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 Feasibility and Benefits of Biodiesel at the University Level (The University of Florida)
- University of Florida (FL)
This paper was written after a year of researching biodiesel at the university level as well as visiting major biodiesel facilities in the Southeast. The intention of the paper and …
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A community-based social marketing campaign to green the offices at Pacific University: Recycling, paper reduction and environmentally preferable purchasing
- Antioch University (OH)
This study describes a community-based social marketing (CBSM) research project to bring awareness and behavior change around paper reduction, recycling, and purchasing of environmentally preferred products (EPP) at a small …
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Green Campuses: Cutting the Environmental Cost of Commuting
This paper outlines the impacts of transport on the environment and stresses how, for higher education institutions (referred to as ‘universities’ here), these are dominated by commuting by private car. …
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Backing Away from the Cliff: A Theory of Education for Sustainability in the Postsecondary Classroom
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Despite growing efforts for Education for Sustainability (EfS), little empirical research documents EfS in the postsecondary classroom and the ways in which sustainability is defined in these classrooms. The purpose …
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Assessing UT-Austin's Roadmap to Sustainability
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
Like many other schools and organization, The University of Texas at Austin faces a near future in which entities of all sizes are held to greater accountability for their environmental …
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Quantitative sustainability in a college or university setting
- Yale University (CT)
Colleges and universities that adopt the attractive but abstract goal of sustainability are intellectually honest only if they go on to devise operational approaches to meet that goal. Improved environmental …
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Sustainability of Western Kentucky University: An examination of environmental policy, performance, and potential for change
- Western Kentucky University (KY)
Institutions of higher learning are in a pivotal position to address the environmental problems that global society faces now, but response to this challenge requires transformation in priorities and practices. …
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Campus Transport Management: Trip Reduction Programs on College, University and Research Campuses
- Victoria Transport Policy Institute (BC)
Campus Transport Management programs are coordinated efforts to improve transportation options and reduce trips at colleges, universities and other campus facilities. TDM tends to be particularly effective and appropriate in …
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Guide to Climate Action Planning: Pathways to a Low-Carbon Campus
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
- Society for College and University Planning (MI)
Increasing numbers of schools have started—or soon will start—planning to reduce their net emissions. Whether prompted by state law, grassroots demand, administrative mandate, requirements of the American College and University …
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A Qualitative Investigation of Sustainability-Oriented Courses at UBC
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
With the underlying theme of globalization and encouraging students to be global citizens, the University of British Columbia (UBC) adopted a sustainable development policy in 1997 and revised it in …
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Designing a Social Online Network: Decreasing Fragmentation in the UBC Student Led Sustainability Movement
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
The University of British Columbia has recognized sustainability as being a prominent issue over the past decade, and has become a leader in advocating sustainable practices. Although the University has …
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Unlimited Access
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
"Unlimited Access" is the name that several universities have given to programs where their student identification cards serve as transit passes. University transit pass programs increase mobility and reduce vehicle …
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Appropedia as a Tool for Service Learning in Sustainable Development
Numerous studies have demonstrated that university students are capable of contributing to sustainable development while improving their academic skills. Unfortunately for many institutions, the expense of sending large cohorts of …
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Issues regarding sustainable agriculture as perceived by upper level undergraduate students involved in a student managed farm at Iowa State University
- Iowa State University (IA)
The purpose of this study was to identify the perceptions of agriculture students regarding sustainable agriculture practices, issues related to sustainable agriculture and learning/teaching processes. These students were enrolled in …
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Collaborating for the Future of Higher Education Sustainability
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
- AASHE (MA)
Last week Julian Keniry from the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Jaime Van Mourik from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Tim Carter from Second Nature and I came together at …
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Changes in Student Values and Behaviors: An Outcomes-Based Program Review of the Global Leadership and Sustainable Development Program
- Hawaii Pacific University (HI)
The dual purpose of this research study was to evaluate the sustainability and leadership values and behaviors of current and former students of the Master of Arts in Global Leadership …
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University Avenue Redevelopment: Prioritizing Pedestrians and the Environment
- Dalhousie University (NS)
This report presents a redevelopment plan for the main road on the Dalhousie University campus in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The plan is designed to achieve three goals: promote active transportation, …
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Where Meaning Lies: Student Attitudes and Behaviors related to Sustainability in College
- New York University (NY)
While sustainability is a national priority, an intriguing gap seems to exist between peoples' perceptions of sustainability as an issue and their levels of actual engagement. This study aimed to …
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Campuses Move Toward Sustainability
- Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (DC)
Themed issue of "Priorities," Spring 2000, No. 14.
