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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The Price of Reduction: A Comparative Analysis of the Cost-Benefit Perceptions of Reduction Initiatives
- Chatham University (PA)
This research contrasts the perceived benefits and costs of implementing two reduction initiatives (plastic bottle ban, pesticide ban) as perceived by key constituencies (students, faculty, administration). The two initiatives provide …
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Capping campus energy consumption despite massive growth: The Oregon Model for Sustainable Development
- University of Oregon (OR)
The Oregon Model for Sustainable Development is a new policy that places a firm ceiling on campus energy consumption. To achieve it, new construction projects must meet aggressive energy efficiency …
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Say Goodbye to Green: How to Mainstream Sustainability Messaging
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Over the 50 years since the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, sustainability has been linked primarily with environmentalism—and guilt. The earth has been hurt, and we are to blame. …
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A Cap-and-Trade Model for RIT Commuters
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
As climate change awareness grows, several U.S. colleges and universities are tracking their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and have signed the American and University Presidents Climate Commitment (AUPCC), pledging to …
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Do you want your receipt? How simple changes to bookstore operations reduce use of BPA and related chemicals.
- Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MN)
What if even the simplest transaction at your campus bookstore could be better for employees and our environment? If your campus uses thermal paper receipts in its bookstore, library or …
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Pursuing Impact: PSU’s Sustainable Neighborhood Initiative
- Portland State University (OR)
Portland State University (PSU) takes its role as an urban-serving university seriously. For decades, PSU has been nationally recognized for our commitment to “Let Knowledge Serve the City” by engaging …
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Education for Ecocultural Sustainability: ENVS 410 The Campus as a Living, Learning Laboratory
- Western Michigan University (MI)
This paper reports on the details of a remarkable, seven-year curriculum experiment directed at learning how to see and understand our campus as an ecocultural system. Taking a systems-oriented, action …
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Strengthening Sustainability through External Partnerships
- Boston University (MA)
- Harvard University (MA)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
Through participation in the Boston Green Ribbon Commission and Cambridge Community Compact for a Sustainable Future, Boston University, Harvard University, and MIT are partnering with peers in higher education, health …
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Networking Meetup Lunch for Sustainability Professionals in Higher Education
- New York University (NY)
- University of Hawaii - West Oahu (HI)
Among the huge number of attendees at the AASHE Conference, this is an opportunity to enjoy a working lunch for full-time higher education sustainability professionals specifically. Attendees will have a …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Foundations of Leadership in Sustainability for 20 Campuses: Finding a Common Thread
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
A new minor in Sustainability Leadership at the Pennsylvania State University came with a new course: Foundations of Leadership in Sustainability. As the sole requirement common to all students in …
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Introducing Sustainable Practices Into a Reluctant Environment: A Case Study of a University Library
- Lehigh University (PA)
The challenge on any University campus is too change the often headstrong mindsets of both students as well as staff when it comes to issues of sustainability. Some institutions have …
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Growing community: healthcare sustainability in higher education
- Georgetown University (DC)
Higher education is evolving to include healthcare sustainability training. At its core, sustainability is a natural component of healthcare. Sustainability supports the basic healthcare mission to provide safe, quality, compassionate …
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Can You Hear Me Now? Amplifying and Measuring Sustainability Communications
- College of Charleston (SC)
- Duke University (NC)
- Northwestern University (IL)
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- Princeton University (NJ)
Whether you are marketing an event, campaign, or simply advertising a service your office offers, building communications partnerships and tracking your communications success are essential to growing your audience and …
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The Next Big Thing: Sustainability as a Core Strategic Imperative
- Second Nature (MA)
The campus sustainability movement has been gaining momentum for more than a decade and yet it still adds up to little more than an itemized list of ad hoc actions …
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Cooling Tower Wastewater Recycling with Smart Integrated Membrane Systems
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
The feasibility of reclaiming potable-quality water from the UCLA Co-Generation (CoGen) plant cooling tower blowdown wastewater was evaluated using a novel integrated ultrafiltration (UF)/Reverse Osmosis (RO) membrane system in order …
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Open-Ended Cases for Improving Farm Sustainability
- Dordt College (IA)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The method of open-ended cases is an ideal format for students when they are analyzing the sustainability of a farm. Students learn about several of methods used for analyzing an …
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Alternative Work Site (AWS) Pilot - A Transportation Demand Management, TDM, Project to Implement Flex Schedules to Reduce GHG Emissions and Parking Demand
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs (CO)
In fulfillment of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, the State of Colorado's Climate Action Plan, and the 2007 UCCS Sustainability Strategic Plan, the University of Colorado at …
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The Greening of an Intensive English Program
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
Our poster discusses what sustainability is and why we include environmental topics in our English as a Second Language curriculum. We explain our new summer certificate program focusing on sustainable …
