Internet Resources for Campus Sustainability

Internet Resources for Campus Sustainability

General

Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable future
http://www.ulsf.org/

APPA (Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers)
http://www.appa.org/

Sustainable Development on Campus: Tools for Decision Makers
(International Institute for Sustainable Development)
http://iisd1.iisd.ca/educate/

Blueprint for a Green Campus, Initiatives for Higher Education (A Project of The Heinz Family Foundation)
http://www.igc.apc.org/cgv/blueprnt/homepage.html

Alliance For Sustainability Through Higher Education
http://www.2nature.org/alliance/

Greening of the Campus Conference, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana (Sept . 20 - Oct 2 1999)
http://www.bsu.edu/events/events2/green1.html

Brown Univ. Campus Environmental Stewardship and Resource Conservation Program
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Brown_Is_Green/

University of New Hampshire: Sustainable UNH
http://www.sustainableunh.unh.edu/

University of Colorado, Boulder: Master Plan (Check out the task force reports under "Process".)
http://www.colorado.edu/masterplan/

Princeton Environmental Reform Committee (PERC)
http://www.princeton.edu/~perc/

Greening the Campus: Institutional Environmental Change at Tulane University
http://www.tulane.edu/~greenclb/thesis/

International Association of Universities (IAU) Pages on Higher Education and Sustainable human development
http://www.unesco.org/iau/tfsd_first.html
Bibliography on Universities and Sustainable Development
http://www.unesco.org/iau/tfsd_biblio.html

Campus Environmental Audit, Univ. of Pennsylvania
http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~pennenv/audit/

Committee on Environmental Policies for College Operations, Dartmouth College
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~recycle/cepco.html

full text: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Brown_Is_Green/reports/darcepco.html

The Green University Initiative — EPA & George Washington University
http://www.gwu.edu/~greenu/instu.html

Campus Ecology Program, National Wildlife Federation
http://www.nwf.org/nwf/campus/index.html

Campus Environmental Yearbook 1996-97
http://www.nwf.org/campus/yearbook97.html#top

The Class of 2000 Report (The Nathan Cummings Foundation)
http://www.2nature.org/ncf2000/

Green Building

U.S. Green Building Council
http://www.usgbc.org/

EPA Benchmarks for Office Buildings
http://www.aspensys.com/esbl/office/bench.html

Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
http://www.crest.org

E Source -- Energy Intelligence
http://www.esource.com

Examples of student projects

Rice University
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~bake302/ARESreport.html

Brown University
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Brown_Is_Green/esproj/index2.html

Listserv

GREEN SCHOOL listserv(Campus ecology)
send mail to: listserv@brownvm.brown.edu
msg: SUBSCRIBE GRNSCH-L [your name]

Books:

(All but Creighton & Gottlieb and Egan & Orr are on Reserve at Wilson Library.)

Creighton, Sarah H. & Gottlieb, Robert (1998). Greening the Ivory Tower: Improving the Track Record of Universities, Colleges, and Other Institutions. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Eagan, David J. & David W. Orr, eds. (1992). New Directions for Higher Education: The Campus and Responsibility. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Keniry, Julian (1995). Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century. National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife Federation. (1998). Green Investment, Green Return: How Practical Conservation Projects Save Millions on America's Campuses.

Smith, April & SEAC (1993). Campus Ecology: A guide to assessing environmental quality and creating strategies for change. Los Angeles: Living Planet Press.