AASHE is currently at the ACUPCC Leadership Summit in Grand Rapids Michigan and we have partnered with Grand Rapids Community College to record and post panel presentations on You Tube. Even if you can’t be here you can still watch and hear what is happening. Below is a quick compilation of some presentations. All videos […]

Last Monday, NBC Nightly News included a segment on sustainability academic programs. The segment highlights Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability and SUNY Stony Brook Southampton College’s environmental studies major.

Want to learn and share ideas about running dorm vs dorm sustainability competitions on college campuses? There is now a website and instructional video project dedicated to that purpose!
At long last, a video project that was initiated by students in Duke’s Environmental Alliance has arrived online in the form of a best practices sharing […]

A brilliant short video has come out online that I’d highly recommend…
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns, with a special focus on the United States. All the stuff in our lives, beginning from the extraction of the resources to […]

At the 2007 GreenBuild Expo, President Clinton announced a number of impressive programs that his Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) has undertaken. The speech also served as the opportunity to announce yet another initiative: a partnership between CCI and the ACUPCC to help colleges and universities meet the ACUPCC targets. The partnership includes access […]

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Quay Thompson has heard the complaints about the LEED Green Building Rating System, but he says that his firm has found them to be extremely valuable for introducing a common green-building language. Mr. Thompson has worked with campuses as a Project Manager for HOLT Architects.

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Jonathan Shambare shares advice gleaned from Richard Stockton State’s 20 years of running a geothermal system. He also talks about Richard Stockton’s current plans for a next-generation geothermal system. Mr. Shambare is the Associate Director of Architectural Design at Richard Stockton State.

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Dr. Alan Elzerman offers two ideas from Clemson University’s experience getting their Sustainable Universities Initiative (pdf) off the ground. Dr. Elzerman is the Director of the School of the Environment as well as the initiator and Director of the Sustainable Universities Initiative.

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Kathy Cacciola is a graduate student at the University of Virginia. Before going back to school, she worked for the National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology program.
In this clip, Ms. Cacciola talks about one of the most common objections sustainability advocates hear (”it’s already been tried and […]

I ran across a site a while ago that I liked because it had little 30 second to 2 minute clips from regular people talking about insights they have about their field of work. (Unfortunately, I can’t find that site now in order to link to it.) That site got me thinking that […]