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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Creating a Green Community: Understanding Student Environmental Behaviors for Increased Campus Participation at Northwestern University
- Northwestern University (IL)
Today, the world is facing a crisis the likes of which has not been seen before. The onset of global warming in recent times has initiated the growth of environmental …
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Greening the Bottom Line: The Trend toward Green Revolving Funds on Campus
- Sustainable Endowments Institute (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
In collaboration with AASHE and 10 other partner organizations, this Sustainable Endowments Institute publication highlights current trends based on a 2010 survey of green revolving funds that included 52 institutions …
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Strategies for Carbon Neutrality
More than 400 colleges and universities have committed to addressing climate change in a meaningful way, including exploring strategies for becoming climate neutral. Since there is no blueprint for achieving …
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The AASHE Collaborative Vision Tree – A Study in Creative Assessment and Feedback Processes
- Portland State University (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
To build a resilient sustainability movement in higher education, we need to bring together diverse perspectives and work to design collaborative solutions. This paradigm shift includes refining the processes by …
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AASHE Student Diary Series: Abuzz with Rooftop Bees
- Harvard University (MA)
The novice beekeeping adventures of a group of Graduate School of Design (GSD) students at Harvard University are featured in this installment of the AASHE Bulletin Sustainability Student Diary series. …
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Carbon on Campus
The ACUPCC requires signatories to “complete a comprehensive inventory of all greenhouse gas emissions (including emissions from electricity, heating, commuting and air travel) and update the inventory every other year …
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The Alma Mater Society Bicycle Co-operative
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
The AMS Bicycle society consists of almost 500 members of the University of British Columbia’s undergraduate and graduate student population as well as the university’s staff, faculty, and other community …
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Dynamic Ridesharing: Background and Options for UBC
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
Dynamic ridesharing, also called real-time ridesharing or single-trip ridesharing, differs from regular carpooling and vanpooling in that ridesharing is arranged for one-time trips rather than for trips made on a …
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Sustainability Collection Development Policy Report
- University of Utah (UT)
In May 2012, the Marriott Library received grant funding from the Chevron Corporation to conduct an audit of the Library’s collection development policies as they relate to sustainability. Out of …
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Student Sustainability Educators: A Guide to Creating and Maintaining an Eco-Rep Program
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
- AASHE (MA)
Co-published by AASHE and National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology program, this step-by-step guide takes readers through the design, implementation and evaluation stages of an Eco-Rep program. It includes case studies, …
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Student Green Funds: 1997 - 2009
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
While all institutions and individuals share an obligation to pursue their daily activities in recognition of future generations under the sustainability concept, institutions of higher education have a unique responsibility …
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2012 Higher Education Sustainability Staffing Survey
- AASHE (MA)
Campus sustainability staff positions are growing fast on campuses, according to the latest Salaries & Status of Sustainability Staff in Higher Education report by AASHE. Sponsored by Aramark Higher Education, …
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Presidential Voices Interview Series: Beverly Daniel Tatum, Spelman College
- Spelman College (GA)
Beverly Daniel Tatum, Spelman College President since 2002, is our guest for this interview. Spelman is America's oldest historically Black college for women, and a leading liberal arts institution. It …
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A Sustainability Fund at Rensselaer: A Policy Analysis and Guide for the Future
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)
The sustainability fund, also known as a green fund, has been introduced at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada in the past two decades as a methodology …
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Rethinking Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC) in Harvard University's River Houses: Engineering Sciences 96 Final Report
- Harvard University (MA)
This abstract applies to all four papers written for Engineering Sciences 96.
In the coming decade, Harvard University will confront a system-wide student housing renovation project. For the past eighty …
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Transportation Demand Management at the University of Toronto: Context and Financial Feasibility
- University of Toronto (ON)
This study was conducted as a second year Research Opportunity Program at the University of Toronto from October 2006 to April 2007. The scope of the project encompasses research from …
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Sustainability: Taking the Long View
- Society for College and University Planning (MI)
Themed issue of "Planning for Higher Education," March-May, 2003.
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Sustainable Laundry Operations at Sewanee: The University of the South
- Sewanee - The University of the South (TN)
The typical student runs an average of 3.7 cycles of laundry per week. This is almost one full cycle more than other students at universities whose costs are included with …
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Sustainability: A Bedford Spotlight Reader
Sustainability explores questions around the central concept of sustainability: What are its foundations and politics? How do crises challenge sustainability? How is sustainability connected to local and transnational environments? How …
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Towards regenerative development: A methodology for university campuses to become more sustainable, with a focus on the University of South Florida
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
The administrations of several universities have developed strategies to reduce the negative environmental effects created by their institutions. Because no single, comprehensive methodology to guide institutions to sustainability exists, these …
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In search of green campuses: An investigation of Canadian universities' environmental initiatives and implications for Dalhousie University
- Dalhousie University (NS)
In light of current environmental and sustainability problems, environmental responsibility makes eminent sense at universities--institutions responsible involved in research, developing new technologies, and educating future leaders and citizens. In Canada …
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Getting it Done: Effective Sustainable Policy Implementation at the University Level
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
In the last 30 years, there has been a growing awareness worldwide of the necessity to reverse the omnipresent processes of ecological degradation and biotic impoverishment and to move toward …
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Why We Submitted a STARS Report Two Years In A Row
- Babson College (MA)
If you recently completed STARS, you may be basking in the idea of not having to do it again for another few years. You might be reading the title of …
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Sustainability Assessment at Institutions of Higher Education
- Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (DC)
With support from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation, ULSF has developed the Sustainability Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ), a survey instrument designed to assist students, faculty members, staff and administrators in determining …
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Community partner indicators of engagement: An action research study on campus-community partnership
- Antioch University (OH)
The central purpose of this research study was to develop common indicators of engagement for civic initiatives between institutions of higher education and their community organization partners. The unique aspect …
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U-Pass Review: Final Report
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
Student U-Pass programs were implemented in September 2003 at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Simon Fraser University (SFU). Each of these U-Pass agreements were implemented under agreements between …
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The Unsuspected Teachers: Environmental Identity and Sustainability Education in the Anthropocene
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
People in higher education institutions are designing, advocating, and implementing curricular changes for sustainability and ecological literacy. This study sought to understand the environmental identities of sustainability education advocates working …
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Education for sustainable development at the university level: Interactions of the need for community, fear of indoctrination, and the demands of work
- Florida State University (FL)
The goal of this study was to describe the factors that influence education for sustainable development (ESD) in American universities. Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) was employed as the theoretical …
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AASHE Digest 2009
- AASHE (MA)
Includes over 1,250 stories that catalog a broadening and deepening commitment to campus sustainability by colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. The 380-page report categorizes stories from nearly …
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Fare-Free Public Transit at Universities: An Evaluation
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Universities and public transit agencies in the United States have together invented an arrangement—called Unlimited Access—that provides fare-free transit service for all students (and, on some campuses, faculty and staff …
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AASHE Student Diary Series: Gender and Sustainability, Part 1
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
As a female student interested in all kinds of social justice and sustainability issues, I wanted to take the time here to talk about the particular ways in which gender …
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Federal Advisory Committee Draft Climate Assessment Report
- U.S. Global Change Research Program (DC)
The U.S. Global Change Research Program has released the Third National Climate Assessment. A 60-person Federal Advisory Committee (The "National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee" or NCADAC) oversaw the …
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Earth Day as a Catalyst for Campus Environmental Leadership
- Antioch University, New England (NH)
This paper explores the impact of Earth Day on the development of campus environmental leadership. Personal narratives on the significance of Earth Day are presented in a series of interviews …
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AASHE Visits England at the EAUC Conference
- AASHE (MA)
- Environmental Association for Universities & Colleges (EAUC) (Gloucestershire)
I was proud to represent the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) at the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) annual conference at the University …
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AASHE Interview Series: Bo Newsome, Director of Outreach and State Relations, NAICU
- National Association of Independent Colleges & Universities (DC)
Robert “Bo” Newsome, the Director of Outreach and State Relations at the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), talks to AASHE about sustainability initiatives at NAICU and its …
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Guest Post: UConn COP21 Update
- University of Connecticut (CT)
Gazing out at the cacophony of asphalt, metal, and concrete, an inner conflict is brewing. As the scenes of Connecticut civilization blur by the bus window on the first leg …
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H204U: The Culture of Water Consumption at New York University
- New York University (NY)
While an abundance of information about the negative environmental impacts of bottled water exists, there are few, if any, bottom-up studies of why and how people choose and understand the …
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Guest Blogger: Nine Rules for a Successful Green Revolving Fund
- Dartmouth College (NH)
Students can be a powerful driving force for campus sustainability. However, student initiatives are often plagued by barriers including funding shortages, resistance to institutional change, and the perception that sustainability …
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Calvin College Carbon Neutrality Project
- Calvin University (MI)
In Fall 2007, students in two capstone courses at Calvin College were challenged with the question "What would it take to make Calvin College carbon neutral?" Twenty-four Engineering and Biology …
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UC Davis Alternative Transportation and Parking Investment Study
- University of California, Davis (CA)
The purpose of this study is to examine the potential for the University of California at Davis (UCD) to invest in expanding its alternative transportation programs (ATP) as a means …
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Unlimited Access at Tulane and Other Universities
- Tulane University (LA)
Unlimited Access programs, in which a university gives a lump sum to a transit authority in exchange for mass ridership, have shown to be highly beneficial at other universities and …
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University of Washington U-Pass 2006 Report
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
Each year the Transportation Office publishes an annual report about the U-PASS program. This publication provides information for measuring the program’s performance during the year; highlights its activities, initiatives, and …
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Are Canadian Universities Taking Sustainability Seriously? A case study analysis of sustainability initiatives at three Canadian campuses and the lessons decision-makers can learn from these efforts
- Carleton University (ON)
This study attempts to answer the question 'are universities taking sustainability seriously'? Specifically, this paper examines the extent higher education institutions have institutionalized sustainability into their decision-making processes. It investigates …
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Preaching to the Choir
- Baylor University (TX)
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: 97 percent of climate scientists agree that we are the main reason the planet is warming at an alarming rate and if we …
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Environmental sustainability 'inreach' : How the campus community informs itself about environmental issues
- North Carolina State University (NC)
As many higher education institutions join in the sustainability challenge, several studies recently have emerged that examine the experiences of these institutions in greening their campuses. These studies have identified …
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Helpful Support Increases Impact: Clarkson University Focus the Nation Chapter
- Clarkson University (NY)
In my campus role as the Assoc. Director for Sustainability for Clarkson University (an AASHE & STARS Member Institution), I work with several different student groups every year to help …
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Canadian STARS-Rated Campus Sustainability Plans: Priorities, Plan Creation and Design
- Dalhousie University (NS)
The use of integrated sustainability plans is an emerging trend in higher education institutions (HEIs) to set sustainability priorities and to create a work plan for action. This paper analyses …
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Building Retrofit Strategies
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CA)
The objective of our project was to identify and analyze building retrofit strategies that can reduce kWhs or Btus and associated greenhouse gas emissions on the Cal Poly Pomona campus. …
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2010 Higher Education Sustainability Staffing Survey
- AASHE (MA)
Shows that despite national unemployment rates that hovered near 10 percent in 2010, those with positions in the higher education sustainability workforce report a sense of job security and feel …
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UBC Carpool Strategy Recommended Incentive/Discount Program
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
The TREK Program Centre is UBC’s Transportation Planning Department. Committed to increasing transportation choices in addition to reducing SOV traffic to and from the UBC community by 20%, the TREK …
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