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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Planning and Integrating Sustainability at Universities
- DePaul University (IL)
- Duquesne University (PA)
- Illinois Institute of Technology (IL)
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)
Sustainability faculty from DePaul University (lead), U of Wisconsin, and the Illinois Institute of Technology business school will discuss how sustainability is being integrated into community outreach, curriculum, and governance …
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Innovative Campus Sustainability Initiatives at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida
- Eckerd College (FL)
Eckerd College signed the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) in 2007. The College has data on campuswide greenhouse gas emissions since 2002. We will present this data, …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Aramark Supporting Arizona State University's Commitment to Zero Waste through Operations and Educational Outreach
- Aramark (PA)
Monitoring the waste stream by minimizing our environmental footprint by reducing, reusing, and recycling waste. Supporting closed loop waste management processes and committing to innovative practices to reach an absolute …
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Building a Statewide Sustainability Strategy in Higher Education (2014)
- University of Hawaii at Hilo (HI)
This case study will describe the first two years of developing the system-wide University of Hawaii (UH) Sustainability Strategy. In January 2014 the Board of Regents of the University of …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Successful Composting-University of Tennessee-A Collaborative Compost Partnership-ARAMARK Volunteer Dining
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
The food service industry produces large amounts of food during daily production. Although food service businesses strive to create minimal amounts of waste, items such as lemon peels, apple cores, …
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LEED Education Credit; Bridging the Gap between Design and Performance
- Lewis & Clark College (OR)
In Fall 2011 Lewis & Clark began building a new residence hall that would continue its commitment to green living. The project's goal is to ultimately increase student awareness and …
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Environmental Literacy and it's Implications for Effective Public Policy Formation
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
Environmental literacy is a measure of a person's knowledge about the interactions of humans and their environments, environmental issues, and the various connections in ecological systems. Recent studies have demonstrated …
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Green Tailgating: Generating Sustainable Team Spirit!
- Bowling Green State University (OH)
The "greening" of university football game "tailgating" events and athletic competitions, which are known to generate literally tons of bottles and cans as well as waste, continues to spread, resulting …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Maximizing Student Action on Campus
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Higher education institutions have been home to some of the most significant movements in history. Students recognize that there is strength in numbers and want to use their knowledge to …
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Sustainable Societies
- Environic Foundation International, Inc. (MD)
Developing Education for Sustainable Development that includes a balanced examination of social, economic and environmental issues is a challenge. The Environic Foundation International (EFI), in partnership with the United Nations …
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From the Ground Up: Promoting Sustainable Campus Landscapes
- Denison University (OH)
- Moraine Valley Community College (IL)
- University of Louisville (KY)
- Arbor Day Foundation (NE)
This panel explores the benefits of sustainable campus landscapes and how to build long-lasting support for them by publicizing your initiatives, educating and engaging others, and earning recognition locally and …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Predictive Modeling of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Oregon Institute of Technology (OR)
Climate action plans currently developed by institutions of higher education across the country need to provide various mitigations strategies to achieve carbon neutrality in the "near future". These strategies are …
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Assessing Biodiesel Vehicle Performance in a Public Transportation Facility that Serves a University: Appalcart Biodiesel Fleet Performance at Appalachian State University
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Appalcart is a Public Transportation Authority that has a cooperative relationship with Appalachian State University (Appstate) to provide free public transportation for the Town of Boone and Watauga County in …
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Campus Sustainability Tours: Seeing is Teaching
- University of North Texas (TX)
The University of North Texas offers special sustainability tours year round to primary, secondary and college level students. The tours also engage the off campus community to include sustainability professionals …
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Sustainability Engagement at UC Boulder: IT Strategies for Behavior Change
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
The University of Colorado Boulder has been a leader in sustainability focused research, education and engagement for more than half a century. The campus is home to nationally recognized and …
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Development of Carbon Mitigation Tools and Benchmarks for Universities in the U.S.
