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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Putting the Sustainability into Existing Courses
- Frostburg State University (MD)
While many courses have a potential connection to sustainability studies, developing that linkage requires additional work. For existing courses to maximize their contribution to the sustainability studies program, course revision …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Within Reach: The Movie
- Fellowship for Intentional Community (MO)
This film is an epic quest, a story of personal and planetary transformation. It's an adventure, and there's a little bit of love story in the mix too. Beyond all …
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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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Project-based courses provide practical educational experience for students and advance sustainability within local community
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
Collaboration between the University of Minnesota, Duluth (UMD), a local non-profit that promotes sustainable energy and six area businesss has resulted in a series of class projects implemented into two …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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UBC Solar: An Example of Student Directed Faculty-Student Research Partnerships
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
The research interests of faculty members direct most of the academic output in university environments. While there are opportunities for students to suggest research topics, these are largely limited to …
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Connecting Campus Sustainability at Macalester College with the United Nations
- Macalester College (MN)
At Macalester College, internationalism remains a long-standing part of our college mission. More recently, sustainability rose as another strong commitment. However, these two areas have been parallel, but separate, activities. …
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Building Campus Partnerships for Successful Behavior Change Campaigns
- University of Utah (UT)
Campus sustainability initiatives often hinge on influencing other people to change their behavior towards more pro-environmental actions. A growing body of social science research demonstrates that to achieve significant progress, …
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Developing a Large-Scale Solar Project on Campus
- AMSOLAR International (CA)
A large private university entered into a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement in 2010 with a solar development company focused on the education sector. The project was completed in fall 2010 …
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STARS Introductory Workshop
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
This workshop will focus on sharing basic information about the STARS Program. Join the STARS staff in exploring details of STARS like programmatic development, the STARS Governance Structure, and the …
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Sustainability as a Pedagogical Project
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
Sustainability is a large and complex concept that integrates multiple domains of knowledge across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. (Kelly, 2009) Its focus lies at the intersection …
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Sustainability Education: The Importance of Spirituality and Values
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
The ongoing global ecological crisis is truly a spiritual crisis, a crisis of our morality and ethics. Due to the anthropocentric perspective that has long been prevalent in human societies, …
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A New Approach to Offsetting: The College of William and Mary Carbon Offset Program
- College of William & Mary (VA)
Carbon offsets are a means by which individuals or groups (i.e. corporations) compensate for their carbon footprint. These parties donate a calculated proportion to a project that reduces carbon emissions …
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Assessing the Eco-Cottage Legacy at Furman University
- Furman University (SC)
Since 2001, Furman University's 8-person Eco-Cottage has provided students the opportunity to measure their environmental impact and learn ways to minimize it. Started experimentally, the cottage has become a model …
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ENOS, is an energy Operating System, that integrates Big Data, Open Source Software and Hardware and the Internet of Things.
- Amzur Technologies (FL)
Historically utility billing, campus infrastructure, Building Management Systems and Sustainability Reporting have consisted of siloed data and information systems and distinct stakeholders that rarely share a common understanding of organizational …
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Furman University's Lake Restoration Project
- Furman University (SC)
Created in the 1950's, Furman Lake is the visual centerpiece of Furman University. It is a 28 acre impoundment originally used for swimming, boating and fishing. By the 1990's, water …
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The Role and Responsibility of Higher Education in "The Great Turning"
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (MA)
In the face of Peak Oil and Climate Change, many communities are initiating systemic change, some of them using Transition Town or Eco-Community models. Others are just beginning to awaken …
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Sustainability learning outcomes for an interdisciplinary general education curriculum
- Portland State University (OR)
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Over the past 15 years sustainability has emerged as a prominent theme within Portland State University's interdisciplinary general education curriculum. For example, a web-based survey of faculty found that 35% …
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Campus Wide Waste Audit
- Furman University (SC)
Diving into the Depths of the Desolate Dumpster 2.0: A Campus-Wide Waste Audit of Furman University
Erika Baldwin, Will Stallings, and Weston Dripps
Furman University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, 3300 …
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Winthrop University: Regenerative Design
- Moseley Architects (VA)
A recent master plan moved the core of campus to a new location. The first building completed is the "West Center." This building pays homage to the 1915 building it …
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Gamifying getting around
- My Open Road (CA)
How to encourage the use of alternative transportation both on and off campus through social competition and reward incentives.
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Left Behind: The Religious Right and the Environmental Equation
- Lane Community College (OR)
One long-time faith-based environmentalist declares, "Evangelicals can change at the drop of a hat…. They have no one to answer to other than the Bible. So if the Bible says …
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Natures Coordinate System: Vertexia, Vector Equilibrium, C60 carbon molecule, explained using hands on modeling techniques.
- Buckminster Fuller Institute (NY)
The basis of Natures Coordinate System comes from understanding the topological reasoning of R. Buckminster Fuller. He used the terminology "Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking" as the subtitle to …
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Sustainable Graduates Achieving Global Learning Outcomes Through Innovative Curricular Design
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- Haley & Aldrich, Inc. (MA)
In spite of challenges that many are facing with integrating sustainability into curricula, Northern Arizona University (NAU) has tackled this on an even larger scale by purposefully infusing environmental sustainability, …
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Ecovillages and Campuses: The Potential of Collaboration for Sustainability Research and Education
- University of Georgia (GA)
Universities are increasingly looked to as centers of research on and education about sustainable solutions to socio-environmental challenges. However, theoretical and experimental approaches to sustainability do not easily translate from …
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Igniting Innovation through Sustainable Collaboration
- Denison University (OH)
Denison University, like many liberal arts institutions, seeks to educate students holistically so that they may become discerning moral agents and active citizens in a democratic society. To that end, …
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Engaging Beyond the Sustainability Circle
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Our universities have the potential to create diverse ways of producing sustainable change both on and off campus. This student summit presentation would be a collaborative brainstorm cafe of ways …
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Geospatial sustainability: what is geospatial about sustainability, and what does it mean to students' learning of sustainability?
