arts and humanities inquiry in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network: empathy, relationships, and interdisciplinary collaborations
- Michigan State University (MI)
- Oregon State University (OR)
- University of Alaska Fairbanks (AK)
The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network is a collection of 25 National Science Foundation-funded sites committed to long-term, place-based investigation of the natural world. While activities primarily focus on ecological ...
- Posted May 8, 2017
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Enhancing and promoting interdisciplinarity in higher education
- University of Florida (FL)
Interdisciplinarity represents an effort to achieve integrative knowledge in an age of increasing academic specialization. It is an intrinsic feature of the environmental sciences and the emerging field of sustainability ...
- Posted May 8, 2017
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Surveying employment listings to inform curricula of environmental science degree programs
- Brigham Young University (UT)
Environmental Science has emerged as a common bachelor’s of science (B.S.) degree at colleges and universities throughout the USA, with growing enrollment and more than 1100 degrees offered ...
- Posted May 8, 2017
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Distinguishing collaboration from contribution in environmental research
- University at Buffalo (NY)
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
In this paper, we distinguish contributory from collaborative approaches to interdisciplinary environmental research. A characteristic feature of the collaborative approach is that emphasis is placed on the process of collaborative ...
- Posted May 8, 2017
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The University as a Site of Food Insecurity
- Texas A&M University (TX)
The project investigated a topic of increasing importance, that of food security among undergraduate students while away at school. Specifically, we examine the topic through two methodological approaches. First, a ...
- Posted May 5, 2017
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Shared place and space: a comparison of two interdisciplinary graduate programs
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
Interdisciplinary training has an important role to play in environmental research, but what aspects of interdisciplinary training are most helpful for graduate students as they seek to define themselves as ...
- Posted May 5, 2017
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A framework for collaborative climate change research
- Colgate University (NY)
There is a growing understanding in the scientific community that the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of indigenous peoples and other local communities is both different from data collected by scientists ...
- Posted May 5, 2017
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Integrated traditional and applied education—exploring sustainable cities and regions in classrooms and communities
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
The most effective and promising models for teaching sustainability sciences and studies in a university setting are a topic of vigorous debate. This paper discusses an integrated sustainability curriculum at ...
- Posted May 5, 2017
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Schaumburg’s Sustainable Future: student research, social media, and suburban sustainability
- Roosevelt University (IL)
The Schaumburg’s Sustainable Future (SSF) online social media project is a student-faculty collaboration at Roosevelt University that addresses sustainability issues, challenges, and solutions in the northwest suburbs of Chicago ...
- Posted May 5, 2017
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Applying the process of backward design in revising an environmental science program
- Georgia College & State University (GA)
The purpose of this article is to share our model of a successful curriculum reform process and provide an overview so that it can be replicated by other programs. The ...
- Posted May 5, 2017
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Scholarly motivations to conduct interdisciplinary climate change research
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
- Northern Illinois University (IL)
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- Boston University (MA)
- Whitman College (WA)
- Idaho State University (ID)
Understanding and responding to today’s complex environmental problems requires collaboration that bridges disciplinary boundaries. As the barriers to interdisciplinary research are formidable, promoting interdisciplinary environmental research requires understanding what ...
- Posted May 5, 2017
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Fostering STEM literacy through a tabletop wind turbine environmental science laboratory activity
- University of Southern Maine (ME)
Increasingly, national education policy is focusing on improving science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) literacy by using energy as a subject matter. In particular, The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS ...
- Posted May 5, 2017
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Greening Federal Grants: Why there is a need to connect efficiency to federal funding for research at universities
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- AASHE (MA)
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (CO)
This webinar will includes two parts: PART 1: The Department of Energy (DOE) will provide an overview of the DOE Smart Labs Accelerator Program which was launched at the 2016 ...
- Posted May 4, 2017
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From polyps to politics: using a coral reef living laboratory in a politics of sustainability course
- Rosemont College (PA)
Teaching Global Environmental Politics faces several challenges to meet student learning objectives. For one, the interdisciplinary nature of global environmental politics requires significant knowledge of environmental issues, as well as ...
- Posted May 4, 2017
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Re-imagining environmental science and policy graduate education for the twenty-first century using an integrative frame
- Clark University (MA)
To meet society’s need to better understand and respond to ever-more complex, interwoven problems of environment, development, and society - including environmental health risks, climate change adaptation, and sustainable development ...
- Posted May 4, 2017
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Teaching Social Research Methods on an International, Collaborative Environment & Sustainability Degree Programme: Exploring plagiarism, group work, and formative feedback
International collaboration is central to the Sustainable Development agenda given environmental challenges that span national boundaries. Education for Sustainability therefore needs to account for international/intercultural understandings, such as though ...
- Posted May 4, 2017
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Perspectives on the University as a Business: the Corporate Management Structure, Neoliberalism and Higher Education
- Rider University (NJ)
In the past three decades, the administration of many institutions of higher education have progressed towards a corporate style management structure. What has been a collegial, collaborative approach to managing ...
- Posted May 4, 2017
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The Future of Sustainability in Higher Education
- Bowling Green State University (OH)
In this article, I explore the future of higher education within the context of teaching and learning for sustainability. Challenges currently facing sustainability education are identified along with opportunities to ...
- Posted May 4, 2017
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Catholic Universities and Social Action in the Context of the Transgressing of Planetary Boundaries
- Creighton University (NE)
This paper will reflect upon Catholic universities’ mission of pursuing the truth and promoting justice in light of the ecological crisis. First, it will examine how the truth of our ...
- Posted May 4, 2017
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Sustainable knowledge transformation in and through higher education: A case for transdisciplinary leadership
- Ollscoil na Gaillimhe - University of Galway (Co. Galway)
This article explores inter- and transdisciplinarity, given the need for more complex, relevant, and transformative knowledge to shift society towards more sustainable futures. It connects practical questions about economic, societal ...
- Posted May 4, 2017
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