The theme of this monograph is sustainability, which is defined as development that meets the needs of present generations without compromising the …
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Benefits of Campus Transit Pass: Study of Students' Willingness to Pay for Proposed Mandatory Transit Pass Programs
- Western Washington University (WA)
The problem of estimating the expected net benefits of an unlimited-access campus transit pass, which would also fund an increase in critically needed services, is an example of the problem …
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What’s going on at Rio+20
- AASHE (MA)
As we go into the last few days before the official Rio+20 conference, I think it is important to reflect on not only what is happening there but how it …
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A Transit Pass in Everyone's Hand? - Implementing Unlimited Access Pass Programs as a Strategy to Increase Transit Ridership
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
Unlimited Access Pass (UAP) Programs -- arrangements between transit agencies and universities that provide transit passes to group members at a heavily discounted rate through a group purchase program -- …
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A Commitment to Climate Neutrality at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: Environmental urgency and financial prudence
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
In the past year, the ambitious goal of climate neutrality has exploded out of the higher education sustainability movement, with over 450 schools, including the entire University of Massachusetts system, …
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Presidential Voices Interview Series: Jo Ann M. Gora, Ball State University
- Ball State University (IN)
Jo Ann M. Gora, our guest for this interview, became President of Ball State University in 2004. She was one of 12 charter signatories to the American College & University …
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Campuses get a 'Sustainable' Look
- California Polytechnic State University (CA)
- Stanford University (CA)
- Rocky Mountain Institute (CO)
- Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (DC)
Universities are often some of the bigger developers in communities, with construction of a new alumni center, dormitory, or research space always looming. But on many campuses nationwide, core groups …
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U-Pass: A Model Transportation Management Program that Works
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
On September 30, 1991, the University of Washington, in cooperation with the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle, implemented U-PASS, one of the most comprehensive transportation demand management programs in the United …
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Financing Models of Campus Charging Infrastructures For Electric Vehicles
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
California is always a leader in mitigating and reducing its greenhouse gas emissions in coordination with our climate change mitigation policies as outlined in AB32. UC Berkeley, one of the …
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Campus Sustainability Practitioners: Challenges for a New Profession
- Harvard University (MA)
The purpose of this paper is to put forward a number of ideas about the deep challenges that must be faced by campus sustainability practitioners, in the hope that it …
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Sustainable Campus Transportation
- University of Manitoba (MB)
The University of Manitoba promotes sustainability on campus. Sustainable campus transportation improvements were considered through case study analysis and interpretation of potential implementation for the University. Possible solutions topressing campus …
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Higher Education Sustainability in Pittsburgh
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- Chatham University (PA)
- Duquesne University (PA)
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- University of Pittsburgh (PA)
- AASHE (MA)
Supported by the Heinz Endowments, this AASHE publication profiles the sustainability innovations of the Pittsburgh institutions that hosted campus tours during the AASHE 2011 conference. Profiled innovations include green building …
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Occupy Movement Focused on Student Debt Gathers Steam
- AASHE (MA)
The Occupy Student Debt Campaign, an offshoot of the Occupy movement focusing on student debt and urging students to pledge not to repay their loans if other borrowers join them, …
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Opportunity - Upcoming White House Day of Climate Action to Feature Campus Climate Leadership
- AASHE (MA)
On November 19th, the White House and the State Department will bring together leadership from higher education institutions, including school administrators and student leaders, to collectively call for action on …
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Green Destiny: Universities Leading the Way to a Sustainable Future
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Even as universities teach their students that the vital signs of the Earth are in decline, graduates leave college to begin lives that generally contribute to, rather than mitigate, a …
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The Sustainable Learning Community: One University’s Journey to the Future
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
University communities have the potential to serve as models in the development and application of sustainability principles and practices, not only by what they teach and study, but also by …
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Green Investment, Green Return
