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Garnet & Gold Goes Green: Expanding on FSU's gameday recycling program
- Florida State University (FL)
Garnet & Gold Goes Green (G4) provides Florida State University fans the opportunity to recycle their beverage containers with the intention of decreasing the large amounts of waste and litter ...
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Got stuff? Chuck it for Charity: A student move out collection initiative
- Florida State University (FL)
Each spring over 6,000 Florida State University on-campus residents move out of the residence halls, leaving behind tons of unwanted "stuff" that is usually sent directly to the landfill ...
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Sustainable Collaborations: A Model for Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching of Sustainability Curriculum
- Florida State University (FL)
This qualitative study examines the experiences of higher education faculty participating in an interdisciplinary team-taught sustainability curriculum program. Warren Wilson College, a small, private, liberal arts college was awarded a ...
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E=(LG)2 : Writing Sustainability
- Frostburg State University (MD)
E=(LG)2 is the only student-written and student-edited magazine in the country on sustainability. The magazine is based at Frostburg State University in western Maryland. According to the magazine ...
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Putting it all together: The Push for Renewable Energy inside & outside the classroom
- Green Mountain College (VT)
In this session, the importance of collaborative campus sustainability efforts will be highlighted. On Earth Day, 2010, Green Mountain College opened its new Combined Heat and Power Biomass Plant. This ...
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Solar High Tunnels: Food Production and Renewable Energy
- Green Mountain College (VT)
Over the last decade, growers in the Northeast have been utilizing high tunnel structures, or field greenhouses, in their food production systems. These structures allow growers to extend the fall ...
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The Role of Organizational Structure in Sustainable Student Collaborations
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
Student organizations from across Indiana University's Bloomington campus have banded together as the Student Sustainability Council to jointly represent IUB students on sustainability-related matters. Council member organizations vary widely ...
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How to Involve 14,000 People in Campus Energy Conservation
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
The third annual Indiana University Energy Challenge took place March 25 - April 22, 2010. This month-long competition to conserve energy and water has grown considerably since its inception in 2008 ...
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Planning sustainable campus urban forests: Indiana University-Bloomington and Tree Campus USA.
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
Many universities are creating or updating their campus master plans with an eye toward sustainability, going beyond traditional development-based plans centered on new building construction and instead focusing on protecting ...
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How to Launch an Office of Sustainability at Warp Speed
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
How does one start an office of sustainability at a Big Ten university campus with 40,000 students? This paper will describe how one director of sustainability catalyzed change through ...
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Experiential Learning and Sustainability Education: Lessons Learned
- International Sustainable Development Studies Institute (Chiang Mai)
Universities and colleges have the potential to address sustainability and social justice in unique and powerful ways. However, effective teaching about sustainability and the links between culture (how we live ...
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Food Composting on Campus: Opportunities for Leadership for Sustainability
- Kean University (NJ)
According to a feature story in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "with great fanfare, universities are trumpeting their efforts to make society more equitable and environmentally healthy." An important question ...
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USEPA MOU Program with Colleges and Universities
- Kean University (NJ)
The presentation will review a unique program of Region 2 of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). The partnership program is designed to create initiatives to catalyze a just ...
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Sustainability in the Core Curriculum
- Kent State University (OH)
Architecture education today is driven by sustainable methods and ideology. And yet, there is a disconnection between sustainable theory and real-life practice for most architecture students. In design projects, sustainable ...
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Ecovillages as Campuses for Sustainability Education
- Living Routes, Inc. (MA)
Ecovillages are communities striving to create cooperative lifestyles in harmony with their local environments. From appropriate technologies to holistic health; from sustainable agriculture to group facilitation, ecovillages are integrating solutions ...
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Sustainability Standards for International Education
- Living Routes, Inc. (MA)
International Education exposes students to the world. It also exposes the world to the environmental, economic, and social impacts of travel and program activities. With over a quarter-million U.S ...
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Biomass Utilization in Southside Virginia
- Longwood University (VA)
Longwood University is a four-year, state-assisted, co-educational university encompassing 60 acres centrally located in Farmville, Virginia. The institution has a total of 4,700 undergraduate and graduate students and approximately ...
