AASHE Campus Sustainability Hub

DoubleMap Bus Tracking Systems Membership Required

• Indiana University Bloomington (IN)

Students at Indiana University Bloomington formed the DoubleMap startup company and developed the DoubleMap bus tracking system in collaboration with campus stakeholders and with financial assistance from the IU Student ...

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University of Washington Transportation Membership Required

• University of Washington, Seattle (WA)

Over 20 percent of University of Washington, Seattle’s fleet are hybrid or 100% electric vehicles. UW Fleet Services added 14 electric vehicles in 2015, and has also expanded the ...

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Pomona College: Bike-Friendly Campus Membership Required

• Pomona College (CA)

Pomona College is a bicycle-friendly campus with 1,600 bike racks and over 300 "Green Bikes" available for checkout during the school year for free. Pomona College also has Zipcars ...

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Cal State LA Hydrogen Research and Fueling Facility (H2 Station) Membership Required

• California State University, Los Angeles (CA)

The California State University, Los Angeles Hydrogen Research and Fueling Facility (H2 Station) opened on May 7, 2014. The station is capable of producing hydrogen onsite from 100% renewable energy ...

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Town-Gown Showdown National Bike Challenge at UW-Milwaukee Membership Required

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a founding and leading partner in the Town-Gown Showdown, a nationally ranked team that is part of the National Bike Challenge. The Challenge provides an online ...

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Sustainable Mobility for the Future: Development and Implementation of a Sustainable Transportation Planning Course Membership Required

• Bucknell University (PA)

The field of transportation engineering has become more sustainable as challenges of the twenty-first century continue. Sustainable mobility topics such as pedestrian and cycling travel, smart growth development, and transit-oriented ...

• Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
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Go Green at Oakton Membership Required

• Oakton Community College (IL)

Created in house by our Media Services Department, this video was developed as an introduction of sustainable initiatives at Oakton Community College to students and campus visitors. We focused on ...

• Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
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ReCycle Bikes Membership Required

• Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TX)

ReCycle Bikes is a bike rental program designed to allow students, who demonstrate a need, access to free, eco-friendly transportation in exchange for sustainability project-related volunteer hours and peer-to-peer education ...

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Point of Departure: Place Making and Identity Via Integrated, Didactic & Sustainable Transit Shelters Membership Required

• University of Kentucky (KY)

The College of Design (CoD) & The Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) saw an opportunity to advance the University of Kentucky’s sustainability agenda by developing real world projects ...

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Commuting Behavior and Transportation Preferences of the CSUN Community Membership Required

• California State University, Northridge (CA)

In 2010 California State University, Northridge (CSUN) conducted its first complete survey of the commuting habits of its staff, faculty and students. Here we report on the results of our ...

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute Bike Share Program Membership Required

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA)

In 2014 a student group researched transportation alternatives on campus and recommended a community bike share program. In 2015, another student group further developed the bike share option by conducting ...

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Lowell Canal Bridges TIGER Grant: Campus-Community Partnerships Leveraging Transformative Change Membership Required

• University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)

The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) is a fast growing university nestled within our host community of the City of Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell enjoys an authentic urban character structured ...

• Posted 1 year, 3 months ago
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Sustainable Fleet at Yale University Membership Required

• Yale University (CT)

At Yale University, transportation is vital to the University's operation. Fleet Management is a department that has gone to tremendous lengths to provide exceptional transit services for the entire ...

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Stanford Carbon Offsets to Reduce Emissions (SCORE) Membership Required

• Stanford University (CA)

The Stanford Athletic Department boasts 36 varsity sports teams and over 900 student-athletes. These teams travel all over the country to compete at the highest levels of collegiate competition, but ...

• Posted 1 year, 3 months ago
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USF “Share-A-Bull” Bicycle-Share Program Membership Required

• University of South Florida (FL)

Deployed a smart bike-sharing program with 100 GPS enabled bikes, multiple bicycle parking stations, and a mobile phone app to facilitate locating, reserving and returning bikes. With this program, USF ...

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Zygmunt, the electric car Membership Required

• Universidad de Monterrey (NL)

Monterrey is the third largest city in Mexico, and there is about 2 million cars. This amount of vehicles creates traffic jams, pollute the air and chaos. According to the ...

• Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
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Academic Jet-Setting in a Time of Climate Destabilization: Ecological Privilege and Professional Geographic Travel Membership Required

• Vassar College (NY)

This article analyzes the interrelationship among resource consumption, sociospatial justice, and what is popularly known as global warming by interrogating the ecological footprint of professional geographers, especially in terms of ...

