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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SOS - a global student voice on sustainability
- National Union of Students
There are 17,000 HEIs in the world and students need to leave tertiary education equipped to be part of the solution to sustainability issues, rather than part of the programme. …
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Energy-Saving In Student Accommodation In The UK - The Student Switch Off
- National Union of Students
This session will provide a case study of the leading student energy-saving campaign in the UK, the Student Switch Off, run by the National Union of Students. The presentation will …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Green and Sustainable Campus Operations
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Grand Valley State University has been implementing sustainability using an interdisciplinary integrated systems approach in administration, facilities services, campus dining; education and curriculum development, student involvement and community engagement and …
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Annual Sustainability Reporting: Outputs versus Outcomes
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Many universities report on their progress toward sustainability goals. The reports detail a range of sustainability metrics and information, from those contained in greenhouse gas inventories to waste, water, purchasing, …
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The Campus Farm Movement: A Survey of Campus Agriculture in N. American
- Ursinus College (PA)
David Orr wrote in 1991, "It might have been different had agriculture evolved instead within the liberal arts colleges.” Orr was lamenting the specialization of agricultural education within land grant …
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PARK(ing) Day!
- University of Louisville (KY)
PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists, and activists collaborate to transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places for a day. The project …
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Envisioning the Resilient Campus: Planning for Reduced Campus Energy Consumption through Data Analysis and Visualization at St. Olaf College
- St. Olaf College (MN)
Campuses are making great strides to integrate sustainability into their operations and planning through initiatives such as STARS and the ACUPCC. However, while campus master plans may include a section …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Students Doing Research on Sustainability Reaching Out Beyond the Campus
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The concept of education for sustainable development has been acknowledged by institutions of higher education and underscored by the UNESCO Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. On the demand side, …
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Education for Sustainability at UNAM
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
- Environmental Leadership Program (MD)
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) contributes to the formation of new generations, providing a vision that allows them to build multidisciplinary solutions for increasingly large and complex problems, …
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Accelerating Campus Sustainability in Kyoto University
- Kyoto University
After the Great East-Japan Earthquake and the followed reactor's accident in Fukushima Prefecture which occurred on May 2011, fostering a culture of sustainability, saving electricity and installing energy efficient facilities …
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Lights Out!: Training Building Occupants to Change Energy-Consuming Behaviors
- University of Kansas (KS)
- Energy Solutions Professionals, LLC (KS)
Lights Out! was a 3-month friendly competition at the University of Kansas that pitted faculty and staff in three buildings against one another in an effort to see who could …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Making Green Cleaning Stick: The Journey to Green Seal Standards
- Muskegon Community College (MI)
- Western Michigan University (MI)
LEED V4 now recognizes custodial programs certified under one of the following: Green Seal's Environmental Standard for Commercial Cleaning Services (GS-42); or International Sanitary Supply Association (ISSA) Cleaning Industry Management …
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Plenary: Investing in Energy Efficiency through Green Revolving Funds
- Agnes Scott College (GA)
- Catawba College (NC)
- Harvard University (MA)
- Sustainable Endowments Institute (MA)
An increasing number of colleges are establishing green revolving funds to tap into new sources of capital and scale up their institution's commitment to investing in reducing carbon emissions and …
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Building the Best Team for a Sustainable Operation
- Western Michigan University (MI)
- PortionPac Chemical Corporation (IL)
- Green Seal (DC)
- Georgia-Pacific (GA)
As green as your school may be, achieving and maintaining the level of sustainable operational performance that today's students expect can be challenging. As a facilities manager, how do you …
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Public Empowerment & Campus Sustainability - Meaningfully engaging your campus community
- University of Alberta (AB)
Creating space for students, staff and faculty to collaborate is a powerful means of building a sustainable campus. The Deliberation on Campus Sustainability (DoCS) was a multi-phased, 5-month project that …
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Food Bikes: Mobile Food That’s Low Capital, Low Footprint
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Food Bikery seeks to prove that food bikes are a safe, legal, low-capital, and low-footprint alternative to food trucks. In transitioning mobile food off of trucks and onto bicycles, …
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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus Sustainability Tour
