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Developing a Sustainable Campus: A Tale of Two Buildings
- Ithaca College (NY)
This presentation will discuss how the design and construction of two new buildings - each tracking to achieve LEED Platinum certification - are proving to be transformative for college curriculum, campus operations ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Show Me the Money: Resources for Campus Sustainability Programs
- Ithaca College (NY)
How do you create a shared institutional understanding of and support for campus sustainability? How can you create "coalitions of the willing" to support curriculum development, campus operational modifications, and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Incorporating Native Systems into the Academic Campus Landscape
- JFNew (IL)
Much of the modern campus has been encroached upon by ornamental landscaping, and native plants have been replaced by a small number of non-native species such as turf grass and ...
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Less is More: How Plumbing Products Contribute to Water Conservation
- Kohler Co. (WI)
As water conservation is becoming an important issue worldwide, the need for plumbing products that preserve water is also increasing. Whether you are specifying plumbing products that meet the criteria ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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What's Next? The Greening of Art Pedagogy
- Land Views, Online Journal of Landscape, Art, and Design (NY)
Studio art teachers are confronting the unprecedented challenge of preparing students to maximize their artistic marks while minimizing their environmental footprints. What strategies can be adopted to integrate environmentalism into ...
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Focusing Again: The National Teach-in on Global Warming Solutions
- Lewis & Clark College (OR)
February 2009 will be a watershed for the United States, and indeed, the planet. Decisions made in the first hundred days of the new congress will determine whether serious action ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Principles and Practices for Effective Sustainability Education
- Luther College (IA)
So your president signed the President's Climate Commitment, and you've completed a carbon footprint analysis. What do you do about the education component? This presentation will provide an ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Lynchburg College's Year of the Environment
- University of Lynchburg (VA)
The 2007-8 school year served as Lynchburg College's Year of the Environment, with a theme of "A Greener Tomorrow Today." This was the first time that an attempt had ...
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Beyond Campus: Down on the Farm, Opportunities & Challenges for a University Permaculture Project
- Meredith College (NC)
Pacific University's B Street Permaculture Project is an emerging grassroots organization and demonstration site whose mission is to provide inspiration and information about environmentally sensitive, sustainable living practices for ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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After the Election - Making Policies That Sustain Us
- Michigan State University (MI)
As we fret over the best approaches to the unraveling of our ecosystems and communities, we often fall back to what we can do as individuals. With the current rise ...
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Center for Research and Sustainable Living, Yucatan, Mexico
- Millsaps College (MS)
The Helen Moyers Biocultural Reserve, located in Yucatan, Mexico ranks in the top third of privately held reserves by size in Latin America. The 1600 hectare tropical deciduous forest tract ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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District Approach to Campus Stormwater Management
- Mississippi State University (MS)
As part of a precinct master plan commissioned by Virginia Tech, SmithGroup/JJR developed a district storm water management plan utilizing principles of sustainable design to maintain, or reduce, current ...
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Bringing Biophilia to Life - Connecting Living Systems to the Built Environment
- Mithun (WA)
Originally crafted by German social psychologist Erich Fromm around 1965, the term Biophilia means "love of life or living systems." The philosophy of Biophilia pairs well with the current flurry ...
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Winthrop University: Regenerative Design
- Moseley Architects (VA)
A recent master plan moved the core of campus to a new location. The first building completed is the "West Center." This building pays homage to the 1915 building it ...
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Winthrop University's West Center: Pursuing LEED: A Vision for a Sustainable Future
- Moseley Architects (VA)
The new Lois Rhame West Health, Physical Education and Wellness Center includes a blend of spaces for the education of students in Health, Physical Education, Sport Management and Recreational career ...
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Empowering Students to Create a Sustainable Future: The Role of Higher Education.
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
If colleges and universities are serious about empowering students to tackle the greatest challenges of our time, we must promote environmental literacy and responsibility and provide frequent opportunities for students ...
