AASHE Campus Sustainability Hub

20% discount to attend Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference (WOHESC) for AASHE members Membership Required

• Portland State University (OR)

WOHESC is a platform for empowering and inspiring change making, facilitating action, and for sharing, networking, and collaboration related to sustainability within the region's higher education institutions. Through facilitated ...

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The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions Membership Required

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 ...

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Not Business as Usual: Fostering Civic Engagement on Climate Change Membership Required

• AASHE (PA)
• U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
• Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
• CitizensΓÇÖ 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 ...

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Green Awakenings Report 2011: Identifying the assets and barriers to creation care on Christian campuses Membership Required

• Abilene Christian University (TX)
• Baylor University (TX)
• Calvin College (MI)
• Eastern University (PA)
• Gordon College (MA)
• Messiah College (PA)
• Renewal: Students Caring for Creation (MI)

Renewal’s 2011 Green Awakenings: Digging Deeper explores the conditions that lead to the success or failure of creation care initiatives on Christian campuses. As Renewal has witnessed more engagement ...

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Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: The Effectiveness of Community-Based Social Marketing on Energy Conservation for Sustainable University Campuses Membership Required

• Emory University (GA)
• Kansas State University (KS)

The paper presents a community-based social marketing (CBSM) study that was conducted at Kansas State University (KSU) to determine potential strategies to decrease energy consumption on college campuses. The study ...

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What are the key elements of a sustainable university? Membership Required

Nowadays, the principles of sustainable development are becoming increasingly important and universities are acting as agents in promoting these principles within society. In the future, universities will inevitably play crucial ...

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The engaged university: providing a platform for research that transforms society Membership Required

Despite a growing recognition that the solutions to current environmental problems will be developed through collaborations between scientists and stakeholders, substantial challenges stifle such cooperation and slow the transfer of ...

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Sustainability Leadership Programs: Emerging Goals, Methods & Best Practices Membership Required

Colleges and universities are rushing to respond to an increasingly urgent challenge: developing the next generation of sustainability leaders. Although diverse in program design, teaching methodologies, assumptions, and skills taught ...

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Qualifications for Contributing to Sustainable Development A Survey of Environmental Sciences Graduates Membership Required

A survey of Environmental Sciences graduates from ETH Zurich was conducted to gain insights into their sustainability-oriented activities. 567 participants provided 672 concrete best-practice examples of their professional contributions to ...

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Spreading the Eco-Message: Using Proactive Coping to Aid Eco-Rep Behavior Change Programming Membership Required

• George Mason University (VA)
• Pennsylvania State University (PA)

Making pro-environmental behavior changes can be difficult, particularly when these changes challenge daily routines and comfortable lifestyles. We designed and implemented an eco-representative intervention program to help students reduce their ...

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Influences on Student Intention and Behavior Toward Environmental Sustainability Membership Required

As organizations place greater emphasis on environmental objectives, business educators must produce the next set of leaders who can champion corporate environmental sustainability initiatives. However, environmental sustainability represents a polarizing ...

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Energy conservation attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors in science laboratories Membership Required

Energy use per square foot from science research labs is disproportionately higher than that of other rooms in buildings on campuses across the nation. This is partly due to labs ...

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Analyzing Barriers to Energy Conservation in Residences and Offices: The Rewire Program at the University of Toronto Membership Required

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
• Yale University (CT)
• University of Toronto (ON)

Conducting a barriers analysis is an important first step when designing proenvironmental behavior change interventions. Yet, detailed information on common barriers to energy conservation campaigns remains unavailable. Using a pair ...

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Personal authenticity and political subjectivity in student deliberation in environmental and sustainability education Membership Required

This study problematizes what is meant when one talks about classroom activities concerning environmental and sustainability issues as being authentic or not. It reports excerpts from three classroom discussions which ...

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The relationship between university students’ environmental identity, decision-making process, and behavior Membership Required

Environmental education scholars have argued for the need to focus on identity as a more predictive factor than attitude of individuals’ environmental behavior. We examine individuals’ decision-making as a mediating ...