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
A large share of U.S. universities is currently implementing campus green and sustainable initiatives. "Green" and "sustainable" initiatives can include a broad set of issues. For example, climate mitigation strategies, …
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George Washington Carver, A Role Model for Sustainability
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
Through a brief presentation and a clip from a recent documentary, learn about George Washington Carver, arguably one of the premier forefathers of the sustainability movement in the United States. …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability as Deep Learning: the University of the District of Columbia's Sustainable City Faculty Fellowship
- University of the District of Columbia (DC)
The University of the District of Columbia's Sustainable City Faculty Fellowship (SCFF) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary professional development program designed to integrate sustainability into curriculum throughout UDC's schools and colleges …
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unPLUg: How an Energy Competition Can Permanently Change Behavior
- Pacific Lutheran University (WA)
Many colleges have implemented residential hall competitions to reduce energy; however do these competitions create long-term change in behavior? Too often after the tally is counted many will return to …
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Climate Change, Agriculture, and Rural Communities: The Central Great Plains Climate Education Partnership
- Kansas State University (KS)
The Central Great Plains Climate Education Partnership is a National Science Foundation funded collaboration between Kansas State University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to develop climate change education programs for …
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Magnetic Bearing Chillers: Reducing Costs, Electricity, Emissions, and Noises
- Radford University (VA)
Radford University (RU) is working towards a goal of climate neutrality. When it came time to replace the chiller that was located in Preston Hall, Radford University, consistent with its …
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Sustaining Sustainability: Making Progress Beyond the ACUPCC
- Towson University (MD)
Your institution has made a commitment to sustainability, it signed the ACUPCC, formed a committee, hired a sustainability coordinator, but now what? Many sustainability efforts get off to a great …
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Sustaining Self: Prioritizing Personal Well-Being
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
Sustainability professionals need to do a better job of taking care of themselves. Far too many in our field routinely push themselves to an emotional and physical limit, due largely …
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Integration of Sustainability Education into Pre-service Teacher Preparation
- Western Washington University (WA)
In Washington state, beginning Fall, 2009, all new teacher candidates will need to provide student-based and teacher-based evidence demonstrating they are able to prepare effective citizens for an environmentally sustainable, …
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Global Sustainability for Social Justice
- Santa Clara University (CA)
Santa Clara University’s Food & Agribusiness Institute (FAI) offers a unique approach to immersion trips; they are designed differently than other trips sponsored by universities, and even from other immersion …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Energy Competitions: Challenges and Opportunities
- Green Mountain College (VT)
- Northwestern University (IL)
- Old Dominion University (VA)
- University at Albany (NY)
- Williams College (MA)
- Atrius (CA)
How can institutions of higher education leverage resource reduction competitions to engage, educate, and motivate student behavior change?
Campus resource reduction competitions are a powerful platform to engage students in …
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The Training Needs of University Sustainability Managers
- Kent State University (OH)
As colleges and universities continue to increase their engagement with sustainability, questions arise concerning the hiring requirements and professional support for the jobs of Sustainability Managers and Sustainability Coordinators. This …
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Make a Difference that Lasts: End Campus Food Waste & Community Hunger
- Food Recovery Network (MD)
Looking for a way to make a long-term, big-picture impact on campus and in your community? Thinking ahead to graduation and worrying that the work you’re putting into sustainability initiatives …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Campus Food Waste Management: Developing a Comprehensive Food Waste Management System for Green Campus
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Food waste is one of the most challenging components in the waste stream. Americans refuse 25% of all the food they prepare each year, leading to 33 million tons of …
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Green Monday - A Growing Global Movement and an Effective Marketing Campaign to Reduce Your Institution's Foodprint
- Columbia University (NY)
- Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
- Green Monday
Green Monday is a growing global movement that promotes green lifestyle choices. Columbia alumnus David Yeung created Green Monday in his native Hong Kong, where it has seen incredible success. …
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Stewardship Science: Connecting undergraduate-led sustainability research with community service
- University of St. Thomas (MN)
Growing environmental challenges make sustainability science training a pressing educational goal. Given the complexity and interdisciplinary nature of environmental problems, strategies are needed to recruit students with diverse skills to …
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Getting to Zero Waste: Waste Audits
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Waste Audit Team has created a protocol for all waste audits at UC Berkeley. Up until this point, groups have been conducting audits using different methods, making it so …
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Comparison of How Colleges Promote Greenhouse Gas Inventory Strategies
- Bridgewater State University (MA)
Ideally, everyone should care the environment because a clean planet is a necessity for the survival of the human race. The problem is however, not all students or college campuses …
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Against the Wind: How to Fan the Flames of Institutional Transformation.
