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Integration of interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability education and research and urban sustainability

• National Council for Science & the Environment (DC)

This article explores the results of the National Council for Science and the Environment’s 2012 census of interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability (IES) baccalaureate and graduate degree programs and the ...

• Posted May 19, 2017
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Wind Power Feasibility Study for Ball State University

• Ball State University (IN)

Based on two years of site-specific wind speed measurements and actual power curve performance estimates of five commercial wind turbines, a feasibility study of wind-power potential near Ball State University ...

• Posted May 16, 2017
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Oregon Climate Change Research Institute

• Oregon State University (OR)

The Oregon Climate Change Research Institute is an institute underneath Oregon State’s Advancing the Science of Earth’s Ecosystems center. The institution was created by the Oregon Legislature and ...

• Posted May 15, 2017
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Florida Gulf Coast University Emerging Technologies Institute

• Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)

The FGCU Emerging Technologies institute is an off campus institute designed to facilitate projects and research in regards to sustainable technology. Projects will be geared towards environmental sustainability and renewable ...

• Posted May 15, 2017
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Biofuels and Bioproducts Research Lab

• University of South Florida (FL)

The focus of research at the Biofuels and Bioproducts research lab includes studying the chemical makeup of algae and the economic and physical feasibility of optimizing it as an alternative ...

• Posted May 15, 2017
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Center for Integrative Conservation Research

• University of Georgia (GA)

Established in 2007 after several years of planning and funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the CICR seeks to bring together conservation experts from across disciplines ...

• Posted May 15, 2017
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Northeastern University Center for Renewable Energy Technology (NUCRET)

• Northeastern University (MA)

NUCRET leads the national and worldwide effort in developing the fuel cells of the future based on the platinum free catalysts, as well as novel chemistries for advanced rechargeable batteries ...

• Posted May 15, 2017
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Content trends in sustainable business education: an analysis of introductory courses in the USA

• Loyola University Chicago (IL)

Purpose - This study aims to identify the content in introductory business sustainability courses in the USA to determine the most frequently assigned reading material and its sustainability orientation.

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• Posted May 11, 2017
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The Urban Agriculture Community-based Research Experience (U-ACRE) Project

• California State University, Fullerton (CA)
• Fullerton College (CA)
• Santa Ana College (CA)
• University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)

In Orange County, 36% of low-income households experience hunger at least once a day and well over 1/3 are children. Engaging students in experiential learning that addresses sustainability in ...

• Posted May 9, 2017
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Arts and humanities inquiry in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network: empathy, relationships, and interdisciplinary collaborations

• Michigan State University (MI)
• Oregon State University (OR)
• University of Alaska Fairbanks (AK)

The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network is a collection of 25 National Science Foundation-funded sites committed to long-term, place-based investigation of the natural world. While activities primarily focus on ecological ...

• Posted May 8, 2017
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Enhancing and promoting interdisciplinarity in higher education

• University of Florida (FL)

Interdisciplinarity represents an effort to achieve integrative knowledge in an age of increasing academic specialization. It is an intrinsic feature of the environmental sciences and the emerging field of sustainability ...

• Posted May 8, 2017
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Distinguishing collaboration from contribution in environmental research

• University at Buffalo (NY)
• State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)

In this paper, we distinguish contributory from collaborative approaches to interdisciplinary environmental research. A characteristic feature of the collaborative approach is that emphasis is placed on the process of collaborative ...

• Posted May 8, 2017
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Shared place and space: a comparison of two interdisciplinary graduate programs

• University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)

Interdisciplinary training has an important role to play in environmental research, but what aspects of interdisciplinary training are most helpful for graduate students as they seek to define themselves as ...

• Posted May 5, 2017
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A framework for collaborative climate change research

• Colgate University (NY)

There is a growing understanding in the scientific community that the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of indigenous peoples and other local communities is both different from data collected by scientists ...

• Posted May 5, 2017
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Scholarly motivations to conduct interdisciplinary climate change research

• Idaho State University (ID)
• Whitman College (WA)
• Boston University (MA)
• University of Pennsylvania (PA)
• Northern Illinois University (IL)
• University of Massachusetts Amherst (NY)

Understanding and responding to today’s complex environmental problems requires collaboration that bridges disciplinary boundaries. As the barriers to interdisciplinary research are formidable, promoting interdisciplinary environmental research requires understanding what ...

• Posted May 5, 2017
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Greening Federal Grants: Why there is a need to connect efficiency to federal funding for research at universities

• University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
• AASHE (PA)
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (CO)

This webinar will includes two parts: PART 1: The Department of Energy (DOE) will provide an overview of the DOE Smart Labs Accelerator Program which was launched at the 2016 ...

• Posted May 4, 2017
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Re-imagining environmental science and policy graduate education for the twenty-first century using an integrative frame

• Clark University (MA)

To meet society’s need to better understand and respond to ever-more complex, interwoven problems of environment, development, and society - including environmental health risks, climate change adaptation, and sustainable development ...

