2008-04-30

NOTE FROM THE MODERATOR:

A new and very bad proposal for the 2008-09 academic year by the Residence Life/Student Affairs unit at UDelaware will be up for a vote by the faculty senate there on Monday, May 5. The theme that Res Life has chosen as a wrapper for all of these bad suggestions is Sustainability.

I give below some links on the topic of Sustainability to provide background information on the topic. They are, of course, not intended to be complete. The list represents only my modest effort during the last couple of days to get some background on issues that have been addressed by a number of articles that I have posted to this list recently in anticipation of the UD Faculty Senate vote on May 5.

There are many university programs on sustainability. The list below covers only Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, and Arizona State. These are covered only as examples of programs that have been mentioned in recent postings to this list, or because they came to my attention in the course of my own web research in the last couple of days.

Tom Wood

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CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION SERIES (October 19/20, 2006; free links)

http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i09/09a02001.htm
A New Science Breaks Down Boundaries
Mixing social and environmental research, sustainability studies gain academic respectability

http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i09/09a00801.htm
What Is a Sustainable University?

http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i09/09a01001.htm
In Search of the Sustainable Campus
With eyes on the future, universities try to clean up their acts

http://chronicle.com/live/2006/10/cortese/
The Sustainable University
Transcript of live discussion with Anthony D. Cortese

http://chronicle.com/media/flash/v53/i09/map/map.htm
Map: What a sustainable campus might look like

http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i09/09b02401.htm
Sustainability: the Ultimate Liberal Art

http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i09/09a02501.htm
Support at the Top for Sustainability

http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i09/09a02301.htm
Saving the Planet, by Degrees
Programs in sustainability draw from many disciplines

http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i09/09a02201.htm
The Intellectual Territory
CHE interview with Jeffrey D. Sachs

http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i09/09a01801.htm
Students Call for Action on Campuses
Activists push better practices in energy use, food purchasing, waste disposal, and investments

http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i09/09sustain_resources.htm
A Sustainability Library
Here is a selection of readings about sustainability.

HIGHER ED DECLARATIONS, STATEMENTS, AND ORGANIZATIONS (U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL)

The Talloires Declaration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talloires_Declaration
Wikipedia: The Talloires Declaration

ULSF: University Leaders for a Sustainable Future

http://www.ulsf.org/
ULSF supports sustainability as a critical focus of teaching, research, operations and outreach at colleges and universities worldwide through publications, research, and assessment. ULSF is the Secretariat for signatories of the Talloires Declaration (1990), which has been signed by over 350 university presidents and chancellors worldwide.

http://www.ulsf.org/programs_talloires.html
ULSF web page on the Talloires Declaration

http://www.ulsf.org/programs_talloires_signatories.html
Talloires Declaration Institutional Signatory List as of April 21, 2008
Total Signatory Institutions: 368

http://www.ulsf.org/programs_talloires_signatories.html#US
List of U.S. Signatories (137 institutions)

Resources linked by ULSF or recommended by it:

http://www.ulsf.org/pdf/Teaching_sustainability_with_EC.pdf
Selected Earth Charter Teaching Resources:
Teaching Sustainability with the Earth Charter
This chapter appeared originally in Teaching Sustainability at Universities: Towards
Curriculum Greening, Walter Leal Filho ed., published by Peter Lang (see p. 13 for ULSF's "Selected Earth Charter Teaching Resources"

http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Sustainability-Universities-Umweltkommunikation-Nachhaltigkeit/dp/0820460214
Teaching Sustainability at Universities: Towards Curriculum Greening (Umweltbildung, Umweltkommunikation Und Nachhaltigkeit, Bd. 11.) (Hardcover)
by Walter Leal Filho (Editor), Walter Leal Filho (Editor)

http://www.ulsf.org/pdf/Critical_dimensions_SHE.pdf
Critical Dimensions of Sustainability in Higher Education
This chapter appeared originally in Sustainability and University Life, Walter Leal Filho ed.,
published by Peter Lang © 1999.
Richard M. Clugston and Wynn Calder

http://www.amazon.com/Sustainability-University-Life-Walter-Filho/dp/0820448001
Sustainability and University Life (Paperback) by Walter Leal Filho (Editor)

http://www.ulsf.org/pdf/dernbach_chapter_short.pdf
Progress Toward Sustainability in Higher Education
(Environmental Law Institute)
by Wynn Calder and Richard M. Clugston

http://www.ulsf.org/publications_declaration_index.html
The Declaration served as ULSF's biannual report from 1996 to 2005
ULSF: INDEX OF DECLARATION ARTICLES

AASHE: Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education

http://www.aashe.org/index.php
AASHE: Serving the Campus Sustainability Community

http://www.aashe.org/about/about.php
About the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education

http://www.aashe.org/membership/members.php
List of AASHE Members

http://www.aashe.net/blog/posts-by/niles/how-to-make-college-tuition-sustainable
How to make college tuition sustainable?

