Coordination & Planning
Introduction
Staff and other resources help an institution organize, implement, and publicize sustainability initiatives. These resources provide the infrastructure that fosters sustainability within an institution. Sustainability planning affords an institution the opportunity to clarify its vision of a sustainable future, establish priorities and help guide budgeting and decision making.
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ACUPCC: Writing, Implementing and Supporting Climate Action Plans
- San Francisco State University (CA)
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Over 600 chancellors and presidents have signed the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment. However, making the commitment and meeting it represent two very different tasks, the challenges which …
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Climate Action Implementation on research campuses: Lessons from large scale energy projects
- Cornell University (NY)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
For large research campuses achieving climate neutrality requires a combination of supply-side and demand-side energy initiatives. Panelists will focus on the implementation of Climate Action Plans underway at three universities. …
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Building Weatherization Planning through Cross-Campus Collaboration
- Colby College (ME)
- Harvard University (MA)
- University of Virginia (VA)
Last May, more than 50 students took a break from studying for finals and partnered with the school's Environmental Action Committee, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Green Program, and Office …
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Internal Energy Auditing to Meet Portfolio-Wide GHG Reduction Goals at 3 Institutions
- Colby College (ME)
- Harvard University (MA)
- University of Virginia (VA)
Universities worldwide are committing to greenhouse gas reduction goals and implementing climate action plans. Optimizing building efficiency is often identified as a central strategy to achieving these ambitious goals. To …
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Maintaining Progress: Moving from a GHG Inventory to a Climate Action Plan
- University of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus (CO)
- Auraria Higher Education Center (CO)
Many individuals and institutions understandably struggle with how to move from a campus GHG inventory, which is simply a list of what you "use", to a campus climate action plan, …
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Eden Hall Campus: Laboratory for 21st century climate positive living
- Chatham University (PA)
- BNIM Architects (MO)
As the alma mater of Rachel Carson, Chatham University has long been committed to environmental education, advocacy and stewardship. In recent years, that commitment has included establishing a dorm focused …
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Values and Attitudes: Okanagan College's Journey to Sustainability
- Okanagan College (BC)
- CEI Architecture Planning Interiors (BC)
This presentation will demonstrate how a commitment to sustainability was developed over a five-year period, culminating in a $28 million dollar investment in a new Centre o f Excellence in …
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Measuring Sustainable Dining with the Real Food Challenge Calculator
- Eastern Washington University (WA)
- Real Food Challenge (MA)
There's no question that determining the sustainability of a college dining hall-and other foodservice operations-is difficult. Between dealing with confusing and often competing claims about food sustainability to actually quantifying …
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Change Management for Sustainability
- Harvard University (MA)
- Yale University (CT)
This workshop is structured to define the new frontier for managing institutional change for sustainability. At its heart, change management for sustainability is about making change easy, desirable and rewarding. …
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Implementation of a Custom Sustainability Action Plan at Lynn University
- Lynn University (FL)
- Buro Happold (NY)
This discussion with outline the comprehensive masterplanning exercise and the Sustainability Implementation process that Buro Happold provided Lynn University, a private, coeducational institution located in Boca Raton, Florida.
Lynn University …
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Measuring and managing sustainability using SAS at Duke University
- Duke University (NC)
- SAS (NC)
Higher education institutions face many complexities tracking and reporting emissions and other sustainability measures that extend beyond the capacities of spreadsheets and manual reporting tools. Institutional sustainability performance today requires …
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Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
- Second Nature (MA)
Unity College in Maine is assessing its efforts according to President Mitchell Thomashow's Nine Elements of a Sustainable Culture - as highlighted in Kyoto Publishing's recent Climate Neutral Campus Report. …
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The Six Competencies of Integrated Sustainability Planning
- University of Michigan (MI)
- Society for College and University Planning (MI)
Building an integrated planning process is critical to the success of sustainability efforts on any campus. However, it's much easier said than done. In order to bring planning efforts from …
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Creating a Truly Sustainable Campus: Integrating Sustainability Into Curriculum and Operations Throughout an Entire College
- Algonquin College (ON)
- Sustainability Solutions Group (QC)
The workshop will highlight the importance of taking an integrated approach to sustainability by bridging the divide between curriculum and operations. Algonquin College is currently integrating a broad-based sustainability strategy …
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SCORE: A Sustainability Rapid Assessment Launchpad to AASHE STARS
- Dartmouth College (NH)
- Sustainable Measures, LLC (CT)
Dartmouth College used SCORE, a sustainability 'rapid assessment' tool, in conjunction with AASHE's STARS Pilot assessment tool to analyze the College's sustainability progress. SCORE, based on The Business Guide to …
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Climate Action Planning and Student Engagement
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
- Syracuse University (NY)
Sustainability and Climate Action efforts SUNY ESF first engaged students in a formal way in 2000. Students developed ESF's first assessment of the energy required to educate and undergraduate student …
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Campus Sustainability Plan 1.0 - a framework for transformative action
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
- University of Hawaii - West Oahu (HI)
UCSC drafted its first comprehensive Campus Sustainability Plan (the Plan) during the 2009-10 academic year, building on a long history of environmental stewardship and nine years of active campus sustainability …
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No half measures, making an institution wide commitment to sustainability
- Dickinson College (PA)
In Boldly Sustainable, Peter Bardaglio and Andrea Putnam argue that "halfhearted measures won't work," that colleges and universities need to make an authentic commitment to sustainability that involves the curriculum, …
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Effective Strategies for Implementing Sustainability Across a Large Catholic University
- DePaul University (IL)
Sustainability in a Catholic institution starts with mission and values. Implementing a comprehensive sustainability plans requires integrating curricula, operations, research and engagement with the institutional mission. In a Vincentian institution …
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goCARTS: Driving Learning Through Climate Action Plan Implementation
- Ithaca College (NY)
Ithaca College has pledged to achieve climate neutrality by the year 2050. Climate neutrality means zero NET emissions. Interim goals include a 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2015, …
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Aligning Sustainability Commitments with Actions at A Wild West University
- New Mexico State University (NM)
This is a panel on how to encourage a university to align stated sustainability commitments with actions. Four faculty at a Wild West University (hereafter WWU, not its real name) …
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University of Minnesota System-Wide Sustainability
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Put a cougar, a bulldog, a gopher, and an eagle in one room - do you find sustainability? You betcha!