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
Colleges and universities across America are sending a powerful message that what's good for the environment is also good for the bottom-line. Green Investment, Green Return: How Practical Conservation Projects …
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Sustainability Curriculum in Higher Education: A Call to Action
- AASHE (MA)
This report is a culmination of the ideas presented during AASHE’s Summit on Sustainability in the Curriculum to address how higher education institutions can further infuse sustainability topics into college …
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AASHE Interview Series: Nurit Katz, Chief Sustainability Officer, University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Nurit Katz, UCLA's first Chief Sustainability Officer, sat down recently with Judy Walton, AASHE's chief publications officer, to discuss Nurit's work on campus and involvement in the AASHE 2012 conference. …
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AASHE Student Diary Series: Gender and Sustainability, Part 2
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
In my last post, I looked at how studying gender and environment can work together. In this post, I want to touch upon how gender matters and operates within my …
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Evergreen's Comprehensive Greenhouse Gas Inventory
- Evergreen State College, The (WA)
This study provides the results of The Evergreen State College's comprehensive greenhouse gas inventory. In light of the latest scientific research on the issue of global warming and in response …
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Analysis of Student Behaviors Impacting Carbon Emissions Through Community Based Social Marketing Research
- Oberlin College (OH)
Academic institutions cannot achieve climate neutrality through technology alone; members of the college community must also be engaged in creating a culture of sustainability. This research project employed a community-based …
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From principle to product: Exploring process through the Solar Decathlon
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
The premise of this thesis is to examine the process and development of the evolution of words into built form. The abstract principle followed through the design process is the …
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Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change
- Emory University (GA)
- San Diego State University (CA)
In Sustainability on Campus campus leaders recount inspiring stories of strategies that moved eighteen colleges and universities toward a more sustainable future. This book is for faculty, students, administrators, staff, …
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How Many Dots to Connect? Defining Sustainability in the Curriculum Pt. 2
- AASHE (MA)
In part 1 of this post, I examined current practices for identifying sustainability courses and found that definitions of sustainability-focused and -related courses tend to leave too much room for …
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Simulating energy efficiency in laboratory buildings
- Iowa State University (IA)
Today's laboratory buildings are large consumers of energy. The ventilation requirements of these buildings mandate that large quantities of outside air be brought into the building. The advent of air-to-air …
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Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University
- University of Victoria (BC)
Planet U places the university at the forefront of the sustainability movement. Questioning the university’s ability to equip society to deal with today’s serious challenges such as economic growth, democratic …
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Striving for Climate Neutrality on Campus: 7 Steps to Writing a Climate Action Plan for a Reduced Carbon Footprint
- Environmental Health & Engineering, Inc. (MA)
A climate action plan (CAP) is a university-sanctioned strategic infrastructure planning document that provides a roadmap for achieving a greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target. It provides the decision-making framework to …
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The relationship of pedagogy and students' understanding of environment in environmental education
- University of Technology Sydney
This study has two main findings. First, the pedagogy of environmental education has strong classification and framing (after Bernstein 1971) that supports the objectification of the environment. Second, there is …
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An Investigation of Sustainability-Oriented Courses: Student Views & Experiences
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
With an increased awareness of climate change and environmental concerns, and a worldwide call for the integration of sustainability into the curriculum, universities are looked upon as agents of change …
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Converting university spending to greenhouse gas emissions: A supply chain carbon footprint analysis of UC Berkeley
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
This senior thesis study calculates a supply chain carbon footprint for UC Berkeley based on procurement expenses in fiscal year (FY) 2009. The study presents recommendations to reduce supply chain …
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AASHE Interview Series: Yoni Landau and Danny Spitzberg of CoFed
- CoFED (NM)
CoFED, the Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive, supports over 40 student teams in regions across North America. CoFED serves as a network and training program that empowers students to create ethically-sourced, …
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