Publications
Introduction
AASHE’s publications library is the leading repository of reports, journal articles, books, and student research on sustainability in higher education. Certain publication types are entered in the annual AASHE Awards Program.
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The Critical Role of Higher Education in Creating a Sustainable Future
- Second Nature (MA)
For the first time in history, humans are pervasive and dominant forces in the health and well-being of the earth and its inhabitants. We are the first generation capable of …
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Greening the Campus: Converting Organic Waste to Energy
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
This project explores the potential waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies based on current conditions at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) (e.g., waste resource availability) by proposing the following three feasible WtE converting …
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Higher Education in a Warming World - The Business Case for Climate Leadership on Campus
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
This richly detailed guide to climate action at colleges and universities focuses on the numbers -- with examples showing how schools cut emissions, saved money and made a difference. It …
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Organizing an Effective Campus Energy Program: Lessons from the University at Buffalo
- University at Buffalo (NY)
The first step a campus should take to become green is to reinforce, reinvigorate, and expand its energy conservation program. Energy consumption produces the most significant environmental impacts associated with …
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Green Revolving Funds: An Introductory Guide to Implementation and Management
- Sustainable Endowments Institute (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
- ICF International (VA)
Co-published by the Sustainable Endowments Institute (SEI) and AASHE, the Guide provides practical guidance for designing, implementing, and managing a green revolving fund (GRF) at a college or university. Based …
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Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
At campuses around the country, staff, administrators, faculty, and students are redesigning the basic principles on which their institutions operate from day to day. The winners in this transformation are …
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Climate Neutral Campus Report
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
- AASHE (MA)
This report by Kyoto Publishing, in collaboration with AASHE and USGBC, aims to educate major stakeholders about the successful initiatives and rapid return on investment that colleges and universities are …
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The Campus Sustainability Movement: A strategic perspective
- Blekinge Institute of Technology
Society is facing a crisis of un-sustainability. The sector of higher education is well poised to support transition to a sustainable society. This thesis assesses the efforts of the Campus …
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Budgeting for Energy Conservation
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
Budgeting for Energy Conservation proposes an innovative approach to mobilize the schools and centers of the University of Pennsylvania to conserve energy. A clear and effective roadmap for the transition …
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Can CU Grow Without Adding Cars?
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
The answer may well be yes, based upon the experience at other major research institutions around the country. Stanford University has grown by 2 million square feet of new building …
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California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Report 1995-2005
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CA)
This report summarizes Cal Poly Pomona’s anthropogenic green house gas emissions for fiscal years 1995-2005. The inventory process is a first step towards quantifying the environmental impact of the University’s …
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Developing Ecological Consciousness: Paths to a Sustainable World
Developing Ecological Consciousness offers an ecology-based, wonder-filled initiation to the Universe and the Planet Earth. It examines the ways in which humans are damaging the Earth and their own bodies …
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Natural Area Stewardship as Part of Campus Sustainability
Despite a growing body of evidence that spending time in nature through leisure, stewardship, and related activities is critical to the healthy development of humans and can lead to pro-environmental …
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Design of energy efficient building with radiant slab cooling
- University of Calgary (AB)
Air-conditioning comprises a substantial fraction of commercial building energy use because of compressor-driven refrigeration and fan-driven air circulation. Core regions of large buildings require year-round cooling due to heat gains …
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Sustainability
- APPA: Leadership in Educational Facilities (VA)
Themed issue of "Facilities Manager," January/February 2005. Facilities Manager brings the reader the views and experiences of the people behind the facilities operations. Articles are written by facilities professionals for …
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Signaling Change: Studying the effect of price signals on disposable hot beverage cup consumption
- Tufts University (MA)
Every year, American food service businesses give away over 52 billion disposable paper coffee cups. Interestingly enough, the monetary and environmental costs of the production, purchase, and disposal of these …
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The Franklin Sustainability Report
- Franklin University Switzerland (Ticino)
