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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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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Incorporating Life Cycle Analysis into Campus Dining
- University of Missouri (MO)
The environmental impacts associated with food production have been well-documented through Life cycle analyses (LCA). LCA of food products have focused largely on individual food items. However, very little work …
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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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Know Your Products, Know Yourself: Learning to Be An Environmentally Just Student
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
In the sustainability world we are bombarded constantly on how consumerism impacts our environment, but we rarely hear about the social impact. At this session participants will learn how their …
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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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Changing Hearts: Sustainability in the Long Term
- Pepperdine University (CA)
For many, the environmental movement is a consumer fad with very little intellectual or emotional investment. Generally, sustainability is deemed a "good thing" but given low priority at both the …
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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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Sustainability Competencies to Meet Market & Societal Demand
- College of Charleston (SC)
Sustainability and sustainable practices are growing to include every sector of global society. Therefore there is a growing demand for professionals to have basic sustainability competence. At the same time, …
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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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The Revitalization Institute
- Seneca Polytechnic (ON)
Revitalization Institute (RI) is the academy and advocate for what Storm Cunningham (reWealth: 2008) calls the magic of restoration in which natural, built, and socio-economic assets are continuously enhanced rather …
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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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Sustainability Knowledge Assessment at California State University, Northridge
- California State University, Northridge (CA)
Colleges and universities across the globe are increasingly focusing their efforts on campus sustainability and related educational curricula. In conjunction with the Institute for Sustainability and the university sustainability curriculum …
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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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Inclusion from Conception - A Presidential Perspective
- Hadassah Academic College
Embracing sustainability in every facet of higher education is to crystallize and practice it in every decision and motion made. At Hadassah College Jerusalem we conducted thorough research based on …
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Getting Your Head into a Beehive
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
"Getting Your Head into a Beehive: Stories About Teaching Sustainable Beekeeping at Northern Arizona University"
In this report from the field, I'll describe the challenges involved in teaching three-day summer …
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Green Roofs: Environmental, Academic, and Engaging
- University of the District of Columbia (DC)
Besides green roofs' many environmental benefits - stormwater management, reduced urban heat island effect, habitat creation, building insulation - the academic and learning value that green roofs can have is …
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Green Demonstrations Transform Higher Education and Beyond
- Strategic Energy Innovations (CA)
Drawing on 5 years of experience designing and promoting college and university green residential demonstrations, session presenter from Strategic Energy innovations will illustrate how a modest project can facilitate a …
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Campus Citizenship Behavior: A Motivational Analysis for Change
- Chatham University (PA)
All intentional behavior is a function of motivational forces within the individual to engage in certain actions while forgoing other actions. Classic theories of motivation such as expectancy theory, equity …
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STARS Curriculum: Trends, Challenges and a Proposed Solution
- East Tennessee State University (TN)
STARS Curriculum: Trends, Challenges and a Proposed Solution
M. Moin Uddin, Ph.D., East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
STARS (The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System) curriculum subcategory recognizes …
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Dust the Camera Off
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- University of Georgia (GA)
Video provides a great medium for the presentation of policies, initiatives, and opportunities. The range of cinematic styles can be explored and used to communicate seemingly mundane messaging in a …
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Sustainability in International Development: Student-Driven Organizations as a Sector Necessity
- Montana State University (MT)
The international development sector is one that carries with it the perception that complex academic specializations are prerequisite for involvement. In many cases, "expertise" becomes confounded with academic and field …
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Creative Assessment Strategies for Learning Outcomes
- The Ohio State University (OH)
Setting learning outcomes for student programs is easy, but figuring out how to measure what they learn has been a challenge for us at Ohio State. Come hear how we've …
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Assessment of Competency-based Sustainability Learning to Foster Systems Thinking and Critical Thinking
