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

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 327 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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 -- 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 take of reluctant leadership / Peggy F. Barlett -- Part II: Redesigning 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 -- 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 [and others] -- 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.
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Subject Campus planning -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
Campus planning -- Environmental aspects.
United States.
Campus planning.
Universities and colleges -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- Environmental aspects.
Environmental management -- United States.
Environmental management.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Barlett, Peggy F., 1947-
Chase, Geoffrey W.
Other Form: Print version: Sustainability on campus. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004 0262524228 0262025604 (DLC) 2003065130 (OCoLC)53059532
ISBN 9780262267717 (electronic book)
0262267713 (electronic book)
1417560789 (electronic book)
9781417560783 (electronic book)