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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Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities of Collegiate Farming
- Colgate University (NY)
The Colgate Community Garden was started in 2011 by Green Thumbs, a student group that works to manage and promote the activities of the garden. The purpose of the garden ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Sustainable Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network
- United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (NY)
This networking meeting will be an opportunity for attendees interested in, researching, and/or implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are a set of 17 goals to be ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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University + Business = Force for Good
- University of Georgia (GA)
Business can be a force for good in our communities and our world. Universities are contributing to a sustainable economy by supporting local businesses to document and expand their sustainability ...
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Sustainable Energy Education Through Demonstration (SEED) in Secondary Education
- State University of New York at Geneseo (NY)
Sustainable Energy Education through Demonstration (SEED) is a ten-week program that educates students on the mechanics of renewable energy production and the value of these energies in combating climate change ...
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Green STEAM: Rocket Fuel for a Sustainable Economy
- Moraine Valley Community College (IL)
- Oakton Community College (IL)
- Joey FineRhyme (IL)
For decades, the environmental movement has been trying to infuse sustainability into the mainstream ethos. While the science is irrefutable, most people are not moved by science alone. One example ...
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Growing Sustainable Communities Together Through Leadership in Higher Education
- Joliet Junior College (IL)
- Lewis University (IL)
- Prairie State College (IL)
- University of Saint Francis (IN)
The South Metropolitan Higher Education Consortium (SMHEC) is a unique partnership of 10 higher education institutions in the south metropolitan area of Chicago extending west to Joliet, south to Kankakee ...
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Bringing the Campus Community Together Through Gardening and Gardening Workshops
- University of Louisville (KY)
The Garden Commons is a community garden space on the campus of the University of Louisville, located next to the Cultural Center and the Student Activities Center. It exists as ...
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Empowering Students and the Community Through Green Chemistry and Sustainable Science Outreach
- Beyond Benign (MA)
- State of Washington (WA)
Sustainable STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) outreach can have a significant impact on youth, empowering students to be problem-solvers and engage in their communities as change makers, and inspiring ...
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Spreading the Word: Crafting Communications Around Large Campus Sustainability Events
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
UW Sustainability works with student groups and other organizations across campus in hosting two large-scale campus-wide sustainability events each year: the Sustainability Fair in October as part of Campus Sustainability ...
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From Zero Energy to Energy+: Community-University-Industry Partnerships for Sustainable Housing
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
From community design charrettes to international student design competitions, two housing research organizations at Penn State have collaborated with local affordable housing organizations and home builders to address long-term housing ...
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Engaging Community Partners in Resilience Planning: Catalyzing Action Beyond the College/University
- Concordia College (NY)
A relatively new part of the Climate Commitment (run by the organization Second Nature) is the mandate to engage in resilience planning. Signatories to the commitment pledge to engage with ...
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The Role of Rural Campuses in Building Community Resilience and Responding to Extreme Weather
- Black Hills State University (SD)
- California State University, Chico (CA)
- Central Community College (NE)
- Second Nature (MA)
Rural colleges/universities are often one of the driving cultural and economic forces in their region. As a result of this position, they can be a great resource in the ...
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Fiduciary Duty and University Fossil Fuel Divestments
- Soka University of America (CA)
One of the founding principles of Soka University of America is to 'foster leaders for the creative coexistence of nature and humanity.' Soka University has one of the highest endowments ...
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What is the Potential of Fossil Fuel Divestment in Higher Education? A Data-Driven Analysis
- Smith College (MA)
Fossil fuel divestment has become a major activist movement in higher education, with campaigns at colleges and universities across the country. This movement has driven critical conversations about institutional responsibility ...
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Moving Toward Climate Justice Through Divestment and Community Reinvestment
- Better Future Project (MA)
All colleges have an endowment that they use to invest in a broad range of industries. Divestment is a powerful tactic where institutions can use their political and financial power ...
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Creating Positive Energy: Using Utility Rebates to Power Student-led Contributions to Society
- Millersville University (PA)
In the spring of 2019, Millersville University established a Positive Energy Award Program in celebration of the first-year anniversary of the University's positive energy Lombardo Welcome Center. The Positive ...
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Harvard's Campus Sustainability Innovation Fund: Bringing Students, Faculty, and Staff Together
- Harvard University (MA)
In 2016, Harvard University enhanced its Living Lab Initiative by launching the Campus Sustainability Innovation Fund. This fund supports projects that use Harvard's campus or the neighboring community as ...
