Sustainability Planning

Comprehensive, integrated planning almost inherently leads to the triple bottom line of sustainability. 

SCUP is committed to supporting sustainability in higher education. Visit our online sustainability statement with examples of the many things that we have done and are doing in this critical area.

SCUP's publications and events programming routinely include sustainability-related knowledge, including enough workshops and concurrent sessions at its annual, international conference and idea marketplace to constitute a complete sustainability track.

Higher education's premier planning conference, Integrated Leadership for a New Reality, is SCUP–45 in Minneapolis, July 10–14, 2010.

Related SCUP Resources

Campus Sustainability Day 8 is October 20, 2010, on a campus near you. Ensure that your campus uses this annual day to bring together faculty, staff, and students from all departments and disciplines to share sustainability challenges and successes.

[scup-sustainability] is a Lyris-based email knowledge community that is open to anyone interested in campus sustainability planning.

SCUP worked with the Campus Ecology Project to publish the monograph, Guide to Climate Action Planning: Pathways to a Low-Carbon Campus (PDF), which can be downloaded for free.

SCUP's journal, Planning for Higher Education, featured a theme issue Sustainability: Talking the Long View (Spring, 2003). Its 18 articles and five book reviews constitute a good "state of the campus" for higher education sustainability at the beginning of a rapid increase sustainability in the academy.

The Business Case for Renewable Energy: A Guide for Colleges and Universities was published by SCUP, APPA, and NACUBO in 2006.

Webcasts: SCUP regularly serves up quality online, sustainable learning experiences. Many of the sustainability-related webcasts can be purchased on CD.

• Building a Durable Future: Community, the Campus, and Deep Economy
• Climate Realities, Challenges and Progress in Higher Education
• Climate Change and Higher Education: Leadership to Achieve Climate Neutrality
• Environmental Sustainability as a Strategic Policy Issue: What Governing Boards Need to Know
• Making the Business Case: Understanding the Costs and Financial Benefits of Green Building
• Sustainability Strategies for Vibrant Campus Communities
• Sustainability in the Curriculum: Theory to Practice
• Sustainable Building and Design on Campus—Building a Restorative Educational Environment

Featured Other Resources

Media: The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Today's Campus, and University Business all regularly cover higher education sustainability. We provide a search function (at bottom of this page) which will let you search all of those publications at once. Of special note is the Getting to Green blog at Inside Higher Ed and the Buildings & Grounds blog at The Chronicle.

Also, two must-subscribe electronic publications are the AASHE Bulletin and ClimateEdu: News for the Green Campus.

Campus Green Builder from Second Nature.

Campus Sustainability Case Studies from the Campus Ecology Project.

Campus Sustainability Discussion Forum from AASHE.

Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) from AASHE

SCUP supported and assisted in the start-up of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). See below for a link to AASHE and its comprehensive catalog of higher education sustainability resources.

Related Organizations

AASHE: The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education

ACUPCC: The American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment.

The Campus Ecology Project of the National Wildlife Federation

DANS: The Disciplinary Associations Network for Sustainability

HEASC: The Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium. SCUP was a founding member of this organization, which is a coalition of many higher education management and presidential associations.

Many of the HEASC member-associations maintain excellent sets of resources and links to resources that are within the context of their professional domains.

Second Nature

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