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Avoiding Chemical Flame Retardants on Campus
- Harvard University (MA)
Harvard University’s Sustainability Plan, created in partnership with faculty, students, and staff, is rooted in a sustainable development vision focused on enhancing community and individual well-being within and across ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Sustainability in Higher Education: Analysis and Selection of Assessment Systems
- Technische Universiteit Delft
There is a noticeable increase in interest with regards to sustainability in higher education. As institutions investigate, implement and market sustainability efforts, there is a myriad of sustainability assessment methodologies ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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It’s What’s for Dinner: Furman University’s Sustainable Dining Initiative
- Furman University (SC)
The majority of the food in the United States is produced via an industrial food production and distribution system, which is inherently unsustainable due to its widespread environmental (e.g ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Raise Your Voice: Environmental Justice at Capilano
- Capilano University (BC)
The idea for this event was to have an open idea sharing and focusing event regarding sustainability and environmental justice on campus. It was a chance to bring students together ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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A Model for Creating a Campus Sustainability Plan
- California State University, Northridge (CA)
There are ample excellent reasons why all workplaces should create a sustainability plan, including most importantly the health of the planet. Climate change threatens the biosphere, ocean, atmosphere, our water ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Sustainable Carolina Farm and Garden Hydroponics
- University of South Carolina (SC)
Sustainable Carolina is a student run organization within the University of South Carolina, working to better our campus by making it more sustainable. We work with students, staff, professors, and ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Sustainability Slam – My city is greener than yours
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
The purpose of the activity is to encourage creative and imaginative storytelling as well as interdisciplinary thinking using both art and science, in order to inspire greener innovations for our ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Carbon Neutral ExpoSaludable Fair Event in Bolivia
- Berea College (KY)
We calculated the carbon emissions released during the ExpoSaludable fair in Bolivia to offset our footprint by planting trees in Santa Cruz, the city where the event takes place. The ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Sustainability Peer Educator Program - Simon Fraser University
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
Program Vision: Students are confident, informed, and active sustainability leaders who have the skills and experience to advance sustainability at and beyond SFU.
The Sustainability Peer Education program empowers students ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Serenity "Soul"-ar: A Campus-Community Collaboration in North Philadelphia
- Swarthmore College (PA)
Serenity Soular is a campus-community partnership between community leaders in North Philadelphia and a group of faculty and students at Swarthmore College. Committed to keeping the ‘soul’ in sustainability, our ...
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Sustainable Fleet at Yale University
- Yale University (CT)
At Yale University, transportation is vital to the University's operation. Fleet Management is a department that has gone to tremendous lengths to provide exceptional transit services for the entire ...
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Promotion vs. Education in Choosing "Real Food"
- University of Utah (UT)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
- Real Food Challenge (MA)
The global agro-industrial system contributes to an abundance of human and ecological health problems from social injustices and public health issues to global warming and ecological degradation. In response to ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Unifying Campus Efforts in Pursuit of Green Restaurant Certification at UC Irvine's East Food Court
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
UC Irvine's East Food Court became a Certified Green Restaurant on November 5, 2015 and upgraded its certification from 2-Star to 3-Star on April 22, 2016 through significant interdepartmental ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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SLU Energy Madness
- Saint Louis University (MO)
SLU Energy Madness was a multi-month event involving all residence halls on SLU’s campus. While all residence halls were included, in order to participate each residence hall needed at ...
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Developing and Validating the Just Sustainability Inventory
- University of Georgia (GA)
Assessment and evaluation of programs are core components of ethical professional practice for student affairs administrators in higher education. This paper reports on the author’s dissertation research designing and ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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From in-vessel campus composting to sustainable urban farming: connecting science with education and community service
- Kean University (NJ)
Kean University runs a food scrap composting program with a custom-designed in-vessel composter capable of composting up to 1000 pounds of food scraps per day. It diverts food scraps from ...