http://www.aashe.org/membership/description.php
AASHE Membership Description

http://www.aashe.org/profdev/profdev.php
Conferences, Workshops, Interest Groups

http://www.aashe.org/lists/lists.php
AASHE: General Interest E-Mail Lists

http://www.aashe.org/lists/lists.php
EFS-Acad Discussion List
Moderated by Greg Peterson at Arizona State University.

http://www.aashe.org/heasc/
Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium
Staff: Anthony D. Cortese and Debra Rowe
(NOTE: According to the URL, this "consortium" is a subdivision of AASHE)

NACBO: National Association of College and University Business Officers

http://www.nacubo.org/
Home Page: National Association of College and University Business Officers

http://www.nacubo.org/x2153.xml
Campus Sustainability
NACUBO Goes Green

Second Nature
http://www.secondnature.org/
Second Nature was founded in Boston in 1993 by a small group of forward-thinking leaders that included Dr. Anthony D. Cortese, Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA), Teresa Heinz Kerry, Bruce Droste, and others. This group sought to establish an organization dedicated to bringing about the change in society that is vital to the success and livelihood of every current and future living being: a change for a just and sustainable future.

Second Nature: Education For Sustainability
http://www.secondnature.org/efs/efs_part_one.htm
Part 1: Envisioning A Sustainable Future
http://www.secondnature.org/efs/efs_part_two.htm
Part 2: Higher Education's Role in the Transition to a Just and Sustainable Future
http://www.secondnature.org/efs/efs_part_three.htm
Part 3: The Transformation of Higher Education

The American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment

http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/
The American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment

http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/commitment.pdf
The Presidents Climate Commitment Document

ACPA: American College Personnel Association

http://www.myacpa.org/
ACPA: College Student Educators International

http://www.myacpa.org/task%2Dforce/sustainability/
ACPA: Sustainability in Higher Education

Resource materials, from the ACPA site:

http://www.myacpa.org/task-force/sustainability/docs/Student_Affairs_Vision.pdf
Envisioning a Student Affairs Division that Supports Sustainability
Modified From Second Nature
http://www.secondnature.org/efs/efs_part_one.htm
Adapted by ACPA President's Taskforce on Sustainability

http://www.myacpa.org/task-force/sustainability/docs/Change_Agent_Skills_and_Resources.pdf
Change Agent Abilities Required to Help Create a Sustainable Future
ACPA - College Student Educators International (http://www.myacpa.org/)
in collaboration with the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
(www.uspartnership.org )

http://www.myacpa.org/task-force/sustainability/docs/TFSJ%20Sustainability.ppt
Title: Social Justice and Sustainable Development
Authors: Keith E. Edwards, Macalester College, Kathleen G. Kerr, University of Delaware at the Tools for Social Justice Conference, November 2007

http://www.myacpa.org/task-force/sustainability/docs/A_National_Trend.ppt
Title: "A National Trend: Sustainability in Higher Education and ACPA's Leadership Role"
Author: Debra Rowe, Ph.D

http://www.myacpa.org/task-force/sustainability/docs/LLC_Sustainability_ppt100906.1.ppt
Title: "Integrating Sustainability into a Learning Community"

NCSE: The National Council for Science and the Environment
(NOTE: this is not specifically a higher ed organization, but it is included here because many higher ed types are involved in it)
http://ncseonline.org/

PROMINENT ACTIVISTS IN THE SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Debra Rowe

http://www.ulsf.org/about_bio_drowe.htm\
(ULSF): Debra Rowe: Senior Fellow in Education for Sustainability

http://www.ncseonline.org/EFS/DebraRowe.pdf
ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY AND SUSTAINABILITY AS CORE REQUIREMENTS: SUCCESS STORIES AND MODELS

http://www.hivcampuseducation.org/SharedFutures/documents/AACUSmithGenEd7-06.ppt
Creating a Better Future: Higher Education and Sustainable Development Leadership

Keith Edwards

http://www.keithedwards.us/bio.htm
Speaking, training, and consulting for social justice education

Anthony D. Cortese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Cortese
Wikipedia: Anthony D. Cortese

http://www.tufts.edu/tie/
Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE)
Past Director: Anthony D. Cortese

UNIVERSITIES & RESEARCH CENTERS

U.C. Berkeley

http://sunsite5.berkeley.edu:8000/
NOTE: Searching in the UC Berkeley library's online catalog (Pathfinder) for "sustainability) yields 1035 entries. Entries are scattered among many libraries besides the two main ones (Moffitt undergraduate and Main/Doe), including the following on-campus libraries: engineering; business & economics; chemistry; environmental design (including architecture); and anthropology

http://bie.berkeley.edu/
The Berkeley Institute of the Environment

http://bie.berkeley.edu/aboutBIE
About the Institute

http://bie.berkeley.edu/files/BIEbrochure.pdf
BIE Brochure: The Future of the Planet