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Curriculum in Action: Integrating Sustainability throughout the College Experience
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
Colleges and universities across the country wrestle with the issues of "Greening" their campuses, making social statements about sustainability, and informing their students about the fundamental scientific, social and economic ...
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The Sustainable Living Center at Maharishi University of Management
- Maharishi University of Management (IA)
The Sustainable Living Center is unique in combining certification standards for LEED Platinum, the Living Building Challenge, Building Biology, and Maharishi Vedic Architecture. This 7,000 sq.ft., one story ...
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Engaging in reuse: Design & implementation of a student swap shop
- Meredith College (NC)
Meredith College, a small women's institution in Raleigh, North Carolina called for a campus swap shop as one of its long-term waste reduction strategies. This presentation details the planning ...
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Challenges and successes of an internal certification program and peer-to-peer educator network
- Michigan State University (MI)
Changing behavior at an organization is difficult, particularly when sustainability officers are time and personal limited. One way to communicate to a wide audience is to recruit people in every ...
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Involving the Entire Community: Missouri State University and Sustainability
- Missouri State University (MO)
On June 15, 1995, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan signed into law Senate Bill 340 which gave Missouri State University a statewide mission in Public Affairs. In late 2007 the University ...
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Kick-Start Your Sustainability Program Using Student Funding and Energy!
- North Seattle College (WA)
North Seattle Community College (NSCC) has burst on to the college sustainability scene over the last year by establishing a model for a vigorous Sustainability Program. While other programs boast ...
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Bringing "Sustainability Across the Curriculum" Home: Integrating SoTL with Sustainability
- Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (AB)
Participating in AASHE's "Sustainability Across the Curriculum" workshop is exhilarating - returning to our respective educational institutions and putting knowledge into action - a challenge. How do we find our champions ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Pathways to a Sustainable Transportation Plan
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
Transportation accounts for a large proportion of a University campus' greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. At Northern Arizona University, a student-led survey indicated that transportation is the second largest GHG contributor ...
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Using STARS as a Co-Curricular Opportunity for Students
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
The STARS system offers an excellent opportunity to engage students in campus sustainability. By using student teams to collect, verify, and submit STARS data, higher education institutions may not only ...
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Developing student led initiatives to supplement existing University action
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
The presenters will include members of the NAU Green Fund, Campus Climate Challenge, and other environmental themed student groups, as well as student leaders from the University of Arizona. The ...
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Getting Your Head into a Beehive
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
"Getting Your Head into a Beehive: Stories About Teaching Sustainable Beekeeping at Northern Arizona University"
In this report from the field, I'll describe the challenges involved in teaching three-day ...
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Innovations in environmental curriculum: from environmental problems to sustainable solutions
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
Traditional environmental sciences curricula have focused on the application of established disciplinary expertise to air, water, soil, and political environmental problems. Commonly the focus had been on the identification, and ...
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Why Ohio U Won't Cede or Sell Its Renewable Energy Credits
- Ohio University (OH)
Increasingly, colleges and universities are being approached by third party developers to install alternative energy systems on campus with little to no upfront capital investment. The catch? As part of ...
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"Doing Science" as Service Learning
- Oklahoma City University (OK)
How can a science department in a college or university actually "do science" and be of service to the community; how can scientists-in-training perform testing and experiments in the field ...
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Sustainability Coordinators in Higher Education - Research and Solutions
- Oklahoma State University (OK)
Environmental sustainability is a growing subject at universities across the United States. Many universities have decided to hire a "Sustainability Coordinator" as a full-time faculty position in order to maximize ...
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Environmental Sciences and Sustainability: Creating Successful Cross-Campus Collaborations
- Oregon Institute of Technology (OR)
Environmental sciences are intimately linked to sustainability efforts. In fact, environmental scientists document the planetary changes to biodiversity, water, soils, human health, and the atmosphere caused by human activity. Five ...
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Supporting University Sustainability through Student Fellowships
- Pacific Lutheran University (WA)
Pacific Lutheran University supports student sustainability fellowships to promote not only specialized education, but cross campus collaboration. Student Sustainability Fellowships are intended to provide opportunities for students of any discipline ...