• Posted May 4, 2017
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Teaching Social Research Methods on an International, Collaborative Environment & Sustainability Degree Programme: Exploring plagiarism, group work, and formative feedback

International collaboration is central to the Sustainable Development agenda given environmental challenges that span national boundaries. Education for Sustainability therefore needs to account for international/intercultural understandings, such as though ...

• Posted May 4, 2017
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Sustainable knowledge transformation in and through higher education: A case for transdisciplinary leadership

• National University of Ireland, Galway

This article explores inter- and transdisciplinarity, given the need for more complex, relevant, and transformative knowledge to shift society towards more sustainable futures. It connects practical questions about economic, societal ...

• Posted May 4, 2017
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Higher Education in the Environmental Century

The environmental crisis that threatens the future of our species is unprecedented as we begin the “environmental century.” Natural conditions that were favorable for the development of civilization have been ...

• Posted May 4, 2017
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UAlbany's Annual Family Earth Day

• University at Albany (NY)

The University’s 5th Annual UAlbany Family Earth Day, organized by the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (DAES), Atmospheric Science Research Center, Office of Sustainability and UAlbany Students for ...

• Posted May 1, 2017
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Humble Bee App

• Cornell University (NY)

Doctoral student Casey Franklin demonstrates the Humble Bee app, which rewards students for sustainable behaviors.She tabled her app at Springfest, which is a celebration of Earth day.

• Posted May 1, 2017
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University of California Climate Lab, Video Series Episode Two: Going green shouldn't be this hard

• University of California, Office of the President (CA)

This is the second episode of Climate Lab, a six-part series produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox. Hosted by Emmy-nominated conservation scientist Dr. M. Sanjayan, the ...

• Posted April 28, 2017
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The Nitrogen Footprint Tool Network: A Multi-Institution Program to Research and Reduce Nitrogen Pollution

• University of Chicago (IL)
• University of New Hampshire (NH)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
• Colorado State University (CO)
• Dickinson College (PA)
• Brown University (RI)
• Eastern Mennonite University (VA)
• University of Virginia (VA)

Humans release reactive nitrogen into the environment at a rate that is 4 to 5 times as large as from natural terrestrial processes. They do this by producing and applying ...

• Posted April 26, 2017
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Honored Members of the Sustainability Community

• Indiana State University (IN)

Our student, faculty, and staff award winners! From left to right: Ivy Coble, Dara Middleton, Dr. Joy O'Keefe, and Dr. Jim Speer

These four people have worked so diligently ...

• Posted April 25, 2017
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University of California Climate Lab, Video Series Episode One: Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change

• University of California, Office of the President (CA)
• University of California, Los Angeles (CA)

This is the first episode of Climate Lab, a six-part series produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox. Hosted by Emmy-nominated conservation scientist Dr. M. Sanjayan, the ...

• Posted April 24, 2017
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Good practice in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the UK: Case Studies

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is described by UNESCO as enabling us to address present and future global challenges and create more sustainable and resilient societies by changing the way ...

• Posted April 17, 2017
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Universities and the Sustainable Development Future: Evaluating Higher-Education Contributions to the 2030 Agenda

Since the mid-1970s, a series of international declarations that link environment and sustainable development to all aspects of higher learning have been endorsed and signed by universities around the world ...

• Posted April 17, 2017
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Post-Sustainability and Environmental Education: Remaking Education for the Future

• Lakehead University (ON)

This book provides a critique of over two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development. Taking to heart the idea that deconstruction is a ...

• Posted March 28, 2017
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STARS & Beyond: Adventures of an Embedded Librarian in the Campus Sustainability Office

• University of Utah (UT)

Webinar [30 mins], presented by Amy Brunvand for the American Library Association Sustainability Round Table (SustainRT) on 3/9/17. Amy Brunvand, an academic librarian at the University of Utah ...

• Posted March 15, 2017
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Higher Education in the World: Towards a Socially Responsible University: Balancing the Global with the Local

The 6th Higher Education in the World Report deals with the dual responsibilities of universities at local and global scale, exploring the potential conflict, or intrinsic difficulties, in addressing both ...

• Posted March 14, 2017
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Campus as a Living Laboratory for Sustainability Resources

• Princeton University (NJ)

Google doc with links to general resources, scholarly works, STARS data, and campus' websites for case studies on Campus as (Living, Learning) Lab for sustainability. Please feel free to suggest ...

• Posted March 2, 2017
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AASHE Award Winner Webinar - Using a Design Competition to Expand Bee Habitat On and Off-Campus

• University of Manitoba (MB)
• AASHE (PA)

BEE / HOUSE / LAB was an international design competition at the University of Manitoba that resulted in innovative bee houses built, installed around campus and used for research. The reasons for ...

