Conference Presentations
Introduction
AASHE’s database of conference presentations includes thousands of abstracts and presentation materials from AASHE’s annual Conference & Expo as well as presentation materials from other sustainability in higher education conferences.
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Communication strategies: Leveraging digital media effectively & efficiently for greater engagement, relationship building, & earned news media
- Boston University (MA)
- New York University (NY)
- University of Utah (UT)
Communication about institutionalizing sustainability is a key component to our efforts to inform and change behavior. Digital media, such as social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), blogging, and other online tools, …
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Year 1: Building a Sustainability Program and Culture
- Saint Mary's College (IN)
Is your school starting or contemplating a sustainability program? Have challenges such as budget, staffing, capacity, or leadership stifled your initial progress? Managing change often involves navigating inertia and building …
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Launching & Sustaining an Educational Partnership for Innovation in Communities (EPIC): PALS at UMD
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Universities around the country are implementing a powerful learning framework in which students and faculty address local community sustainability issues through adapting current courses to provide real world learning and …
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John Bartram: America's First Botanical Pioneer
- GardenComm International (NY)
America's first and foremost botanist and plant collector is again on the speaking circuit. Close friends with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington as well as many of the …
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Sustainability Leadership Program at DePauw University
- DePauw University (IN)
DePauw's Sustainability Leadership Program (SLP) is a hands-on, co-curricular initiative that pairs student cohorts with sustainability projects on campus and in the community. Through both paid and volunteer hands-on opportunities, …
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Catalyzing a Culture of Sustainability on Campus: the Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) of McGill University
- McGill University (QC)
The Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) of McGill University was created in 2010 to catalyze a culture of sustainability on its campuses. The SPF is one of the largest dedicated sustainability …
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Planning for interdisciplinary, community-oriented, and networked sustainability programs
- University of North Carolina, Charlotte (NC)
Sustainability education requires approaches that reach across disciplines, universities, and national boundaries, preparing students for issues without clear boundaries. Creating partnerships among faculty, students, communities, and industries is a promising …
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Building Student Leadership Through Networks: Connecting Higher Education Institutions Through Behavior Change Projects
- Augsburg University (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
This poster focuses on the value of connecting students, faculty and staff across boundaries. In this case, we connected across institutions, learning from each other and developing a network for …
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Go Beyond Offsetting by Onsetting Carbon Consciousness
- Living Routes, Inc. (MA)
This poster will describe the pros and cons of Carbon Onsetting and explain onsetting as an alternative system that allows greater student engagement and can support meaningful sustainability projects. It …
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Net Zero Water: not a dry Topic
- Williams College (MA)
- Bruner/Cott Architects (MA)
- Integrated Eco Strategy
- Berkshire Design Group (MA)
Construction often negatively impacts the natural balance of water cycles. Even regions with historically abundant quantities of potable water are depleting aquifers, while record rainfall provides destructive amounts of storm …
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Bikes@Naz: A Sustainable Wellness Program
- Nazareth College (NY)
Bikes@Naz is one of the best Bike Share programs in the country. With over 60 bicycles, we also have one of the largest programs. Bikes@Naz was founded on the principles …
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STARS; the Canadian experience
- University of Calgary (AB)
- Dalhousie University (NS)
STARS can be a powerful program for engaging the campus community, measuring progress in campus sustainability practices and benchmarking comprehensive sustainability reporting, but how well is the program designed for …
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Piloting RecycleMania's 'Race to Zero Waste' competition: How to implement zero waste practices building by building
- Brigham Young University (UT)
- Harvard University (MA)
- University of Nevada Las Vegas (NV)
- Keep America Beautiful (CT)
This session will report on efforts to reduce waste in specific buildings on several campuses providing focused insight on the challenges and opportunities for waste reduction on college campuses. In …
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The Wicked Problems in Sustainability Initiative - Creating and Supporting a Multi-Institution Course Community
- Engineers for a Sustainable World (CO)
Creation or replication of multidisciplinary courses with real-world context is limited by technical and economic constraints at many institutions. Efforts that connect multiple institutions to multidisciplinary resources can enable success …
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Using Service-Learning to Integrate Sustainability into the Business Curriculum
- Appalachian State University (NC)
This proposal describes a service-learning project used in a graduate business course to integrate sustainability into the curriculum. Benefits included the ability of students to bring best practices to management …
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Contrasting Approaches to Effective Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategies: A Review of Energy-Focused Programs and Lessons Learned
- Colby College (ME)
- University of Virginia (VA)
A small private liberal arts college in the Northeast, Colby College, and a large public research university in the Southeast, the University of Virginia, will compare and contrast approaches within …
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Savings by Design: Implementing a Reusable To-Go Program with savings in mind.
