Event Recap

Network Call: Sustainability on Campuses

October 26, 2014

Fellow(s): Alex Racelis, Sue Chiang, Syma Ebbin, Dustin Mulvaney, Greg Norris, Doreen Stabinsky, Julia Ledewitz, Ruth Steiner, Harold Glasser

Topic(s): Architecture & Urban Planning, Climate Change, Environmental Education, Energy Resources & Access

This spring we held a networking call to connect academic Fellows who are interested in expanding their schools' sustainability efforts. Nine Fellows attended the lively call, and topics ranged from how to get involved in a school's sustainability efforts to the details of applied social learning on campuses, and from green revolving funds to support facilities improvement to ways to incorporate sustainability into curricula through faculty involvement.

You can learn more about the call attendees by visiting their profiles (linked above).

A list of resources grew out of the call that we would like to share with you. If you have any additional resources, please feel free to add them to the comments section below or email us to have them added directly to the post.

We would particularly like to thank 1990 Fellow Harold Glasser for this list of resources and for his guidance in planning and following up after the call.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)

United Nations University Education for Sustainable Development

UNESCO's UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005 - 2014)

American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC)

Alliance for Resilient Campuses

Billion Dollar Green Challenge

University Leaders for a Sustainable Future

Sustainable Endowments Institute (SEI)

National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION

International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN)

JOURNALS

Sustainability: The Journal of Record

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

OTHER SITES OF INTEREST

Western Michigan University Office for Sustainability, 1990 Fellow Harold Glasser, Executive Director for Campus Sustainability

New England Board of Higher Education, Sustainability Group

The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus, Mitchell Tomashow (book)

ARTICLES OF INTEREST BY HAROLD GLASSER

Meet the Fellows in this Story

Alex Racelis

2007 Fellow

Alex is an assistant professor of Agroecology in the School for Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. UTRGV is located in south Texas in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, considered one of the...

Sue Chiang

1997 Fellow

Sue works with institutional purchasers from a wide range of sectors to harness their collective buying power to eliminate the use of harmful chemicals and expand the market for environmentally preferable products. Her current focus is on...

Syma Ebbin

1992 Fellow

After obtaining her PhD at Yale University, Syma worked with the Connecticut Fund for the Environment with the generous support of a Switzer Environmental Leadership Grant. In this position she worked on assessing open space acquisition...

Dustin Mulvaney

2004 Fellow

Dr. Dustin Mulvaney is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Studies Department at San Jose State University where he teaches courses on energy and sustainability. His research focuses on the social and environmental dimensions of...

Greg Norris

1991 Fellow

Greg Norris is Co-Director of SHINE (the Sustainability and Health Initiative for Net-positive Enterprise), an initiative of the Harvard School of Public Health's Center for Health and the Global Environment. He also conducts research...

Doreen Stabinsky

1991 Fellow

Doreen Stabinsky is professor of Global Environmental Politics at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA. Her research focuses on the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food security, adaptation and adaptation...

Julia Ledewitz

2011 Fellow

Julia Rogers is a Senior Sustainability Designer with Vanderweil Engineers. She previously worked for DTZ, a global facilities management corporation, as the program manager for the Energy and Sustainability team. She was also the...

Ruth Steiner

1993 Fellow

Ruth is an professor and Director of the Center for Health and the Built Environment in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning Department and an affiliate faculty in the Transportation Research Center and the School of Natural...

Harold Glasser

1990 Fellow

Harold Glasser, (Ph.D., University of California, Davis), works at the nexus where environmental science, public policy, philosophy, values, business, design, economics, history, systems modeling/learning, and education meet. He holds...