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Sustainable IT: Deploying and Demonstrating Innovative Data Center Cooling Technology to Achieve End Use Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Benefits at Rochester Institute of Technology
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
- OptiCool Technologies (NY)
In the spring of 2012 Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) worked with one of its Clean Energy Incubator (CEI) technology companies to deploy, test, and validate their advanced and innovative ...
- Posted June 28, 2012
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Building a Campus-Wide Sustainability Network from the Ground Up, a Case Study
- State University of New York at Geneseo (NY)
In this presentation I will detail the work and progress made in developing our campus sustainability structure. At SUNY Geneseo, sustainability has been part of the conversation on campus for ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The relationship between social work and environmental sustainability: Implications for interdisciplinary practice
- City University of New York, College of Staten Island (NY)
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
The Brundtland Commission, formally the World Commission on Environment and Development, established by the United Nations in 1983, links peace, security, development and the environment claiming that war, poverty and ...
- Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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The Greening of America's Campuses
- Berea College (KY)
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- Emory University (GA)
- Portland State University (OR)
- University of South Carolina (SC)
Colleges have long marketed their campus amenities, their rosters of scholars, their selectivity and study-abroad programs. To that list, add one more thing: their green credentials. From Berea College in ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Recreation Resource and Protected Area Management Minor
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
This minor provides students with the opportunity to combine visitor management with protected area management. Understanding the need to balance the opportunity for visitor experiences with protecting and stewarding protected ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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St. John's University Academic Center for Equity and Inclusion
- St. John's University, New York (NY)
The Academic Center for Equity and Inclusion (or “Academic Center”) organizes scholarly and pedagogical activities that advance St. John's University's commitment to an inclusive and equitable University community ...
- Posted Dec. 21, 2018
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100 kW Solar Carport
- State University of New York at Farmingdale (NY)
Farmingdale State College today unveiled a carport/charging station that is a major component of the $24 million Long Island Smart Energy Corridor funded by $12 million from the U ...
- Posted Dec. 8, 2016
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Networking Meetup Lunch for Sustainability Professionals in Higher Education
- New York University (NY)
- University of Hawaii - West Oahu (HI)
Among the huge number of attendees at the AASHE Conference, this is an opportunity to enjoy a working lunch for full-time higher education sustainability professionals specifically. Attendees will have a ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Using Intelligent HVAC Controls to Reduce Energy Usage in Residence Halls
- Columbia University (NY)
- New York University (NY)
Technology can be used to reduce heating and cooling energy use by 25-32% in Residence Halls while keeping students climatically comfortable. The panelists will explain how they each captured these ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Setting better environmental goals: baselines are just the beginning!
- New York University (NY)
Setting goals and targets based upon future outcomes, rather than past performance, is the next step for institutions aiming to achieve high levels of environmental performance. Most AASHE member institutions ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Bail on Balloons: Institutionalizing a Green Events Standard
- New York University (NY)
NYU hosts thousands of events each year. Whether they're massive conferences or office parties, events are integral to our community. But they notoriously result in unnecessary waste, both material ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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CHEFS: Advancing the Carbon Footprinting of Food in North America
- New York University (NY)
- Aramark (PA)
- Clean Air-Cool Planet (NH)
Dining plays a central role in campus life, as has been reflected in a plethora of recent dining-related initiatives—from trayless cafeterias to composting to community gardens on campus. A ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability in Residential Life
- Concordia College (NY)
- New York University (NY)
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (IN)
Looking to build campus connections? Consider working with your institution's Residence Life Department! This session will highlight four different case studies of engagement with Residence Life, a department that ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Pulling it all together: a comprehensive approach to climate neutrality
- University at Buffalo (NY)
The University at Buffalo has charted a course toward climate neutrality that - however trite the terms might have become - is both strategic and holistic. It is designed to vest the ...
- Posted July 1, 2010
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Climate Action Plan
- State University of New York at Oswego (NY)
As a signatory to the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), SUNY Oswego has made a commitment to improving the world environment. Building on the September 2009 Climate ...
- Posted Oct. 6, 2021
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Environmental Science & Ecology (MS/BS) Combined Degree
- State University of New York at Brockport (NY)
Through a curriculum with a core in the disciplines of biology, ecology, chemistry, and geology, the accelerated dual degree program develops the conceptual knowledge and technical skills necessary to address ...