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Connecting Consumption with Finance/Business Office to Advance Sustainability
- National Association of College & University Business Officers (NACUBO) (DC)
Many sustainability minded campus folks directly understand consumption issues and relationship to sustainability. That is not true with everyone at the campus, and this presentation will show graphics and projects ...
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Student Approved Projects on Campus: What Could Go Wrong and What Could Go Right?
- Western Michigan University (MI)
Like many universities, Western Michigan University has instituted a grant to fund student-led sustainable change on campus. What sets Western Michigan University apart, however, is that the allocations of these ...
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Creating a Strong Alumni Base for Meaningful Engagement and Mutual Economic Benefit
- Lafayette College (PA)
Many sustainability practitioners seek to engage alumni in various ways: fundraising, expertise, guest speakers, jobs/internships and mentorship for students. Learn from Lehigh University and the University of Virginia about ...
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Bridge Building: Translating Green Fund Ideas into Practice
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
This networking session offers opportunities for Green Fund project partners to share experiences, ask questions, and connect with others engaged in campus Green Fund efforts. We welcome educators, students, facilities ...
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Monetizing Campus Sustainability: Converting Operations Into Assets to Increase Revenues
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette (LA)
- Learfield IMG College (TX)
During the first couple of decades of growth in campus sustainability, 'green' operations were perceived as causing additional costs with limited direct paybacks. However, as sustainability has grown in college ...
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Bees : How UTSA is Connecting Sustainability and Undergraduate Research Opportunities
- University of Texas at San Antonio (TX)
The University of Texas at San Antonio's newly established Office of Sustainability awarded the department of Environmental Science and Ecology funding for a 3 year program to facilitate the ...
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Creating Living Laboratories Through Campus Ecological Restoration
- Eastern Washington University (WA)
At Eastern Washington University we are currently working to restore 120 acres of campus farmland back to native habitat with the goal to preserve natural landscapes, sequester carbon, promote sustainable ...
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Creating a Buzz Across America: Supporting a Healthy Food Economy with Beekeeping
- Central Community College (NE)
- Delta College (MI)
- Portland Community College, Rock Creek Campus (OR)
Higher education is an ideal platform to champion environmental practices toward a sustainable economy. Community colleges are at the forefront of raising awareness of the role pollinators have on their ...
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Apiculture: A Case for Producing Local Honey
- Winthrop University (SC)
Humans have been harvesting honey from honeybees since prehistoric times. Raw honey is a natural food with many nutritional benefits, contains powerful antioxidants, counters pollen allergies and is a natural ...
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How to Start an Herbicide-Free Campaign on Your Campus!
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Herbicide-Free UC's mission is to stop the use of toxic herbicides across all University of California campuses. We are currently at four UC campuses, but the UC system is ...
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The VCU Pocket Park: Creating a sustainability-oriented green space on a dynamic university campus
- Virginia Commonwealth University (VA)
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a growing, changing university in the heart of the city of Richmond, VA. Green space is limited on this dense urban campus. The VCU Office ...
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Sustainable and Local Food Diversity and Affordability: Successful Procurement Case Studies
- Aramark (PA)
- FarmLogix, LLC (IL)
Sustainable and local sourcing was once a movement of privilege used by high-end chefs to delight dining patrons. In this informative session, you will be taken into several case studies ...
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Food Waste to Energy: Partnering with Dining Halls for Waste Diversion and Electrical Production
- Central Connecticut State University (CT)
Central CT State University has partnered with our food service vendor to collect food waste from our dining halls. The waste is brought to nearby Quantum BioPower where it produces ...
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Food Insecurity, Recovery, and Redistribution: Sustainable Food Practices for Institutions
- Bemidji State University (MN)
Bemidji State University finds itself in a paradoxical struggle: many of our students struggle with food insecurity, but we are so overwhelmed by an excess of food that much of ...
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Closing the Loop on Food Waste: Leftovers From Catered Events Feed Hungry Students
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
Food waste at catered events is an issue we see so often as most event planners tend to over order, while at the same time we see a growth in ...
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Menus of Change University Research Collaborative: Collaboration to Change the Food System
- Boston College (MA)
The MCURC is a working group of scholars and campus dining leaders from invited colleges and universities interested in accelerating efforts to move American consumers-and college/university students, scholars, and ...
