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California State University East Bay Climate Action Plan 2018
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
Cal State East Bay made a commitment to climate neutrality when President Morishita signed the Carbon Commitment (formerly the American Colleges and Universities Presidents’ Climate Commitment) in January 2015. Once ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Climate Change and Health Certificate
- Yale University (CT)
This 18-week, online program for public health professionals and other learners is designed to equip you with the knowledge and proven strategies needed to increase your community’s resilience to ...
- Posted June 13, 2018
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Tackling it Together: A Framework for Assessing Climate Vulnerability in the Pioneer Valley
- Smith College (MA)
In Western Massachusetts, stakeholders are engaging with vulnerability in different ways. While some are planning at the campus and city levels, others have engaged only in areas specific to their ...
- Posted May 21, 2018
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First Application of UN-Toolkit to a Collegiate Climate Action Plan
- San Diego State University (CA)
The United Nations Guiding Principles for Climate Action Planning Toolkit: City-Level Reviews was re-engineered to allow for the applicability and utilization towards university-level climate action plans. Through tailoring the eight ...
- Posted May 11, 2018
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Climate Change and the Canadian Higher Education System: An Institutional Policy Analysis
- University of Rochester (NY)
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
Climate change is a pressing concern. Higher education can address the challenge, but systematic analyses of climate change in education policy are sparse. This paper addresses this gap in the ...
- Posted May 8, 2018
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Learning for Biosphere Security in a Crowded, Warming World
- University of Northern British Columbia (BC)
Among all the pressing needs for educational innovations that humanity faces today, arguably the most imperative is the need to elicit the learner's active involvement in a 'Great Transition ...
- Posted May 8, 2018
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Towards Transformative Social Learning on the Path to 1.5 Degrees
- Wageningen University
- Rhodes University
- University of the Witwatersrand
This paper provides insights into learning orientations and approaches that encourage change and transformation on the path to achieving the 1.5 degree C target. This literature review of the ...
- Posted May 8, 2018
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Ontario Helping Colleges and Universities Fight Climate Change
- Fairtrade Canada (ON)
- Niagara College Canada (ON)
- Sheridan College (Ontario) (ON)
- Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (ON)
- Upper Canada College (ON)
- University of Ontario Institute of Technology (ON)
Ontario is investing in colleges and university campuses to improve energy efficiency while also fostering student involvement. Ontario is helping fund green projects such as installing energy-efficient windows, high-efficiency boilers ...
- Posted May 8, 2018
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Facilitating a World Climate Negotiation Simulation
- University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)
- AASHE (PA)
The World Climate Simulation has been run with over 35,000 people in nearly 80 countries to enable people to experience the dynamics of the UN climate negotiations. Join this ...
- Posted April 26, 2018
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Climate Change and Art: Transparency with Miguel Barros
- Bow Valley College (AB)
To celebrate Earth Day 2018, the BVC Green team, Intercultural Centre, International Education, and Iniikokaan Aboriginal Centre at Bow Valley College partnered to host artist Miguel Barros' work Transparency, depicting ...
- Posted April 26, 2018
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Climate Change Minor
- Cornell University (NY)
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and dozens of courses at Cornell explore the many facets of a warming world – from impacts on farming ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Climate Change Minor
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
The Department of Marine and Ecological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University seeks to maintain a team of engaged professionals from a range ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Human Dimensions of Climate Change Minor & Certificate
- University of Victoria (BC)
We focus on climate change from the perspectives of all the major disciplines that emphasize the human elements of climate change. This includes psychology, economics, geography, anthropology, law, philosophy, political ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Climate Justice Minor
- Sterling College (KS)
Students pursuing a minor in Climate Justice at Sterling College will explore environmental and social justice issues that both contribute to and arise from climate change. With a strong understanding ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Climate Change Certificate
- University of Utah (UT)
As the impacts of climate change become more severe over the coming years and decades, companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations will be required to adapt and respond to climate ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Climate Change & Landscape Dynamics Emphasis, Geography (BA/BS)
- University of Utah (UT)
This emphasis focuses on the Earth system, its processes, and the impacts of these processes on the environment. Students can choose electives that allow them to specialize in one or ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Climate Change & Sustainability
- University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)
an interdisciplinary minor, under the direction of the UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative and housed in the Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department. A student enrolled in this minor will ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Assessing the Understanding, Awareness, and Concern for Climate Change across Undergraduate Faculties at Dalhousie University
- Dalhousie University (NS)
The research completed in this study evaluates the levels of understanding, awareness, and concern for climate change of current undergraduate students in Dalhousie University’s Faculties of Engineering, Science, Health ...
