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Creating a Campus Sustainability Revolving Loan Fund. |
Describes the idea of funding environmental projects through the savings that they generate. A revolving loan fund can enable projects that reduce environmental impacts while creating opportunities... |
03/31/2007 |
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Creating a Culture of Sustainability: How Campuses Are Taking the Lead. |
Discusses higher education's leadership in sustainability through curriculum decisions, operations budgets, facility plans, and campus culture. Measurable, positive impact of these efforts is... |
12/31/2004 |
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Defining Green and Sustainable Schools. |
Suggests uniformity of vocabulary and terminology used in discussing green and sustainable schools. |
08/22/2010 |
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Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building. |
Profiles Oberlin College's Adam Joseph Lewis Center, the United States' first substantially green higher education facility. The building is powered entirely by solar energy, features... |
12/31/2005 |
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Don't Demolish That Building--Deconstruct It. |
Describes how administrators chose to deconstruct and recycle the University of Texas Health Science Center rather than demolish it and haul debris to a landfill. Details how various materials were... |
05/31/2002 |
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Duke LEEDS in Parking. |
Profiles this university's free-standing parking garage, the first building of its type to recieve LEED certification. The use of exterior and roof trellises, dark-sky lighting, contextual... |
03/31/2011 |
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Eco-Dorm Builds Community. |
Profiles this dormitory at Pitzer College that successfully uses natural ventilation to cool rooms even when the outdoor temperatures are around 100. A simple and efficient HVAC compensates for... |
08/31/2008 |
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Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century. |
Documents environmentally friendly campus facility management innovations based on interviews with the people behind the green practices. The book includes a portrait of environmental responsibility... |
12/31/1994 |
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Education for Sustainability in Further and Higher Education. |
Discusses international efforts at improving higher education campus sustainability. Then, citing Australian examples, the authors describe planning for campus greening, learning for sustainability,... |
06/30/2008 |
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Education Green Building SmartMarket Report. |
Details construction market research into green building in the education construction sector. The research that the education sector is the fastest-growing market for green building. The study also... |
12/31/2006 |
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Educational Facilities Professional's Practical Guide to Reducing the Campus Carbon Footprint. |
Provides educational facilities professionals a practical framework for moving forward in their role within the process of achieving reduced greenhouse gas emissions and approaching carbon neutrality... |
12/31/2008 |
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Employee-Focused Facilities. |
Discusses lower employee absences due to allergies, asthma, depression, and stress in “green” working environments. Basic principles of employee-friendly design, office layout, lighting, and... |
11/30/2010 |
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Energy Commitments for Green Schools. A Study for Carbon Neutrality: the Impact of Decisions, Design and Energy. |
Transforming decisionmaking processes regarding energy efficiency can affect the design of an education building. Discusses factors affecting the carbon dioxide (CO2) footprint of a building, and... |
09/30/2011 |
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Energy Efficiency for Tropical Campus |
Describes energy efficiency achieved at a Singapore university through energy-efficient lighting and air-conditioning, an integrated building management system, and extensive use of natural... |
04/30/2006 |
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Evaluation of the Revolving Green Fund: a report to HEFCE. |
Reports that The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Revolving Green Fund is having a positive effect on reducing universities? carbon emissions. Launched in August 2008, the... |
06/30/2010 |
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Everything's Gone Green. |
Profiles Humber College's Centre for Urban Ecology. The LEED Gold-certified building features high recycled content, high-performance glazing, daylighting, a green roof, rainwater harvesting,... |
12/31/2007 |
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Expanding HPC and Research Computing -- The Sustainable Way. |
Presents an interview with Notre Dame's CIO, discussing the university's response to the upswing in high performance and research computing at the university while reducing costs and the... |
08/31/2009 |
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Expectations for a Greener Tomorrow. |
Profiles the North American Wind Research and Training Center at Mesalands Community College. The facility features a large, commercial-grade wind turbine that supplies electricity to the entire... |
09/30/2010 |
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Facility Earns LEED Platinum Rating. |
Describes features of the University of California at Santa Barbara's Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, which obtained the highest LEED rating available. |
03/31/2004 |
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Facility Focus: LEED-Certified Facilities. |
Profiles four LEED-certified higher education facilities, including two academic facilities, a fitness center, and an off-campus field station for environmental studies. |
03/31/2008 |
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Financing Sustainability on Campus. |
This guide describes a wide variety of financial tools and programs and goes through the process—from identifying and analyzing the economics of proposed projects to execution—with examples from... |
12/31/2008 |
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Finding the Measure of Green Interiors. |
Argues that interior green products must perform as well as non-green products for there to be any real sustainable benefit. In addition to other well-documented considerations for use of green... |
05/31/2010 |
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Finding the Next Best Opportunity for Green in Existing Schools. |
Proposes alternatives to High Performance Schools with the more prevalent High Improvement Schools, which addresses existing buildings. The Collaborative for High Performance Schools' Operations... |
08/19/2010 |
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Five Steps to a Higher LEED Certification. |
Advises on how to gain a higher level of LEED certification through Credit Interpretation Rulings (CIRs). These rulings may help accommodate atypical innovations not necessarily covered by the LEED... |
08/31/2009 |
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Five Steps to Green Campuses. |
Through the examples at five higher education institutions, describes five steps to greening existing campus facilities: you have to start somewhere; one size does not fit all; streamlining and... |
09/30/2011 |
