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Title Sustainability on campus : stories and strategies for change / edited by Peggy F. Barlett and Geoffrey W. Chase.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  378.1961 Su81 2004    ---  Available
Description viii, 327 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Urban and industrial environments
Urban and industrial environments.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Peggy F. Bartlett and Geoffrey W. Chase -- Part I: Laying the cornerstones. Process and practice: creating the sustainable university / Christopher Uhl -- The green task force: facing the challenges to environmental stewardship at a small liberal arts college / Abigail R. Jahiel and R. Given Harper -- No longer waiting for someone else to do it: a tale of reluctant leadership / Peggy F. Barlett -- Part II: Redesigning the curriculum. The Ponderosa Project: infusing sustainability in the curriculum / Geoffrey W. Chase and Paul Rowland -- Transdisciplinary shared learning / Richard B. Norgaard -- Place as the nexus of a sustainable future: a course for all of us / Laura B. DeLind and Terry Link -- Building political acceptance for sustainability: degree requirements for all graduates / Debra Rowe -- Part II: Building buildings, building learning communities. Can educational institutions learn? The creation of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College / David W. Orr -- The development of Stanford University's guidelines for sustainable buildings: a student perspective / Audrey B. Chang -- Part IV: Engaging communities, engaging students. Maintaining a college-community ecotourism project: faculty initiative, institutional vision, student participation, and community partnerships / Richard D. Bowden and Eric Pallant -- Teaching for change: the leadership in environmental education partnership / Paul Faulstich -- Restoring natural landscapes: from ideals to action / Allen Franz -- Part V: Building system-wide commitment. South Carolina Sustainable Universities Initiative / Patricia L. Jerman ... [et al.] -- Challenges of greening a decentralized campus: making the connection to health / Polly Walker and Robert S. Lawrence -- Sustaining sustainability: lessons from Ramapo College / Michael R. Edelstein -- Cultivating a shared environmental vision at Middlebury College / Nans Jenks-Jay.
Subject Campus planning -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
Environmental management -- United States.
Added Author Barlett, Peggy F., 1947-
Chase, Geoffrey W.
ISBN 0262524228 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780262524223 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0262025604 (hc. : alk. paper)
9780262025607 (hc. : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 256869227
YDXCP 2047640
YDXCP 2047641
NZ1 7975276
AU@ 000024964654
IG# 9780262025607
IG# 9780262524223

 
    
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