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Creating Hubs of Indigenous Innovation through Public/Private Partnerships: the Collaboration between MA`O Organic Farms and University of Hawai`i West O`ahu
- University of Hawaii Kapiolani Community College (HI)
- University of Hawaii - West Oahu (HI)
This panel will present an innovative partnership between Ma'o Organic Farms, Leeward Community College (LCC), and the University of Hawaii West O'ahu (UHWO). MAO is a non-profit youth ...
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Mentoring Student Workers to Increase the Potential for Advancing Sustainability
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Traditional mentorship models, similar to traditional internship models, often feature a top-down relationship with knowledge flowing in one direction. In this model a power structure is established that can make ...
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Supporting and Strengthening Student Work Through Statewide Networks
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Statewide networks for young people working on sustainability are sprouting up across the country. They are connecting, supporting, and amplifying the work of young people who are advancing sustainability on ...
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Sustainability Unbound
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- AASHE (MA)
A sustainability transformation will require a radical change in the educational paradigm that shapes higher education. Dialogue, interaction and active exploration during this Advanced Track will challenge sustainability education: its ...
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Launching a Sustainability Research Collaborative
- Princeton University (NJ)
- Yale University (CT)
The purpose of the Sustainability Research Collaborative is to bridge sustainability research with emerging operational questions among partner institutions. We believe that the pace of transformative sustainability will accelerate within ...
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The Power of Collaboration to Grow the Clean Energy Economy
- College of Lake County (IL)
- Heartland Community College (IL)
With the rapid emergence of energy efficiency and clean energy innovations, the higher education sector must meet new demands to maintain up-to-date facilities, to retain a highly skilled staff, and ...
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The Honors Society for Sustainability: Catalyzing Student Engagement
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The ASU School of Sustainability, founded in 2007, was the first of its kind. For the past year, high-achieving sustainability students at ASU have sought to create another first - an ...
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Mind the gap- what we have to learn from students (who study abroad)
- Augsburg University (MN)
- University of Michigan (MI)
- Yale University (CT)
Study abroad is often recalled as one of the most pivotal and transformative experiences in a college student's life. Aside from Freshman orientation, a student traveling abroad is perhaps ...
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Sustainable Impact: The Challenges of Creating Interdisciplinary Courses on Food, Food Systems, and Food Justice to Empower Students to Action
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
When looking to de-silo the often-segregated, triple-bottom line of sustainability, food seems the ideal course subject to broaden understanding. The class was formulated with a three-tiered structure - where our food ...
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Community Engagement: Learning With and From Community Neighbors
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
- Herman Miller (CO)
We define community engagement as connecting the great things happening on campus with the great things going on in the community. With a small, but ambitious Green Team, it made ...
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Integrating Sustainability Across Sites and Programs: Creating a new Campus
- Chatham University (PA)
This session updates progress on a new sustainable campus and academic unit. This project integrates principles of sustainability across curriculum, research, facilities, purchasing, student life, and campus-community relations. In this ...
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Embedding Sustainability Into the Collegiate Recreation Culture: the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association's Journey Forward
- Oregon State University (OR)
- Portland State University (OR)
- Sonoma State University (CA)
- NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation (OR)
Within the past year, embedding sustainability throughout the collegiate recreation culture has emerged as a strategic initiative with the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA). NIRSA is the leading resource ...
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Foundations of Leadership in Sustainability for 20 Campuses: Finding a Common Thread
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
A new minor in Sustainability Leadership at the Pennsylvania State University came with a new course: Foundations of Leadership in Sustainability. As the sole requirement common to all students in ...
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Campus Collaboration toward Sustainable Food Service
- Emory University (GA)
- Ithaca College (NY)
- Pomona College (CA)
Sustainability in Food Service is a fairly new topic in higher education and it is being addressed in a variety of ways. Dining Services consumes large quantities of campus energy ...
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Solutions Generator: A Cocurricular Sustainability Leadership-Service Program
- Portland State University (OR)
In the search for campus sustainability solutions, many institutions continue to seek ways to cultivate student engagement in ways that meet campus learning outcomes and prepare them as change agents ...
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Student Summit Leadership Development Collaboratory
- Portland State University (OR)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
Our Collaboratory will begin with an introduction to "Developing Your Leader-ful Presence". This portion of our workshop will engage participants in a dialogue about the Leadership Maturation Journey which will ...
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Campus Carbon Inventories
- Gordian (SC)
- Clean Air-Cool Planet (NH)
Clean Air-Cool Planet and Sightlines partnered in 2011 to redevelop the Campus Carbon CalculatorTM as a dynamic, web-based tool in order to streamline the transition from greenhouse gas analysis to ...
