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Sustainability Officers Workshop
- University of Hawaii - West Oahu (HI)
- University of British Columbia (BC)
The purpose of the Sustainability Officers workshop is to:
Provide a space for networking and relationship building amongst higher education sustainability professionals
Build our toolkit of skills to effectively engage ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University: A Case Study in Sustainability
- Saint John's University (MN)
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University (CSB/SJU) embarked actively on incorporating sustainability into operations and education by declaring 2010-2011 as the Year of Sustainability. This focus ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Written in the STARS: Correlations Between Performance & Best Practices
- University of Toronto (ON)
The STARS assessment framework presents a very interesting and informative set of data that measures both environmental performance and adoption of best practices. Gathering both types of information allows for ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Power of Partnership: Redefining Closed-Loop Recycling
- Green Mountain College (VT)
Green Mountain College reaffirmed its commitment to being a leader in sustainability by joining Casella Waste Systems Power of Three™ closed loop recycling initiative. The Power of Three is Casella ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Fostering Resilient Communities through Innovative, Integrated Partnerships and Projects: UBC Okanagan Campus Sustainable Community Development
- University of British Columbia (BC)
Universities provide a leadership role by developing and mobilizing knowledge and innovation to meet societal needs. In fulfilling this mission, universities can also serve as agents of sustainable change and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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UBC Okanagan Campus Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality: Geothermal District Energy System
- University of British Columbia (BC)
The purpose of this brief is to share information about UBC Okanagan's campus roadmap to carbon neutrality, featuring the Geothermal District Energy System and related green building strategies.
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- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Integrated Design: Linking Curriculum, Sustainability and Buildings that Teach
- Pierce College District 11 (WA)
- Opsis Architecture (OR)
Through a "cross-campus, multi-disciplinary" process, the Science and Technology Center was conceived as an interactive and sustainably-focused facility where the building becomes an integral part of math and science curriculum ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Moving Campuses Beyond Coal
- Cornell University (NY)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
- Sierra Club (DC)
Across the country, 63 institutes of higher education currently burn coal in an on-campus facility to generate steam, electric power, or both. Many of these schools have signed the American ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Using experiential learning to create community linkages
- University of Toronto (ON)
The University of Toronto Mississauga environment program offers a practicum course that features environmental sustainability campus based initiatives for small groups of students. This structure engages students to undertake primary ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Implementing Sustainability at Liberal Arts Colleges
- College of Saint Benedict (MN)
- Middlebury College (VT)
- Evergreen State College, The (WA)
- Warren Wilson College (NC)
As they develop their vision and agenda for their campus, sustainability leaders face important, strategic choices regarding the most efficient, effective ways to structure their work to embed sustainability more ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Ecosystem Restoration on a Suburban Campus
- University of Toronto (ON)
The University of Toronto Mississauga is bound by three sides with the Credit River and a residential area bounds the forth side. In 2003 the campus committed to doubling its ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Moving the Commuter Campus - TDM Initiatives
- University of Toronto (ON)
The University of Toronto Mississauga is a suburban commuter campus located 20 miles west of the Toronto campus. Most undergraduate students come to this campus from within 20 miles and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability = Survival
- Northwestern University (IL)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- Chlorine Free Products Association (IL)
- Cascades Tissue Group (NY)
We are all working to do our best to move toward sustainable practices that are supported via our purchasing. So we will have a panel made up of managers of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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No Mow Zone Sign
- Rosemont College (PA)
In 2008, Rosemont College created a No Mow Zone along a creek bed between Cardinal Hall & Alumni Hall. The no mow zone conservation area is intended to prevent sediment ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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AASHE, USGBC, NWF and Second Nature Announcement
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
- Second Nature (MA)
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
- AASHE (MA)
Meghan Fay Zahniser from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), Julian Keniry from the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Jaime Van Mourik from the U.S ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Environmental Literacy and Sustainability as Core Requirements: Success Stories and Models
- Oakland Community College (MI)
At a number of colleges and universities, the core General Education requirements for all degrees include an in depth exposure to environmental literacy. Many colleges are also including a degree ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Rice U 2012 Syllabus - Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Communities
- Rice University (TX)
The Rice University course Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Communities is cross-listed between Chemical Engineering and Environmental Studies. The class explores the principles of sustainability, the science of global warming, and ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Ecological Footprint Journal Assignment
- Bellevue College (WA)
This is a journal assignment that I ask students to do after calculating their ecological footprint. The prompt from the last time I gave this assignment is attached.