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The Carbon Footprint of Conference Papers Membership Required

The action required to stem the environmental and social implications of climate change depends crucially on how humankind shapes technology, economy, lifestyle and policy. With transport CO2 emissions accounting for ...

• Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
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Sustainable Science? Reducing the Carbon Impact of Scientific Mega-Meetings Membership Required

• University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
• University of North Texas (TX)

Scientists across the globe recognize the importance of reducing carbon emissions to combat climate change. At the same time, we have increased our carbon footprint through air travel to the ...

• Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
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Responsible academia: optimizing conference locations to minimize greenhouse gas emissions Membership Required

• Florida International University (FL)

The greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to many scientists, including ecologists and conservation biologists, are often much greater than those attributable to average non-scientists (Fox et al. 2009, Synolakis and ...

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Carbon footprint of science: More than flying Membership Required

• University of Leuven

Previous efforts to evaluate the climate change impact of researchers have focused mainly on transport related impact of conference attendance, and infrastructure. Because these represent only a part of the ...

• Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
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Academic mobility in the Anthropocene era: a comparative study of university policy at three New Zealand institutions Membership Required

• University of Otago
• University of Auckland

Anthropogenic climate change is a wicked problem, requiring fundamental behavioural and technological responses now, in the Anthropocene, a term denoting the current era of human dominance of biological, chemical and ...

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Pedal-powered smoothies to celebrate Earth Day at Case Western Reserve University! Membership Required

• Case Western Reserve University (OH)

We borrowed a bike-powered blender (a Fender Blender) from our on-site gym and had a few of our Sustainability Ambassadors help students and visiting families make their own pedal-powered smoothies ...

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College campuses are working to lessen parking pains Membership Required

• California State University, Long Beach (CA)
• Loyola Marymount University (CA)
• Santa Monica College (CA)
• University of California, Los Angeles (CA)

Campuses are building new lots, but also promoting bike-sharing, subsidizing bus passes, joining forces with Uber to create car pools and looking at other alternatives to reduce pressure on campus ...

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Smooth(ie) Pedal-Power at Southern Oregon University's Earth Week Transportation Options Grill-Out Membership Required

• Southern Oregon University (OR)

Southern Oregon University Bike Program and ECOS volunteers cheer on a student who's "crushing it" on the bike blender! ECOS- the Ecology and Sustainability Resource Center of SOU hosted ...

• Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
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Flying along the supply chain: accounting for emissions from student air travel in the higher education sector Membership Required

Higher education institutions (HEIs) can play a key role in facilitating the transition to a low carbon economy, where reporting greenhouse gas emissions is an important step in this process ...

• Posted 1 year, 6 months ago
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Bicycle Friendly University Program Membership Required

• League of American Bicyclists (DC)

The Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) program recognizes institutions of higher education for promoting and providing a more bikeable campus for students, staff and visitors. Specifically, it evaluates applicants’ efforts to ...

• Posted 1 year, 6 months ago
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A New Course: How Innovative University Programs Are Reducing Driving on Campus and Creating New Models for Transportation Policy Membership Required

Universities and colleges across the country are taking steps to encourage their communities, students, faculty and staff to decrease their reliance on personal vehicles. These efforts are working well – saving ...

• Posted 1 year, 6 months ago
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List of Universities with Bicycle Sharing Programs Membership Required

• Indiana State University (IN)

Editable Google Doc containing a list of universities with bike sharing programs, including funding information, year started, and additional notes. Feel free to add your campus bicycle sharing program to ...

• Posted 1 year, 6 months ago
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Conducting a Transportation Study at a Commuter School - Kwantlen Student Association Membership Required

• Kwantlen Polytechnic University (BC)

The Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) is a not for profit organization that operates independently of Kwantlen Polytechnic University's (KPU) administration. The KSA focuses on providing support for its members ...

• Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
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Least Car-Friendly - Commuter options for an urban campus Membership Required

• Loyola University Chicago (IL)

In 2011, US News and World Report published a story on the top 10 'Least Car Friendly' Universities in the nation. Loyola University Chicago has taken this as a badge ...

• Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
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Parking is Not Free: How Sustainable Transportation is Paying Off Membership Required

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)
• Yale University (CT)
• Nelson/Nygaard (CA)

Sustainable campus transportation is not just a commitment or environmental goal, it is becoming a financial necessity that institutions large, small, rich, and poor are trying to implement smartly. Demand ...

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Bike Commuting Counts! Rewarding Bicycle Transportation with ZAP Membership Required

• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
• Dero Bike Rack Co. (MN)

Traffic congestion, obesity, and environmental conservation are receiving critical attention both nationwide and globally. North American institutions of higher education are at the forefront of efforts to understand and ameliorate ...

• Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
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Step Away from the Car: Transforming Student Travel, One Haunted Bus and Hipster Bike Ride at a Time Membership Required

• Southern Oregon University (OR)
• Alta Planning + Design (MN)

Southern Oregon University has gone all-in to help its students break their driving habits. No excuse is safe! Want to drive home midday for an afternoon siesta? No need – there ...

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Applying geographic information systems (GIS) and survey data to transportation demand management Membership Required

• Skyline College (CA)
• University of San Francisco (CA)

In 2013, Skyline College launched a transportation initiative to improve access for students and employees and make travel to campus more efficient and equitable while reducing reliance on single-occupancy vehicles ...

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Four years on Green Bikes in Alaska Membership Required

• University of Alaska Fairbanks (AK)

Biking may not be an obvious choice for green transportation in the far north, but a student funded bike-loaner program at University of Alaska has demonstrated biking year round is ...

• Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
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Bike sharing service at Kyoto University Membership Required

• Kyoto University

Bicycles are a laudable and sustainable form of transportation for universities in Japan but they also create some problems. An estimated 16,500 bicycles are currently used on campus at ...

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NYU's Bike Share Program: From Student Grant to Reality Membership Required

• New York University (NY)

A case study on the implementation and operation of NYU's Bike Share program. How it became a University wide initiative from a Green Grant awarded to NYU students, which ...

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Taking it to the Streets: Butler University's Sunset Avenue Complete Street Reconstruction Project Case Study Membership Required

• Butler University (IN)
• Williams Creek Consulting (IN)

Butler University's campus in Indianapolis, Indiana is located adjacent to the Indiana Central Canal and White River. The majority of Butler's stormwater discharges directly to these waterways and ...

• Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
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Minting Gold; Creating a Gold-level Bicycle-Friendly University at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Membership Required

• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

Nearly a third of greenhouse emissions are generated by the transportation sector. Oftentimes universities and colleges are one of the largest traffic generators in their communities. The cost of maintaining ...

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Redefining Campus Mobility Membership Required

• Southern Illinois University Carbondale (IL)
• University of Utah (UT)
• West Virginia University (WV)

One common issue: How can a campus and its local community redefine mobility to be less reliant on automobile infrastructure such as parking and the single occupancy vehicle in a ...

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COBBikes: Concordia College’s Bike Share Program Membership Required

• Concordia College (NY)

This poster will provide information and data analysis about a bike share program recently launched at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. In the fall of 2014, 12 bikes were purchased ...

• Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
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Sustainability Challenge Grants - Leveraging diverse funding sources to secure $100,000 for interdisciplinary projects at UK Membership Required

• University of Kentucky (KY)

The Sustainability Challenge Grant program was designed to engage multidisciplinary teams from the University community in the creation and implementation of ideas that will promote sustainability by simultaneously advancing economic ...

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Internet2 pilot program case study: Innova EV Car Share Membership Required

• Innova EV (IL)

In this session, Innova UEV Founder, CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer Roman Kuropas will chronicle the Internet2 competition that led to a pilot EV Car Share program at four leading ...

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Plug It In, Plug It In! Driving Electric Vehicle Charging on a College Campus Membership Required

• Macalester College (MN)

Electric vehicles, along with other alternative vehicles, are becoming increasingly common. Macalester College has Level 2 and Level 3 electric vehicle charging stations on its Saint Paul campus. Getting these ...

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Gamifying getting around Membership Required

• My Open Road (CA)

How to encourage the use of alternative transportation both on and off campus through social competition and reward incentives.

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Skidmore College - Campus and community transformation through sustainable transportation Membership Required

• Skidmore College (NY)

Our college's students, staff, faculty and the members of the greater community have worked together to establish sustainable transportation opportunities. Furthermore, these opportunities play an integral role in our ...

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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Bike Tour Membership Required

• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

Participants - limited to 20 - will take the Green Line light rail from DT Mpls. to the University's East Bank station. Once on campus, participants will be provided with bikes ...

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Reimagining Parking - Parking Lots & Garages As Power Plant Plants Membership Required

• Solaire Generation

Onsite renewable energy projects have typically focused on available roof and ground space for installation. A significant opportunity exists to enhance the use of surface and structured parking for onsite ...

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Getting Rolling: Launching Comprehensive Bike Programming Membership Required

• University of Denver (CO)

Bike culture is rapidly growing in across the country. Denver, Colorado epitomizes this movement. Set in the second most friendly state for biking, in a bike friendly city, with streets ...

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