The capstone course for Environmental Studies followed a case-study approach to examine the interdisciplinary nature of environmental issues. As students in out final semesters at Franklin College, we were asked …
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U.S. Progress Toward Sustainability in Higher Education
- Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (DC)
Sustainable development remains barely recognized as a significant social, economic or environmental challenge for the United States. The President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) 4 was disbanded in May 1999, …
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AASHE Digest 2005
- AASHE (MA)
Includes almost 250 stories about higher education institutions that are leading the way to a sustainable future. It is organized into 8 chapters covering: Institutional Change; Education & Outreach; Social …
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Sustainability and University Life
Prepared in cooperation with the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF), this book presents a number of case studies and experiences which illustrate how higher education institutions …
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Presidential Voices Interview Series: James H. Mullen, Allegheny College
- Allegheny College (PA)
With this interview, AASHE is pleased to launch our Presidential Voices interview series, featuring conversations with inspiring sustainability leaders who play unique roles as heads of higher education institutions or …
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Presidential Voices Interview Series: Wim Wiewel, Portland State University
- Portland State University (OR)
Wim Wiewel, President of Portland State University, is our guest for this interview. Dr. Wiewel serves on the steering committee of the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. Under …
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Global Green Campus Forum in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
- AASHE (MA)
Last week, I participated on AASHE’s behalf in the 3rd annual Gyeonggi Green Campus Global Forum, held at Kangnam University in the Gyeonngi province of South Korea. The theme of …
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Should We Do It? An Economic Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of a Local and Sustainable Food System at Davidson College
- Davidson College (NC)
Globalization created the conventional food system and its numerous negative effects such as environmental degradation, the loss of food cultures, antibiotic resistance, unsustainable energy use, increased food insecurity, unfair exploitation …
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Shifting from Saying to Doing: Evaluation of an Environmental Course Designed to Create Environmental Change Agents
- Tufts University (MA)
This study evaluated a semester-long environmental course designed to enable students to become environmental change agents. Sixteen undergraduate students self-selected into the program course, which integrated social science-focused materials with …
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AASHE Interview Series: Frances Moore Lappé, Founder, Small Planet Institute
- Small Planet Institute (NY)
Frances Moore Lappé, Founder of the Small Planet Institute, talks to AASHE about her newest book, EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want. Lappé discusses …
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Development of a Bike Path Management System for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Bicycle transportation is an integral part of most college and university campuses. Bike network paths thus represent a sizable investment of operational funds for these institutions. The efficiency of bike …
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Recreating the university from within: Sustainability and transformation in higher education
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
Universities around the globe have signed international declarations and agreements that recognize the importance of higher education in creating a more sustainable future. These agreements oblige universities to integrate sustainability …
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Building and Applying the Discipline of Sustainability
- AASHE (MA)
A few weeks ago, AASHE Executive Director Paul Rowland and I were in the nation’s capital for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Symposium: Science, Innovation, and Partnerships for Sustainability Solutions, …
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The integrative role of the campus environmental audit: experiences at Bishop's University, Canada
- Bishop's University (QC)
This paper seeks to suggest that the campus environmental audit can become an important tool that synergizes active learning and operations planning and management approaches to promote sustainability on university …
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AASHE Student Diary Series: The 'Free Compliments' Initiative
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
As a student ambassador of sustainability at the notoriously green Northern Arizona University, I am regularly exposed to the ideas of sustainability. This exposure and the large sustainability community involved …
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Campus Climate Planning: A Best Practices Guide
- Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
The purpose of this guide is to provide decision makers at colleges and universities with best practices for developing climate plans at their campuses in order to avert dire consequences. …
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STARS Blog: Advancing Sustainability during the Summer Transition
- AASHE (MA)
Today more than ever, summer is a season of intense transition and opportunity at colleges and universities – an ideal time for advancing campus sustainability. While a new cohort of …
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Can Higher Ed Lead Institutional Green Procurement into a New Era?