- Posted April 11, 2018
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Planning for Campus-Community Resilience to Climate Change in Champaign-Urbana
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
This literature study involves a two-prong analysis. The first part (Chapter 2) will involve review of literature, reports, websites of organizations who are involved in sustainability and resilience planning. The ...
- Posted April 11, 2018
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Taking Action to Mitigate Climate Change on Campus and Beyond
- Colby College (ME)
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- Clean Air-Cool Planet (NH)
- AASHE (PA)
- Energy Action Coalition
"Scientific instruments showed that the gas had reached an average daily level above 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that ...
- Posted April 3, 2018
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Enhancing Sustainability and Climate Focused Curricula with AMS Climate Studies
- Coppin State University (MD)
- Second Nature (MA)
- AASHE (PA)
- American Meteorological Society (DC)
The intention of this webinar is to highlight the important of studying climate science and global change topics and working toward a climate literate society. Presenters will inform participants about ...
- Posted March 29, 2018
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Students' Understanding of Sustainability and Climate Change across Linked Service-Learning Courses
- University of Vermont (VT)
College and university faculty are increasingly being called upon to teach about sustainability. Many of these faculty members are incorporating content related to climate change because climate change is arguably ...
- Posted March 29, 2018
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Experiential Learning and Pathways to Carbon Neutrality
- University of Montana- Missoula (MT)
To date, more than 650 university presidents across the United States have become signatories of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). A central goal of being a ...
- Posted Feb. 28, 2018
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Climate Resilience Planning and Organizational Learning on Campuses and Beyond: A Comparative Study of Three Higher Education Institutions
- Boston University (MA)
- Cornell University (NY)
- Smith College (MA)
Higher education institutions around the world are confronting challenges associated with climate change, and many are trying to model practices that support climate change mitigation and resilience. This work initiates ...
- Posted Feb. 28, 2018
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State Of Sustainability In Higher Education 2017: Trends In Climate Change Mitigation And Adaptation
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- Sightlines (CT)
Over the past decade, higher education business, facilities, and sustainability officers have invested a great deal toward reducing campus resource use, waste, and negative ecological impact.
This year’s State ...
- Posted Feb. 28, 2018
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Arizona State University Urban Forestry and Carbon Offsets Pilot
- Arizona State University (AZ)
In 2017, the University Sustainability Practices (USP) office at Arizona State University (ASU) piloted a new urban forestry program to explore the viability of generating carbon offsets through local tree ...
- Posted Feb. 15, 2018
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Climate change and higher education: Assessing factors that affect curriculum requirements
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
Pervasive misinformation about climate change might be reduced if colleges were to include the topic within general education curriculum. This paper analyzes the general education (or “core”) curriculum in the ...
- Posted Feb. 12, 2018
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Connecting Cities and Campuses through Climate Leadership Initiatives
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- California State University, Northridge (CA)
- Second Nature (MA)
Climate change presents one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. Opportunities for inter-sectoral collaboration to drive climate solutions are beginning to emerge and mature with the higher education sector ...
- Posted Feb. 5, 2018
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"Roll Up Your Sleeves and Get At It!" Climate Change Education in Teacher Education
- Lakehead University (ON)
We present findings from research on a nine-week elective course, Climate Change Pedagogy, taught for the first time in the Bachelor of Education program at Lakehead University in Winter 2014 ...
- Posted Dec. 13, 2017
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Opening Keynote - Katharine Hayhoe
- Texas Tech University (TX)
Katharine Hayhoe, this year's opening keynote speaker, is an accomplished atmospheric scientist with over 120 peer-reviewed publications focusing on what climate change means for people and the environment. A ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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16 Billion Trees Fell Last Year, Is Anyone Listening?
