Conference Presentations
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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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Developing and implementing a stakeholder engagement process for redesigning your website - lessons from the AASHE.ORG redesign
- AASHE (MA)
In January 2011, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) relaunched its website with a major reorganization of content and a new design. One of our …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Campuses: Integrating Sustainability into Your Institution
- Audubon International (NY)
Audubon International (AI) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to delivering high-quality environmental education and using incentive-based approaches to implement sustainable natural resource management in all places people live, work, …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Biodiversity Of Humans And Agriculture
- The University of New Mexico (NM)
The University Of New Mexico has worked to build local food hubs in and around the University as demonstration gardens for students and local residents. As SouthWest native tribes have …
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Institutional Performance Energy Optimization: How a Management Model and Skilled Workforce Embed Efficiency
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
- ICF International (VA)
- United States Department of Energy (DC)
University of California, Irvine has achieved 23% energy savings over 5 years, the 20% goal of U.S. Department of Energy's Better Buildings Challenge, 7 years early. The Smart Labs program …
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Education through Restoration: The Campus Landscape as a Living Laboratory
- Wellesley College (MA)
"Campus," from Latin, translates as field or open plain. In support of sustainability initiatives, some colleges and universities have undertaken the restoration of campus open spaces as a "living laboratory," …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Creating Sustainable Social Change: Student Engagement on Environmental Justice at Campuses
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
A series of panelists sharing the ways in which Environmental Justice is addressed on campuses as an opportunity for education, engagement and sustainable change in both the campus community and …
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Mapping Renewable Energy Potential on Campus: A Case Study of a Strategic Green Fund Project
- University of Vermont (VT)
Wonder where the best solar, wind, geothermal opportunities are on your campus? In this session, we will present one institution's year long process to answer this question through the development …
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Setting Building Energy Use Goals: Tracking Climate Action Plan targets and successes
- Ball State University (IN)
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
This panel discussion will share the experience of three campuses in setting energy use goals for campus facilities. As energy and sustainability managers, the presenters will share their approaches to …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Corporate Climate Responsibility and the Race to the Top: Why Competition Will Save the World
- Climate Counts
Benefiting from worldwide media coverage, the Climate Counts Company Scorecard has rapidly emerged as a credible measure of corporate climate responsibility. The Scorecard is driving stakeholder dialogue and soul-searching in …
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Zero energy home constructed by students built to NAHB green standards
- Alfred State College (NY)
The college has been constructing homes with a student workforce as part of the curriculum since 1966 and selling them to the public. House number 51 is built to the …
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Energy Efficiency at Valencia College: A Case Study of Retrofits and Building Automation, Green Construction, and Behavioral Savings
- Valencia College (FL)
Valencia College, a community college in Orlando, FL, constructed 66 buildings on five campuses between 1971 and 2012 and operates these buildings for their full life cycles. A critical aspect …
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Undergraduates in a Sustainability Semester: Agency and Structural Change for Sustainability
- Goshen College (IN)
- Michigan State University (MI)
Many Sustainability Education (SE) researchers are interested in understanding how our students envision the mechanisms of social change, and how to help them develop capacity to make the change they …
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Multidisciplinary Education and Outreach: Partnerships in Sustainability
- Kansas State University (KS)
The Urban Operations Laboratory (UOL), comprised of Kansas State University, M2 Technologies, and CABEM Technologies, performs environmental research, training, assessment, and product development. One of UOL's tasks is to assist …
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No Impact Jack: A "Green Room"" Certification Process"
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
This new residence life program will be launched in the fall of 2011, and it will be a twist on the idea of encouraging students to complete an online Sustainability …
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Incorporating Sustainability Into Undergraduate Education
- Northland College (WI)
Many colleges and universities in the U.S. have embraced the concept of sustainability in their facilities and operations. Many have also captured sustainability as part of their institutional mission statement …
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On-Campus Food Rescue: A Campus Kitchen Project at IUPUI
- Indiana University Indianapolis (IN)
The Campus Kitchens Project (CKP) is a national leader in community engagement and service through student-led initiatives to decrease waste in campus cafeterias. This is accomplished through food rescue and …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Student Sustainability Film Festival: Winning Entries
- Media Institute for Social Change (OR)
This session features winning short films produced by college students about what their communities or campuses are doing for sustainability-and also provides guidelines and sample curriculum to help students, instructors …