The University of Minnesota community has created new, regional models …
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How We Live and How We Learn: Sustainability at U.Va.
- University of Virginia (VA)
U.Va.'s Presidential Committee on Sustainability, Office of the Architect and Utilities staff focus on achieving university-wide curricular and operations goals. Simultaneously, individual Schools have set sustainability goals, such as Darden's …
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Recreation as a viable Partner in Sustainability Efforts
- Washington State University, Pullman (WA)
Over the last 10 years the Student Recreation Center at Washington State University (WSU) has been utilized over 6 million times by students, staff, and faculty. 89% of the freshman …
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Feeding Innovation in Sustainability: Ithaca's Comprehensive Dining Energy Plan
- Ithaca College (NY)
Sodexo's Facility Management team approached Ithaca College with a proposal to conduct a comprehensive energy audit of all food service facilities on campus (3 board dining halls, 1 food court, …
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From Red To Green: Sustainability Planning In A Shifting Environment
- North Carolina State University (NC)
Many colleges and universities are beginning the task of creating formal plans for how they will reach their sustainability, energy and climate neutrality goals. Many campuses are also still creating …
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Canadian Universities and Colleges Advance Tomorrow's Low Carbon Economy
- Okanagan College (BC)
- EY (VA)
Canadian universities and colleges, from St. John to Victoria are playing an instrumental role in not only demonstrating steps towards a low carbon economy, but also helping communities to adapt …
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Pulling it all together: a comprehensive approach to climate neutrality
- University at Buffalo (NY)
Reaching the goal of climate neutrality requires universities to do many things at once. As such, the University at Buffalo has chosen an explicitly comprehensive and integrated approach to climate …
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Ideas to Implementation-Catalizing Student, Staff and Faculty Sustainability Efforts
- University of British Columbia (BC)
This session will describe a decade-long award-winning initiative that partners students, faculty and students to catalyze sustainability efforts on our 60,000 person campus. Using the campus as a living laboratory, …
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Relationship Economics: Causal Measurement Connects Sustainability Initiatives to Critical Outcomes
- University of Chicago (IL)
To establish the first comprehensive and fully integrated university-wide sustainability system, a robust causal measurement system was created to guide strategic decision making, prioritizing the implementation of sustainability programs and …
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Navigating by the STARS: Using STARS to Re-Organize Campus Decision-Making
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
This session examines the evolution of sustainability efforts in higher education from principle-based proclamations such as the Talloires Declaration, to goal-based agreements such as the Presidents Climate Commitment, to metric-based …
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The Regional Sustainability Index
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)
ABSTRACT: The Regional Sustainability Index
Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important factor in the economic development of regions in many states. However, there is not a tool available to assist …
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Service Learning Involving Community Partnerships and Community Sustainability Planning
- Acadia University (NS)
In Canada, communities are increasingly developing sustainability plans in order to access federal funds made available through a municipal gas tax rebate program. While larger communities are well positioned to …
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Campus sustainability initiatives: what helps, what hinders?
- Antioch University, New England (NH)
As more and more campuses become increasingly adept at measuring their progress toward sustainability, it is just as important to also track a variety of institutional factors that might help …
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Reporting or Auditing: The Challenge of Implementing STARS
- Ball State University (IN)
During the pilot development phase of STARS, much of the threaded e-mail exchange focused on the difficulty of the post-facto gathering of information needed to report and audit institutional achievements …
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Best practice in UK HE sustainability implementation
- Bradford University (West Yorkshire)
To present leading work from UK HEis on the implementation of sustainability focussing on large scale curriculum, student engagement, outdoor classroom and cultural change. Specific feature on host institutional programme- …
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An Integral Approach to Institutionalizing Sustainability: A Case Study of Colorado College
- Colorado College (CO)
Recently, institutions of higher education (IHE) have moved toward greening their campuses and incorporating sustainability principles into strategic planning, operations, education, research, and public engagement. While many IHE have some …
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Beyond GHG Reduction. Climate Change adaptation for Dalhousie University.
