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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Watershed Awakening: Connecting College and Community to a Shared Place
- Calvin University (MI)
Frustrated by the local faith community's lack of concern for watershed issues , the Department of Environmental Quality approached Calvin College, a faith-based college, to assist them in their efforts …
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Messaging the Medium: Video Marketing and the Sustainable Campus
- New York University (NY)
Sustainability outreach and engagement is crucial not only for cleaner air and healthier lifestyles, but also for the image of the university as a leader in the green economy. Communication …
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Experiential Learning and Sustainability Education: Lessons Learned
- International Sustainable Development Studies Institute (Chiang Mai)
Universities and colleges have the potential to address sustainability and social justice in unique and powerful ways. However, effective teaching about sustainability and the links between culture (how we live) …
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Sustainable Concordia: 10 Years of Transformation Toward Sustainability
- Concordia University (CA)
Sustainable Concordia (SC) is a multi-stakeholder, consensus-based organization with the mission to transform Concordia University into a socially and ecologically sustainable institution. Over the past ten years, this university sustainability …
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Campus Gardens & Farms: A discussion of best practices for student and faculty engagement
- Portland Community College (OR)
Sustainable agriculture on campuses in the form of farms or gardens have their own unique challenges for student and faculty engagement. During this moderated networking session we will facilitate the …
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Preparing for the Impacts of Climate Change
- Harvard University (MA)
Preparedness framing aligns public action on climate change with core community values (protecting our families, protecting our homes, protecting our communities. Robustness protects from damage. Resilience is recovering from damage.
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Furman University's Sustainability Living Learning Communities
- Furman University (SC)
Furman University has had a long standing commitment to promoting engaged learning through the development of academic learning experiences beyond the traditional classroom setting. As part of Furman’s ongoing commitment …
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Channel Sustainability: Applying & Sharing though Video Projects
- Indiana University South Bend (IN)
How better to teach students about an interdisciplinary topic such as sustainability than by using an interdisciplinary approach to assignments? Integrating video projects and assignments in courses as well as …
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The Chocolate-Chip Cookie: a module to introduce college students to true-cost accounting, energy flow, and life-cycle analysis
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (IN)
This presentation shares a scalable module that helps students in introductory courses understand essential concepts in sustainability and helps them appreciate the complexities of measuring true cost and life cycle. …
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Sustainability in Higher Education: the Strategies and Implications of Campus Planning Decisions and Change Efforts
- Antioch University, New England (NH)
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Northwestern University (IL)
In the past year, members of AASHE have been asked to participate in a number of surveys. This presentation will offer summaries of three perspectives being studied, providing participants with …
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The East Carolina University & Pitt Community College Partnership in the North Carolina Sustainable Building Design Competition: A Catalyst for Team-Building and Sustainable Learning
- East Carolina University (NC)
The North Carolina Sustainable Building Design Competition (NCSBDC) has engaged teams of students from UNC 4-year institutions and community colleges in the design of sustainable residential structures annually since 2001. …
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Campus resilience - Climate-ready landscape evaluation
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
In the summer of 2013, four interns piloted a new tool to evaluate campus landscapes for their sensitivity to climate change and provided recommendations to the land owners. Led by …
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Sustainable Universities Growing 21st Century Cities
- University of Missouri, Kansas City (MO)
Universities and cities exist so that people of diverse backgrounds can come together to live, work and play in a vibrant environment where new ideas and opportunities are boundless. When …
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Sustainability Scholars Roundtable: Stimulating Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- University of Louisville (KY)
Learn about how one university has stimulated transdisciplinary research collaboration in sustainability and resilience, despite four major obstacles. First, sustainability can mean different things in different disciplines, preventing common understandings …
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Building the New Green OR Greening the Already Built: Evaluating the optimal strategy for your campus
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- Western Michigan University (MI)
- Second Nature (MA)
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
Many higher education institutions across the country are investing efforts and resources in promoting and implementing sustainable practices on their campuses. However, while addressing the infrastructure, these institution often run …
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Coca-Cola and Colorado State University: Model of a Sustainable Partnership
- Colorado State University (CO)
- Coca-Cola (GA)