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Earthday at Universidad de Monterrey Membership Required

• Universidad de Monterrey (NL)

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Put a Price on It: Bringing Higher Education into the Carbon Pricing Dialog Membership Required

• Swarthmore College (PA)
• AASHE (PA)

This webinar explores the role of institutions of higher education in the emerging national carbon pricing dialog. Institutions of higher education have an immense capacity to educate a broad audience ...

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NYU Celebrates Earth Month Membership Required

• New York University (NY)

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UCI celebrates Bike Month Membership Required

• University of California, Irvine (CA)

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GVSU Bike Safety Course for National Bike Month Membership Required

• Grand Valley State University (MI)
• League of American Bicyclists (DC)

This lunch and learn serves as a 45 minute introduction to safe and knowledgeable bicycling. The discussion is led by instructors certified by the League of American Bicyclists (LCIs) and ...

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Sustainability on the Other Side of the Stacks An embedded librarian in the Sustainability Office Membership Required

Sustainability on the Other Side of the Stacks: An embedded librarian in the Sustainability Office By Amy Brunvand, American Libraries, The Scoop [blog], May 22, 2017 (online, part of a ...

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Full Service Organics Membership Required

• St. John's University, New York (NY)

In the Full Service Organics documentary video, St. john's University, New York (SJU) has documented its efforts of student engagement in fighting hunger and waste, and making compost from ...

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Swarthmore Carbon Charge Program Membership Required

• 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.

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University of California, Irvine's Pump2Plug Electric Vehicle Adoption Program Membership Required

• University of California, Irvine (CA)

The UCI Pump2Plug Electric Vehicle (EV) Adoption Program is widely recognized as the first university incentive programs for EV adoption through the replacement of gas-powered vehicles with electric vehicles. With ...

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University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point Designated as the 40th Fair Trade University in the U.S. Membership Required

• University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)

The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, part of a national initiative by Fair Trade Campaigns to engage college/university students in issues of global poverty, officially received designation as ...

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Natural Herbicides Project Membership Required

• Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
• Engineers for a Sustainable World (DC)

The Natural Herbicides Project focuses on addressing the issue of the usage of chemical herbicides with detrimental health and environmental impacts on- and off-campus. Our team developed an effective natural ...

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Penstemon 2.0 Membership Required

• Santa Clara University (CA)

From the outset, our goal has been to foster a culture of sustainability at the University by focusing on our curriculum as an interdisciplinary community of scholars. SCU has used ...

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Art as the Catalyst for Critical Sustainability Conversations Membership Required

• 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 ...

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Students Contribute Record-Breaking $6 Million to Student Green Energy Fund Membership Required

• University of South Florida (FL)

The purpose of the Student Green Energy Fund is to provide an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to present formal proposals to a governing Fund Council with the goal ...

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Report of the Smith College Study Group on Climate Change Membership Required

• Smith College (MA)

In this report, the Study Group on Climate Change (SGCC) presents its recommendations for climate action by Smith College. By implementing these recommendations, the college will coherently integrate climate action ...

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Branding our Waste: Creating College-Specific Recycling Signage through Collaboration Membership Required

• Red River College (MB)

In an ongoing effort to improve the effectiveness of our waste and recycling programs, Red River College set about redesigning our hallway waste and recycling signage (Pitch In signs) in ...

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Sustainability Weekend Conference, Carnegie Mellon University Membership Required

• Carnegie Mellon University (PA)

‘Sustainability Weekend’ is a student-initiative held on Carnegie Mellon’s campus in Pittsburgh, PA, with the goal to promote inter-disciplinary conversations to raise awareness about the many sustainability issues surrounding ...

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Cascadia Campus Climate Conversation (C4) Membership Required

• Cascadia College (WA)

-On October 25th, 2016, the senior cohort of the Bachelors of Applied Science in Sustainable Practices (BASSP) program at Cascadia College, Bothell, WA, held the first campus dialogue to discuss ...

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How Middlebury College Achieved Carbon Neutrality Membership Required

• Middlebury College (VT)

This past winter, Middlebury College achieved an ambitious goal of carbon neutrality that had been officially set in 2007. When it became clear that the College’s initial of goal ...

