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Corporate Climate Responsibility: Why Competition Will Save the World
- Climate Counts
Benefiting from worldwide media coverage, the Climate Counts Company Scorecard has rapidly emerged as a credible measure of corporate climate responsibility. The Scorecard is driving stakeholder dialogue and soul-searching in ...
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Tapping into Sustainability
- Coastal Carolina University (SC)
Think Outside the Bottle is a campaign working to promote, protect and ensure public funding for our public water systems. We're working with tens of thousands of public officials ...
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North American Sustainability Issues: Educating Students through Exchanges and Research
- Daemen University (NY)
The Consortium for North American Sustainability (CNAS), a partnership among six institutions from the US, Canada and Mexico, aims to provide students with a deep understanding of how local and ...
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The Goggles Project
- Dalhousie University (NS)
In 2005, Dr. Tarah Wright commissioned a two year study investigating Canadian universities' stances on sustainability. The findings were so provoking and the topic so timely, that we could not ...
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Geospatial sustainability: what is geospatial about sustainability, and what does it mean to students' learning of sustainability?
- DePaul University (IL)
In this presentation I will promote the concept of geospatial sustainability with respect to sustainability curriculum. Geospatial sustainability highlights the geographic nature of sustainability with the help of digital and ...
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Teaching Climate Change Across the Disciplines
- Dickinson College (PA)
Global climate change has far reaching implications for the environment, social justice, and economic wellbeing, now and in the future. Effective teaching that enables students to think critically about climate ...
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A Collaborative Approach to Creating a More Sustainable Campus
- Eastern Connecticut State University (CT)
As an early signatory of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, (ACUPCC), Eastern Connecticut State University made clear its ongoing commitment to leadership in environmental responsibility. We are ...
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Food Systems Carbon Footprint Analyzed by Students and University Stakeholders
- Elon University (NC)
The University's Sustainability Master Plan has targeted carbon neutrality across the institution by 2037. To help meet this goal, students in the Environmental Studies Senior capstone course worked with ...
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Integrating Social Sustainability into Capital Improvement Plans
- Emersion Design (OH)
Social sustainability is at the core of many campus sustainability plans in theory, but to what degree is it in execution? This presentation will review a proposed method of measuring ...
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Fostering Student Leadership of Campus Sustainability Work
- Fleming College (ON)
Our presentation will focus on our efforts to work collaboratively with our students on campus sustainability. Active student engagement in campus sustainability initiatives has been the cornerstone of our Frost ...
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Implementing Sustainability Teaching, Research, and Service at Florida A&M University
- Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FL)
The Environment and Sustainability Council is embarked on a comprehensive and integrated approach to institutionalize sustainability at Florida A&M University (FAMU), an 1890 land-grant institution dedicated to the advancement of ...
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Chuck it for Charity: FSU's 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 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Garnet & Gold Goes Green: FSU's game day 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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Assessment of emission reduction as a function of biomass boiler installation
- Franklin Pierce University (NH)
Life cycle analysis of biomass (wood pellet) production demonstrates significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, when compared to the life cycle analysis of No. 2 heating fuel. Life cycle analysis ...
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Advocating Sustainability: Learning from Campus, Teaching the Community
- Furman University (SC)
The dissemination of campus-based sustainability efforts provides both general knowledge and specific updates to several audiences, on campus and beyond. This communicated information is critical for evaluating and assessing sustainability ...
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Campus Wide Waste Audit
- Furman University (SC)
Diving into the Depths of the Desolate Dumpster 2.0: A Campus-Wide Waste Audit of Furman University
Erika Baldwin, Will Stallings, and Weston Dripps
Furman University, Earth and Environmental Sciences ...
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Furman University's Approach to Integrating National and Campus Assessment Methodologies
- Furman University (SC)
With the advent of the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Ratings System (STARS) as an increasingly standard assessment protocol for campuses across the country, integrating national or external assessment protocols with ...
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Gardening with seniors: Benefits across socioeconomic status
- Furman University (SC)
Recently, researchers have become interested in the psychological benefits of engaging in nature-based activities. Thus far, research has shown that gardening can increase well-being and sense of community (Armstrong, 2000 ...