- Posted Aug. 2, 2019
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Wood Science (PhD)
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
Students with interest in Engineered Wood Products and Structures should have a strong background in integral calculus, statics, mechanics, and mechanical and physical properties of wood. The behavior of wood ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Breaking Through: Creative Engagement Strategies for Increasing Student Sustainable Involvement in the Dorms and Beyond
- New York University (NY)
NYC came to a standstill when Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast and the public electrical grid shutdown, but the lights were on in 22 NYU buildings, and for once ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Environmental and Economic Benefits of Campus Biomass Combined Heat and Power
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
- Syracuse University (NY)
Training emerging professionals about sustainability concepts needs to happen both in and out of the classroom in order to meet ambitious national workforce education and training goals. The process of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Using a Sustainability Framework to Advance Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (TX)
Accredited social work programs in the U.S. train students to advance "social, economic, and environmental justice" (CSWE, 2020). Often, however, the curriculum addresses each type of justice independently, as ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Geography (BS)
- State University of New York at Oneonta (NY)
SUNY Oneonta’s geography program has three tracks: General Geography, Geographic Information Systems, and Urban and Regional Planning. Their mission is to give students a well-rounded perspective of geographic knowledge ...
- Posted Dec. 13, 2018
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Sustainable Energy Management (Certificate)
- State University of New York at Farmingdale (NY)
The Sustainable Energy Management Certificate has been designed to respond to the rapidly expanding need for skilled professionals in sustainable energy-related occupations. The certificate provides fundamental information about emerging sustainable ...
- Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Design Your Own Ecovillage: Playing the Ecovillage Game to Explore Sustainability
- State University of New York at Potsdam (NY)
Ecovillages are living laboratories of sustainability and they can be found all over the world. They are intentional or traditional communities 'using local participatory processes to holistically integrate ecological, economic ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Sustainable imaginaries: a case study of a large suburban Canadian university
- York University
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This paper aims to explore the concept of sustainability imaginaries – unifying core assumptions on what sustainability entails held by stakeholders – set within a large suburban Canadian university. The study ...
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Integrating Green and Sustainable Chemistry into Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories: Closing and Assessing the Loop on the Basis of a Citrus Biorefinery Approach for the Biocircular Economy in Brazil
- Universidade Federal de São Carlos
- University of York
One of the keys to achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in education is to introduce novel pedagogical strategies into university curricula in order to promote an ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Earth Law and the Rights of Nature: A New Generation of Laws Built for Nature
- City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (NY)
- Environmental Education Fund (NJ)
Forget doom and gloom. Let's educate students about the Rights of Nature, an inspiring, evolving legal development which is gaining traction in the US and around the world, and ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Starting with small energy conservation projects leads to huge energy conservation success
- University of Rochester (NY)
The University of Rochester has many competing demands for funding. In the early 2000’s energy projects were managed by individual facilities departments with typically less than $40,000 expended ...
- Posted June 2, 2016
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Energy Waste Reduction Program
- Suffolk County Community College (NY)
Since its inception in August of 2014, Suffolk County Community College’s Energy Waste Reduction Program has saved over 4.9 million dollars in unnecessary utility expenditure. We would like ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Art as the Catalyst for Critical Sustainability Conversations
- University at Albany (NY)
The University at Albany is proud to submit an application that illustrates our use of art as the catalyst for critical sustainability conversations. This was accomplished via two main projects ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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First Student Sustainability Symposium
- Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ)
- New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability (NJ)
Innovation of Sustainable Communities was a unique symposium organized by students who are passionate about sustainability. Anyone who shares the same passion with them, was welcome to attend! The symposium ...
- Posted June 10, 2016
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The Winds of Changes Shift: An Analysis of Recent Growth in Bargaining Units and Representation Efforts in Higher Education
- City University of New York, Hunter College (NY)
This article analyzes data accumulated during the first three quarters of 2016 regarding completed and pending questions of representation involving faculty and student employees in higher education. It is part ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2017
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STARS 101 (2010)
- Delta College (MI)
- State University of New York at New Paltz (NY)
- AASHE (MA)
Since 2006, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), a membership organization of colleges and universities committed to building a sustainable world, has engaged in a ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Environmental Studies Undergraduate Major
- New York University (NY)
The Department of Environmental Studies aims to provide students with the breadth of understanding and skills necessary for resolving environmental questions and creating a sustainable future on scales ranging from ...