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Turning Values Into Results: The Real Food Calculator and Real Food Procurement
- Real Food Challenge (MA)
Through their purchasing power, institutions of higher education are in a position to create positive change in our food system that is currently dominated by industrial agriculture and exploitative, unsustainable ...
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Sustaining Local Producers Through University Purchasing
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
Universities have the opportunity to play a pivotal role in their local economies by buying local. Through their large purchasing power in food procurement, universities can support a local food ...
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Local, Sustainable, Grassfed and Delicious: Harvest Table North Carolina Case Study
- Wake Forest University (NC)
- Changing Tastes (MA)
- Harvest Table Culinary Group (PA)
More than two decades of work to promote local, sustainable and real food in colleges has transformed what it means to succeed in foodservice. It's raised awareness of the ...
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Going Beyond Local to Build Just and Sustainable Rural Economies
- University of Missouri (MO)
- Aramark (PA)
- Farm Forward (OR)
- Niman Ranch (CO)
Historically, the phrase 'sustainable food' focused exclusively on environmental impacts of food production, but to build a truly sustainable food system we must broaden the aperture to consider how the ...
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Supporting a Sustainable Economy Through Partnership With Local Food Hubs
- Gonzaga University (WA)
- Sodexo USA (MD)
- Puget Sound Food Hub (WA)
- LINC Foods (WA)
This session will showcase how to effectively collaborate with local producers to build a more sustainable economy through increased purchases of local products and to raise awareness about food systems ...
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Meatless to Mindful Monday: The Progression of Promoting Less and Better Meat at UNC Asheville
- University of North Carolina, Asheville (NC)
In this presentation, we will review the evolution of one school's efforts to promote less and better meat eating on campus. In 2015, UNC Asheville Dining Services began hosting ...
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Combating Food Insecurity Through Sustainable Student-Led Initiatives
- Baldwin Wallace University (OH)
This case study will include information on the efforts of staff, faculty, and students to eliminate food insecurity among students on Baldwin Wallace's campus. The project began about three ...
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Campus Farmers Networking Meeting
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
- University of Utah (UT)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
Join other campus farmers and food system advocates in creating a robust, interdisciplinary network of campus-based growers and partners. Find someone in your region or across the nation to share ...
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The Pursuit of Delicious, Carbon-Friendly Food
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
This year, with customer health and the environment in mind, Cal Dining defined their vision statement as 'serving delicious food that happens to be nutritious and sustainable', understanding that serving ...
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Implementing Experiential Education to Change Food Culture in Non-Land Grant Universities
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
This presentation will cover lessons learned in creating and adapting an experiential sustainable agriculture program as it applies to a non-land grant university, without a dedicated agriculture program. Indiana University ...
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Big Red Eats Green: Empowering Students to Engage in their University Food System
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
This presentation will share the details of an established, multi-year endeavor that focuses on the relationship between students and the university food system. An event that celebrates and showcases that ...
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Food as a Conduit: A Toolkit for Leading Institutional Change
- Boston College (MA)
Change is hard. This interactive session will explore how non-academic campus services like dining, auxiliary and facilities can inspire a culture of sustainability and collaboration across campus and beyond. Boston ...
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We Have POWER: Building a Movement for Food Justice on Campus
- Western Washington University (WA)
- Real Food Challenge (MA)
Our food system is in crisis. From the fields to the factories, people who work in the food chain face low wages, sexual harassment, and dangerous working conditions. Food insecurity ...
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Training Future Food System Leaders Using Campus Food Economies
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
- University of Utah (UT)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
This session is guided by two principle questions: 1. What are all the aspects of a campus food economy and how are students engaged? 2. What structures are in place ...
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Gonzaga's Journey to Create a Sustainable Food Culture on Campus
- Gonzaga University (WA)
Real Food Club has been working to shift purchasing in our dining facilities to 'Real food' (meaning local, humane, fair-trade, or ecologically sound) since 2013. We are nearing upon the ...
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Harvard University's Holistic Approach and Model for a Sustainable Food System
- Harvard University (MA)
The Harvard Office for Sustainability (OFS) convened a multi-disciplinary committee of world-renowned faculty to translate their research into action on campus to create a more sustainable food system that contributes ...
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The Future of Real Food
- Real Food Challenge (MA)
The past ten years have seen a dramatic shift in real food purchasing on college and university campuses. Local food and sustainability are now common conversations in campus dining. Values ...
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