- TreeZero Paper (GA)
Poster will detail impacts and risks of deforestation; opportunities for reducing paper use and example of easy solution to add to your sustainability efforts to reduce impact on deforestation, climate ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change film screening
- Bullfrog Films (PA)
A 127-minute feature documentary. Filmmaker Josh Fox continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change in 12 countries, acknowledging that it may be too late to stop some of ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Why a Social Justice Framework Is the Only Way to Collective Climate Justice and Deep Sustainability
- Hackman Consulting Group
This poster session lays out the rationale for the absolute need for a social justice framework when doing climate justice and sustainability work by making three essential points: 1. How ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Academicians: How to Teach with Paul Hawken's 'DrawDown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming'
- Oklahoma State University (OK)
Educators curious about how to adapt Paul Hawken's new book 'Drawdown' for use in the classroom (or for campus facilities and operations) should gather to share lessons learned and ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Riverbank Climate Collaboration: How MIT and BU are preparing for Climate Change from Both Sides of the River
- Boston University (MA)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
Preparing urban university campuses for the complexities and uncertainties of new and intensifying climate risks requires aggregating diverse expertise and resources including climate science, urban planning, utility and building systems ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Resilient Randolph: analyzing risks and establishing measurable strategies for campus-community climate resilience
- Randolph College (VA)
Institutions, businesses, and communities are increasingly incorporating resilience strategies as an essential element of climate action planning to help prepare for the adverse impacts of climate change. In January 2017 ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Creating political will for climate action: the role of higher education
- Bard College (NY)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
- Citizens' Climate Lobby (CA)
Political engagement in America is at an all time high; how do we channel that energy to create meaningful change? How can higher education avoid being partisan while building the ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Teaching Climate Change Across the Curriculum
- Southwestern University (TX)
- Trinity University (TX)
The complexities of climate change can only be understood through multiple disciplinary lenses. Faculty at Southwestern University and Trinity University have developed curricula that promote interdisciplinary student learning about this ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Carbon Markets & Offsets Guidance
- Second Nature (MA)
This document was developed as a resource for higher education institutions implementing one of the Presidents’ Climate Leadership Commitments. It outlines the concept of carbon offsets, how offsetting can be ...
- Posted Nov. 7, 2017
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2020 Sustainability Scholar in the Field
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
Lia Bobay works with mentor Adam Fudickar to band and measure birds to track bird migration affected by climate change.
- Posted Oct. 14, 2017
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Smith College Study Group on Climate Change
- Smith College (MA)
Here are several photos that we were utilized in the Report of the Smith College Study Group on Climate Change to illustrate campus work and initiatives in sustainability, including the ...
- Posted Oct. 10, 2017
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Fear Appeals and College Students’ Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions Toward Global Warming
This study used Witte's extended parallel process model to examine the relationships between the use of fear appeals and college students’ attitudes and behavioral intentions toward global warming. A ...
- Posted Aug. 28, 2017
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How Are Campuses Harnessing Renewable Energy? New Report Tracks Trends in Higher Ed
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- AASHE (PA)
- Edison Energy (CA)
As a whole, campuses are getting more energy efficient. But space growth counter-weighs these gains. Hundreds of campuses have onsite solar. But the arrays are small, and sometimes the SCRECs ...
- Posted July 27, 2017
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The World Climate Simulation
- University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)
The importance of sustainability will only grow during our students’ lifetimes, as will the need for sustainability-literate citizens and professionals of all types. We have developed an interactive and engaging ...
- Posted July 21, 2017
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The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions
Current anthropogenic climate change is the result of greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere, which records the aggregation of billions of individual decisions. Here we consider a broad range of ...
- Posted July 13, 2017
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Not Business as Usual: Fostering Civic Engagement on Climate Change
- AASHE (PA)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
- Citizens' Climate Lobby (CA)
Scientists are in consensus that the world needs to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, and this cannot be accomplished by ...
- Posted July 13, 2017
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Climate Change Research at Universities: Addressing the Mitigation and Adaptation Challenges
This book provides a multidisciplinary review of current, climate-change research projects at universities around the globe, offering perspectives from all of the natural and social sciences.
Numerous universities worldwide pursue ...
- Posted June 8, 2017
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University of California Climate Lab, Video Series Episode Six: Scientists really aren't the best champions of climate science
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
This is the sixth episode of Climate Lab, a six-part series produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox. Hosted by Emmy-nominated conservation scientist Dr. M. Sanjayan, the ...
- Posted May 25, 2017
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Swarthmore Carbon Charge Program
- Swarthmore College (PA)
Swarthmore’s Carbon Charge seeks to systematically incorporate the unfelt global impacts of our emissions into our decision-making, both individually and as a college.
The scope of the work necessary ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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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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