- Posted March 18, 2021
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Impact culture: transforming how Universities tackle 21st century challenges
- University of York
- Newcastle University
- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) (Scotland)
New ways of doing research are needed to tackle the deep interconnected nature of 21st Century challenges, like climate change, obesity and entrenched social and economic inequalities. While the impact ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Comprehensive Operational Analysis of Green Granting Programs in US Higher Education
- New York University (NY)
After three years and 52 funded projects awarded more than $250,000 NYU's Green Grants program took a year off from calling for new project proposals, and instead conducted ...
- Posted June 24, 2011
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Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation
- St. John's University, New York (NY)
While sustainability - meeting today’s needs without jeopardizing the interests of future generations - has become a dominating force in a range of disciplines, it has yet to play a substantive ...
- Posted July 13, 2016
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The impact of working in a green certified building on cognitive function and health
- Harvard University (MA)
- State University of New York Upstate Medical University (NY)
Thirty years of public health research have demonstrated that improved indoor environmental quality is associated with better health outcomes. Recent research has demonstrated an impact of the indoor environment on ...
- Posted March 20, 2017
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Maximizing Dorm Energy Savings with Intelligent HVAC Controls
- New York University (NY)
Universities can reduce their HVAC energy use in Residence Halls by 25-32% by installing occupancy based thermostat controls. Traditionally when occupants are allowed to heat and cool as much as ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Why Your Campus Needs a Distributed Network of Sustainability Advocates
- New York University (NY)
Improving the environmental performance of higher education institutions is not only a question of infrastructural development through decisions made in the upper echelons of university administration; it is also intimately ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Bike Sharing and the Urban Campus
- New York University (NY)
In 2008, inspired by the municipal bicycle sharing programs in many European cities and bike rental programs available at some small campus-oriented schools, an independent student team began designing America ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Climate Action Planning and Student Engagement
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
- Syracuse University (NY)
Sustainability and Climate Action efforts SUNY ESF first engaged students in a formal way in 2000. Students developed ESF's first assessment of the energy required to educate and undergraduate ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Eagles, Education, and Engagement through Green Technology
- Alfred State College (NY)
Alfred State College (ASC) School of Applied Technology and the United States National Arboretum (USNA) have collaborated for over eight years in an innovative partnership that has generated significant measurable ...
- Posted June 10, 2016
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Alfred State's Net-Zero Energy Demonstration Home
- Alfred State College (NY)
Students in a variety of construction-related programs at Alfred State constructed a net-zero energy demonstration home as part of their coursework. The 2200 square foot home, which is located on ...
- Posted July 9, 2012
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Advanced Climate Action: Stanford Energy and Climate Plan
- Stanford University (CA)
Stanford has historically done much to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts and in late 2007, the university set out to develop a formal action plan incorporating existing best practices in ...
- Posted May 17, 2013
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SUNY Polytechnic Institute Campus Forest Carbon Inventory Report and Sequestration Estimates
- State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (NY)
This report takes initial measurements for existing SUNY Polytechnic Institute campus forest carbon stocks and estimates projections for annual rates of carbon sequestration. Establishing a baseline for campus forest carbon ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Environmental Studies Undergraduate Minor
- New York University (NY)
The Department of Environmental Studies aims to provide students with the breadth of understanding and skills necessary for resolving environmental questions and creating a sustainable future on scales ranging from ...
- Posted March 18, 2021
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Environmental Justice and Sustainability Minor
- City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (NY)
The Environmental Justice minor educates students about the need to provide for human well-being while conserving the natural resources and ecological balance necessary to meet the needs of current and ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Activism that Pays: How Student Social Entrepreneurship Can Revitalize Your Campus
- New York University (NY)
Student clubs and organizations can be a useful platform for getting students involved, but is this traditional model of engagement limiting student capacity? This workshop, aimed at students and sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Transforming a Former Industrial Site into a Sustainable Solution and Creating Opportunities for Students
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
Over the past fourteen years, SUNY-ESF has cultivated a successful public-private partnership with Honeywell International to address a pressing environmental issue in the local community. The project involves remediation of ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Interactive Tree Map of SUNY Geneseo
- State University of New York at Geneseo (NY)
Our project is an interactive map of the trees on the SUNY Geneseo campus, created utilizing GIS technology. It would act as an interactive digital field guide that would emphasize ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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