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Empowering Students to Build a Pipeline of Sustainable Solutions
- Focus the Nation (OR)
This session will examine successful strategies to meaningfully engage students that harnesses their youthful idealism in a pragmatic way, promotes campus and community sustainability goals, and develops the skills they …
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Developing partnerships with students around energy use: the role of energy literacy
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
- University of Plymouth (Devon)
Carbon reduction and climate change are key agendas in UK higher education (HE), as they are internationally. Existing research has highlighted the importance of developing partnerships for sustainable development in …
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Greeks Think Green
- University of Arizona (AZ)
In August 2012, the University of Arizona’s (UA) Students for Sustainability (SfS) developed an initiative to educate UA Greek Life in becoming more sustainable. Greek Life is the largest organization …
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Sustainable Change through Systemic Thinking & Resilient Practices
- Co3 Consulting (WA)
The juxtaposition of the Iceberg Method by Peter Senge and the Domains of Resilience created by the Institute of HeartMath is a great way to introduce systemic thinking and resilient …
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STARS Advanced Workshop (2011)
- Moraine Valley Community College (IL)
This workshop will feature STARS representatives from institutions that have completed their STARS Report and achieved a STARS Rating. The focus will be on discussing best practices and lessons learned. …
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Green Campus 101- Empowering Tomorrow's Energy Efficiency Leaders
- Alliance to Save Energy (CA)
Colleges offer prime opportunities to address energy issues, as demonstrated by the Alliance to Save Energy's Green Campus Program. This session will showcase transferable best practices of a student-driven campaign …
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Greening the Game at Collegiate Sports
- University of Arizona (AZ)
Like many universities, the University of Arizona has a strong tradition of athletics at the collegiate level. While sporting events are a key component to any university and it's students …
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Promoting and Practicing Sustainability
- Red Rocks Community College (CO)
The panel will present short papers on how we promoted sustainability across the curriculum, set up faculty workshops, but also trained students and faculty to go and participate in helping …
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Creating and Maintaining Relations through a Changing Campus Ecology
- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (WI)
The campus ecology of the University of Eau Claire Wisconsin has helped to shape current and future construction projects to mindfully approach the improvement of the campus environment. The establishment …
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Sustainability Commitments, Actions & Economics: Managed Print Services
- Cleveland State University (OH)
- FirstMetrix Corporation (OH)
- Xerox Corporation (NY)
Cleveland State University committed to a goal of developing, designing and implementing an enterprise wide document output strategy that is consistent with the Unviersity's mission and commitment to environmental stewardship, …
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Overcoming the Hostile Environment: Steps to Incorporating Sustainability at a Reluctant Institution and in a Divided Community
- Prescott College (AZ)
At first glance, the small liberal arts college where I teach and the St. Louis Metro region do not seem to have much in common: one is a predominately white …
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Community Building Through Permaculture: Engaging Stakeholders for Effective Programming
- Lehigh University (PA)
The Community Leaders’ Initiative for Permaculture is a student group at Lehigh University that utilizes the principles of earth care, people care and fair share in culturally approximate ways to …
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A National Online Community for Student Sustainability Leaders
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
We will share stories from student sustainability leaders from across the country that are connecting with one another, building relationships and sharing ideas about how they are making their campuses …
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Assembling a canon for graduate curriculum in sustainability science
- Saint Louis University (MO)
Sustainability is vast in the intellectual domains it covers. While such breadth engenders its appeal to diverse interests, this same universality confounds operationalizing sustainability into a graduate curriculum. In this …
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Little Classroom in the Big Woods
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
Construction of the sustainable Bagley Outdoor Classroom at UMD demonstrated leadership in energy efficiency, renewable energy, wastewater treatment, stormwater management, passive heating, natural ventilation, water efficiency, local and renewable materials, …
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Oskēh-Mamāceqtāwak Kēketōwak: Youth Speak
- College of Menominee Nation (WI)
High school students who are participating in College of Menominee Nation's Sustainability Leadership Cohort Program (SLC) will present two videos. The first video, Nama'o The Ancient Story Teller, will explore …
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Effects of Residence Hall Submetering on Student's Reported Energy and Water Use at Lynchburg College
- University of Lynchburg (VA)
Submetering of buildings is commonly cited as a useful tool in not only identifying water leaks or equipment problems, but also in encouraging energy and water conservation among building occupants. …
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Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure: The Campus as a Living Lab
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
In 2012-13, the Provost of the California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) funded an innovative program to engage campus faculty, staff, and students in Programmatic Excellence and Innovation in Learning …
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A Design-Build Block Semester: Student Engagement Through the Creation of a Solar Garage
- Green Mountain College (VT)
This presentation tells the story of twenty-one students and one building, where pedagogy revolved around a single goal: the design and construction of a solar garage. The fifteen-credit semester was …
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What Does Library And Technology Services (LTS) Have To Do With Sustainability? How LTS Is Adapting To The Campus Sustainability Plan.
