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Favourability towards natural gas relates to funding source of university energy centres
- Columbia University (NY)
Methane is 28 to 86 times more potent as a driver of global warming than CO2. Global methane concentrations have increased at an accelerating rate since 2004, yet the role …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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NSF-NHERI Wall of Wind, Florida International University
- Florida International University (FL)
The NSF-NHERI Wall of Wind (WoW) Experimental Facility at Florida International University (FIU) is the only life-size test facility at a U.S. university capable of generating Category 5 winds. The …
- Posted July 22, 2025
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Sustainability Institutes and Labs: From Research to Real-World Impact
- Harvard University (MA)
Campuses have been centers of producing ground-breaking research on critical topics for centuries. Some have succeeded in disseminating that information in a way that catalyzes action, while other research papers …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Centre for Sustainability Transitions
- Stellenbosch University (Western Cape)
The Centre for Sustainability Transitions (CST) is a research, training, and learning centre housed within the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at Stellenbosch University. It brings together research on …
- Posted Nov. 14, 2024
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Arizona Center for Environmental Justice
- University of Arizona (AZ)
The University of Arizona launched the WEST Environmental Justice Center. The center focuses on providing groups and organizations free training, resources, and support to tackle environmental or energy justice challenges. …
- Posted Aug. 22, 2024
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ASU Global Futures Water 2
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Upmanu Lall, professor and director of the Water Institute at the ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, provides welcoming remarks to the 2024 World Water Day event audience. Photo …
- Posted Aug. 15, 2024
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ASU Global Futures Water 1
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Peter Schlosser, Vice President and Vice Provost of Global Futures at Arizona State University, outlines a framework of planetary systems and the vital role secure access to safe water plays …
- Posted Aug. 15, 2024
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Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy, University of Utah
- University of Utah (UT)
New Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy - University of Utah announced in August 2022 the creation of the interdisciplinary Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy to promote …
- Posted Aug. 31, 2023
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Addressing the Social Pillar of Sustainability by Enhancing Racial Equity of Minorities in STEM Higher Education through the CREaTE Pathway
- El Paso Community College (TX)
- University of Texas at El Paso (TX)
The Center for Research in Engineering and Technology Education (CREaTE) is a national center for research in engineering, science, and technology education at The University of Texas at El Paso …
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Sustainable Research at Concordia University
- Concordia University (QC)
The Field Research Facility for Buildings of the Future was built to test which construction materials are the most efficient to get the industry to zero emission standards.
- Posted Aug. 4, 2022
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Delivering on the promise: how are sustainability research institutes enabling interdisciplinary research?
- University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork (Co. Cork)
Despite the potential for research institutes to advance interdisciplinary research on university campuses, There have been few studies on how interdisciplinary research centres integrate multiple disciplines in practice, how they …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice
- University of Oregon (OR)
The Pacific Northwest (PNW) Just Futures Institute is a transformational regional platform for racial and climate justice funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. We hold collaborations among the University …
- Posted May 4, 2022
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Niizhoo-gwayakochigewin: Two Ways of Doing the Right Thing in the Right Way
- Bemidji State University (MN)
Named for an Ojibwe phrase which translates to 'two ways of doing the right things in the right way,' Niizhoo-gwayakochigewin draws from Bemidji State University's (BSU) Sustainability Office, Department of …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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A Sustainability Institute at a PUI: Vision, Formation, and Our First Three Years.
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)
In 2017 the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh launched the Sustainability Institute for Regional Transformations (SIRT). As an Institute at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI) and with a focus on fostering …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Universities responding to the call for sustainability: A typology of sustainability centres
- University of Helsinki
Universities worldwide are experiencing a growing trend to respond to the need for sustainability. Sustainability centres are one key aspect in the sustainability transitions of universities. Until currently, these centres …
- Posted March 4, 2019
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Connecting Communities to Data That Matter - Linkages Through SDGs
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
In recent years, a rising number of innovative firms and entrepreneurs have intentionally coalesced around university centers to bring invention plus implementation together. These universities known as anchor institutions typically …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Interdisciplinary Environmental and Sustainability Education and Research: Institutes and Centers at U.S. Research Universities
- Tufts University (MA)
- Global Council Science and the Environment (DC)
Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability focused institutes and centers (IESICs) serve a crucial role in bridging the knowledge needs of society and the knowledge production capabilities of universities. They facilitate research, …
- Posted June 20, 2018
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Creating Spaces for Sustainability Transformation at Universities: Conditions and practices at a transdisciplinary, student-driven center for sustainability in Uppsala, Sweden
- Uppsala University
Universities have struggled to implement sustainable development in innovative ways (Lozano, 2006). Not much is known about how this implementation happens, can happen and should happen in the higher education …
- Posted April 6, 2018
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Promoting Sustainability Teaching and Research at the Augustana Miquelon Lake Research Station, Canada
- University of Alberta (AB)
Built in 2015, the Augustana Miquelon Lake Research Station's (AMLRS) mission is to promote research, enhance teaching, and develop partnerships for sustainability. Located in central Alberta's Prairie-Boreal ecotone within Miquelon …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Examining Interdisciplinary Sustainability Institutes at Major Research Universities: Innovations in Cross-Campus and Cross-Disciplinary Models
- Boston University (MA)
- Brown University (RI)
- Columbia University (NY)
- Cornell University (NY)
- Duke University (NC)
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
- Northwestern University (IL)
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- Princeton University (NJ)
- Stanford University (CA)
- Texas A&M University (TX)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
- University of Arizona (AZ)
- University of Michigan (MI)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
This is a study of the disctintive characteristics, activities, challenges and opportunities of a specific type of sustainability institute, one that spans the many disciplines of the university and, to …
- Posted June 5, 2017
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Mills Sustainability Center Grand Opening
- Mills College (CA)
The Grand Opening of the Mills Sustainability Center in 2008. The Sustainability Center serves as a hub for sustainability education and collaboration.
- Posted Sept. 12, 2016
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