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus Sustainability Tour will take participants on a sustainability focused tour through all three distinct campuses in the Twin Cities. Stops on the Sustainability …
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Spreading the Word: Effective Communication on Campus
- Luther College (IA)
Effective communication is essential in promoting and running any sustainability initiative. Every day, institutions are coming up with projects that further our energy efficiency, connect us to local food systems, …
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Assessing the Feasibility of a Microgrid to Reinforce Campus Climate Resiliency
- Middlebury College (VT)
Catastrophic weather events like Katrina, Irene, Sandy and others have raised concern about being prepared for the uncertainties of climate change. Students participating in the summer Middlebury School of the …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Empowering Ecoliteracy: A Transformative Art & Design Education Bridges Academics, Operations, and Facilities
- The New School (NY)
Parsons The New School for Design in New York City has approached sustainability holistically to engage students - shaping how they work, study, and participate in the material world - …
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Diversifying the Budgetary Resources for Your Campus' Sustainability Program
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Where does the budget for your campus Sustainability Programs come from? On most campuses, these Offices and Efforts are funded by a department or solely with savings. Learn how to …
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Collaborative Intersections for creating campus change
- Evergreen State College, The (WA)
The Evergreen State College has a long history of actively pursuing cross-divisional collaborations and integration of student projects with campus operations. Past collaborations resulted in the formation of the campus …
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Decision Making Process in Building LEED Residence Halls
- University of South Carolina (SC)
This study assesses the decision making process of campus administrators in building LEED residence halls by reviewing four cases at the University of South Carolina (USC), the University of Georgia …
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The Environmental Action Component in Sustainability Coursework: Service Learning in the Syllabus
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
In 2007, a new module for service learning in sustainability education at UT Austin was implemented. Known as the Environmental Action Component (EAC), the module dynamically included environmental community service …
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Exploring Faculty Conceptualizations of Sustainable Universities Through the Use of Q Methodology
- Dalhousie University (NS)
The Sustainability in Higher Education literature reveals the highly subjective nature of thinking about what it means to be a sustainable university. We used Q methodology to explore how faculty …
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Green Energy Fee Grant Program: Making campus more sustainable - one project at a time
- Western Washington University (WA)
The Green Energy Fee Grant Program is a Western Washington University grant program that enables the campus community to apply for funding to implement sustainable initiatives on campus. The Green …
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Sustained! Keeping student environmental organizations running
- University of Missouri (MO)
In a dynamic and transient campus environment, leadership changes and long-term plans often get lost in the tussle of action and planning. To enact lasting change on a college campus, …
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Turning Trash into Transportation: Establishing and Growing a (Recycled) Campus-bicycle Sharing Program
- University of Kentucky (KY)
At the University of Kentucky we have developed a highly successful and innovative bicycle sharing program called the Wildcat Wheels Bicycle Library (www.wildcatwheels.org). The mission of our program is to …
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UR vs. VCU: A Campus ConseRVAtion Nationals Cross-Town Competition
- American University (DC)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (VA)
In 2013, the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University partnered in a cross-town energy competition, Campus Conservation Nationals. The schools wanted to capitalize on an existing basketball rivalry and …
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Engaging Students in Energy Reduction - on and off campus
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
At CU boulder, Residence Life and the Environmental Center are working together to provide all our students with what that they need to practice energy efficiency at home – whether …
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Plenary: Are we succeeding? 3 Approaches to Assessing Sustainability Education
- Green Mountain College (VT)
- Oakland Community College (MI)
- University of Michigan (MI)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Sustainability educators need to measure the impact of their programs but find few widely accepted methodologies for doing so. Panelists will describe three very different approaches for evaluating sustainability education …
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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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Team Waste Reduction: Using Departmental Collaboration to Transform Your Surplus Program
- Bowling Green State University (OH)
What do an 8 foot tall plywood cutout of the 'Lorax', a warehouse full of desks and 100 bicycles all have in common? They are all examples of surplus items …
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Corporate Sustainability Reports: How to Perform a Basic Analysis to Understand a Company's Sustainability Efforts
- University of Idaho (ID)