http://nature.berkeley.edu/csrd/
CSRD: The Center for Sustainable Resource Development
College of Natural Resources

http://bie.berkeley.edu/node/367
BIE: The Berkeley Institute of the Environment
University of California, Berkeley
Center for Sustainable Resource Development

http://bie.berkeley.edu/researchprojects
BIE: Research projects UC Berkeley

http://bie.berkeley.edu/researchcent
BIE: List of UC Berkeley research centers (sustainability)

http://bie.berkeley.edu/degrees
BIE: Degree programs UC Berkeley (sustainability)

http://bie.berkeley.edu/campusorgs
BIE: Campus environmental groups (activist oriented)

http://bie.berkeley.edu/courses
BIE: Environmental courses

http://bie.berkeley.edu/studentprojs
BIE: Student Environmental Portal (student projects)

http://bie.berkeley.edu/envorgs
BIE: Student Environmental Organizations

http://bie.berkeley.edu/publications
BIE: Publications

http://bie.berkeley.edu/researchlabs
BIE: Research Labs and Groups

(NOTE: The following UCB web site pages, unlike the sites above, are administrative and staff web sites at UC Berkeley)

http://sustainability.berkeley.edu/assessment/pdf/CACS_UCB_Assessment_10_Academics.pdf
Chancellor's advisory committee on sustainability

http://sustainability.berkeley.edu/assessment.html
Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~recycle/ssec/programs/rsec.html
Cal SSEC: Sustainability starts here

Harvard University

http://www.cid.harvard.edu/sustsci/overview.html
Sustainability Science Program at Harvard's Center for International Development

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sust/
Harvard: Sustainability Science

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sust/index.html
Sustainability Science

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sust/people.htm
Project Participants
(NOTE that the Sustainability Science program at Harvard consists of a mix of Kennedy School of Government types and science and technology types)

http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/bcsia/sust.nsf/publications
Public Documents and Publications

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sed/
Science, Environment and Development Group (Harvard)

Columbia University (The Earth Institute)

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
(WARNING: very slow to load)

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/articles/view/1791
About Us: Mission: Solutions for Sustainable Development

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/articles/view/1788
Research: Research: The Foundation of the Earth Institute

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/articles/view/50
Education at Earth Institute

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/articles/view/5
Introductory and Core Curriculum

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/articles/view/8
Doctoral Programs

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/articles/view/1790
The earth clinic
Current projects include the Millennium Villages Project, the Millennium Cities Initiative, expanding healthcare in Ethiopia, and reducing arsenic exposure in Bangladesh.

http://www.earth.columbia.edu/flashvideos/sachs_africanpoverty/index.php
VIDEO: In The Classroom
Course: The Challenge of Sustainable Development
Class: The Challenge of African Poverty
Feb. 20, 2008

Jeffrey D. Sachs
Director of The Earth Institute,
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development
and Professor of Health Policy and Management at In The Classroom
Course: The Challenge of Sustainable Development
Class: The Challenge of African Poverty

Arizona State University (School of Sustainability)

http://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/faculty/index.php
ASU School of Sustainability

http://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/faculty/index.php
Faculty

http://library.lib.asu.edu/
ASU library catalog
1172 results searching in the online catalog for library holdings on "sustainability"

UN PROGRAMS, DECLARATIONS, AND REPORTS (& U.S. AFFILIATES)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brundtland_Commission
Wikipedia: Brundtland Commission

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Common_Future
Wikipedia: Our common future

http://www.worldinbalance.net/agreements/1987-brundtland.html
Our Common Future: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (HTML)

http://www.worldinbalance.net/pdf/1987-brundtland.pdf
Full text of the Bruntland report: PDF (24.6 MB)

http://www.uspartnership.org/
US PARTNERSHIP
U.S. affiliate for the UN's Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
United Nations Decade (2005-2014)

WIKIPEDIA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint
Wikipedia: Carbon footprint

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living
Wikipedia: sustainable living

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability
Wikipedia: sustainability

PERIODICALS AND JOURNALS

The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (IJSHE)
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ijshe

Sample articles from IJSHE:

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewPDF.jsp?Filename=html/Output/Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Pdf/2490080101.pdf
Education for sustainability: Developing a postgraduate-level subject with an international perspective

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewPDF.jsp?Filename=html/Output/Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Pdf/2490080305.pdf Institutional motivations and barriers to the construction of green buildings on campus: A case study of the University of Waterloo, Ontario

Sustainability Science Abstracts
http://www.csa.com/factsheets/sustain-set-c.php

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy (SSPP)
http://ejournal.nbii.org/

STUDIES & REPORTS (U.S. & INTERNATIONAL)

The Stern Report

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Review
Wikipedia: The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/30_10_06_exec_sum.pdf
Stern Report, Executive Summary (27 pages, PDF)

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/stern_review_report.cfm
Full text of the Stern Report (700 pages, PDF)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6096594.stm
BBC: Report's stark warning on climate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Stern
Wikipedia: Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford