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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Lights Out!
- Wells College (NY)
I was part of a small group of students assigned the topic of 'Energy Usage' as a project in our Psychology of Environmental Sustainability Class. We wanted to measure the …
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Partnerships for Food Systems Change
- University of Florida (FL)
This presentation would include several examples of what we have accomplished at UF regarding food systems change at various scales and with varoious partners, and engage the audience in a …
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Sustainable Hospitality Symposium: Central California Coast Community Partnership Links "new" Event Standards to Economic Development
- California State University, Monterey Bay (CA)
A new model for collaboration under the umbrella of the Institute of Innovation and Economic Development (IIED) was used to create a robust conference. Participants included: five different colleges, government …
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Neigborhood Resilience, Using Waste to Build Justice Locally and Internationally
- Trevecca Nazarene University (TN)
Asia Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary (APNTS) in Manila, Philippines is a ‘sister school’ to Trevecca Nazarene University (TNU) in Nashville, TN. Both schools are located in highly stressed urban environments …
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Transformative Undergraduate Sustainability Education: Dalhousie's Major in Environment, Sustainability & Society
- Dalhousie University (NS)
Dalhousie University's Major in Environment, Sustainability and Society offers a unique approach to undergraduate education in sustainability, combining the rigor and depth of traditional disciplinary study with a rich experience …
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NACUFS Sustainability Guide - Sustainable Solutions in Collegiate Foodservice Operations
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
- Ricca Newmark Design
- Envision Strategies (CO)
On most campuses, Dining Services is the team relied upon to just get it done - somehow, some way... This often holds true for moving forward with green initiatives too …
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Solve, Educate, Engage: The Role of the University in Sustainability Solutions
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Using case histories from the Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives at ASU, we'll explore how universities can engage government entities, business and academic communities, non profit organizations and the public in …
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Carbon Valuing Menus...Creating Sustainable Behavioral Change in a Campus Community
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
One of Northern Arizona University's newest additions to campus dining is the Green Scene Café opened in Fall 2011. Take a look at how the café's carbon valued menus have …
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Transparency and Efficiency in Sustainability Implementation
- Ohio University (OH)
Since your institution has adopted a sustainability and/or climate action plan, have you felt you spend more time on data collection and reporting than on actual implementation and outreach? The …
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Creating a B.S. in Sustainability Science Program
- Kean University (NJ)
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, the New York Times, USA Today, and The Chronicle of Higher Education have all suggested that sustainability is a major of increasing interest among …
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Pumping Kilowatts: A Look at Energy Efficiency in Fitness Centers
- Chapman University (CA)
Chapman University recently installed SportsArt’s Eco-Green cardio equipment in one of our residential fitness facilities. The SportsArt equipment captures kinetic energy and turns it into electrical energy that is then …
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Sparking Resilience in Your Region
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (MA)
What does it take to affect sustainable adaptations beyond the walls of your university to extend into your regional communities? UMass Dartmouth is inspiring waves of resilience and solution-seeking that …
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Developing an Integrated MBA and MPA Curriculum to Spur Innovative and Collaborative Solutions for Sustainability
- Presidio Graduate School (CA)
Intractable social and environmental problems increasingly call for collaborative solutions across the public and private sectors. Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco has offered a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) …
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Seeing the Carbon for the Trees: Offsetting Air Travel Through Avoided Deforestation in Costa Rica
- American University (DC)
- Pax Natura Foundation (UT)
Achieving carbon neutrality requires reducing emissions at the source through efficiency and reduced consumption, while switching to clean, renewable sources of energy. Not only are these reductions technically feasible within …
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Move Out Madness - End of Year Waste Reduction and Donations
- University of Guelph (ON)
There's so much going on, it's Madness! Learn the details of a successful program designed to capture useful stuff left behind by students in undergraduate residences and in off-campus rental …
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Building Global Bridges to Sustainability Research/Collaborations in Higher Education
- University of Nevada Las Vegas (NV)
The institutional repository (IR) concept was designed and created by faculty and librarians to showcase scholarly activity at the academy. The Open Access (OA) model upon which IR's are built …
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Teaching and Learning for a Zero Waste Future
- DePauw University (IN)
The global materials economy is a fundamental driver of all of our most serious and urgent crises: climate change, toxic pollution, biodiversity loss, poverty, and injustice. This economic system rests …
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Enterprising Students Lead Campus Sustainability Initiatives at Michigan Tech
