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A Ground Source Heat Pump Solution for Colorado State University

  • Colorado State University (CO)
  • United States Department of Energy (DC)

Colorado State University (CSU) installed a ground source heat pump (GSHP) system to provide heating and cooling to its 420,000-square-feet Moby Athletic Complex. The Moby Complex contains an 8,000-seat basketball …

  • Posted Sept. 15, 2025
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From Digital Natives to Smart Citizens: Empowering Tech-Savvy Students through Instructional Innovation

  • University of Central Florida (FL)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (MO)

The Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning (FCTL) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) recognized the growing emphasis on integrating sustainability education across diverse academic disciplines in higher education. …

  • Posted Sept. 15, 2025
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Webinar: Create Your Own Climate Change Quilt

  • Binghamton University (NY)
  • AASHE (MA)

Are you frustrated with the lack of attention being given to climate change? Make your voices heard by participating in the Climate Change Quilt project. Join Binghamton University and the …

  • Posted Sept. 15, 2025
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Building sustainable smart cities on the hopes of tech-savvy students

  • University of Central Florida (FL)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (MO)

Abstract This paper outlines a comprehensive idea to transform urban areas into smart learning cities, leveraging innovative technologies to enhance education, innovation, and lifelong learning for all. Our research, based …

  • Posted Sept. 9, 2025
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Greenhouse gas accounting for investment portfolios: quantifying financed emissions at a public research university

  • Northern Arizona University (AZ)

As the urgency of climate change grows, higher education institutions are increasingly accounting for, and reporting, their annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. An often-overlooked source of GHG emissions are those …

  • Posted Sept. 8, 2025
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New Insights on Student Attitudes towards Sustainability in College Life

  • None

Veritrove surveyed 200 respondents, ages 16-24, from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, and Maryland on sustainability, and college life. A key finding from the survey is that 30% of …

  • Posted Sept. 8, 2025
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Webinar: Shaping a Sustainable Future for Collegiate Sports: The Collegiate Sports Sustainability Network

  • Duke University (NC)
  • North Carolina State University (NC)
  • Texas A&M University (TX)
  • AASHE (MA)

Explore the Collegiate Sports Sustainability Network (CSSN), a new national community bringing together athletics and sustainability professionals, faculty and students to accelerate sustainability in collegiate sports. This webinar will provide …

  • Posted Sept. 8, 2025
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Beyond the Right Thing to Do: The Value of Sustainability in Higher Education (2nd Edition)

  • AASHE (MA)

This document aims to help higher education sustainability practitioners more powerfully articulate the value of sustainability to higher education leaders as well as the general public. As different points will …

  • Posted Aug. 26, 2025
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Inflation Reduction Act geothermal/Ground Source Heat Pump 1 page case study

  • University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (WI)

This document provides information about The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's Sonnentag Center Ground Source Heat Pump/geothermal system submission for the tax incentives set up by the Inflation Reduction Act.

  • Posted Aug. 25, 2025
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Washington University in St. Louis Public Engagement

  • Washington University in St. Louis (MO)

This impact area seeks to recognize institutions that help catalyze sustainable communities through their partnerships, collaborations, and public service efforts. By engaging with community members and organizations across diverse sectors …


Washington University in St. Louis Dining Services

  • Washington University in St. Louis (MO)

As part of efforts to support St. Louis area businesses, Washington University in St. Louis Dining Services has partnered with six local restaurants to offer retail dining experiences on campus. …


Duke University Sustainable Infrastructure

  • Duke University (NC)

Duke University Carbon Neutrality Journey

2025 SCI


Faculty and student researchers at the UC Berkeley Climate and Society Center

  • University of California, Berkeley (CA)

The Climate and Society Center (CSC) is developing two key initiatives: a Faculty Roundtable, which supports faculty working on climate equity projects, and a Community Roundtable, which brings together environmental …


Virginia Tech Transit Center

  • Virginia Tech (VA)

Photos of the Virginia Tech Transit Center. You can learn more about the Transit Center here: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/05/transit-center-opens.html


Virginia Tech Transit Center

  • Virginia Tech (VA)

Photos of Virginia Tech's Transit Center. More information available here: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/05/transit-center-opens.html


Student researcher at UC San Diego

  • University of California San Diego (CA)

UC San Diego's new Jane Teranes Climate Change Education Requirement provides greater opportunities for undergraduate students to explore and learn about the multifaceted nature of climate change.