This session's objective is to describe and inspire opportunities for corporate-academic partnerships in environmental sustainability. The session is motivated with specific examples of partners leveraging their abilities in collaborative research, …
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An integrated Sustainability Model for Online Campuses: Communication, Outreach, and Mapping
- CHA (NY)
Campus sustainability is a newly emerging theme. While there are plethora of activities, programs and projects planned and implemented at site in different campuses, the concept, role and technique of …
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Appalachian State University Renewable Energy Initiative: A Five Year Perspective
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Aligning with the theme for the AASHE 2010 conference, "Campus Initiatives to Catalyze a Just and Sustainable World", the Appalachian State University Renewable Energy Initiative (REI) would like to propose …
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Changing the Campus Dynamic: The student creation and administration of the Sustainability Initiatives Fund at Johnson County Community College
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
In fall 2009, a small cohort of Honors students at Johnson County Community College took it upon themselves to campaign across campus, petitioning their peers, appealing to the President, and …
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Bottom-Up Facilitation Needed For Student Sustainability Initiatives
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CA)
Student-led environmental coalition creates an ambitious agenda for 2009-10 school year complete with sustainability forums, films, Earth Week events, and local food fairs. Student clubs generally run a slate of …
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Learning Gardens: A Platform for Sustainability Education
- Appalachian State University (NC)
How can learning gardens be used as a platform to teach sustainability principles? This session will introduce an adaptable framework that uses a three-dimensional living model to clearly communicate the …
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Accelerating Climate Action through Local, State and Regional Networks
- Georgia Southern University (GA)
- Macalester College (MN)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
With more and more colleges and universities beginning to create climate action plans and implement sustainability initiatives, the need for developing networks to accelerate learning through peer-to-peer interaction and best …
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Campus Models for Sustainability from Audubon International
- University of Florida (FL)
- Audubon International (NY)
During this presentation, AI staff will describe how two of its programs, the Signature Program and the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program, have promoted sustainable practices at educational institutions. The presentation …
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Engaging Students in Campus Sustainability Initiatives through Innovative Courses
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
Universities that strive to make their campuses more sustainable face challenges of curriculum reform and engaging their students in sustainability initiatives. At Loyola University Chicago (LUC), we are meeting both …
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Campus Ecology and The Nature of College
- St. Olaf College (MN)
To prepare for the ecological revolution of the 21st century, American college students need to know more than the traditional disciplines can teach them. They need to understand the moral …
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Galvanizing Gaia: A Social Incubator for Women Leaders and Innovators (2014)
- Prescott College (AZ)
Two ecopreneurship professors create a supportive context for women sustainability entrepreneurs and campus program innovators to move from idea to action with their regenerative project ideas. This dynamic half-day workshop …
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Zero Client System: Computing to reduce energy consumption
- University of Arkansas (AR)
This case study demonstrates how a Zero Client System, a type of cloud based computing, reduces energy consumption by at least 88%. The system reduces user and administrative power loads …
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Sustainability Initiatives at Education Corporation of America
- Education Corporation of America (AL)
As part of our research and preparation for opening our first Ecotech Institute in Aurora—the first and only college entirely focused on preparing students for careers in renewable energy and …
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Creating a Successful Reusable Mug Incentive Program for a Large Campus Community
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
- Aramark (PA)
Food service operations generate a substantial portion of the waste stream at most universities. The University Recycling Department and Dining Service Company have partnered over the years to combat waste …
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Sustainability, Community and Voice: The Power of Student TED Talks
- Chapman University (CA)
Sustainability as an area of focus for the first-year seminar can seem abstract and distant, with only occasional connections to students’ everyday lives. By asking students to give their own …
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Lunch Ladies and LEED: Dining Facilities in Sustainable Design - A Case Study of Fort Lewis College's Student Union Center
- Fort Lewis College (CO)
- Ricca Newmark Design
Dining facilities demand excessive energy, are water intensive and produce much waste, complicating design, construction and operational program requirements when creating a sustainable building. At Fort Lewis College in Durango, …
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UCSC Sustainability Assessment
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
The 2007 UCSC Sustainability Assessment was created to assess UCSC's current standing in sustainability and where UCSC could use improvement. This poster showcases the Assessment by explaining the process and …
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Service Learning and Sustainability: Students prepare environmental risk assessment reports for urban homeowners in Nashville
