Campus Sustainability Perspectives

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Archive for the 'Research/Publishing' Category

Call for Theses and Dissertations on Campus Sustainability

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 by Niles Barnes

AASHE needs your help! We are compiling a list of completed or in-progress theses and dissertations related to sustainability and higher education that we hope will serve as a helpful resource for those looking for academic research in this field.
If you know of dissertations or theses that we do not already have and might fit […]

AASHE’s Sustainability Across the Curriculum Leadership Workshop

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 by elizabeth

Last week, I got to participate in AASHE’s Sustainability Across the Curriculum Leadership Workshop held at San Diego State University. AASHE hosts this energizing two-day workshop for faculty and staff in higher ed. twice a year with the help and talents of Peggy Barlett from Emory University and Geoff Chase from San Diego State University. […]

AASHE Launches New Award for Student Research on Campus Sustainability

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 by Julian Dautremont-Smith

We know that students are producing amazing research on campus sustainability on a regular basis. Too often however, use of this research is limited to the institution where the author is based and the rest of the campus sustainability community doesn’t benefit. In the rare occasion when this research is shared with us, […]

Higher Education Reaches the Tipping Point in Green Building

Thursday, November 29th, 2007 by Niles Barnes

Building Design + Construction recently released their Green Building Research White Paper (the fifth in a series of annual reports on the green building movement). The October 2007 white paper looks at the Green Building sector through 12 research studies of building owners, facility directors, and end users in key sectors: healthcare, corporate offices, […]

Penn State Researchers Announce Hydrogen Breakthrough

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 by Sam Hummel

Congratulations to researchers at Pennsylvania State University who recently announced they have discovered a way to convert cellulose into hydrogen with a 288% return on energy input! This could be a huge development in the move to a hydrogen economy given that splitting natural gas was previously the only economical way to derive hydrogen.
Hydrogen […]