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The Next Step: Developing and Implementing Climate Action Plans for Reducing Net GHG Emissions
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
With the challenge so critical and the stakes so high, the need for climate leadership has never been greater. The good news is that the higher education sector is responding ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Campus Habitats: Conserving Energy, Sequestering Carbon, and Providing Homes for Wildlife
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
This presentation will feature the different kinds of habitats found on college and university campuses including forests, prairies, wetlands, gardens, and green roofs and highlight, through case studies, the benefits ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Making the Truth Convenient: One Sustainable Behavior at a Time
- NORESCO (NC)
Today's environmentally-aware college students are becoming increasingly active in driving their university's sustainable practices. This increased environmental activity has united a wide range of campus participants, extending the ...
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A Framework for Evaluation: Determining Criteria and Indicators for Effective Higher Education Programs Focused on Environmental Sustainability
- North Carolina State University (NC)
An increasing number of colleges and universities in the United States are restructuring courses and research programs to focus on long-term use and maintenance of resources and protecting these resources ...
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Promoting Sustainable Agriculture Careers for Undergraduates through a Collaborative Experiential Learning and Research Program at Cornell University: The Sustainable Agriculture Scholars Program
- North Carolina State University (NC)
The number of undergraduate students majoring in agricultural fields is steadily declining, resulting in fewer trained agricultural professionals able to address complex problems concerning agricultural sustainability. We developed and piloted ...
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Against the Wind: How to Fan the Flames of Institutional Transformation.
- North Carolina State University (NC)
Despite the fact that the UN's vision for sustainable development calls for an integration of competing social, economic and ecological interests, the practice in higher education has focused primarily ...
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Developing Integrated Research, Education, and Outreach Programs in Sustainable Agriculture at NC State University: A Model for Land Grant Universities
- North Carolina State University (NC)
Land grant universities (LGUs) play a vital role in educating students and training extension agents in organic and sustainable agriculture. Incorporating research, education and extension outreach into their missions, LGUs ...
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Our Solar Sunflowers: Collaboration and Education
- Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (WI)
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College has developed three certificate programs which began enrolling students this summer. The programs include: Renewable Energy - Solar, Sustainable Design, and Biofuels. The college is focusing on ...
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The Campus and Community, Tools for Teaching Sustainability: An Examination of a Service-Learning Project
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
This presentation will focus on a service-learning project that utilized the campus and community as tools to help teach sustainability in an introductory undergraduate course in Environmental Humanities. In this ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability and General Education
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
Universities, especially publically funded universities, have a responsibility to educate students about the world in which they live and the trends that are defining the world of the future. One ...
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Establishing Carbon Offsets for Univerities through Tree Planting in Rural Africa
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
In February of 2008, a representative of The International Small Group & Tree Planting Program (TIST), gave a presentation at Northern Arizona University outlining the function and methods used by ...
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Like, Why do I Need to Know my Watershed?
- Northern Illinois University (IL)
Progressive educators have promoted the concept of place-based education for more than 100 years. For example, John Dewy advocated: "Experience [outside the school] has its geographical aspect, its artistic and ...
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NYSERDA's Ongoing Relationships with New York State Colleges & Universities
- New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) (NY)
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is a public benefit corporation with a mission to use innovation and technology to solve some of New York's energy ...
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Teaching Sustainability: Engaging Students in Developing Local Sustainability Indicators
- Oberlin College (OH)
Students play an important role in defining the culture and spirit of a campus and engaging them in sustainability initiatives on campus and beyond is an important component of the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Teaching Sustainability
- Otterbein University (OH)
This presentation offers a case study of how teaching sustainability can become a force for change on campus and the wider community. The paper examines the 10 week process by ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Integration of Community and College: Farmers Market at Paul Smiths College
- Paul Smith's College of Arts & Sciences (NY)
June 30th, 2008 marks the second season of the Adirondack Farmers' Market Cooperative at the Paul Smiths College's campus, a small, rural college in upstate New York. This year ...
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Mapping the Landscapes of History: the Elwha River as curriculum
- Peninsula College (WA)
The largest dam removal/river restoration project ever attempted is slated for the Elwha River in rural Washington state. A 1992 Act of Congress guaranteed the removal, following the efforts ...
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Sustainability & Pepperdine University: A Contradiction in Terms?