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Real Food, Real Communities: Mobilizing Students, Community Members and Staff to reform College Food Procurement Policies
- Carleton College (MN)
- Bon Appétit Management Company
Where our food comes from and how it is produced is question that is becoming extremely important to students and administrators alike. Carleton College has demonstrated a commitment to answering …
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Leonardo da Vinci to Higher Education: Lead us on a Healthy, Just and Sustainable Path Now
- Portland State University (OR)
Humanity is at crossroads without historical precedent. Because of the extraordinary and exponential growth of population and the expansive dynamic of industrial capitalism, humans have become pervasive and dominant forces …
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Student Leadership in Campus Sustainability
- Northland College (WI)
Northland College successfully addresses issues of transportation, food, recycling and reuse, and energy conservation through student-led projects. Active student involvement in campus operations has been key to sustainability innovation at …
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Warm Data, Cool Earth or Unplug to Keep the Polar Bear Happy
- Dartmouth College (NH)
Faculty and students at Dartmouth College have created an animated real-time energy display system to encourage students to reduce electric use through behavior changes. What is unique about this system …
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Top Down, Bottom Up, Institution Wide: Coordinating & Growing Education for Sustainability Across a University
- Victoria University (Victoria)
How does Education for Sustainability (EfS) become embedded in the courses and programs of a University? Victoria University is a multi-campus, dual sector tertiary institution based in the West of …
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Financing Large-Scale PV for a College or University
- Appalachian State University (NC)
How can students bring about a desired change in the energy source profile of their college? How can a university student group help their school take advantage of government incentives …
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A World Café: Transforming University of Washington Sustainability Education
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
Have you ever been inspired by new ideas while sharing a cup of coffee with a friend or colleague? The World Café methodology creates opportunities for the generation of inspirational, …
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Throw Away Does Not Mean Go Away: Achieving Zero Waste on a Campus Scale
- American University (DC)
In alignment with its commitment to carbon neutrality, one university adopted a Zero Waste Policy in 2010, committing to send zero waste to landfill and incineration by 2020. This case …
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Assessing Systems Thinking Skills of Apparel and Textiles Undergraduate Students
- Kansas State University (KS)
The UN has challenged higher education to reorient education and integrate sustainability across all disciplines. This reorientation has pedagogical implications for advancing skills and attitudes supporting sustainable development. One skill, …
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Making Your Campus a Laboratory for Sustainability: Linking Operations and Curriculum
- Evergreen State College, The (WA)
How can you incorporate daily operations of your campus into a laboratory for learning opportunities for students? This presentation will emphasize easily transferable strategies, regardless of campus size and orientation. …
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Campus Sustainability XLR8R: Zero to Sixty in Twelve Months
- George Washington University (DC)
"Campus Sustainability XLR8R: Zero to Sixty in Twelve Months" will be a combined field report and a series of take-away recommendations for attendees to put toward practical use. The session …
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Developing a Network for Campus Carbon Offset Projects
- Clarkson University (NY)
- Second Nature (MA)
This networking meeting will focus on the development of carbon offset projects for colleges and universities. Offsetting carbon associated with campus-financed airfare was the tangible action least committed to within …
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EMpowered: Using Web-Based Energy Dashboards as a Delivery Platform for Culture Change Programming
- University of Kentucky (KY)
Energy dashboards have become a common tool for providing feedback regarding resource consumption and conducting energy reduction competitions. Our approach in developing the EMpowered project was to significantly broaden this …
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Live, Work and Learn Locally—Creating a Sustainable Campus Community
- University of British Columbia (BC)
Innovation occurs when students, faculty and staff can work shoulder to shoulder. For a commuter campus surrounded by high-priced real estate, the battle is getting the best and the brightest …
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The Honors Society for Sustainability: Student Initiative Catalyzing Sustainable Change
- Arizona State University (AZ)
A group of high-achieving sustainability students at ASU recognized the need for an outlet to discuss their ideas and connect with other like-minded individuals in order to achieve sustainable change. …
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Green Funds 2.0: The Nitty-Gritty of Campus Sustainability Fund Management from the Ground Up
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of Vermont (VT)
A campus sustainability fund (also called green fund) is money available to campus community members for sustainability projects. Money for the fund may be from student fees, administrative budgets, or …
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The Frozen Faithful: Understanding and Responding to Evangelical Climate Denial
- Houghton College (NY)
Climate change represents a contentious issue within religious circles today, with advocates and antagonists pleading their cases before the believing masses. Nowhere is this more evident than within evangelical circles, …
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So, You Think That's a Sustainability Course?!?