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Stash It, Don’t Trash It Move-Out Reuse Initiative
- College of Saint Benedict (MN)
As the semester nears its end, students from all over campus pitch their unwanted items to the curb. These items range from unopened soup cans to couches and mini fridges ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Greeks Go Green: Promoting Student Sustainability via Social Media
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
Greeks Go Green is an annual Instagram competition between our Greek houses where they post pictures of themselves performing sustainable actions throughout campus. The sustainable actions can be anything from ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Grizz's Garage: Dorm Item Resale
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
During Spring Move-Out, students donate their unwanted but still usable dorm items, such as shower caddies, rugs, and hangers, and then the items are re-sold to first-year students during Fall ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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The Sustainability Map
- Maastricht University
Maastricht is a small city, a transit city, a city in which many things happen and yet everything stays the same – and Maastricht is home to many students who come ...
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UC Cool Campus Challenge
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
In the fall of 2015, the Cool Campus Challenge (CCC) engaged nearly 20,000 staff, students and faculty at the University of California (UC) in an online pledge campaign aimed ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Stanford Carbon Offsets to Reduce Emissions (SCORE)
- Stanford University (CA)
The Stanford Athletic Department boasts 36 varsity sports teams and over 900 student-athletes. These teams travel all over the country to compete at the highest levels of collegiate competition, but ...
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For the Planet Leadership Series: Building Sustainability Leadership in Higher Education
- University of North Texas (TX)
The “For the Planet Leadership Series” is a five-week professional development course planned, researched, and taught by Senior Alyssa Wolverton at the University of North Texas. Her goal was to ...
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The Green Action Fund at Kansas State University
- Kansas State University (KS)
The Green Action Fund (GAF) at Kansas State University was initiated in 2013 as a joint project of the Office of Sustainability and the Student Governing Association (SGA). The GAF ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Student Design Fund
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
The Student Design/Research Project Fund is a new and innovative sustainability project from the University of Tennessee. It created a pool of money to where applicants can apply for ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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One-Class-One-Project: Using service learning to engage students in sustainability
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
The University Colloquium is the sustainability capstone to the Florida Gulf Coast University experiences that utilizes service learning as a tool to engage students in experiential learning within the community ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Map More, Waste Less: A Study in How GIS Helps Texas A&M Prevent Waste
- Texas A&M University (TX)
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During the Spring of 2016, the Texas A&M Geography Society, a student organization that performs undergraduate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) research, set out to help SSC Services for Education ...
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Boston University Zero Waste Commencement
- Aramark (PA)
Boston University is a private research institution located in Boston, Massachusetts with approximately 33,000 undergradate and graduate students. During Commencement week, Boston University Dining Services/Aramark serves more than ...
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Earning Capacity of Sustainable Education - A Review of Current Perceptions Regarding the Salaries, Under-employment and Over-education of Higher-Education Graduates and their Potential Application in Sustainability Assessments
- University of Central Arkansas (AR)
- Technische Universiteit Delft
There is a growing need to understand the economic returns of degrees as a function of a sustainable institution. The empirical data presented in this paper suggests that there is ...
- Posted June 4, 2016
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Reusable water bottle for incoming freshmen
- University of Michigan (MI)
Reusable water bottles are being provided to all incoming freshmen at the University of Michigan as a Planet Blue Sustainability initiative. The project was piloted for 3 years and is ...
- Posted June 3, 2016
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Should Academics Advocate on Environmental Issues?
- University of Alberta (AB)
Academic advocacy involves advancing convincingly reasoned arguments that are supported by research results and academic expertise. However, academics must recognize that their notions of “good” are context dependent. Advocacy is ...
- Posted June 3, 2016
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What’s Wrong with the Tap? Examining Perceptions of Tap Water and Bottled Water at Purdue University
- Saint Mary's University of Minnesota (MN)
- Purdue University (IN)
The environmental impacts of bottled water prompted us to explore drinking water choices at Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, IN. A random sample of 2,045 Purdue University students ...
- Posted June 3, 2016
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The Urgent Need for Universities to Comprehensively Address Global Climate Change Across Disciplines and Programs
- Minot State University (ND)
I review the status of scientific, political, and moral problems of global climate change (GCC) and, based on lessons from environmental and sustainability programs in universities, demonstrate that universities have ...
- Posted June 3, 2016
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On Advocacy by Environmental Scientists: What, Whether, Why, and How
- Michigan State University (MI)
- Michigan Technological University (MI)
Debate about the nature and appropriateness of advocacy by environmental scientists is important - it represents understanding the role of these citizens in our society. Much has been written about advocacy ...