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Students Spark Solar Membership Required

• University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)

A group of ten students focused in various areas of study from across the University of Minnesota Duluth campus came together to form the Solar University Network Delegation and advance ...

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SFU’s 20-Year Sustainability Vision and Goals Case Study Submission Membership Required

• Simon Fraser University (BC)

On the 50th Anniversary of the institution, SFU launched an ambitious engagement process to map out and envision what a “sustainable SFU” would look like in 20 years. The yearlong ...

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COAST – a groundbreaking alternative transportation program at the University of Houston Membership Required

• University of Houston (TX)

COAST- Coogs on Alternative Sustainable Transportation, a new alternative transportation incentive program developed by the University of Houston’s Parking and Transportation Services department, is revolutionizing the way people commute ...

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Sustainable Biodiversity on the Georgia Southern Campus Membership Required

• Georgia Southern University (GA)

Our project recorded the biodiversity of vertebrates on the 700 acre rural campus of Georgia Southern University. Faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students were involved in collecting the data. Students ...

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Transforming Campus Food Service with Anytime Dining Membership Required

• University of Maryland, College Park (MD)

The Department of Dining Services at University of Maryland (UMD) set a goal to change the student culture and experience on campus through the Anytime Dining residential dining program. The ...

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The New Eco-Rep Model: Unifying Campus Audiences in Co-Curricular Sustainability Programming Membership Required

• Dickinson College (PA)

Dickinson College has innovatively reformed its Eco-Rep model into a combined student and employee peer-to-peer sustainability education program that creates co-curricular learning experiences aimed at unifying campus stakeholders while increasing ...

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McGill University's Sustainability Projects Fund Membership Required

• McGill University (QC)

The Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) is a crown jewel of McGill University’s sustainability efforts and a best-practice model for universities. The SPF’s main goal is to build a ...

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McGill Students Lobby to Create Climate Officer Position Membership Required

• McGill University (QC)

In Spring 2016, Management PhD student Amir Nosrat, and other colleagues at the Post-Graduate Students' Society of McGill University, came up with the idea to create a Climate Officer position ...

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Cowbell Cleanup Membership Required

• Mississippi State University (MS)

Cowbell Cleanup is an initiative that was started by the Office of Sustainability on Mississippi State University's campus. The University faces a large influx of guests during home football ...

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The Campus Sustainability Plan: A Community Building Momentum Membership Required

• University of Saskatchewan (SK)

Progress on campus wide sustainability is not easy. It takes both planning and implementation to realize results. The University of Saskatchewan is realizing results from its Campus Sustainability Plan, developed ...

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Community Engaged Scholarship and Learning in Urban Forestry helps UTRGV earn Tree Campus USA Designation Membership Required

• The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (TX)

In 2014, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (through its legacy institution UTPA), one of the largest Hispanic Serving Institutions in the country, proposed and offered three iterations of ...

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Reduce the Juice – Saving Energy in Halls of Residence Membership Required

• AASHE (PA)
• University of London

At the University of London, in England, we have launched a behaviour change programme aimed at students living on campus in the University’s halls of residence. The aim of ...

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Complimentary access to Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO) training resources for AASHE Members Membership Required

• Association of Climate Change Officers (DC)

The Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization for executives and officials worldwide in industry, government, academia and the non-profit community. ACCO’s ...

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$100 Discount on Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO) Climate Change Professional (CC-P) credential for AASHE members Membership Required

• Association of Climate Change Officers (DC)

The Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization for executives and officials worldwide in industry, government, academia and the non-profit community. ACCO’s ...

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Johnson County Community College Student Sustainability Committee Membership Required

• Johnson County Community College (KS)

As a broadly effective, innovative, engaging, and replicable project, Johnson County Community College’s Student Sustainability Committee [the SSC, the Committee] is a compelling and powerful tool for developing student ...

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Watershed UGA: A living laboratory transforming campus and community through teaching, research and service Membership Required

• The University of Georgia (GA)

Watershed UGA created a vision and framework for using the campus as a living laboratory to advance sustainability through teaching, research, public service and outreach, and university operations. We are ...

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