- Portland State University (OR)
- Alfred State College (NY)
- University of Louisville (KY)
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)
Considerable uncertainty haunts university sustainability officers when developing sustainability-focused and -related course identifiers. It seems everyone has an opinion about which courses qualify for the different categorizations, and why. Unresolved …
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Campus Community Garden Completed its First Successful Harvest
- University of Alaska Fairbanks (AK)
After their first successful harvest, members of the UAF Campus Community Garden are looking forward to new opportunities next season. After being conceived last spring, gardening enthusiasts constructed a working, …
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Food Systems Northwest: A collaborative traveling summer course
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
- Willamette University (OR)
Around the country, scholars are beginning to recognize the centrality of food and agriculture in questions of sustainability, social justice, economic development, and international affairs (Poppendleck, 2000; Hinrichs 2003; Werkerle, …
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Voluntary Sustainability Agreements as a Transition Niche
- Chatham University (PA)
The lack of climate change leadership across many government levels in the United States has left a gap in the work of low-carbon transition for sustainability. Recognizing the importance and …
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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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Strategies for Environmental Assessment: Leveraging Sustainability Reporting to Engage Change
- New York University (NY)
From the first Environmental Assessment (EA) that our university performed half a decade ago through the process of institutionalizing assessment using STARS 1.0, our university's Office of Sustainability has deeply …
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Learning to Lean: How Lean Can Improve the Way You Address Sustainability Challenges on Campus
- Cape Cod Community College (MA)
- Haley & Aldrich, Inc. (MA)
Planning for sustainability in the face of campus complexity is a daunting challenge. How can we approach that challenge in a way that supports (and is supported by) the diverse …
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YERT 2.0: The Environmental Road Trip Continues
- Media Changing Media LLC (PA)
Building off of themes and stories covered in their 2012 award-winning, sustainable-solutions eco-docu-comedy “YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip,” with YERT 2.0 the YERT team is exploring through several film projects …
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Building iCAP: The University of Illinois Climate Action Planning Experience
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
We need visions of the future in order to plan. With a clear vision, campus leaders can guide our Universities toward becoming healthier, cleaner, safer, and more prosperous places. Most …
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Cross-Institution Collaboration: Composting Pre-and-Post Consumer Food Scraps In An Urban Environment
- Dominican University (IL)
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
- Northwestern University (IL)
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
According to a 2011 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Global Food Losses and Food Waste, the average American wastes over 200 pounds of food …
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Sustainable Communities through partnership of private, public, and Academic Institutions
- University of Texas at Arlington (TX)
World Commission on Environment and Development defined sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. …
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Using Earth Day as a catalyst: Creating a link between the university and community
- University of South Dakota (SD)
As universities begin to embrace sustainability efforts, it is essential that those efforts extend beyond the universities and into their broader communities. The University of South Dakota (USD) is the …
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Training Students for Sustainability Practice – Curriculum v2.0
- Philadelphia University (PA)
Six years ago we launched a professionally-oriented undergraduate curriculum that confers a bachelors degree in Environmental Sustainability. Over the last year we have undertaken a critical review of this curriculum …
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Getting to 30% Greenhouse Gas Reduction from Energy Consumed in Buildings
- St. John's University, New York (NY)
St. John's University - New York (STJ), a leader in PLaNYC 2030's "University Challenge", first private university to sign a MOU with EPA, and charter participant in AASHE STARS contracted …
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Planning for the Future: Creating and Achieving Campus Sustainability Goals
- Emory University (GA)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
- University of Hawaii - West Oahu (HI)
This panel will include case studies from campuses that have set rigorous sustainability goals. Presenters come from a variety of universities, including both public and private institutions that are in …
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Building a community farming network with the KPU Lab Farm
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University (BC)
The Bachelor of Applied Science in Sustainable Agriculture is a unique program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) that seeks to advance sustainable communities and food systems through integrated education, applied …
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