Carbon Neutrality Plan

  • University of Windsor (ON)

Contents 1. Project overview, objectives and methodology 2. Current state analysis 3. Setting targets and establishing the campus roadmap 4. Financial planning, impossible, future project spotlights 5. Accountability

  • Posted Aug. 20, 2025
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Climate-Related Financial Disclosure 2024

  • University of Sydney (NSW)

This voluntary climate disclosure for the year ended 31 December 2024 has been prepared in partial alignment with the Reporting framework for first year climate-related financial disclosures (TPG24-33), issued by …

  • Posted Aug. 20, 2025
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Sustainable energy

  • Mohawk College (ON)

Mohawk College Energy Systems Engineering Technology student, Madi, measures the energy captured by a solar panel on the roof of Mohawk College’s Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation. The Joyce …


Planting a mini forest

  • Mohawk College (ON)

Mohawk College student, Anna, carrying out species identification in the Miyawaki forest. In partnership with Hamilton’s Green Venture, Mohawk College’s Sustainability Green Team helped to plant 300 native trees and …


Earth Day Planting

  • Mohawk College (ON)
  • World Wildlife Fund (DC)

Over 40 student volunteers came together to celebrate Earth Day by planting out a new bioswale at Mohawk College’s Fennell campus. The group planted nearly 500 native grasses and wildflowers …


Native plant bioswale

  • Mohawk College (ON)
  • World Wildlife Fund (DC)

Mohawk College received a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Canada Go Wild Grant to create a bioswale (a long, sloped channel filled with vegetation to filter and slow rainwater runoff) in …


Conservation of snapping turtle habitat

  • Mohawk College (ON)

Caption: Mohawk College Environmental Technician student, KC examines turtle eggs as part of a project to restore a snapping turtle nesting habitat at Christie Lake Conservation Area in Hamilton, Ontario.


Conservation of snapping turtle habitat

  • Mohawk College (ON)

Mohawk College Environmental Technician students, Madi, KC and Jori examine turtle eggs as part of their project to restore a snapping turtle nesting habitat at Christie Lake Conservation Area in …


Purdue STARS Performance Analysis

  • Purdue University (IN)

In 2013, Purdue University submitted the school’s first official report to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) to capture the university’s efforts in sustainability via …

  • Posted Aug. 19, 2025
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Basic Needs, Sustainability & Leadership

  • Portland Community College (OR)

The Basic Needs, Sustainability & Leadership (BNSL) program at Portland Community College provides opportunities to advance the interconnected issues of basic needs support (including food and housing security, transportation access, …


Institutional Highlights: Transformative Sustainability Project (TSP)

  • American University of Sharjah

To be added to the Institutional Highlights section of the 2025 Sustainable Campus Index:

Transformative Sustainability Project - The Transformative Sustainability Project (TSP) is a virtual exchange project at American …


1000 Species Project

  • Dawson College (QC)

In November 2022, at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, Dawson announced that it would try to attract and identify 1000 species in 1000 days on its urban city block and …


ASU Image for SCI

  • Arizona State University (AZ)

Hi there! Harrison Sharp from Arizona State University's Sustainability Practices team following up on request for images for this year's SCI featuring a story about our new sustainability general education …


Princeton University Online Commuter Hub

  • Princeton University (NJ)

Photo to accompany Princeton blurb about commuter hub


Actions and Hopes of the Sustainability-Focused Student

  • College Pulse (CA)

A Student Voice survey of of 2,164 undergraduates from 114 colleges conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse in fall 2022 found that:

  • Forty-five percent of respondents considered environmental …
  • Posted Aug. 18, 2025
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Librarian Anna Kelly shows off one of our rental bikes!

  • Clarkson University (NY)

Librarian Anna Kelly shows off one of our rental bikes!