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Campus Carbon Calculator Transformed: A New Era in Campus Climate Action
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- Gordian (SC)
- Clean Air-Cool Planet (NH)
Over a decade of standardized measurement and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions has played a critical role in advancing the ability of higher education to provide leadership in climate action ...
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Experiential Learning in Sustainability & Study Abroad
- St. Olaf College (MN)
- Danish Institute for Study Abroad (Hovestaden)
In order to bridge the gap between theory and practice, between classroom and community, and to better understand the multi-dimensionality of sustainable development concepts, it has become more and more ...
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Campus Recycling & Zero Waste Workshop
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Managing materials and resource flows on college campuses are vital to reducing campus greenhouse gas production and creating a sustainable campus. The Campus Recycling & Zero Waste workshop will feature ...
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Community of Practice for Cocurricular Sustainability Program Coordinators
- Portland State University (OR)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
This session is designed to catalyze cocurricular sustainability program coordinators as they transition from the AASHE conference experience back to their institutions. Through a Community of Practice format, the focus ...
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Sustainability Curriculum Development: Overcoming Challenges in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is the oldest academic institution in Mexico and has developed as a highly recognized research and education institution with a long history of ...
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A Capacity Building Program for Sustainability: Collaborative Planning in Mexico
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
The urgent transformation required by society towards sustainability compels the development of a new paradigm in capacity building, where both citizens and professionals have the capacity to interact, understand and ...
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Combining Bottled Water Reductions with Outreach: E-Signage for Hydration Stations at The University of British Columbia
- University of British Columbia (BC)
In order to reduce purchases of bottled water at The University of British Columbia (UBC), the Alma Mater Society (AMS) installed two Waterfillz hydration stations in the UBC Student Union ...
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Maximizing Reuse and Recycling Diversion Opportunities Through Campus Partnerships
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
This presentation describes a case study of a significant reuse and recycling intervention at UC Berkeley that was successful largely due to the heavy collaboration between student organizations and various ...
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Zero Waste Venues - Focus on Athletics/Sports Venues: Perspectives from three Campuses
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of Southern California (CA)
Many campuses have a strong recycling infrastructure in place for day-to-day recycling collections and waste minimization, but may or may not have such a strong program specifically for Athletic events ...
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Impure Public Good Consumption: A Field Experiment
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
Impure public goods such as recycling, green electricity, and composting offer private consumption, warm glow through the private provision of the public good, and the potential for social rewards. Research ...
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Design that Inspires: Cutting through Environmental Gloom and Doom
- University of Chicago (IL)
Sustainability is a complex concept with multiple meanings making it a challenge to communicate clearly and concisely. At the same time, communication tools have changed significantly, as has the speed ...
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Know Your Products, Know Yourself: Learning to Be An Environmentally Just Student
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
In the sustainability world we are bombarded constantly on how consumerism impacts our environment, but we rarely hear about the social impact. At this session participants will learn how their ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Degree Awarding Curriculum in Relation to Student Loan Costs: The Importance of Post Education Metrics for Creating Sustainable Academic Programs
- University of Nevada, Reno (NV)
- Technische Universiteit Delft
Universities are tasked with educating and training the future leaders of society. This responsibility requires an appropriate mix of curriculum, activities and supporting environment so as to provide a favorable ...
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The Importance of Post Education Metrics for Academic Curriculum: Analyzing, Assessing and Sustaining Future Leaders
- University of Nevada, Reno (NV)
- Technische Universiteit Delft
Universities are tasked with educating and training the future leaders of society. This responsibility requires an appropriate mix of curriculum, activities and supporting environment so as to provide a favorable ...
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A Saskatchewan Prairie Partnership: Collaborating To Advance Sustainability Research
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
The School of Environment and Sustainability (SENS), a graduate school at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve (RLBR ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Students as Change-makers: Engagement and Innovation for Small, Underfunded, Public Institutions
- Western Colorado University (CO)
How do you increase student engagement with campus sustainability initiatives, develop a sustainability plan when administrators have more pressing obligations, and implement it with next-to-no budget or dedicated staffing? These ...
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A World Café on the professional challenges of working at the intersections of equity, environment, and economy
- Cornell University (NY)
- Yale University (CT)
- McGill University (QC)
At the AASHE 2010 Conference, Julian Agyeman urged the audience to begin an important conversation about "Just Sustainability" on our campuses. He made a compelling case for the need to ...
