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Engaging Students Beyond Individual Sustainability Action
- California State University, Fresno (CA)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
- Tufts University (MA)
- University of Michigan (MI)
- University Mohammed VI Polytechnic
- New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJ)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
Students have boundless energy and passion, but often express frustration that many sustainability solutions place emphasis on individual action and/or their efforts do not make a significant impact on ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Finding Your Point of Intervention
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
In the zero waste community, there’s been a longstanding debate about whether individual action vs. collective action prompts the most effective change. What is your stance? How do you ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader
- Salisbury University (MD)
- University of British Columbia Okanagan (BC)
- Northeastern University (MA)
- McGill University (QC)
- Colorado State University (CO)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
- TREE Foundation (FL)
- National Geographic Society (DC)
- Iowa State University (IA)
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
Solutions to our most pressing environmental problems demand the development and application of leadership skills that are not typically fostered in traditional academic programs: skills that advance new transdisciplinary approaches ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Teamwork makes the net-work: participant-governed networks and athletics sustainability collaboration
- Frostburg State University (MD)
- North Carolina State University (NC)
- Temple University (PA)
Athletic departments play an important role in sustainability-based collaborative processes due to their boundary spanning connections with both internal and external university stakeholders. As a result, athletic department representatives have ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Let Your Actions Speak: How to Connect Individual Change to Systems Change
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
To create and enact the solutions necessary for a sustainable future, we need our students - regardless of major - to develop both a sense of and a skill set for agency ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Introducing a Climate Anxiety Toolkit and Generating Insights from a Co-Evaluation Process
- AASHE (MA)
- University of Technology Sydney
In this webinar, the presenters will introduce a recently developed climate toolkit as well as conduct a co-evaluation process of the resource with participants. The webinar will draw on insights ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2021
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Getting our Sh*t Together BEFORE it Hits the Fan
- West Chester University of Pennsylvania (PA)
This presentation will provide a practical follow-up to a well-received session I led at the 2019 AASHE conference titled, 'Envisioning Higher Education for Sustainability AFTER the Sht Hits the ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Strengthening Social Sustainability in the Face of Declining Community Trust
- College of Charleston (SC)
A just transition to a more sustainable world requires a strong understanding and application of social sustainability. Yet, social sustainability is often misunderstood, underrepresented and excluded, particularly in higher education ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Student Sustainability Coalition (SSC) Common Agenda
- University of Michigan (MI)
Establishing a Common Agenda as a significant first step under a Collective Impact Framework for rapidly improving social justice and environmental sustainability conditions on campus; using the drafting process not ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Defining social change as social action: higher education’s role in addressing social change
- University of Greenwich
Social issues that need addressing have never been in short supply and, despite regular calls for action, some of them recur with unfortunate regularity. Higher education institutions have a key ...
- Posted April 8, 2021
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Radicalize the Hive: What Bees Can Teach Us About Shaping Social Change
- Farm to Institution New England (VT)
Led by consultant and beekeeper Ang Roell this webinar focuses on building more effective collaborations. Taking inspiration from honey bees, a social super-organism, Ang leads participants through conversations and practices ...
- Posted Feb. 3, 2020
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Award Winner Session: The Ladder of Staff Engagement: Programs Designed to Move From Individual Steps to Collective Action
- McGill University (QC)
There is often tension between the focus on individual behavioral action and systemic change in sustainability circles. How do we encourage the small steps that engage community members on a ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Social Movement (MS)
- Oklahoma State University (OK)
Sociologists study social movements to understand how collective action can transform social order, cultural values and ideologies, economic relations, and hierarchies. Professional sociologists study strategies used to establish connections among ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2019
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Place-Based Art, Science, and Agency: Transformative Action and Connection for Climate Change Times
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Climate change is often framed as a scientific problem, fossil fuel, or greenhouse gas problem. Digging past these framings to the wound, not just the symptoms, we see sustainability as ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Collective action competence: an asset to campus sustainability
- Duke University (NC)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to operationalize theories of social learning and collective action for campus sustainability practitioners at higher education instititions (IHEs) to enhance their work, and ...
- Posted July 18, 2016
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Collective Action and Sustainability
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Sustainability problems including climate change, hyper-consumption, water stress, deforestation, etc. are all wicked problems. A few underlying elements are pervasive in these sustainability issues. Each problem is at a scale ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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MomentUs: Building a Movement on Campus for Climate Solutions
- Millersville University (PA)
- ecoAmerica (DC)
Empowered by collective action on our campuses and throughout our communities, we can build momentum to align the myriad of climate change solutions and exponentially increase our effectiveness. Together, we ...
- 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 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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