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Citizen Pledge Assignment
- Bellevue College (WA)
As a Political Science instructor, one of my primary goals is to help students realize their rights and responsibilities as citizens. By “realize” I mean both knowing and appreciating what ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Global Trade Game
- Bellevue College (WA)
One of the ways I like to assess student learning is through class games. I use this particular game to assess knowledge about globalization and the stake holders involved in ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Facebook Project
- Bellevue College (WA)
Here is a quarter long project that I use in my SOC:278 Global Sociology class. The Project Outline includes weekly assignments that require students to spend 50 minutes on ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Rice U 2012 Syllabus - Environmental Issues: Rice Into the Future
- Rice University (TX)
Attached is the course syllabus for Rice University's ENST 302 / SOCI 304 "Environmental Issues: Rice Into the Future," a project-based class that uses the university as a laboratory for ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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SCT100: Introduction to Sustainable Built Environments
- Maricopa County Community College District Office (AZ)
Study of the built environment and implications on human health, the natural environment, and society. Understanding of strategies that achieve sustainable design. Exploration of positive and negative sustainable product attributes ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Triple Bottom Line Reporting
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (MA)
Triple Bottom Line Reporting focuses on transparent disclosure of the organization’s triple bottom line: economic, environmental and social aspects, also known as the three pillars of sustainability. While not ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Imagined Landscapes: Visions of Sustainability
- University of Utah (UT)
Sustainability is often characterized, graphically, as three overlapping ellipses, typically labeled “People”, “Planet”, and “Profit”. If we think of these ellipses as individual lenses though which to view the world ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Externalities in Microeconomics
- Harper College (IL)
This assignment will be introduced when externalities is being taught in the course. In microeconomics externalities is a cost (negative) or benefit (positive) that is not passed on to the ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Honors Seminar: The Sustainable Campus
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
This seminar examines social, economic and environmental sustainability issues as they pertain to complex institutions like colleges and universities. Using examples from universities and businesses around the country (including UIC ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Introduction to Sustainability (ACR 187 - Michigan State University)
- Michigan State University (MI)
Integration of balance among social equity, ecological integrity, economic vitality, civic engagement, aesthetic understanding, critical thinking, systems thinking, personal development, and competency-based learning. Portfolio assessment. ACR 187 is an introductory ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Sustainable Design 101: A Syllabus Supplement
- BuildingGreen, Inc. (VT)
Use this syllabus outline if you are teaching an existing course on sustainable design or developing a new course. The weekly topic headings can help organize and prioritize the overall ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Organic and Sustainable Agriculture
- Alfred State College (NY)
Alfred State has established the Center for Organic and Sustainable Agriculture (COSA) to serve students, faculty, and the community through education, research, and demonstration of organic and sustainable farming practices.
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center For Sustainability
- California Polytechnic State University (CA)
Cal Poly's College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES) manages nearly 10,000 acres of land on two campuses dedicated to instruction and research and serves as a ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Regional Food Systems
- Michigan State University (MI)
The mission of the MSU Center for Regional Food Systems is to engage the people of Michigan, the United States and the world in applied research, education and outreach to ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Environmental Farming Systems
- North Carolina State University (NC)
CEFS develops and promotes just and equitable food and farming systems that conserve natural resources, strengthen communities, improve health outcomes, and provide economic opportunities in North Carolina and beyond.
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
- Tufts University (MA)
Working with new farmers to build strong businesses, expertise in the field, and a resilient food system. Programs include farmer training, food systems development, and a World Peas food hub.
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Agricultural Sustainability Institute
- University of California, Davis (CA)
The Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis is a group of researchers, educators, and agricultural extension professionals working to answer big questions on how to make agriculture and food systems ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
The mission of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS or the Center) is to research, develop, and advance sustainable food and agricultural systems that are environmentally sound ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture Program
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
ASAP’s current mission is to build and sustain an organization that empowers the on and off campus community working to advance sustainable and organic food and farming systems in ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Washington State University, Pullman (WA)
The Center has been working for two decades to bring sustainable solutions to the citizens and agricultural industry of Washington State. Its faculty and affiliates are working on exciting projects ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Green Design Institute
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
The Green Design Institute is a major interdisciplinary education and research effort to make an impact on environmental quality by partnering with companies, government agencies and foundations to develop pioneering ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Brooke Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
The Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems enhances Georgia Tech’s research, education, and service missions, and campus operations through leadership, communications, development, and decision making inspired and defined by ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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IITAC Research Center
- Illinois Institute of Technology (IL)
The keynote of the IITAC Research Center is "Rethinking Metropolis," the architecture of the multiple, competing entities defining urban life in the new millennium. Urban migrations and the proliferation of ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Sustainable Design
- Mississippi State University (MS)
The center focuses on developing, systematizing, and promulgating methods that will allow growing populations to live in a sustainable manner.
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Institutes of Energy and the Environment
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
The mission of the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment is to foster and facilitate interdisciplinary scholarship and collaboration to positively impact important energy and environmental challenges.
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Engineering and Design Institute
- Philadelphia University (PA)
Founded in 2000, the Engineering and Design Institute is an interdisciplinary research center focusing on green materials, sustainable design and education. The Institute works on a variety of projects to ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Golisano Institute for Sustainability
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
Golisano Institute for Sustainability is a multidisciplinary academic unit at RIT whose mission is to undertake world-class education and research programs in sustainability with major foci on sustainable production, sustainable ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Design Center for Global Needs
- San Francisco State University (CA)
The Design Center for Global Needs has been the research and development component in the Department of Design & Industry (DAI). The Center promotes and fosters community, national and international ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Sustainable Communities
- Temple University (PA)
The Center for Sustainable Communities (CSC) develops and promotes new approaches to protect and preserve quality of life through sustainable development. The Center acts as a resource for government agencies ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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College of Environmental Design
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
CED stands among the nation’s top environmental design schools. It is one of the world’s most distinguished laboratories for experimentation, research, and intellectual synergy. The first school to ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Powell Center for Construction and Environment
- University of Florida (FL)
The Powell Center for Construction and Environment is primarily a research organization dedicated to the resolution of environmental problems associated with planning and architecture activities and the determination of optimum ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Sustainable Cities at University of Kentucky
- University of Kentucky (KY)
The CSC Design Studio is a full service architecture and urban design firm with 30 years of award-winning solar and sustainability-driven design experience. Using advanced energy-efficient building standards and technologies ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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