• Posted March 2, 2017
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Sustainability as competitive advantage in higher education in the UK

• University of Leeds (West Yorkshire)

This paper draws on a series of five ESRC-funded seminars held between 2006 and 2008 on 'Sustainability as competitive advantage in higher education in the UK'. We sketch the background ...

• Posted March 1, 2017
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Towards a Real-world Laboratory: A Transdisciplinary Case Study from Lüneburg

• Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Real-world laboratories have gained currency in transdisciplinary sustainability research. Establishing real-world laboratories by means of a transdisciplinary process offers promising prospects since it fosters trust among the participants and leads ...

• Posted Feb. 20, 2017
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Energy and development: the role of academia in education, research, and technological cooperation for sustainability

Over the last decades, the interest of the international community for the multiple interconnections among energy, environment, and society has widely increased. Today, the close link between energy and development ...

• Posted Feb. 17, 2017
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AASHE Award Winner Webinar - Developing Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation Strategies Through Student Research

• University of Houston (TX)
• University of Michigan (MI)
• AASHE (PA)

Student groups at the University of Houston and University of Michigan have developed strategies for energy efficiency and water conservation on campus through research.

At the University of Michigan, a ...

• Posted Feb. 16, 2017
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Ethics in Higher Education: Values-driven Leaders for the Future

The values and virtues practised in universities heavily influence the leaders of the future, but outside the limelight of excelling education institutions there is a concerning violation of good practises ...

• Posted Feb. 14, 2017
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How to walk the talk? Developing actions for sustainability in academic research

• Dalhousie University (NS)
• Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels Region)

Sustainability in higher education is a growing field of reflection and practice, yet integrating sustainability and academic research (as a distinct pillar of academia – next to education, societal service and ...

• Posted Feb. 6, 2017
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Evolution and structure of sustainability science

• Indiana University Bloomington (IN)

The concepts of sustainable development have experienced extraordinary success since their advent in the 1980s. They are now an integral part of the agenda of governments and corporations, and their ...

• Posted Feb. 6, 2017
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The Role of Transacademic Interface Managers in Transformational Sustainability Research and Education

• Arizona State University (AZ)

Working towards sustainable solutions requires involving professionals and stakeholders from all sectors of society into research and teaching. This often presents a challenge to scholars at universities, as they lack ...

• Posted Feb. 1, 2017
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Utilizing international networks for accelerating research and learning in transformational sustainability science

• University of Tokyo
• Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
• Stellenbosch University (Western Cape)
• Lund University
• Maastricht University
• Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (DF)
• Leuphana University of Lüneburg
• Arizona State University (AZ)

A promising approach for addressing sustainability problems is to recognize the unique conditions of a particular place, such as problem features and solution capabilities, and adopt and adapt solutions developed ...

• Posted Jan. 31, 2017
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Green Chemistry: The missing element in chemistry education

• Beyond Benign (MA)

Green Chemistry Education Webinar Series: A new webinar series for chemistry faculty and students highlighting relevant and important topics in green chemistry education.

Presented by: Dr. John C. Warner Founder ...

• Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Success in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research

• University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland

The complexity of sustainable development and societal transitions require both analytical understandings of how coupled human-environment systems function and transdisciplinary science-to-practice approaches. The academic discourse has advanced in developing a ...

• Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Neoliberalism, new public management and the sustainable development agenda of higher education: history, contradictions and synergies

This paper explores the ideological and the practical relationship between neoliberalism and New Public Management (NPM) and the sustainable development agenda of western higher education. Using the United Kingdom and ...

• Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Educating for Sustainability: 2017 Sustainable Campus Best Practices from ISCN and GULF Universities

• International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN) (MA)

This report, which was released in conjuction with the 2017 World Economic Forum, contains case studies on educating for sustainability provided by 30 members of the International Sustainable Campus Network ...

• Posted Jan. 27, 2017
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Should we quit our jobs? Challenges, barriers and recommendations for interdisciplinary energy research

• University of Southern California (CA)
• University College Dublin, National University of Ireland

Many plea for a better integration of social sciences in energy research, which would imply more comprehensive interdisciplinary energy research. We argue that in order to achieve this, institutional barriers ...

• Posted Jan. 23, 2017
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An in-depth literature review of the evolving roles and contributions of universities to education for sustainable development

Universities have been consistently considered significant contributors to the pursuit of regional sustainability initiatives for over two decades. The composite nature of sustainable development (SD) has appointed Universities to critical ...

• Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Civic Labors: Scholarly Activism and Working-Class Studies

Labor studies scholars and working-class historians have long worked at the crossroads of academia and activism. The essays in this collection examine the challenges and opportunities for engaged scholarship in ...

• Posted Jan. 13, 2017
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Communicating sustainability: student perceptions of a behavior change campaign

• University of Arizona (AZ)
• University of Calgary (AB)

Purpose

This paper aims to investigate the impacts of a science-based environmental communication campaign at a university dining hall. The impacts are assessed in terms of student attitudes toward sustainability ...

• Posted Jan. 13, 2017
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