The Challenges of Interrupting Climate Colonialism in Higher Education: Reflections on a University Climate Emergency Plan

  • The University of British Columbia (BC)

In this article, the question is posed about how higher education institutions might begin to confront the connections between climate change and colonization. To address this question, the dynamics through …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Determinants of the dissemination of economic, social and environmental information at the university level in the context of commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Universidad de Granada

In the context of universities' commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the paper aims to analyse the factors that influence the degree of information disclosure related to the economic, …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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The influence of sustainability education on students’ entrepreneurial intentions

  • American University of Sharjah
  • Bucharest University of Economic studies
  • Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja

Purpose:This study aims to examine the influence of sustainability education in 15 Indian universities and the mediating role of the theory of planned behavior in predicting students’ intentions to start …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Enlightening and empowering students to take action: Embedding sustainability into nursing curriculum

  • Curtin University
  • University of Wollongong (New South Wales)

Graduate nurses are set to face complex global challenges in their future careers. Yet, current pedagogical practices fall short in preparing the future workforce for what lies ahead. There is, …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Electricity saving behavior in student dorms: What message framing works?

  • Prince of Songkla University (Songkhla)

Electricity consumption contributes largely to climate change. Inefficiently overused amounts of electricity can be reduced through low-cost feedback and nudges. We chose to frame different messages to alter the electricity …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Sustainability in supply chain management: using drawings to understand undergraduates' perceptions of sustainability

  • Technological University Dublin (Dublin)

Purpose: This paper presents an interpretation of freehand drawings produced by supply chain management undergraduates in response to the question: “What is sustainability?” Having to explain sustainability pictorially forced students …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Exploring conceptions of sustainability education in initial teacher education: Perspectives from Australia, Canada and Scotland

  • University of Toronto (ON)
  • University of Edinburgh
  • James Cook University (Queensland)

This paper draws on interview data to explore Australian, Canadian and Scottish teacher educators’ conceptions of sustainability education (SE) within initial teacher education (ITE). Findings were generated across three themes: …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Walking the talk: organising for social impact through performance management in European business schools

  • University of St. Gallen
  • Vienna University of Economics and Business

Universities, and business schools specifically, are experiencing a transformation of their societal mission. Similar to the STEM fields, business schools are nested in global competitive environments facing multiple competing pressures, …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Embedding a sustainability mindset in responsible management education

  • Oxford Brookes University

Purpose: Organisational responses to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals depend on the competency and mindset of business leaders to lead responsibly. This study is informed and underpinned by the …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Seeing the wood for the trees: a heuristic framework to enable the integration of sustainability education in higher education settings

  • Cardiff University
  • De Montfort University
  • Université Côte d’Azur

This paper puts forward a conceptual framework to support the dual challenges of strategic and practical integrative action of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) across Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). There …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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To know, feel and do: an instructional practice of higher education for sustainable development

  • National Taichung University of Science and Technology

Purpose: The importance of multidimensional and engaging instruction for sustainable development goals (SDGs) in higher education cannot be overstated. Such instructions should motivate students not only to memorize and contemplate …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Sustainability and Environmental Communities of Practice’s Impact on News Content Diversity

  • Michigan State University (MI)

Communities of practice (CoP) are distinct community groups that share a common interest in which they interact with one another to address problems and reach goals. In the present study, …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Transdisciplinary learning as a key leverage for sustainability transformations

  • Leuphana University of Lüneburg
  • Stockholm University
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Learning and transdisciplinary research are widely acknowledged as key components for achieving sustainability; however, the links between these concepts remain vague in the sustainability literature. Recently, emphasis has been given …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Recommendations to align higher education teaching with the UN sustainability goals – A scoping survey

  • Loughborough University (Leics)
  • Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Global challenges such as climate change, limited resources, and an ever-growing world population demonstrate a perceptible impact on the lives of people around the globe. To tackle the arising issues …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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The Sustainability Literacy of Students: A Comparative Study between Turkey and the UK

  • Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University

In recent years, the sustainability literacy has become crucial for building more sustainable future. In this regard, a shift toward sustainability requires literate society on sustainability issues at global scale. …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Integrating sustainability into a higher education science communication course

  • University of Copenhagen

The global problems faced today call for universities to prioritize science communication education and training. This article describes how sustainability was integrated into a master-level course in science communication through …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Evaluation of UN SDG-related formal learning activities in a university common core curriculum

  • The University of Hong Kong

Purpose: Higher education plays an essential role in achieving the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs). However, there are only scattered studies on monitoring how universities promote SDGs through their …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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The role of higher education and institutional quality for carbon neutrality: Evidence from emerging economies

  • Lebanese American University
  • American University of Beirut
  • Ningbo University of Finance and Economics

Economic development is frequently held accountable for environmental degradation, a situation that is particularly dire in E-7 economies. This problem is further exacerbated by inadequate education on its repercussions. Previous …

  • Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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