- North Carolina State University (NC)
Despite the fact that the UN's vision for sustainable development calls for an integration of competing social, economic and ecological interests, the practice in higher education has focused primarily on …
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Be Socially Sustainable: Bringing the Social into Sustainability Planning & Outreach
- Texas A&M University (TX)
Sustainability is out of balance, the environmental and economic aspects are tipping the scales at institutions of higher education and leaving the social aspects behind. As discussed in a recent …
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The Illusive Thread: Developing HE Transdisciplinary Sustainability Learning Outcomes
- Colorado College (CO)
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls (WI)
A sustainable campus and community approach to learning outcomes provides the single richest multi-disciplinary and discipline specific platform for immersing our students and stakeholders in a place-based, living-learning laboratory environment; …
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The Library and You: Sharing Our Vision
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
Are you a faculty member frustrated with the lack of reliable information in your students’ papers and projects? Are you a librarian seeking ideas for integrating your expertise into the …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Why Your Campus Needs a Distributed Network of Sustainability Advocates
- New York University (NY)
Improving the environmental performance of higher education institutions is not only a question of infrastructural development through decisions made in the upper echelons of university administration; it is also intimately …
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Energy Storage Can Benefit Your Campus, Finances and Community!
- Duquesne University (PA)
- Trane (TX)
- CALMAC (NJ)
Overall, today's electric utilities have twice the capacity they need, but they still run short of power to meet air conditioning demands during peak summer days. According to a recent …
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Less is More: EKU's New Science Building is Right-Sized and Sustainable
- HERA, Inc. (MO)
Eastern Kentucky University evaluated their existing science facilities, spread between 3 out-dated buildings (constructed between 1880 and late 1960"s). After going through a careful process, EKU decided to relocate all …
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Energy Markets 101: Everything a Sustainability Officer Needs to Know
- Harvard University (MA)
- University at Albany (NY)
- EYP (NY)
- Campus Climate Solutions (FL)
Energy market costs and volatility pose both a threat and an opportunity for advancing sustainability initiatives in the higher education market. Reducing energy consumption has the greatest immediate and long-term …
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Sustainable Change at UAF: Initiated and Managed by Students
- University of Alaska Fairbanks (AK)
What's better than having a $20 student sustainability fee? Having those monies managed by students! Come hear about how the Review of Infrastructure, Sustainability and Energy (RISE) Board operates, accepts …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Energy Efficiency at Carleton University.
- Carleton University (ON)
The Carleton University Campus, in Ottawa, Canada, consists of 44 main buildings built between 1960 and 2013 that range in type of usage: Housing, Laboratories, an Athletic Centre, Commercial Businesses, …
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A Balancing Act: St Louis Higher Education Sustainability Consortium
- Maryville University (MO)
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (IL)
- Southwestern Illinois College (IL)
- University of Missouri-St. Louis (MO)
- Missouri Botanical Garden (MO)
At a time when colleges and universities and communities are under ever-increasing economic pressure to do more with less the values at the heart of sustainability in higher education offer …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Diversity as the Guiding Principle: Sustainable Social Innovations
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Today institutions are cultivating a diversity of innovations to promote sustainability education, practice and development. Residence life may have a sustainability-themed living-learning community and student activities may have an environmental …
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The Zero Waste Campus
- University of Ottawa (ON)
Whether it is a single-stream or multipart recycling system, the staple environmental achievement for a post-secondary institution is typically its tailored recycling program. The success of a waste diversion program …
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Incorporating sustainability one course at a time
- Randolph College (VA)
Sustainability programs (including certifications, majors, minors, graduate and professional programs) began appearing at institutions of higher education over a decade ago. Randolph College first proposed a sustainability minor in 2011, …
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The Kinnikinnic Project: Developing Sustainability Learning Outcomes In Higher Education
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls (WI)
A sustainable campus and community approach to learning outcomes provides the single richest multi-disciplinary and discipline specific platform for immersing our students and stakeholders in a place-based, living-learning laboratory environment …
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Energy Strategies for Climate Adaptation
- Ever-Green Energy (MN)
Communities have a growing demand for environmental solutions and partnerships with campuses can help all stakeholders realize sustainability goals that are more cost-competitive, reliable, and resilient. Essentially, merging assets and …
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Renewable Energy Workshop: Design Your Plan
- Boston University (MA)
- Trio (CA)
This is an interactive, working session that will help attendees: 1. Identify the key issues to consider re: renewable energy and their institutions, including product configurations and financing options; 2. …
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