Campuses all across the U.S. and Canada recently celebrated Earth Day 2008. Some celebrated it with one big single day event, and others celebrated with several smaller events throughout the entire month of April. The Bowdoin College (ME) Earth Day celebration recognized that Earth Day isn’t just a day, […]

As if everyday isn’t! I spent a part of my day today at the University of Kentucky participating in their Earth Day Festival. You can see all the events the students and staff planned for the entire month of April at www.earthdaysinthebluegrass.org . I am sure that campuses all across the US […]

Unless you are in the small minority of students who are not faced with student loans, rising tuition rates are cause for alarm, especially at a time when the general state of the economy is not shining so bright. According to the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) two-thirds (65.7%) of […]

Because one of AASHE’s primary services is connecting a passionate and diverse community spread out across a wide geography, leveraging information technology is becoming an important part of what we do.  AASHE currently has a number of exciting, challenging and important web applications under development.  But, we need more help!
In particular, we are looking for […]

AASHE is excited to announce the release of the latest version of STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System). STARS is a collaborative effort to develop a formal rating system for campus sustainability, with standards by which institutions may measure themselves and qualify for different levels of recognition.
STARS 0.5 (pdf) includes credits in […]

AASHE has an exciting line-up of engaging keynote speakers for its upcoming Conference on November 9-11, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina – Lester Brown, Van Jones, Peter Senge and Vandana Shiva. Other special events include AASHE’s awards banquet (included with registration), field trips to local campuses, a Career Fair, pre-conference workshops, and a pre-conference Student […]

This post is for all of the 2008 Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference Participants and to the rest of the AASHE and outside community as well.
I’m asking for feedback. You’ve just been at a 2 day conference on advancing campus sustainability. We listened to peers, students, and college and university presidents. We […]

This session was a great overview and comparison of three different projects that each gauge campus sustainability in different ways. The AASHE Sustainability Tracking,  Assessment, and Rating System (STARS), The Sustainable Endowments Institute’s (SEI) College Sustainability Report Card and the National Wildlife Federations (NWF) State of the Campus Report and Survey. 
Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and […]

Sonia Marcus, Ohio University
Your campus does not need an Office of Sustainability, but if you don’t have one, you’re going to struggle with:
-Communications: An Office of Sustainability becomes a communications hub. There’s no other good way of coordinating the initiatives. It’s a place for people to direct their questions and concerns. […]

This lunch Plenary Session was a breath of young energy and faces as three student leaders took the stage to discuss issues related to the work they are doing on their own campus and to broadly discuss student activism (or as argued by one, student “citizenship” )
Presenters: Carlos Rymer, Cornell UniversityJoanna Calabrese, University of MarylandMatt […]