- Michigan Technological University (MI)
Michigan Technological University's innovative, student-centered educational initiative, the Enterprise Program, now has a team focused on advancing campus sustainability. Students enrolled in a variety of Enterprises form interdisciplinary teams to …
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Optimizing and Designing Waste Diversion Programs
- New York University (NY)
Typical universities waste streams – often including residential, classroom and office spaces – are varied and require multifaceted protocols to optimize the handling and diversion of materials from landfills. This …
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Zero Net Energy Tiny Houses: A Campus Sustainable Housing Solution
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The THIMBY (Tiny House in My Backyard) Student Group from UC Berkeley will be presenting on the design process of building a pilot, zero net energy tiny house on a …
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Campus Wide Energy Challenge: Success through Unique Strategies and Diverse Collaborations
- Allegheny College (PA)
After committing to a Climate Action Plan and undertaking multiple energy efficiency retrofits, Allegheny College tackled the development of an effective yet feasible Energy Challenge. It was conceived as a …
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EVERYBODY WINS! Effective Statewide/Regional Higher Ed Sustainability Partnerships
- Kankakee Community College (IL)
- Kansas State University (KS)
- Kean University (NJ)
EVERYBODY WINS! Effective Statewide/Regional Higher Ed Sustainability Partnerships
Meeting of minds and hearts across institutional and disciplinary boundaries. Hierarchy leveled in shared projects. More clout with governors, legislatures, local officials. …
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Speed dating for scientists: Converting research to action
- Portland State University (OR)
University research is fostering innovation that can fuel the emerging sustainable economy and inform progress on thorny community problems, but the world of academia is too often disconnected from community …
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Climate Neutral Research Campuses
- Alliance for Sustainable Energy (CO)
Climate Neutral: Research Campuses
Center of Excellence Provides Resources to Achieve Climate Neutrality
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A new climate action resource center illustrates the full range of campus climate action options with …
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Navigating Theory and Practice: Indiana University's Summer Program in Sustainability
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
As a prominent component of its emerging, campus-wide program of sustainability Indiana University has developed a high-profile internship program for its IU Bloomington campus. The IU Summer Program in Sustainability, …
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Storytelling: The Buzzword That Can Actually Get You A Job
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
Your last year of school looms ahead, perhaps even that dreaded G word in May. All those times your advisors tried to convince you to follow their career path, or …
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Executive Education for Disruptive Sustainability
- Harvard University (MA)
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability of Higher Education (AASHE) presents Leith Sharp from Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, in collaboration with the Center for Green …
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Growing Veggies in Central Campus: Edible Landscaping at Luther College
- Luther College (IA)
Discover how a campus with high aesthetic standards can incorporate vegetable production into the landscape of central campus. Edible landscaping can take many forms including raised beds near residence halls, …
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Using Retro-Commissioning to Increase Climate Action Plan Resiliency
- Seattle Pacific University (WA)
- Paladino and Company (WA)
Seattle Pacific University created a climate action plan in June 2010. The goal of the plan is to reduce natural gas consumption 20% by 2015 and be a carbon neutral …
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Cooperative Curriculum for a Resilient Future: How to Integrate Education on Cooperatives in U.S Undergraduate Programs.
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The co-operative business model and co-operative economics are not taught as subjects in most U.S. undergraduate programs. To address this systemic lack of awareness, our workshop will explore how to …
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Go Green and Go Home! How College Administrators are Investing in the Future by Communicating with Sustainability Activists
- Bridgewater State University (MA)
- Global Spark (WA)
Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, Tar Sands Action...this year has seen an explosion of social justice activism that continues to ignite public imaginations. This presentation looks at how colleges are …
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Standards of Sustainability Practice for Student Affairs Administrators
- University of Denver (CO)
This concurrent workshop session introduces the Standards of Sustainability Practice for Student Affairs Administrators. The workshop begins with an introduction to the key concepts and definitions of sustainability and how …
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A trans-disciplinary strategy to energy efficiency at a university
- University of Johannesburg (Gauteng)
In recent years, the costs of electricity in South Africa have increased significantly (cumulative 230% increase between 2008 and 2014), thus many institutions of higher education are seeking ways to …
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Teach the Tap
- Portland State University (OR)
Safe drinking water is the core resource for all civilizations -- without it cities cannot thrive. We take this for granted when talking about sustainability and it is rarely discussed. …
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University of Minnesota System-Wide Sustainability
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Put a cougar, a bulldog, a gopher, and an eagle in one room - do you find sustainability? You betcha!