- Michigan State University (MI)
A land-grant university launched a competency-based undergraduate sustainability program in fall 2010. The approach reflects an emphasis on fostering the learning paradigm that links the domains of learner, assessment, knowledge …
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Field Report on The University of Oklahoma Sustainability and Green Initiatives and Actions
- University of Oklahoma (OK)
Green activity at OU has increased significantly over the past two years. A great deal of this is due to the structure that AASHE has provided as well as recent …
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You've Made Your Bed & You'll Have to Lie In It: Strategies to Embed Sustainability into the Residential College Experience
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
Being sustainable is something that must be taught in order to create individuals who possess competencies in order to maintain "healthy ecosystems and environments that provide vital goods and services …
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Putting Biomimicry Thinking into Practice: Lessons learned through an online sustainable design thesis project
- Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MN)
Biomimicry, the practice of emulating models and strategies in nature, enables designers to see and learn from nature in new ways (Biomimicry Institute). This paper describes the primary learning outcomes …
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Developing a Strategic Sustainability Plan based on the Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System (STARS) framework
- Thompson Rivers University (BC)
- Stantec Consulting, Ltd. (WA)
Through an extensive consultation process in 2014, Thompson Rivers University (TRU) identified 'advancing Sustainability' as 1 of 5 strategic priorities. TRU developed a Strategic Sustainability Plan (SSP) using AASHE's Sustainability …
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Telling a Comprehensive Sustainability Story
- Portland State University (OR)
We all know that sustainability is more than just a campus-wide recycling plan. It’s imbued across departments and disciplines, leaks out of classrooms and into communities, it manifests in social …
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Economics, Business and the Environment: Team-Teaching Sustainable Enterprise
- St. John's University, New York (NY)
Business may be the fastest way to transform society towards sustainability so teaching about the process to business and economics students is vital as we try to head off catastrophic …
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Organic Recycling - It's Here!
- NatureWorks (GA)
Noting the growing success of food waste diversion and composting, NatureWorks LLC(www.natureworksllc.com) and one of its key partners (R3/Bunzl Distribution) will showcase commercial success of organic recycling (or composting) in …
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Building an EcoReps Community through a Regional Conference
- American University (DC)
- University of South Carolina (SC)
Professional sustainability staff frequently convene at events and conferences such as AASHE to share best practices, network, and elevate the collective knowledge base of sustainability in higher education. On many …
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Building a catalyzing collaborative funding process: McGill's transferable lessons
- McGill University (QC)
Funding is a consistent limit to action toward sustainability in higher education. Last year, students at McGill University took the lead on actualizing the latent potential on campus by establishing …
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Communicating Sustainability to On-Campus Stakeholders at the University of New Hampshire
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
Since 2005 the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and its endowed sustainability program have revamped and expanded efforts to communicate about the university's sustainability leadership and initiatives. In 2009-2010, an …
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Building More Sustainable Communities Through Agriculture Integration
- Green Mountain College (VT)
As citizens learn more about where their food comes from, and college students look to integrate themselves into their community there is a great potential for various campus groups to …
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STARS Intro. Pre-Conference Workshop: Edmonds Community College: Our Journey to (the) STARS
- Edmonds Community College (WA)
Community colleges are a little different. We have less money per student and ever-shrinking budgets to work with. We have a revolving door of students. A successful student is usually …
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Developing Energy Leaders for the Future
- North Carolina State University (NC)
Campus sustainability and energy initiatives can be challenging to tackle for a land grant university large enough to be a city of its own. Many different departments and programs are …
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Spotlight on Sustainability: A Student Lab Theatre
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Hundreds of small theatres and classrooms across the United States, and hundreds more around the globe, rely heavily on high-wattage incandescent theatrical lighting equipment to illuminate the platform or stage. …
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Forging Access Between Sustainable Campus Initiative and Students
- Kent State University (OH)
This talk considers how knowledge sponsorship and technological determinism of English Departments and campus communities hinder the sustainability consciousness raising for students and campus community members. Kent State University is …
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University at Buffalo Climate Action Plan: Addressing the Challenges of Sustainable Expansion
- Ecology and Environment, Inc. (NY)
The University at Buffalo (UB) is in the process of transformation through the design, development, and implementation of the UB 2020 plan. As outlined in the UB 2020 strategy, and …
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