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GIS and Sustainability: Project based Introductory GIS Course Curriculum
- Furman University (SC)
An introductory level GIS course was modified to incorporate a sustainability focused term project. Students in the class learn the basics of GIS through lectures, intense classroom discussions, and structured ...
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Let's talk about poop!
- Furman University (SC)
This study examines the effects of the installation of pet waste bag dispenser stations on the compliance of dog owners to pick up after their pets. Our study site is ...
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Linking Geology and Sustainability in Iceland
- Furman University (SC)
Iceland provides an interesting case for the benefits of study abroad despite the carbon costs. First, geologically, Iceland is uniquely located on the mid-Atlantic ridge plate boundary, is geologically diverse ...
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Research and Teaching Opportunities With an On-Campus Ecological Wastewater Treatment System
- Furman University (SC)
Advanced wetland treatment systems combine the energy efficiency of natural ecological processes with the small footprint and stringent effluent standards of conventional wastewater treatment systems and provide multiple teaching and ...
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The GREEN Room at Furman University
- Furman University (SC)
The Green Room Energy and Environmental Initiative (GREEN) Showcase room is a green model residence hall room at Furman University intended to foster and promote eco-friendly lifestyle choices and product ...
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Service-Learning and Sustainability: Engaging Students in Sustainability Action
- Georgia Southern University (GA)
Service-learning engages students in service in order to improve understanding of course concepts with hands-on learning. Campus sustainability programs often seek to engage students in sustainability action projects in order ...
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How much have students learned?: Outcomes Assessments for Sustainability Education
- Green Mountain College (VT)
With the increasing attention on sustainability curricula, more emphasis should be placed on the assessment of what students actually learn from such curricula. AASHE's STARS has helped to focus ...
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Idea and Practice of Sustainability: A First-Year Student Experience
- Hartwick College (NY)
Sustainability provides an interdisciplinary framework for studying the most compelling struggles of our time. In academia, sustainability offers structured and spontaneous opportunities for the curriculum to infiltrate campus operations and ...
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Sand, Clay, and Straw: Green Housing by Students for Students
- Hartwick College (NY)
Hartwick College, a small liberal arts institution, has shown leadership in engaging students in the design and construction of natural buildings for student residences. Ten years ago, students in a ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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We're on board with ACUPCC: Now what?
- Hillsborough Community College (FL)
Almost 700 institutions of higher education are signatories to the ACUPCC and it is encouraging to note that this momentum appears to be building. Community or 4-year colleges, that have ...
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Alternative University Appraisal Project - ESD and HEI'S in Asia Pacific
- Hokkaido University (Hokkaido)
The growth in the number of HEIs coupled with fast growing competition between them has contributed to the boom and popularity of comparisons, rankings and classifications of HEIs.
Higher education ...
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Circles of Exchange: Growing New Connections
- Cal Poly Humboldt (CA)
Nature is constantly "innovating" by creating new connections, sharing information (nutrients) and adjusting system conditions in an ongoing search for stability. Similarly, human communities can employ networks to make new ...
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Student Internships as the Driver for Campus Sustainability
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
In its first six months of existence, the Indiana University Task Force on Sustainability established the Internship Program in Sustainability. Utilizing campus as a living laboratory, the program enlists undergraduate ...
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Building a solar house for interdisciplinary learning of sustainability
- Iowa State University (IA)
In 2009 this Midwestern University participated for the first time in the Solar Decathlon. The resulting 800sft solar powered home was the product of a multiyear effort, which demonstrates the ...
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Synergy between students, academia and industry: Prospects for curriculum enhancement
- Iowa State University (IA)
In the 2010 Worldwatch Institute Report, David Orr asks the question, ―What kind of education will enable the rising generation to deal with increasingly complex and portentous global issues?(p ...
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Sustainability Outreach to Community Non-profits: The Johns Hopkins University-Baltimore City Climate Showcase Partnership
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
Outreach to non-profit organizations in neighboring college and university towns and cities is a critical tool for cultivating a diverse, inclusive, and ultimately successful movement toward sustainability. An outreach initiative ...
