Sustainability in Higher Education: Beyond Going Green

Green Buildings as Sustainability Education Tools

Purpose: To provide an overview of green building technologies and practices and illustrate how public libraries can use them as tools to teach their communities about sustainability and foster behavior change. Design/methodology/approach: Through literature searches, case studies analysis, and individual phone and e-mail interviews, the author identified ways that public libraries can use thei...

Special Issue—Pedagogy for Education for Sustainability in Higher Education

Sustainability Reporting At Higher Education Institutions

Introduction Multiple declarations, governmental and non-profit organizations and universities have issued a call for proper reporting of social and environmental impacts and initiatives within academia. Such reporting can increase awareness of environmental and social impacts, encourage development of sustainable policy and build a campus culture more committed to sustainability. 1 Sustainabil...

Pathways towards sustainability through higher education

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to contribute to aligning higher education towards meeting the challenge of global sustainability. Design/methodology/approach – The barriers to sustainability are juxtaposed against the resources, responsibilities and potential of higher education. Ideas from several models and from within several disciplines are integrated to construct a framework through th...

Sustainability, Indicators, and Institutions of Higher Education

Indicators of commitment to sustainability commonly applied to institutions of higher education provide no estimate of the actual effects that these institutions have on the persistence or prevalence of the socioecological systems that encompass them. Emergy methodology provides a theoretical framework for addressing this practical oversight based on its fundamental insight into the interdepend...