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Incorporating a permaculture curriculum into an academic environment
- Pacific University (OR)
Permaculture is a design system that integrates the principles of ecology to focus on developing sustainable human settlements by mimicking natural systems. Permaculture is all-encompassing and focuses on all human ...
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Transformative Learning for Sustainability
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
The journey toward a sustainable world is a tremendous technical and political challenge, but it is also a challenge of values. Sustainability implies a fundamental transformation of values at both ...
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Frugality: The Missing Link in the Discussion about Sustainability
- Pepperdine University (CA)
Following a particular interpretation of the Brundtland Report, many politicians, economists, environmentalists and others have opted for a specific type of sustainable development that argues implicitly as well as explicitly ...
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Sustainability in Christian Higher Education: A Look at Pepperdine University
- Pepperdine University (CA)
It has been assumed by many that Christian universities and colleges have little to offer discussions about sustainability because far too many Christians have disregarded the magnitude of environmental problems ...
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How to Sell a Sustainability Major: Career Targeting and Reverse-Engineering
- Philadelphia University (PA)
In 2008, Philadelphia University became one of the first universities in the nation to offer an undergraduate degree program in Environmental Sustainability. Thanks to our diverse mix of professionally-oriented majors ...
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"What the H*ll is Sustainability?" Introducing Sustainability to Students.
- Portland State University (OR)
This paper discusses findings from five years of teaching an introductory class on Sustainability as a Freshman Interest Seminar. Consistently 95% of students enrolled in this class report that they ...
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Strengthening the SEAMS Between Us: Sustainable, Equitable, Actualized Meaning-making & Solidarity
- Prescott College (AZ)
There are myriad reasons why culturally or ideologically diverse individuals (and the groups with whom they affiliate) choose not to interact. This disconnect is a critical component in why the ...
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Park(ing) Day: Turning a Parking Garage into a Park
- San Francisco State University (CA)
SF State inaugurated its first campus PARK(ing) Day event, transforming the top level of the parking structure into a temporary "park" in order to promote alternative commuting options. PARK ...
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Campus Sustainability Programs: A Case Study of Historical Fragmented Campus
- Savannah College of Art & Design (GA)
For more than 30 years, SCAD has transformed historic properties into thriving environments for students, including former hotels, a hospital, a prison, a synagogue, a convent, a department store, a ...
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Educating for Sustainability? Investigating Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Programs in Canada.
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
Educating for Sustainability? Investigating Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Programs in Canada.
This research investigates interdisciplinary undergraduate university programs in Canada that aim to integrate the concept of sustainability into the curriculum in ...
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How Three Institutions Achieved Progressive Measures of Environmental Sustainability
- South Dakota State University (SD)
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to use a comparative case study to examine how higher education institutions achieved progressive measures of environmental sustainability.
Design/methodology/approach: The study ...
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Sustainability, Facebook, and Free Food: The Importance of Student-led Initiatives
- Southern Methodist University (TX)
The first time my residents met me, I was elbow-deep in a recycling bin. Their recycling bin. It was an experience I'll never forget as an SMU E-rep. The ...
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Economics, Business and the Environment: Team-Teaching Sustainable Enterprise
- St. John's University, New York (NY)
Business may be the fastest way to transform society towards sustainability so teaching about the process to business and economics students is vital as we try to head off catastrophic ...
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Sustainability and the Moral Ecology of College Culture
- St. Olaf College (MN)
To prepare for the ecological revolution of the 21st century, American college students need to know more than the traditional disciplines can teach them, even in interdisciplinary formats. They need ...
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Green Building Management Degree Program at SCCC: Lessons Learned
- Sullivan County Community College (NY)
Sullivan County Community College (SCCC) is a small community college in the Catskill Mountain region of NY, located less than two hours from NYC.
SCCC is committed to educating the ...
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Wear the Sun! Sixteen Texas State University Students Change Campus
- Texas State University, San Marcos (TX)
"Wear the Sun!" Yes, wear the sun. Reduce the amount of your use of electricity, hence coal. Save the fibers in your clothes by choosing to line dry your wet ...
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