- Pepperdine University (CA)
A central Christian metaphor is being "a light on a hill." Applying this metaphor to our current ecological crisis, this presentation considers whether or not a Christian college or university ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Educating the Building Technician Workforce for Sustainability
- Peralta Community Colleges District Office (CA)
The lack of qualified HVAC technicians and building operators trained in energy efficient installation and maintenance practices currently presents one of the greatest barriers to meeting campus, local, State, and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Educators as Architects of Living Systems
- Peralta Community Colleges District Office (CA)
Imagine a learning community as a wetland or a forest. Imagine a group of learners as a highly interdependent community, a vibrant living system not unlike an ecosystem in nature ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Greener by Design
- Pratt Institute (NY)
Pratt Institute, a leading school of art, architecture and design in Brooklyn, New York has been awarded a FIPSE grant to implement an innovative educational initiative that addresses one of ...
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A Partnership Model: Emergent Properties of Learning and Leadership for Sustainability
- Prescott College (AZ)
The most fertile field of sustainability and sustainability education is caught in a tension between those who seek nature-based designs and solutions to human predicament and those who seek human-based ...
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The Power of Purchasing
- Responsible Purchasing Network
The Responsible Purchasing Network (RPN) has produced a series of Guides on institutional procurement of socially and environmentally preferable products ranging from cleaning products to vehicles to computers. This presentation ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Education Revolution: Empowering the Next Generation of Sustainable Designers
- RMJM
Across the country, our nation's colleges and universities are leading the charge for sustainability - but are we really training the next generation of architects to be sustainable designers? How ...
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Learning from Experience: Collaboration for Campus Carbon Cutbacks
- Rocky Mountain Institute (CO)
This poster will reveal some preliminary findings from Rocky Mountain Institute's (RMI) new research project: Accelerating Campus Climate-Change Initiatives. RMI is partnering with AASHE to develop a comprehensive research ...
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Incorporating Sustainability Into General Plans: An Experiential Learning Case Study
- San Jose State University (CA)
Increasing concerns regarding the impact of humans on the natural environment, coupled with the realization that how we build and plan our cities is going to largely determine the level ...
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The Revitalization Institute
- Seneca Polytechnic (ON)
Revitalization Institute (RI) is the academy and advocate for what Storm Cunningham (reWealth: 2008) calls the magic of restoration in which natural, built, and socio-economic assets are continuously enhanced rather ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Thoroughly Sustainable Sport for the 21st Century: Disc Golf
- Society for College and University Planning (MI)
Disc Golf, otherwise known as Frisbee Golf, is a form of all-ages recreation that presents a more sustainable alternative for campus recreation than traditional "ball golf." It is also the ...
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Solar Heating and Cooling with Sale-of-Energy Financing
- Solid Solar (AZ)
Solar Hot water plants offer excellent economics. Sale-of-energy projects offer the opportunity for free installation, paid for over time with energy purchased at a price typically 10% less than current ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability from Scratch
- St. Petersburg College (FL)
This presentation will focus on how one "late blooming" college launched a multifaceted sustainability program. From having a fairly embryonic program a year ago, St. Petersburg College formed a Sustainability ...
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Going Green with TDM: Developing, Marketing and Evaluating a Transportation Demand Management Program
- Stanford University (CA)
To meet the university's goal of no net new peak hour commute trips over the course of the next 15 years and as part of an over campus effort ...
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Sustainable Stanford: Leading Campus Sustainability in the 21st Century
- Stanford University (CA)
With sustainability as a core value for Stanford, the progressive projects in operations, buildings, transportation, and IT are indeed defining leadership in campus sustainability in the 21st century.The university ...
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Schoolcraft College Biomedical Technology Center - New Technologies Integrated with Sustainable Features
- Stantec Consulting, Ltd. (WA)
Schoolcraft College's Livonia, Michigan campus recently completed construction of a state-of-the-art Biomedical Technology Center. The design integrates new technologies with sustainable features to enhance the curriculum and learning environment ...
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The Triple Bottom Line on Campus - Walking the Talk, Saving Money and Saving the Planet
- Sterling Planet, Inc. (GA)
Through our experience with several colleges and universities, this presentation will discuss how college and universities have implement measures to lower there green house gas emissions, save money and create ...
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