The University of Minnesota community has created new, regional models …
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In-Vessel Composting - From Farm to Kitchen to Compost, and Back to Farm
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
Space on any campus is limited especially when you mention you want to compost food. In-vessel composting is a viable way to compost all your food while keeping odor under …
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Achieving Sustainability Through Happiness
- University of Michigan (MI)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that, "We need a new economic paradigm that recognizes the parity between the three pillars of sustainable development. Social, economic and environmental well-being are …
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Operations and Academics Collaboration for Sustainability on Campus
- British Columbia Institute of Technology (BC)
The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) is Canada's premier polytechnic institution. It operates out of five campuses in western Canada, and it is oriented towards meeting the needs of …
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NEXUS: Demonstration site for biomass greenhouse-heating systems to extend growing seasons for resource-limited farmers.
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Appalachian farmers struggle to maintain profitability with limited acreage, low profit margins, small markets and short growing seasons. To extend growing seasons, farmers dedicate some of their acreage to greenhouse …
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Sustainability Projects Assessment Tool (SPAT)
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The Sustainability Projects Assessment Tool (SPAT) is an automated decision support program that seeks to identify total cost of ownership of sustainability projects, and analyzes three aspects: assessment of environmental, …
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Eco Adventures: Combining Recreation with Civic Engagement to Enhance Learning
- Washington State University, Pullman (WA)
Eco Adventures is a collaborative program offered by university recreation and service learning departments, providing outdoor recreational trips that include a service learning project. These adventures have been successful as …
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Eco Reps and Leadership Development
- Portland State University (OR)
Leadership development is taken to new depths when participants have an active and inclusive relationship with their program and its purpose. At [University], the Eco Rep program strives to go …
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The Case Study Based Research in the Education of Sustainable Architecture
- University of Arkansas (AR)
Among the variety of employed methodologies, case study based research has been a commonly utilized approach in law, medicine, and business administration. As with these disciplines, case studies are also …
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360 Degrees of Recognition: How and Why It Matters
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- University of Arizona (AZ)
Recognition is about noticing and honoring. It may encourage and support an action' (Hansen, Smith, & Hansen, 2002). Recognition can be a powerful and transformative tool for sustainability education by …
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Educators as Architects of Living Systems
- Peralta Community Colleges District Office (CA)
Imagine a learning community as a wetland or a forest. Imagine a group of learners as a highly interdependent community, a vibrant living system not unlike an ecosystem in nature. …
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Campus, Curriculum and Community - An international perspective: How students are delivering sustainability in UK higher education
- National Union of Students
The National Union of Students (NUS) runs a successful programme of environmental initiatives that are proactively tackling sustainability issues at university campuses throughout the UK.
Inspired by our member students' …
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Engaging Students in Sustainability Efforts on College Campuses
- University of Central Missouri (MO)
How many times has your office wanted student input on sustainability projects and didn't know how to engage students? Perhaps you are having trouble rallying students around a proposed sustainability …
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Applying Integrated Assessment to Establish Campus Sustainability Priorities at the University of Michigan
- University of Michigan (MI)
Some research is conducted solely to gain knowledge or understanding, while other research is conducted with a specific use in mind. Integrated Assessment begins with a structured dialog among scientists, …
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Mapping Sustainability - Interactive tools for tracking and outreach
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
This presentation will share the latest tools in interactive mapping of sustainability features for a campus. GIS Specialist, David Treering and Director of Sustainability, Aaron Durnbaugh will share their experience …
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Non-Profit Non-Starters? Using Creative Economic Levers on Campus
- Colby College (ME)
- Harvard University (MA)
- University of Virginia (VA)
Financial limitations are often a primary barrier to sustainability implementation at colleges and universities. Often, universities share best practices, and occasionally lessons learned, but less frequently do they describe the …
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