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Migrating Paper Processes into SharePoint
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
Our college uses SharePoint as a web platform for migrating manual paper-heavy planning processes online. Two primary examples of processes we have moved online in this way are Grant Applications ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Encouraging Sustainable Apparel Consumption among Undergraduate Students
- Kansas State University (KS)
The purpose of this two-part study is to examine relationships between knowledge of and attitudes towards sustainability in the apparel and textile (AT) industry and students' apparel purchasing behaviors.
In ...
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Teaching Skills for Sustainable Development, Countering Assumptions
- Kansas State University (KS)
An eight-week pilot was conducted in an apparel and textiles (AT) course in which three skills considered paramount to education for sustainable development (ESD) (collaboration/cooperation, communication, and conflict resolution ...
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Case Study Approach to Developing Sustainability Curriculum
- Keene State College (NH)
Case Study Approach to Developing Sustainability Curriculum
We have made a commitment to incorporating sustainability throughout our curriculum, providing students with opportunities to engage with sustainability initiatives on campus and ...
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Sustainability Across the Curriculum Project at Lane Community College
- Lane Community College (OR)
The goal of Sustainability Infusion Project at Lane Community College was to infuse sustainability concepts through all instructional disciplines. 105 instructors participated from more than 15 different disciplines including Adult ...
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Effects of submetering on individual behavior at Lynchburg College
- University of Lynchburg (VA)
Attendees will achieve the following: 1) Understand the research-supported elements that should be incorporated into pledge programs to increase participation and sustain behavior change; 2) Be familiar with challenges and ...
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Interweaving Academic Reading Skill Development with Global Warming and Sustainability Education
- Montgomery College (MD)
There are still people who do not know much about, or even deny the existence of, global warming. Education may, therefore, play a role in our efforts to reduce the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Organic Recycling - It's Here!
- NatureWorks (GA)
Noting the growing success of food waste diversion and composting, NatureWorks LLC(www.natureworksllc.com) and one of its key partners (R3/Bunzl Distribution) will showcase commercial success of organic ...
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Why Sustainability Needs Aesthetics
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
Sustainability is not value-neutral. It requires a recalibration of values in order to be able to correct our current unsustainable practices. The deposing of aesthetics--and in particular, of beauty--is part ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Predictive Modeling of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Oregon Institute of Technology (OR)
Climate action plans currently developed by institutions of higher education across the country need to provide various mitigations strategies to achieve carbon neutrality in the "near future". These strategies are ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Student Sustainability Internship Program: Creatively Involving Students in Sustainability Efforts
- Oregon Institute of Technology (OR)
Sustainability initiatives on college campuses, whether education campaigns or tracking and reporting for STARS, require significant time commitments that often cannot be met by sustainability personnel. Simultaneously, students are seeking ...
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unPLUg: How an Energy Competition Can Permanently Change Behavior
- Pacific Lutheran University (WA)
Many colleges have implemented residential hall competitions to reduce energy; however do these competitions create long-term change in behavior? Too often after the tally is counted many will return to ...
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Design as a major that integrates art, science & sustainability
- Pacific University (OR)
The development of sustainability as an academic discipline will require the creation of non-traditional majors that integrate knowledge fundamental to this endeavor. We describe collaboration at Pacific University between the ...
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Drink Local, Drink Tap: Turning On a New Campus Water Culture
- Pacific University (OR)
The privatized water industry has subtly grown during the past few decades, establishing itself in American culture as the sole source for clean drinking water. Most consumers are unaware that ...
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Food Rescue
- Pacific University (OR)
Food Rescue is a student-initiated food donation program that works to diminish food waste and redistribute leftovers from Pacific University campus events and dining hall meals to local community shelters ...
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A business case for developing transformative sustainable education
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Colleges and Universities have obvious financial incentives to invest in sustainability objectives that reduce the costs of campus operation. Similarly, investments in research infrastructure in topics of energy and sustainability ...
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