Sustainability in Higher Education

SCUP Resources

SCUP Sustainability Knowledge Community: A Lyris-based email list where SCUP shares items of interest and members have the opportunity to discuss them and also share items. Anyone may join.

HESA: SCUP sent 70 federal legislators letters in support of the Higher Education Sustainability Act, which would provide $50M of funding for campus-ba

SCUP White Paper (PDF) : We Rise to Play a Greater Part: Students, Faculty, Staff, and Community Converge in Search of Leadership from the Top—share it freely.

Sustainability Report (PDF), "A (recycled, of course) Six-Pack of Sustainability Lessons from the Past Year in Higher Education"

Planning for Higher Education Special Issue: Sustainability: Taking the Long View

Webcast CDs:

• CSD 5.0—Building a Durable Future: Community, the Campus, and Deep Economy (2007)
• Climate Change and Higher Education:
  Leadership to Achieve Climate Neutrality
  (2007)
• Making the Business Case: Understanding the Costs and Financial Benefits of Green Building (2007)
• CSD 4.0— Where Is Your Campus On the Continuum of Integrated Sustainability Planning? (2006)
• CSD 3.0— A (recycled, of course) Six-Pack of Sustainability Lessons from the Past Year in Higher Education (2005)
• Sustainability in the Curriculum: Theory to Practice (2005)
• Sustainability Dollars and Sense—Understanding the Financial Costs and the Benefits of Green Buildings (2004)
• Sustainable Building and Design on Campus—Building a Restorative Educational Environment (2004)

Other Resources and Events

Here's a link that will bring up a predefined GooglePrint (beta) search which locates books about sustainability in higher education.

The Minnesota Sustainable Design Guide is highly recommended by former SCUP president Trudis Heinecke. She says, "It may be the best 'practical' site that I have found. It has great process graphics and walks through the process of setting goals, strategies, and performance measures in each step of the planning, design, construction, and operation phases. And there are worksheets for each phase of the process."

Here's a link that will bring up a predefined Google search of media news about sustainability in higher education. Very useful!

Forthcoming SCUP Events

See SCUP's event calendar for complete listing.

Campus Sustainability Day 7.0 coming October 21, 2009.

The most comprehensive calendar of sustainability-related events in higher education is maintained by the University Leaders for A Sustainable Future (ULSF).

Other Places To Go

• Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
• Association of College Unions International (ACUI)
• The Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (APPA)
• Campus Compact
• Campus Ecology Project of the National Wildlife Federation
• Council of Environmental Deans & Directors (CEDD)
• Green Meeting Industry Council
• Higher Education Climate Action Project (HECAP)
• The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO)
• National Association of Educational Buyers (NAEB)
• New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability (NJHEPS)
• National Association of College Auxiliary Services
• National Association of Environmental Law Societies (NAELS)
• National Center for Science and the Environment (NCSE)
• Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy (PCIEP)
• Second Nature (a co-founder of Campus Sustainability Day)
• The Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE)
• Sustainable Univerties Initiative of South Carolina (SUISC), a coalition of 18 institutions
• The Teaching, Learning, and Technology (TLT) Group
• University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF)
• USGBC Emerging Green Builders
• US Partnership—Decade of Education for Sustainable Development