- DePaul University (IL)
In this presentation I will promote the concept of geospatial sustainability with respect to sustainability curriculum. Geospatial sustainability highlights the geographic nature of sustainability with the help of digital and …
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CLICS: Using Cyber-infrastructure to Bring Data from Campus Sustainability Efforts into the Classroom
- Clarkson University (NY)
CLICS (Cyber-Learning Infrastructure for Campus Sustainability) is a cyber-learning tool developed to transform data from campus sustainability projects in a way that can be used in a wide variety of …
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A Course on Consumption and the Environment as an Entry Point to Practicing Sustainability
- University of Oklahoma (OK)
Two colleagues have taught an introductory freshman level course titled Consumption and the Environment for the last 7 years. This freshman level course is a requirement for the environmental studies …
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Developing a Student-Led Move-Out Waste and Yard Sale Program
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
In 2010, after seeing dumpsters overflowing with thousands of usable materials during the previous year's move-out, I founded the UNH Trash 2 Treasure program as a sophomore. As students, we …
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Taxing Campus Air Travel to Create a Climate Action Fund
- Southern Oregon University (OR)
As carbon neutrality deadlines loom on the horizon, many universities are scrambling to find ways to reduce emissions to meet our goals. Reducing our carbon footprint can be difficult as …
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Integrating Sustainability Principles in Human Resource Operations
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." In that spirit, Human Resource Services and the Office of Sustainability set …
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Careers in Sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Sustainability education options increase each year. Colleges and universities offer courses, concentrations, certificates, minors, and now even full degree programs. Still, questions remain as to where students will use their …
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Achieving Ambitious Energy Goals on a University Campus
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs (CO)
- Hord Coplan Macht (MD)
This session will describe the tools and process used to design a public higher education building that is modeled to save 40% over ASHRAE. The owner utilized a quasi-Performance Design …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Transforming Enemies Into Allies: How to Have Difficult—But Necessary—Conversations in Our Roles as Sustainability Change Agents
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of Hawaii - West Oahu (HI)
- GreenerU (MA)
This workshop will give us the space to learn and practice some tactics for having those difficult conversations that are unavoidably part of the work of making change happen within …
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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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Carbon Budgets as a Teachable Moment
- Union College - NY (NY)
The calculation of a college's carbon budget one of the most important steps toward assessing an institution's sustainability and creating a plan to improve operations. Calculating carbon budgets also integrates …
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The EcoChallenge: Bridging the Say-Do Gap, together
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
In this program we will present a free on line tool and in person program (the EcoChallenge) available for students, faculty, and staff to engage in positive behavior change that …
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Is Your Institution Ready for the Future of Sustainable Procurement?
- Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (MA)
Leading organizations in government, industry, academia and the non-profit sector came together in 2013 to launch the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) in an effort to solve the biggest obstacle …
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Fostering change agents for sustainability
- Tufts University (MA)
Graduate work on the effectiveness of a social psychology-based, experiential learning course on generating undergraduate civic leaders in sustainability behavior change is described. This presentation outlines the structure of the …
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Student Engagement Ladder
- University of Virginia (VA)
Do you know when and where your students receive their sustainability education? Where engagement is the strongest and where it is lacking? Students mapped out a ladder of engagement starting …
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Safety and Sustainability through Student-Contracted Mass Transit
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)
In 2008, the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh student governance body, the Oshkosh Student Association (OSA), created a contracted mass transit service. "Titan Transit" extended the current city service from 6pm …
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Cogeneration: Creating Sustainable Energy for the Future at NYU
- New York University (NY)
College campuses have a major opportunity for energy use reductions: district heat and power, also known as cogeneration. This presentation will examine NYU's new cogeneration power plant located underneath a …
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Making Sustainability Sustainable: The Dollars and Cents of It
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Sustainability at GVSU has become the 7th value for the University and embraces the triple bottom line of environmental, economic and social impacts on campus and in the community.
Sustainability …
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What should a Specialty Certification for Higher Educational Sustainability Practitioners look like?
- Oakland Community College (MI)
- International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) (OR)
This highly interactive session is focused on collecting input from participants on a specialty certification for a sustainability practitioner in higher education. The session will begin with an overview of …
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Regional Sustainability as Social Innovation
- Luther College (IA)
This case study will present research on the connections between sustainability and the growing fields of social innovation and collective impact. How do organizations and communities best address complex social …
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Peer Pressure for Good: Behavior Change in Campus Sustainable Action Campaigns
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Want to engage your campus more effectively in sustainability campaigns? Join Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) to learn how it leverages behavior change science to help Minnesotans take action on …
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Measure, Message, Motivate: building an inclusive and empowered campus sustainability culture
- Yale University (CT)
Campuses around the world are tracing sustainability metrics, but how do we communicate those measurements in a way that engages and empowers students, staff, and faculty?
Our university has developed …
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The Sustainability Studies Minor at Roger Williams University
- Roger Williams University (RI)
Since the Fall of 2010, Roger Williams University in Bristol RI, has offered a Sustainability Studies Minor. The minor consists of three required newly-created classes for the minor and three …
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Group Projects for a Sustainability Symposium
- Eastern Connecticut State University (CT)
Since we have 240 students enrolled in sections of the introductory sustainable energy course and 40 sustainable energy studies majors in upper division courses, we put on a Sustainability Symposium …
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