Corporate Sustainability Reports are heavily criticized for portraying more marketing and public relations material than quantitative accounts of the company's commitment to sustainability. Corporate Sustainability Reports can contain mountains of …
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Adopting and Promoting a Campus Bike Share Program Through Social Media
- North Georgia College & State University (GA)
One project recently undertaken by the North Georgia College & State University (NGCSU) sustainability task force is a bicycle share program in which safe and durable bicycles are readily available …
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Riding the Line Between Risk and Reward with Two Wheels: Sharing Bicycles at UB
- University at Buffalo (NY)
When our community bicycle sharing program closed, we began searching for alternatives that would meet the needs of our campus in light of our goal of becoming climate neutral by …
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Digital & Interactive Short Courses in Technical Sustainability & Design: Pilot Results and Lessons Learned
- Engineers for a Sustainable World (CO)
In an effort to improve access to education on both skills and multidisciplinary topics within sustainability Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) has been piloting a series of digital short …
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Food Systems Carbon Footprint Analyzed by Students and University Stakeholders
- Elon University (NC)
The University's Sustainability Master Plan has targeted carbon neutrality across the institution by 2037. To help meet this goal, students in the Environmental Studies Senior capstone course worked with the …
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Teaching campus sustainability after sustainability has lost its buzz
- University of Wyoming (WY)
We began teaching Campus Sustainability at the University of Wyoming in 2005 when the campus sustainability movement was taking off. Students were highly motivated about sustainability and the class and …
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Communicating Sustainability: Princeton University Programmatic and Academic Initiatives
- Princeton University (NJ)
Both programmatic and academic initiatives in communicating sustainability are becoming part of the landscape of sustainability programs at many institutions of higher education. In this session we will explore an …
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The FLC-SHE: A Transdisciplinary Faculty Learning Community on Sustainability in Higher Education
- Western Carolina University (NC)
In 2007, an ad hoc Campus Sustainability task force at Western Carolina University was regenerated as a Faculty Learning Community (FLC), with a focus on integrating sustainability in the WCU …
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Engaging Students: Creating a Sustainability Internship Program
- Oregon Institute of Technology (OR)
Most campuses engaged in sustainability efforts have ambitious goals yet lack the resources and personnel to reach these goals. Students can help with sustainability activities by participating in a carefully …
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Best Practices in Global Sustainability: A Course Offering
- Bryant University (RI)
As a result of this slow economy, university resources are limited and most schools experienced several budget cuts. Therefore, the authors decided to streamline efforts in satisfying the three pillars …
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Case Study Approach to Developing Sustainability Curriculum
- Keene State College (NH)
Case Study Approach to Developing Sustainability Curriculum
We have made a commitment to incorporating sustainability throughout our curriculum, providing students with opportunities to engage with sustainability initiatives on campus and …
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GIS for Sustainability Management in Higher Education
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
Geographic information systems (GIS) are commonly formed from a combination of data, software, hardware, people, institutional arrangements and motivations for collecting, analyzing and displaying spatial and temporal referenced data that …
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Launching Sustainability at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
- University of Hawaii at Manoa (HI)
The Sustainable Saunders initiative at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is an inspiring case study of students leading the way for campus and state-wide sustainability. The interdisciplinary student team …
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Integration and Application of Sustainability Projects within Health Sciences: Facilitating Sustainability and Systems Education
- University of Utah (UT)
Engaging underserved populations in sustainability issues is a challenge that cuts across disciplines. For Health Sciences it is particularly challenging, as it is a matter often seen as outside the …
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An In-depth Analysis of Waste Trends and Reuse Potential in Dining Facilities
- West Virginia University (WV)
In the United States, less than three percent of the 34 million tons of food waste generated was recovered or recycled in 2010. This represents the single largest component of …
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Making the Geoscience Curriculum More Sustainable
- Eastern Connecticut State University (CT)
Sustainability is an increasingly important theme in geoscience education and our department is helping to modify the traditional geoscience curriculum so that it more fully addresses sustainability issues. At Eastern …
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Improving the Efficiency of Land Management Agencies with the use of Sustainability Assessments
- Black Hills State University (SD)
The ability to assess the sustainability of an organization is becoming increasingly important for organizations across the globe. The tools developed for this task are as diverse as the organizations …
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