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Virginia Tech Dining Services has implemented a robust Reusable To-Go container program with the help of partner campus organizations. The program is available at three dining centers and averages 3,000 …
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MIT's Sustainability DataHub
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
Datasets are ubiquitous at MIT. The Institute collects large volumes of data on a variety of subjects related to the sustainability effort. However, these datasets are housed in diverse and …
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Campus Cycling: Beyond the Kiosk
- Florida State University (FL)
- Portland State University (OR)
- University of Florida (FL)
Campus Cycling: Beyond the Kiosk' is an exploration of current best practices among leaders in campus cycling programming that will present alternatives to the popular, but resource intensive, kiosk bike …
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Yale University Town-Gown Collaboration on Sustainability
- Yale University (CT)
Yale University has embarked on its third sustainability strategic planning process with a fresh emphasis on connecting with the City of New Haven community, among additional priorities. Three distinct programs …
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A Zero Waste Campus is Possible
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
We begin by asking students to envision a zero waste campus through innovative problem solving & logistics management. In small groups, they map out how to prevent specific forms of …
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To Bee or Not to Bee: A Beekeeping Community
- Central Community College (NE)
This poster will describe the process Central Community College used to engage its service area in the responsible management of honeybee populations. Starting with a beginner beekeeping course, the college …
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Developing Short Animations to Foster Awareness and Environmental Connection to Place
- Oberlin College (OH)
Systems thinking' skills--the understanding of how relationships, interdependencies, and individual group behavior impact community and ecosystem--are important for environmental sustainability. 'Citywide Dashboard,' a conceptual model of a community animated by …
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Working with supply chain partners to achieve zero waste goals
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Many campuses are attempting to achieve zero waste goals, but are not able to overcome key challenges. Penn State has achieved zero waste in several sports venues by partnering with …
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Launching your Student Outreach Team
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
- University of Denver (CO)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Students have been involved with sustainability offices since the beginning, working as interns, lobbying for operational and administrative change and supporting our events and outreach. Increasingly, students are providing the …
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Campus and Community Involvement in Move-Out Waste Reduction Programs
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
- Wilfrid Laurier University (ON)
Move-Out! Classes end and our students vacate the rooms in their residence halls, cleaning up so that other students may become the new occupants. In the process, students discard lots …
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Water Conservation at the University of Houston
- University of Houston (TX)
The responsibility for ensuring a sustainable water future lies within the community as a whole. Because colleges and universities are inextricably woven into the communities in which they live, their …
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Student Activism with Sustainability in Higher Education across Canada
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
The purpose of this case study is to share the results of the Sustainability and Education Policy Network's research with student sustainability leaders from six higher education institutions in Canada. …
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Edinboro University Green Initiatives
- Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (PA)
In the past decade Edinboro University has made sustainability a hallmark of its facilities management. This poster summarizes EU's projects including a solar array, use of passive solar architecture for …
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Powering a New South: Sustainability and Energy in the Southern US
- Coastal Carolina University (SC)
Through an examination of the processes and experiences of a yearlong, multi-disciplinary university press project, students, instructors, and press advisors will examine energy through the lens of our local experience …
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Sustainability Reporting Built on Stakeholder Engagement
- University of Calgary (AB)
Sustainability reports span the spectrum from powerful education and engagement tools to promotional 'greenwash'. What differentiates the good, the bad and the ugly? In this case study we will look …
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The Real Food Calculator: Students leading food chain transparency and campus accountability across the nation!
