Sustainability News
Dec 14, 2011 by Ashley Thorne |
Researchers determine that sustainability is now a science; Occupy Wall Street's sustainability committee plays house; Harvard looks to hire someone who can "cultivate an understanding of food"; and a debate asks whether the… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
From Diversity to Sustainability: How Campus Ideology is Born
Oct 12, 2010 by Peter Wood |
Sustainability, like diversity, subtracts from the better purposes of higher education.
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Sustainability News 8-3-10
Aug 03, 2010 by Ashley Thorne |
This edition of sustainability-in-higher-ed news includes the University of Toledo’s new curricular residence life programs in sustainability; UNC’s workshop to help participants explore oppression and injustice; the… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
Reaching for the STARS
Jul 27, 2010 by Ashley Thorne |
Sustainability assessment on campus says a lot about the larger movement's need to count points.
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Encyclopedia of Sustainability, 4th Edition
Jul 08, 2010 by Ashley Thorne |
A 4th edition of the NAS 'sustainapedia' of the key names, terms, books, colleges, and organizations in the campus sustainability movement.
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An Elbow in the Ribs: Prof-Prodding Toward Sustainability
Feb 17, 2010 by Ashley Thorne |
Campus administrators and leaders of sustainability organizations come together to think of ways to get "reluctant professors" to teach sustainability. Their answer: "Change how they think."
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Encyclopedia of Sustainability, 2nd Edition
Jan 08, 2010 by Ashley Thorne |
A 2nd edition of the NAS 'sustainapedia' of the key names, terms, books, colleges, and organizations in the campus sustainability movement.
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Virginia Tech Tries to Enforce Ideology in Strategic Diversity Plan
Dec 23, 2009 by Peter Wood |
Back in March, I received a leaked copy of a plan for one of the colleges at Virginia Tech. It was a new set of guidelines for faculty promotion and tenure that would require every candidate to compile an annual record of… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
Dancing with the STARS
Sep 28, 2009 by Ashley Thorne |
AASHE publishes an early version of a project called the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) to measure colleges' sustainability progress.
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Thursday Vert-Degree
Jun 25, 2009 by Ashley Thorne |
Green news: go asparaguses, intelligent life isn't sustainable in outer space either, and messages from AASHE.
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Human Nature: NAS Attends an Environmental Justice Conference
May 02, 2008 by Ashley Thorne |
Ashley Thorne shares reflections on the "Race, Place, and Environmental Justice" conference held on campus at Princeton.
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