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- Sustainability at Other Universities & Colleges
- Sustainability Ideas & Information Sources
- Organizations for Sustainability in Higher Ed
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Sustainability at Other Universities
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Michigan State University |
Office of Campus Sustainability & Univ. Comm. for a Sust. Campus. The
UCSC at MSU began in 1999 with an EPA grant that supported an integrated
research, curriculum, and action-oriented campus-wide program. The newly
redesigned (Sept.2005)
http://www.ecofoot.msu.edu/ site has reports, news and guidance on
food, transportation, energy use, computing, paper, football,
residences, lighting, water, waste recycling, curriculum and more. |
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Unity College of Maine |
Unity College is a small,
private college in rural Maine that provides dedicated, engaged students
with a liberal arts education that emphasizes the environment and
natural resources. Unity College graduates are prepared to be
environmental stewards, effective leaders, and responsible citizens
through active learning experiences within a supportive community. |
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Sustainability Ideas &
Information Sources
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| Inform,
Inc. |
INFORM is an independent,
nonprofit organization that conducts research aimed at practical
solutions to complex environmental and health-related problems
throughout this country and the world. |
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Organizations for
Sustainability in Higher Ed
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USLF - University Leaders for
a Sustainable Future
http://www.ulsf.org/ |
University Leaders for a
Sustainable Future (ULSF) assists colleges and universities in making
sustainability an integral part of curriculum, research, operations and
outreach. ULSF is also the secretariat for signatories of the
Talloires
Declaration (1990), which has been signed by more than 300
university presidents and chancellors around the world.
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Second Nature -
co-founder of Campus Sustainability Day
http://www.secondnature.org/ |
Since 1993, Second Nature has
been dedicated to accelerating a process of transformation in higher
education. We assist colleges and universities in their quest to
integrate sustainability as a core component of all education and
practice in order to make human society healthy, fair, economically
secure and ecologically thriving for all current and future humans and
other species.
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EFS West - Education for
Sustainability - Western Network
http://www.efswest.org/ |
EFS West is a professional
association of individuals and institutions working to make
sustainability a central focus of higher education in the western U.S.
and Canada. The network was founded in 2001 as a partnership with Second
Nature.
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Campus Ecology -
a project of the National Wildlife Foundation
http://www.nwf.org/campusecology/ |
For more than a decade,
National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Program has been helping
transform the nation's college and university campuses into living
models of an ecologically sustainable society, and training a new
generation of environmental leaders. Campus Ecology supports and
promotes positive and practical conservation projects on campus and
beyond to protect wildlife by restoring habitat and slowing global
warming.
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NJHEPS - New Jersey Higher
Education Partnership for Sustainability http://www.njheps.org/ |
Our Mission: to transform the
higher education community, to consistently practice sustainability, and
to more effectively contribute to the world’s emerging understanding of
sustainability, through teaching, research, outreach, operations, and
community life. Includes listservs for news and green purchasing
information.
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APPA - The Association
of Higher Education Facilities Officers
http://www.appa.org/ |
... founded in 1914 and
dedicated to the maintenance, protection, and promotion of quality
educational facilities. |
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