- Dalhousie University (NS)
Global and local environmental and sustainability challenges such as energy security, efficiency, and climate change are compounding. Universities across the world have responded by signing commitment statements, conducting GHG inventories, …
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A Survey of Water Management at University and College Campuses
- Duke University (NC)
The effective management of water is necessary as water resources become increasingly scarce and variable through inefficient consumption, pollution, and climate change. Integrated water resource management is recommended to sustainably …
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Go Green: Institutionalizing Sustainability at Eastern Michigan University
- Eastern Michigan University (MI)
The purpose of this presentation is to examine efforts to start a campus sustainability drive at a mid-sized university. This talk will present the ongoing efforts to institutionalize sustainability at …
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Innovative Campus Sustainability Initiatives at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida
- Eckerd College (FL)
Eckerd College signed the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) in 2007. The College has data on campuswide greenhouse gas emissions since 2002. We will present this data, …
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Planning sustainable campus urban forests: Indiana University-Bloomington and Tree Campus USA.
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
Many universities are creating or updating their campus master plans with an eye toward sustainability, going beyond traditional development-based plans centered on new building construction and instead focusing on protecting …
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How to Launch an Office of Sustainability at Warp Speed
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
How does one start an office of sustainability at a Big Ten university campus with 40,000 students? This paper will describe how one director of sustainability catalyzed change through rapid …
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Involving the Entire Community: Missouri State University and Sustainability
- Missouri State University (MO)
On June 15, 1995, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan signed into law Senate Bill 340 which gave Missouri State University a statewide mission in Public Affairs. In late 2007 the University …
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Kick-Start Your Sustainability Program Using Student Funding and Energy!
- North Seattle College (WA)
North Seattle Community College (NSCC) has burst on to the college sustainability scene over the last year by establishing a model for a vigorous Sustainability Program. While other programs boast …
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Sustainability Coordinators in Higher Education - Research and Solutions
- Oklahoma State University (OK)
Environmental sustainability is a growing subject at universities across the United States. Many universities have decided to hire a "Sustainability Coordinator" as a full-time faculty position in order to maximize …
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Campus Sustainability Programs: A Case Study of Historical Fragmented Campus
- Savannah College of Art & Design (GA)
For more than 30 years, SCAD has transformed historic properties into thriving environments for students, including former hotels, a hospital, a prison, a synagogue, a convent, a department store, a …
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How Three Institutions Achieved Progressive Measures of Environmental Sustainability
- South Dakota State University (SD)
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to use a comparative case study to examine how higher education institutions achieved progressive measures of environmental sustainability.
Design/methodology/approach: The study compared three …
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A Symphony of Green Inititatives on College and University Campuses
- The Ohio State University (OH)
A Symphony of Green Initiatives on College and University Campuses
Brett Mayo, Director of Energy Management & Sustainability, Office of Student Life, The Ohio State University
Abstract:
Background
Colleges and …
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Setting Ambitious Climate Action Targets
- University of British Columbia (BC)
UBC adopted a Climate Action Plan in 2010 to advance towards a low-carbon future, committing the university to aggressive greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. Compared to 2007 levels, GHGs will …
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This tab provides access to data collected through AASHE’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS). STARS is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance. STARS enables meaningful comparisons over time and across institutions using a common set of measurements developed with broad participation from the campus sustainability community.
All responses reference content from reports under the latest version of STARS, version 2.2. AASHE membership and log-in is required.
PA 1: Sustainability Coordination
- Description of the sustainability committee(s)
- Description of the sustainability office(s)
- Description of activities and accomplishments of the institution-wide coordinating body or officer during the previous three years
- First sustainability position (upload)
- First sustainability position (text)
- Second sustainability position (upload)
- Second sustainability position (text)
- Third sustainability position (upload)
- Third sustainability position (text)
- Website URL - Sustainability Coordination
PA 2: Sustainability Coordination
- Published measurable objectives - Academics
- Published measurable objectives - Engagement
- Published measurable objectives - Operations
- Published measurable objectives - Planning & Administration
- Website URL - Highest Guiding Strategic Plan
- Sustainability plan (upload)
- Sustainability plan (website URL)
- Website URL - Sustainability planning
PA 3: Sustainability Coordination
- Description of participatory or shared governance bodies
- Percent of official members of the highest governing body that are women
- Website URL - Institution’s highest level governing body
- Description of campus-community council or equivalent body that gives external stakeholders a regular voice in institutional decisions
- Website URL - Institutional governance body
PA 4: Reporting Assurance
Additional analysis on scores and quantitative fields can be conducted using the STARS Benchmarking Tool.