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Advancing Sustainability in Higher Education: Two Proposals

  • American Council on Education (DC)
  • Global Council for Science and the Environment (MD)

Sustainability curriculum is rapidly evolving and expanding across higher education: in Gen Ed, through the AASHE Centers for Sustainability Across the Curriculum, in the creation of new degrees and certificates ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Rewild Your Campus With the Green Grounds Certification Program

  • Re:wild Your Campus (TX)

Re:wild Your Campus’s Green Grounds Certification offers a new pathway for schools to improve upon campus sustainability goals, reduce synthetic pesticide usage and implement organic grounds maintenance practices ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Rewild Your Campus with the Green Grounds Certification

  • Seattle University (WA)
  • University of Northern Iowa (IA)
  • AASHE (MA)
  • Re:wild Your Campus (TX)
  • PJC Organic (MA)

Re:wild Your Campus’s Green Grounds Certification offers a new pathway for schools to reduce synthetic pesticide usage and implement organic grounds maintenance practices. This webinar will guide participants ...

  • Posted Sept. 29, 2023
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Sustainability certificates in higher education

  • JAMK University of Applied Sciences

The thesis researched the usage of sustainability certificates in higher education, in Finland and in Europe. The objective was to suggest which certificates were suitable for Jamk University of Applied ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Using the STARS Electronics Purchasing Credit to Drive Safer Chemicals in IT

  • TCO Certified (TX)

Learn how to use the STARS Electronics Purchasing Credit to drive safer chemical content in IT products! Electronics contain a number of chemicals and substances that are hazardous to people ...

  • Posted May 17, 2023
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University Power Grid Resilience Teaches Steps to Carbon Neutrality

  • Chatham University (PA)
  • Green Business Certification Inc (DC)

Chatham’s Eden Hall Campus is designed to be a living lab for sustainability and resiliency where students can drive progress while developing their skills. Advancing progress towards carbon neutrality ...

  • Posted May 17, 2023
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Fullerton Arboretum Achieves Reaccreditation at Highest Level

  • California State University, Fullerton (CA)

In October 2017, Fullerton Arboretum received its first accreditation as a Level IV arboretum. This is the highest level awarded by ArbNet, an organization that recognizes arboreta from around the ...

How We Became Carbon Neutral Certified: Charles Sturt University and University of Tasmania

  • University of Tasmania (TAS)

Climate change remains one of the single greatest environmental and social challenges we face. Tertiary education organizations can take positive action and be part of the global response that is ...

  • Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Equitable Pathways to 2100: Professional Sustainability Credentials

  • ESDI Green Teach for Opportunity Project (DC)

Across numerous industries and occupations, professional associations are contributing to knowledge and skills for sustainability by offering new credentials. This represents an opportunity to increase students’ career preparedness for clean ...

Beyond Green - Can Your IT Purchasing Also Drive Supply Chain Responsibility?

  • TCO Certified (TX)

IT hardware is a complex category for institutional purchasers. Institutions are concerned about not only environmental impacts of their IT infrastructure, but also working conditions in the manufacturing supply chains ...

  • Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Leveraging the Power of Institutional Purchasing to Create a Sustainable Economy through Fair Trade

  • Arizona State University (AZ)
  • University of California, Irvine (CA)
  • Aramark (PA)
  • Fair Trade Colleges & Universities

Fair Trade Campaigns is a powerful grassroots movement mobilizing thousands of conscious consumers and Fair Trade advocates on campuses and in communities across the U.S. Our Fair Trade Colleges ...

  • Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Leadership in Sustainable Grounds Management: The Audubon International Experience

  • American University (DC)
  • University of Florida (FL)
  • Niagara College Canada (ON)
  • Audubon International (NY)

This presentation will provide an open dialogue and best practice sharing on the process of achieving Audubon International's (AI) Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program (ACSP) certification at both public and ...

  • Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Green Dining at Georgia State University

  • Georgia State University (GA)

Georgia State's insourced dining services, PantherDining, continues to impress and promote sustainability throughout campus. With the help from the Student Sustainability Fee Fund, PantherDining recently launched Freight Farms' Leafy ...

  • Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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JUST Label and STARS – Comparison and Synergies

  • AASHE (MA)
  • International Living Future Institute (WA)

The JUST Program has been adopted by organizations worldwide as a robust organizational transparency platform with a specific lens into social equity performance. As organizations and institutions seek to be ...

  • Posted Oct. 31, 2018
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FishChoice

  • Food Alliance (OR)
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium (CA)
  • Marine Stewardship Council (WA)
  • FishChoice Inc. (CO)

The FishChoice platform offers purchasers and STARS participants the ability to run seafood sustainability assessments and find products that meet sustainability standards such as Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification, Fair ...

EPA's Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels

  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)

With over 450 ecolabels in the marketplace today, each claiming to validate environmental and human health benefits, it can become very difficult and time consuming for purchasers to identify which ...

The Efficacy of Third-Party Certifications and Memberships: Bridge to Institutional Sustainability at Colleges and Universities

  • Messiah University (PA)

This study researches the effects of third-party certifications and memberships on decision-making pertaining to environmental practices at higher education institutions (HEIs). A survey containing up to 22 questions was sent ...

Interactive Workshop: Simple Choices in Sustainable Purchasing? Beware the Pitfalls

  • Green Seal (DC)

What's the simple answer for selecting a sustainable product?' Many purchasers ask this when seeking environmentally-responsible choices. Many of these simple answers may seem to be the correct ones ...

  • Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Sustainable Purchasing: Walking (And Talking) the Walk

  • Florida International University (FL)
  • Green Seal (DC)
  • 3M (MN)

Higher education institutions have long been leaders in sustainability but instituting and communicating sustainability can be a challenge. Effective collaboration with those beyond the campus who also serve institutions is ...

  • Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Greening the Supply and Purchasing Chain

  • Chlorine Free Products Association (IL)

In today's world there are those who make claims about their sustainability based on an outdated data, inefficient process, or outright lies. Recently we all found out to what ...

  • Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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University of Washington Housing & Food Services (HFS)

University of Washington Housing & Food Services - Cultivate Restaurant

  • University of Washington, Seattle (WA)

At the University of Washington’s Cultivate Restaurant in Elm Hall, the dining team is pleased to present a pan-seared and citrus butter-basted wild-caught Alaskan salmon. The restaurant is a ...

  • Posted Sept. 12, 2016
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Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program

  • Audubon International (NY)

The Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program (ACSP) is an education and certification program that helps organizations and businesses protect the environment while enhancing their bottom line. The “plan-do-check-act” approach of the ...

Unifying Campus Efforts in Pursuit of Green Restaurant Certification at UC Irvine's East Food Court

  • University of California, Irvine (CA)

UC Irvine's East Food Court became a Certified Green Restaurant on November 5, 2015 and upgraded its certification from 2-Star to 3-Star on April 22, 2016 through significant interdepartmental ...

Challenge the Label

  • ISEAL Alliance

Sustainability claims have become widespread in the modern marketplace, and with it greenwashing has expanded. The practice of making empty, unfounded or exaggerated sustainability claims risks alienating buyers committed to ...

Food Recovery Verified

  • Food Recovery Network (MD)

Food Recovery Verified (FRV) is a program of Food Recovery Network that recognizes institutions, businesses and events for sending their surplus food to people, not landfills.

AASHE Award Winner Webinar - Biodiversity-friendly Campuses

  • Lewis & Clark College (OR)
  • Southern Oregon University (OR)
  • AASHE (MA)
  • Audubon International (NY)
  • Salmon Safe (OR)

Colleges and universities are playing a crucial role in protecting wildlife and restoring habitats on and off campus, and students, faculty, administrators, and staff are champions for sustainable environmental practices ...

  • Posted March 3, 2016
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Go Fish: the New Rules of Sustainable Seafood in College Foodservice

  • Monterey Bay Aquarium (CA)

Whether wild or farmed, marine conservation is driven by which fish we choose to eat. And, in North America, more than 2/3 of meals with fish and seafood are ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Make a difference with a commitment to certified sustainable seafood

  • Marine Stewardship Council (WA)

Higher Education is playing an increasingly important role in fostering sustainable practices, including food service and seafood. With increasing pressure on global fisheries to feed a growing population, the need ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Green Building Education through Certification

  • Roosevelt University (IL)
  • SERF Foundation (MI)

The Society of Environmentally Responsible Facilities (SERF) is a green building certification system that promotes a streamlined, user-friendly and cost effective approach to certification. In addition to certification, SERF is ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Campuses: Integrating Sustainability into Your Institution

  • Audubon International (NY)

Audubon International (AI) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to delivering high-quality environmental education and using incentive-based approaches to implement sustainable natural resource management in all places people ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Third-party Certification: Overcoming Barriers and Unexpected Benefits

  • Boston University (MA)

A third-party certification lends validity and accountability to an institution's efforts and initiatives implemented with the goal of making their operations more sustainable. Third-party certification also benefits an institution ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Designing and Operating a Certified "Living Building:" Meeting Certification and Maintaining Net-Zero Energy

  • Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
  • Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects (MO)

The Tyson Living Learning Center at Washington University in St. Louis opened in May 2009 and on October 12, 2010 became one of the first two buildings in the world ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Seafood Sustainablility on Campus: Making it a Reality

  • Marine Stewardship Council (WA)

The sustainability of the world's seafood supply has become an issue of heightened public awareness, and for good reason. Reports of depleted fish stocks dominate the media. Decades of ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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To LEED or not to LEED: University Makes the Case for Third Party Verification

  • WRNS Studio (CA)

Today, when everyone is claiming green from cereal brands to coal companies, can we really say that we are building sustainably outside a framework of industry-accepted standards and objective third ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Comparison of Third Party Forest Certification Systems for their Impact on University Environmental Footprints

  • University of Alberta (AB)

Forest certification systems are meant to guarantee responsible harvesting and manufacturing practices of forest products. Certified products are now common in the market place and may represent an opportunity for ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Facilities Management - GS-42

  • PortionPac Chemical Corporation (IL)
  • Green Seal (DC)

This presentation is designed to introduce you to the background, development and requirements of Green Seal's GS 42 standard, it's implementation on the Cornell University Campus, and to ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Looking Past Single-impact Certifications: What Promises do they Really Make?

  • Forbo Flooring Systems (PA)

Third-party certification verifies that a product meets specific standards or claims made by the manufacturer. A major benefit of certification is that it can greatly reduce the time and expense ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Seafood at the University of Minnesota

  • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

The ultimate goal of this project is to transform the process by which seafood is purchased and consumed at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Currently, no criteria concerning sustainability ...

  • Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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