- Posted June 3, 2016
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PhD Thesis: Sustainability reporting as a tool for management control and organisational change in higher education
The pursuit for a sustainable society has received increased attention over the last decades, due to global problems the world has been confronted with, such as population growth, climate change ...
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UNT Community Garden
- University of North Texas (TX)
University of North Texas' first on-campus community garden is in the final stages of planning, with construction begining this fall, in a vacant lot next to the Legends hall, just ...
- Posted June 3, 2016
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Seeking learning outcomes appropriate for ‘education for sustainable development’ and for higher education
- University of Otago (Otago)
This article shares and extends research-based developments at the University of Otago, New Zealand, that seek to explore how students’ worldviews change as they experience higher education with us. We ...
- Posted June 3, 2016
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Black Hills Food Hub
- Black Hills State University (SD)
Black Hills State University (BHSU) and Spearfish community partners are seeking to create a culture that supports and values local food in order to expand the reach and depth of ...
- Posted June 3, 2016
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UC Irvine Styrofoam Recycling Pilot Program
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
As UC Irvine strives to become a Zero Waste campus by 2020, the Facilities Management Sustainability Team of student workers has become more innovative in the ways to divert materials ...
- Posted June 3, 2016
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Water Conservation at the University of Houston
- University of Houston (TX)
A group of University of Houston students enrolled in Energy & Sustainability with similar interests in water conservation investigated a potential water-saving solution for the University of Houston.
Their research ...
- Posted June 3, 2016
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Smokey's Pantry: A FISH Hospitality Pantry
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
Erica Davis, a senior at the University of Tennessee, spearheaded a food recovery project called Smokey’s Pantry. This project provided groceries recovered from various sources and distributed them to ...
- Posted June 2, 2016
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American Chestnut Partnership
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
Unity College has partnered with the Maine Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation to help restore the iconic American Chestnut in Maine.
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Art meets sustainability in new mural at Sheridan College
- Sheridan College (Ontario) (ON)
On April 27, 2016 Sheridan College unveiled ‘Woven Stories’, a colourful, two-storey public art mural, on the western façade of the Rob Turner Building at its Davis Campus in Brampton ...
- Posted June 2, 2016
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Finding Heart: Generating and Maintaining Hope and Agency through Sustainability Education
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
In his landmark book Native Science (2000), indigenous educator Gregory Cajete eloquently articulates the motivations and questions that drive this study. For Cajete, effective education of our time entails “finding ...
- Posted June 2, 2016
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The Real Food Challenge at Lehigh University
- Lehigh University (PA)
The Real Food Challenge (RFC) is a national student run campaign to encourage campuses to increase the ratio of food purchased from “conventional” to “real food”. At Lehigh, the Office ...
- Posted June 2, 2016
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Building Sustainability: A holistic application of sustainable practices in UVA buildings
- University of Virginia (VA)
Building Sustainability is a comprehensive model to building optimization that utilizes various programs based on the needs of each building. Utilizing the strengths of the Office for Sustainability’s retro-commissioning ...
- Posted June 2, 2016
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Starting with small energy conservation projects leads to huge energy conservation success
- University of Rochester (NY)
The University of Rochester has many competing demands for funding. In the early 2000’s energy projects were managed by individual facilities departments with typically less than $40,000 expended ...
- Posted June 2, 2016
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The Contribution of Social Sciences to Sustainable Development at Universities
This volume presents contemporary, state-of-the-art examples of how social science theories, models, and findings can advance all aspects of campus sustainability, an area that has so far been largely neglected ...
- Posted June 2, 2016
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Engaging Stakeholders in Education for Sustainable Development at University Level
This book discusses the role of ESD stakeholders at university level, involving civil society and the private sector and public sectors (including local, national and intergovernmental bodies). In particular, it ...
- Posted June 2, 2016
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Campus greenhouse for local and sustainable tropical food production and education at Bellairs Research Institute
- McGill University (QC)
The Bellairs facility is located at Folkestone, Barbados. It hosts many students and scientists from McGill and around the world for field courses, workshops and research projects. This project's ...
- Posted June 2, 2016
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