- Real Food Challenge (MA)
Sustainable.' 'Green.' 'Local.' -- How can you REALLY know what type of food system your campus is supporting amidst all this 'green noise'?!? The Real Food Calculator is a student-developed …
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A Case Example for B-Schools: Energy and Economic Opportunity in Modernizing the Grid
- Skidmore College (NY)
Changing regulatory environments are creating economic (and business higher ed) opportunity. The current re-envisioning the energy (REV) proceeding in New York before the public service commission represents a regulatory proceeding …
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Student Environmental Resource Center at UC Berkeley
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) at UC Berkeley advises 50 environmental registered student organizations and student campaigns and 45 The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) projects, directs the Zero Waste …
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Seize the Grid for 100% Clean Energy
- Sierra Club (DC)
Join this hands-on workshop where you will learn how to spark a youth-led movement for energy democracy on your campus. We are at a turning point in history. The clean …
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Advocating for Sustainability
- University of Arizona (AZ)
During Fall 2015, the Sustainability Advocate program was instated in each of the Panhellenic sorority chapters with house facilities at the University of Arizona. The advocate's job is to educate …
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Models of engagement, integration and transparency at the University of Washington
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
Change and transformation at an institutional level cannot happen overnight and requires active management. Universities are increasingly responding to pressures for efficiency, increasing enrollment, recruiting the best faculty and students, …
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Renewable Energy for Colleges: Onsite and Virtual Solar Solutions
- NRG Energy, Inc (NJ)
Procuring renewable energy is expanding beyond its obvious value as the environmentally responsible thing to do; now it's increasingly becoming an economically viable option, as well. Colleges and universities, in …
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Organizational Design for a Living World: Unleashing Agility, Engagement, Idea Flow and Purpose
- Harvard University (MA)
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
All too often our best efforts to achieve deeper levels of engagement and change in higher education are hampered by underlying organizational barriers. Sources of our undoing can include finance …
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Engaging the Campus, Community, and Future: A Student's Guide to Organization Development
- University of Kentucky (KY)
Developing an organization, especially one that deals with a sustainability issue, may seem to be a daunting task. By examining the case-study of Lexington Environmental Youth Outreach (LEYO), a sustainability …
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From San Francisco Sea Salt to Mt Lassen Trout-- Serving Up Extreme Local Theme Meals in Resident Dining Halls
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
For the past 2 years, in celebration of food day and earth day, Cal Dining has hosted 'extreme local' theme meals in each of the four resident dining halls at …
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Beyond Excuses: Banning Bottled Water on Your Campus
- Eastern Washington University (WA)
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
Over 100 North American universities have enacted policies banning bottled water and promoting tap water as a more preferable choice. This workshop will outline the steps of banning bottled water, …
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Sustainability Marketing and the Arts
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Briefly covers general popular advertising avenues on campus and ways to uncover new marketing platforms through faculty and staff engagement. Focus is placed on an interaction with the arts and …
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Coastal Resiliency Planning: Linking Online Student Research to City Sustainability Planning
- Arizona State University (AZ)
To address the special challenges of coastal cities, sustainability planning has depends on research from disciplines as diverse as climatology, ecology, social science, economics, political science, and urban planning. While …
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Apples to Apples: Standard Measures Yield the Benefits of Benchmarking
- T2Systems (IN)
Big data isn't the wave of the future-it's the reality of the present. And benchmarking connects the dots to turn the abundance of data a parking organization produces into useful …
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Building a Sustainable Food Future: The BCFN Youth Manifesto
- Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition
The Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN) Foundation strives to give voice to an international network of young researchers who are working to create a more sustainable and equitable …
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Sustainable Video Production
- Western Michigan University (MI)
The community of sustainability is constantly growing. With new practices from around the world on how we can build a better understanding of sustainability, key aspects arise from the ability …
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Black Hills South Dakota Food Hub
- Black Hills State University (SD)
Black Hills State University (BHSU) conducted an assessment of cafeteria needs for local foods in the winter of 2015, and we have specific knowledge of which large-quantity food providers have …
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This Changes Everything: a Sustainability Revolution in New Building Procurement
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (CO)
- Seventhwave (WI)
- dbHMS (IL)
Join the University of Chicago as we revolutionize how higher ed buildings are contracted, built and operated. This residence hall panel discussion shows how performance-based procurement drives institutional change by …
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US EPA - NEW Organics Recovery Program Development Toolkit
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
- Keep America Beautiful (CT)
US EPA Region 4 will unveil the working draft of its Organics Recovery Program Development Toolkit developed specifically for colleges and universities. The toolkit is intended to guide campuses looking …
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