1. Harvard Green Campus Initiative – Green Building Resource
“The Harvard Green Campus Initiative has developed this Green Building Resource to support the implementation of Harvard’s Green Building Guidelines and Harvard’s Sustainability Principles. The Resource is the result of seven years of work, and includes the experience and knowledge gained from 25 Harvard LEED projects. |
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2. American College & University – Presidents Climate Commitment
“The fight against global warming will shape the 21st century. Colleges and universities must exercise leadership in their communities and throughout society by modeling ways to eliminate global warming emissions, and by providing the knowledge and the educated graduates to achieve climate neutrality. Campuses that address the climate challenge by eliminating global warming emissions and by integrating sustainability into their curriculum will better serve their students and meet their social mandate to help create a thriving, ethical and civil society. |
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3. MiddShift
We’re a small part of the super excited crowd on campus working to make Middlebury College carbon neutral by 2017. That means we will effectly squelch our greenhouse gas emissions through a variety of measures (i.e. cutting back on energy use, using cleaner fuels, etc.) to fully nix this institution's contribution to global warming. |
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4. Clean Air-Cool Planet
“The Clean Air-Cool Planet on-line Campus Climate Action Toolkit (CCAT) aims to make available to anyone who is interested in making his/her educational institution more "climate friendly" - college or university students, staff, faculty, administrators, trustees, alumni, community members - a comprehensive guide to and resource for doing so. |
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5. Climate Challenge – Campus Climate Challenge Toolkit
Our advice is to use this toolkit as a starting point and to be pro-active about seeking advice from people who have run similar campaigns before and who know a lot about your campus. Creating lasting change takes courage and determination. |
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6. Climate Challenge – Wiki Books
“The Campus Climate Challenge is a project of more than 30 leading youth organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Challenge leverages the power of young people to organize on college campuses and high schools across Canada and the U.S. to win 100% Clean Energy policies at their schools. The Challenge is growing a generation-wide movement to stop global warming, by reducing the pollution from our high schools and colleges down to zero, and leading our society to a clean energy future.” |
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7. Oberlin College Campus Resource Monitoring System
Bringing about a more sustainable campus is in part, predicated on improving the environmental performance of buildings. The premise of the campus resource use feedback system is that providing dormitory residents with easily interpretable real-time feedback on electricity and water consumption and on the financial and environmental impact of this consumption motivates and empowers students to conserve resources. |
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8. Grist – 15 Green Colleges and Universities
This page highlights Grist’s top 15 Green Colleges and Universities. “At Grist, we believe that news about green issues and sustainable living doesn't have to be predictable, demoralizing, or dull…We exist to tell the untold stories, spotlight trends before they become trendy, and engage the apathetic. We're fiercely independent in our coverage; we throw brickbats when they're needed and bestow kudos when they're warranted.” |
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9. National Wildlife Foundation – Campus Ecology – Higher Education in a Warming World
“The Campus Ecology program of the National Wildlife Federation promotes climate leadership and sustainability among colleges and universities by providing resources and technical support, creating networking opportunities and organizing education events.” |
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10. Tufts Climate Initiative – TCI Downloads
“The Tufts Climate Initiative is the pioneer in the field of climate change mitigation at institutions of higher learning…Tufts University was among the very first to make sustainability a high priority in its teaching, planning, and operations. TCI is continuing this tradition of being a forerunner by choosing the ambitious approach of fostering change on a university wide level."
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11. Yale Office of Sustainability
“Yale's Office of Sustainability, which reports jointly to the Office of Facilities and the Office of the Provost, was created to generate increased momentum and facilitate the process of developing and implementing best sustainability practices at Yale. We intend to do this by adding new energy to the community's historical grassroots sustainability efforts, and to the University's early formal mechanisms, such as the Provost's Advisory Committee on Environmental Management." |
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12. AASHE – Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
“AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, is a member organization of colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada working to create a sustainable future. Our mission is to promote sustainability in all sectors of higher education - from governance and operations to curriculum and outreach - through education, communication, research and professional development. We work in partnership with businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies that support our mission.” |
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13. Energy Star – Creating an Energy Star Showcase Dorm Room
“Colleges and universities are uniquely positioned to introduce awareness of ENERGY STAR into a student’s first experience of furnishing his or her own “home.” A creative approach to encourage residents in student housing to use ENERGY STAR products is to create an ENERGY STAR Showcase Dorm Room. Its first audience is students, but it also captures the attention of anyone interested in college life." |
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14. Sustainable Campus – Information Resources
“This web site is dedicated to promoting sustainable campuses throughout the world. We have links to the many resources available to help your campus transition to a more sustainable future.”
The “Resources” section includes materials and information regarding campuses, sustainability, professional associations information, and industry resources. |
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15. Sustainable Measures
“Sustainable Measures develops indicators that measure progress toward a sustainable economy, society and environment. Sustainable Measures works with communities, companies, regional organizations and government agencies at all levels. |
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16. ULSF – Resources – University and College Sustainability Websites
“The mission of the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF) is to support sustainability as a critical focus of teaching, research, operations and outreach at colleges and universities worldwide through publications, research, and assessment." |
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17. Arizona State University – “ASU establishes International Institute For Sustainability'
“Arizona State University has created the International Institute for Sustainability to deal with global and regional ecological, economic and societal issues in an effort to ensure that we maintain a sustainable quality of life on Earth.
The institute will involve close cooperation with at least nine ASU colleges, schools and institutes, including liberal arts and sciences, engineering, business, law, and architecture and environmental design.” |
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18. Redefining Progress – Footprints of Nations
“This website introduces Ecological Footprint 2.0—Redefining Progress's new approach to measuring how much of the earth's carrying capacity it takes to sustain humanity’s consumption of goods and services. Footprint 2.0 makes a number of improvements to the standard footprint approach by including the entire earth's surface in biocapacity, making formal accommodation for other species, using more accurate global carbon sequestration rates, and changing the basis for the footprint from cropland potential to net primary productivity." |
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19. Carbon Footprint
“Carbon Footprint's mission is to educate and inform how we can all make the right choices both at home and at work, save on waste and make sure that future generations will inherit a world we can be proud of.” This website enables people to calculate their carbon footprints, how to reduce them, and how to offset them. |
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20. Guidelines for College-Level Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories
“In the first section, I introduce some general concepts that will be helpful in carrying out your inventory and provide some useful suggestions for you to consider. Then, there is one section explaining how to calculate the emissions from each of the following sectors: Energy, Transportation, Solid Waste, Wastewater and Other Emissions Sources. For each emissions source, I have provided a sample calculation to demonstrate the procedure.” – Julian Dautremont-Smith |
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