- Tennessee State University (TN)
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
In 2010 the Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement at Tennessee State University (TSU), a historically black college, presented a proposal to the federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) …
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Activating Student Involvement: One Student's Journey from Bystander to Sustainability Leader
- University of Utah (UT)
As a student, finding a niche on a commuter campus with an enrollment of over 27,000 is no easy task. It is easier to simply blend in and follow the …
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Smart Print: Using the Cloud to Identify Waste & Excess Energy Consumption
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
- Pharos Systems International (NY)
The University of Illinois at Chicago has deployed a new, cloud-based tool to deliver a campus-wide view of their printer fleet, their users who print and the documents they print. …
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Sustainability Education at the Edge: A Cohort Model for Doctoral Study
- Appalachian State University (NC)
- Prescott College (AZ)
The challenge for the field of Sustainability Education is how to develop and support "agents of change" who can profoundly impact and transform our educational systems to produce a more …
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Accepting the Challenge: Living Building Challenge in Higher Education
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Smith College (MA)
- Williams College (MA)
Living Building Challenge is a relatively new sustainable building standard launched in 2006 with the purpose of raising the bar in green building. In the words of LBC, it challenges …
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Campuses as Learning Laboratories: A Framework to Achieve Institutional Sustainability Goals Through Service Learning
- Lansing Community College (MI)
Academic institutions can achieve institutional sustainability goals through service learning projects among their faculty and students. Institutions gain several advantages through this approach, including expedited implementation strategies for achieving sustainability …
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The Office Certification Program: Transforming the Workplace
- University of North Texas (TX)
The presentation will focus on the process and implementation of a green office program. Based on the success at a large four-year university, a clear methodology will be presented on …
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From Start to Finish (And Then Some): Collaborative Event Planning for Successful and Sustainable Projects
- Santa Clara University (CA)
Have you ever gotten really excited about a campaign only to have it fizzle-out due to lack of awareness? Have you had a great idea but got stuck because you …
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Moving beyond carbon: A nitrogen footprint model for universities
- University of Virginia (VA)
Nitrogen footprints connect entities, such as individuals or universities, with the reactive nitrogen (all species of nitrogen except N2) lost to the environment as a result of their activities. While …
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Meeting People Where They Are: Tactics for Campus Culture Change
- Emory University (GA)
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
Sustainability often gets associated with placing recycling bins or hosting an earth day event, but these small tasks often mask the complexity of developing a comprehensive program at an institutional …
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Fostering Change through a Team-Taught First Year Sustainable Living and Learning Community
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges (NY)
This session will overview the goals, structure, and implementation of a unique two-semester sustainability learning community for first year students at a liberal arts college in upstate New York. A …
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Navigating the STARS 2.0 Experience: From Data Collection to Strategic Planning
- Emory University (GA)
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
One of the most important attributes of AASHE's STARS 2.0 framework is to allow institutions to understand all aspects of their sustainability performance, benchmark their sustainability performance against both other …
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Mapping the Landscapes of History: the Elwha River as curriculum
- Peninsula College (WA)
The largest dam removal/river restoration project ever attempted is slated for the Elwha River in rural Washington state. A 1992 Act of Congress guaranteed the removal, following the efforts of …
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Environmental Literacy: A Lifelong Learning Approach
- University of Cincinnati (OH)
As higher education institutions endeavor to prepare students for the future, environmental literacy is increasingly important. In addition to educating students, universities play a significant role in engaging the broader …
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Quickfire Challenges for Classroom Sparks: One-Day Experiences for Sustainability Skills
- Presidio Graduate School (CA)
It's an ongoing academic tension: How do we reconcile passions for sustainability with sometimes-sleazy capitalism? This presentation illustrates how combining seminal texts with service learning adds a richer level of …
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UMACS Networking Session
- Bemidji State University (MN)
Get together with students, faculty, and staff from the Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability (UMACS). Discuss progress and challenges at your institution.
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Changing how Macalester writes: implementing reusable dry erase
- Macalester College (MN)
Traditional dry erase markers contradict numerous of the Macalester College’s sustainability goals, including zero waste by 2020. Disposable markers are designed to be single-use and, consequently, wasteful. In 2013, the …
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