- Lehigh University (PA)
In Fall 2012, Lehigh University adopted its first comprehensive Campus Sustainability Plan. In response to the plan, the Library and Technology Services stem created the LTS Green Team. The LTS …
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Strategies to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Lab Buildings on Academic Campuses
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
Laboratory buildings, because of programmatic and safety requirements, remain one of the highest consumers of energy on academic campuses. As campuses develop and implement plans to achieve carbon neutrality commitments …
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Deploying On-Site Renewable Energy Generation at Colleges and Universities: A Guide to What You Need to Know
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
- ERG Consulting Firm (MA)
Colleges and universities are increasingly deploying on-site renewable energy generation technologies to power their campuses. The drivers of this growth are the falling prices of renewable technologies and federal, state, …
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When virtue's not enough: rewarding sustainable transportation choices through improved bicycle infrastructure and wellness programs.
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
In this session you'll learn how the University of Minnesota leveraged federal funds to construct the University Bike Center, a facility that gathered in one place all those things that …
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Sustainability Education and Vladimir Vernadsky's Theory of Biosphere and Noosphere
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
After years of silence, the West finally started to discover and scientifically recognize a prominent Russian researcher, philosopher, and thinker - Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863-1945). Paradoxically, Vernadsky's name was not …
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Launching a Sustainability Research Collaborative
- Princeton University (NJ)
- Yale University (CT)
The purpose of the Sustainability Research Collaborative is to bridge sustainability research with emerging operational questions among partner institutions. We believe that the pace of transformative sustainability will accelerate within …
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Integrating sustainability into the curriculum: A report on ongoing initiatives
- Delta College (MI)
To address growing national concerns about sustainability, many institutions of higher education are establishing programs which focus on sustainability and related issues. At Delta College, we have undertaken an integrated …
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Growing a Successful RecycleMania Campaign
- University of Iowa (IA)
RecycleMania has grown at the University of Iowa from a quiet program in 2013 and a 5th place finish in the Big Ten to a well-known time of the year …
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Activating Change Agents Across Campus
- Elon University (NC)
- North Carolina State University (NC)
- Ohio University (OH)
- Santa Clara University (CA)
- Wake Forest University (NC)
Peer education has proven effective at amplifying messages of sustainability issues and practices across a larger breadth of audience than individual staff members can reach on their own. Such programs …
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The Rustless Belt: A Look at Western Pennsylvania's Steely Renaissance
- Dickinson College (PA)
Western Pennsylvania has been dumped into this regional designation known as the Rust Belt, which includes a large swath of industrial cities, such as Buffalo, Detroit, and Toledo. Pittsburgh and …
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Ground Source In-Depth: Two Systems, Three Years of Data
- Pacific Lutheran University (WA)
- Portland State University (OR)
- ZGF Architects (OR)
- PAE Consulting Engineers (OR)
Ground Source Heat Pump systems, in which the relatively constant temperature of the earth is used to heat and cool a building, can be a significant energy efficiency strategy for …
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Going carbon neutral: What an experience!
- University of Alberta (AB)
Becoming a carbon neutral campus not only demonstrates excellent progress towards sustainability but is also a phenomenal learning tool for students, faculty, staff and the greater University community. Energy management …
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Habits of Mind for Resilient Communities
- Northland College (WI)
If habits of mind are the characteristics of what intelligent people do when faced with problems whose solutions are not immediately apparent, then what are the habits of mind of …
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