- AASHE (MA)
Sustainable procurement work has never been more exciting. New data, science and processes are coming together with years of on-the-ground experience to create a new paradigm. A higher education pilot …
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Cool Campuses?! The National Movement for Campus Climate Action Deserves High Grades But a Greater Effort is Needed to Address the Growing Climate Crisis
- Ball State University (IN)
- Cornell University (NY)
- Ithaca College (NY)
- Tompkins Cortland Community College (NY)
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Who will lead this energy revolution? One hopeful possibility is higher education. As one example, many institutions of higher education are already involved through the American College & University Presidents …
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Green Campus Success in 30 Minutes or Less!
Ways to teach your students about every area of sustainability in which they can make a difference on campus. Use email/text message tips as way to get to students to …
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Environmental Fixes + Urban Problems
- The New School (NY)
Social preservation and the preservation of nature have for too long been treated as separate matters but when looked at as a holistic system, operating under market-driven devices, it is …
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UCLA Campus Recycling Action Research Team
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
The UCLA Action Research Teams (ART) program gives students the opportunity to form research teams of 5-7 students that tackle issues of campus sustainability such as energy efficiency, transportation, waste …
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Assessment and Policy Development in Sustainability in Higher Education with AISHE
- European Foundation for Quality Management
The European Foundation for Quality Management had developed a model for quality management, named EFQM after this organisation. As a basis, they used the Deming Quality Circle. To the parts …
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Finding a New Way: Campus Transportation for the 21st Century
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
This resource guide profiles success stories at campuses across the country to illustrate specific examples of what Transportation Demand Management (TDM) programs can do. The guide also addresses possible pitfalls …
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Five Fabulous Ways Schools Celebrated Campus Sustainability Day 2012
- AASHE (MA)
I'm delighted to report that the 10th anniversary of Campus Sustainability Day Oct. 24 saw record participation from colleges. More than 150 institutions - triple the number from last year …
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It's Not Easy Being Green: Assessments and Strategies for Sustainable Institutions
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Colleges and universities in the United States are responsible for 3 to 9 percent of domestic climate change emissions and have about 16% of the US population currently enrolled. Bringing …
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AASHE Interview Series: John Robinson, Executive Director, UBC Sustainability Initiative
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
John Robinson, the Executive Director of the University of British Columbia's Sustainability Initiative sat down with AASHE to discuss the recently opened Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) building. …
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Organizing Residence Hall Conservation Competitions: A Guide for Students
- Furman University (SC)
Since as early as 1990, colleges and universities have been holding competitions to encourage energy and water conservation and waste reduction in college residences. These competitions reward on-campus residents for …
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Understanding the UCSD Market for Sustainable Foods: The Sustainable Agrifood Systems Fellowship
- University of California, San Diego (CA)
If UC San Diego is serious about becoming a university leader in sustainability, it is imperative that more attention and resources be directed toward its food system, and in particular …
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Community organization staff perceptions about the importance of selected practices in building effective community-university service and learning partnerships
- Louisiana State University (LA)
The purpose of this study was to explore community organization staff perceptions about the importance of selected practices in building effective community-university service and learning partnerships. The target population was …
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Filling a Local Transportation Gap: Planning for a Cycling Future at York University
- York University
PURPOSE: This multifaceted study set out to: a) assess the current state of York University's cycling infrastructure; b) determine of feasibility of a bike share at York University's inner suburban …
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Transportation on College and University Campuses: A Synthesis of Transit Practice
- Transportation Research Board (DC)
Many college communities, both in traditional "college towns" and in large urban areas, have implemented or are studying policies to manage parking, provide transit, and shift mode choice. Some have …
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Steam Loss in Miami University's Piping System
- Miami University (OH)
The Physical Facilities department at Miami University has observed a monthly loss of 12-15 million pounds of steam, which translates into a $65,000 loss per month, in the 7.7 mile …
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Earth In Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
The author begins by establishing the grounds for a debate about education and knowledge. He describes the problems of education from an ecological perspective, and challenges the "terrible simplifiers" who …
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