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The Silent Killer Project: Student Engagement Across the Curriculum
- Frostburg State University (MD)
Frostburg State University's usual winter weather is characterized by high snow precipitation and low temperatures. Salt is used liberally on campus to melt snow and ice. Misuse of salt ...
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Small Campuses, Big Impacts: Making Sustainability Work in Smaller, Liberal Arts Schools
- Dickinson College (PA)
- Earlham College (IN)
- Furman University (SC)
- Luther College (IA)
In this panel presentation, teaching faculty and sustainability staff from several smaller, liberal arts schools will discuss the challenges and lessons learned in implementing sustainability across the curriculum, the co-curriculum ...
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Sustainability & Social Justice; How College Students Engage with Subjugated Populations in the Community
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
What is social sustainability and why is it important? Master's students and undergrads join together to work with subjugated groups in the community to combat the powerful forces of ...
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Collaborating with Campus Recreation Departments: How Students and Sustainability Directors Can Engage Campus Recreation in Sustainability Efforts
- Oregon State University (OR)
- Portland State University (OR)
- Sonoma State University (CA)
- Washington State University, Pullman (WA)
Campus recreation departments and student recreation centers have become one of the largest hubs for student activities on campuses in recent years. In addition to often serving 50-90% of the ...
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Engaging Students, Faculty, and the Curriculum in Research and Creative Activities for Sustainability
- Portland State University (OR)
As a result of national initiatives like the ACU's President's Climate Commitment, higher education is working hard to promote sustainability. Yet, while institutions "green" their campus operations, transformations ...
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Working Within the World: How The New School brings real-world projects into the classroom
- The New School (NY)
In line with its dedication to interdisciplinary coursework and giving students hands-on experience, The New School presents two recent projects that exemplify working within the world. Empowerhouse brought together students ...
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Sustainability Internship Programs: Strategies for Creating and Managing Successful Programs
- Connecticut College (CT)
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
- University of Arkansas (AR)
Sustainability Internship Programs (SIPs) foster unique opportunities to integrate rigorous academic experiences in campus operations, engage operational staff in the academic mission, enhance the capacity of campus sustainability staff, and ...
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Green Light at the Jacobs University Bremen. Shift to LED. Savings up to 70 %
- Jacobs University
To address the challenge of restructuring the energy sector towards renewable energies, the energy efficiency has been seen as a the improvement potential with the best cost to benefit ratio ...
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STARS Town Hall (2012)
- AASHE (MA)
This interactive session will feature a small panel of STARS Steering Committee members, Technical Advisors, and STARS staff who will address potential enhancements to the STARS Program as it moves ...
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An Assessment of Environmental Knowledge and Worldviews of Incoming Freshmen at a Liberal Arts Institution.
- Albright College (PA)
A 2001 National Wildlife Foundation report found that universities and colleges are not doing an adequate job of producing students who are environmentally literate. In order for students to develop ...
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Residence Hall Water Battle Competition
- Alliance to Save Energy (CA)
Water and energy are intertwined- energy is used to extract and convey water to end-users and water is essential during different stages of energy production. Students involved in our multi-campus ...
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Assessing Biodiesel Vehicle Performance in a Public Transportation Facility that Serves a University: Appalcart Biodiesel Fleet Performance at Appalachian State University
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Appalcart is a Public Transportation Authority that has a cooperative relationship with Appalachian State University (Appstate) to provide free public transportation for the Town of Boone and Watauga County in ...
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Assessing the Impact and Potential of a Student-Initiated and Maintained Small-Scale Biodiesel Production Facility: The Biodiesel Facility at Appalachian State University
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Since 2006 Appalachian State University (Appstate) in Boone, North Carolina has had a small-scale Biodiesel Research and Educational Facility capable of producing 100 gallons of biodiesel a week. The facility ...
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Realizing Campus Sustainability: One Student Project at a Time
- Arizona State University (AZ)
In transforming a University campus for a sustainable future, operations staff generate a multitude of project opportunities which have the potential to engage students in sustainability research and problem-solving. Simultaneously ...
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If You Build it Right, They Will Come: Creating an Academic Program for Sustainability
- Auburn University (AL)
This session is appropriate for faculty as well as non-faculty directors who are interested in building an academic program. Participants will learn strategies for setting the stage, how to run ...
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Go Green and Go Home! How College Administrators are Investing in the Future by Communicating with Sustainability Activists
- Bridgewater State University (MA)
- Global Spark (WA)
Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, Tar Sands Action...this year has seen an explosion of social justice activism that continues to ignite public imaginations. This presentation looks at how colleges ...
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