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Sustainable Learning Community : One University's Journey to the Future.
Title:
Sustainable Learning Community : One University's Journey to the Future.
Author:
Aber, John.
ISBN:
9781584658375
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (253 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- The Sustainable Learning Community -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Editor's Preface JOHN ABER -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Higher Education TOM KELLY -- Chapter 2. Teaching and Learning Sustainability: Curriculum and Pedagogy JOHN CARROLL, editor -- Curriculum: Biodiversity and Ecosystems -- Engaging Students in the Sciences, GEORGE HURTT -- How Does a Local Master of Public Health Program Address Global Emerging Infectious Disease? ROSEMARY CARON -- Sustainable Science and Engineering, KEVIN GARDNER AND NANCY KINNER -- UNH-EcoQuest and Sustainability in New Zealand-Te Rarangahau Taiao, RIA BREJAART, KIM BABBITT, AND DONNA DOWAL -- Curriculum: Climate and Energy -- ESCI 405: Global Environmental Change, CAMERON WAKE -- The Energy Waste Watch Challenge and Student Energy Captains, MICHELE HOLT-SHANNON AND SARA CLEAVES -- Organizing a Curriculum on the Environment-Inclusiveness or Security? JOHN ABER -- Science, Politics, and Policy from Global to Local in an Undergraduate Seminar, STACY VAN DEVEER -- Curriculum: Food and Society -- Dual Major in EcoGastronomy, JOANNE CURRANCELENTANO -- Integrating Sustainability into the Professional Development of Dietetic Interns, JOANNE BURKE -- "The Real Dirt," JOHN E. CARROLL -- UNH CREAM, DREW CONROY AND PETER ERICKSON -- Curriculum: Culture and Sustainability -- The Promise of the Sun, TOM KELLY -- Artistic Engagement- Discovering and Developing a Th eatrical Response to Sustainability, DAVID KAYE -- The University Dialogue and a Sense of Place, JOANNE CURRAN-CELENTANO -- How the Sustainable Living Minor Came to Be, ROBERT ECKERT AND BERT COHEN -- Chapter 3. Practicing Sustainability: Campus Operations DOUGLAS BENCKS, editor -- Operations: Biodiversity and Ecosystems -- Landscape Master Plan, DOUGLAS BENCKS.

Land Use Committee, TOM LEE -- The MUB Meadow, JOHN L. HART -- Operations: Climate and Energy -- It's Risky Business Doing the Right Thing-The Co-Gen Plant and EcoLine, PAUL CHAMBERLIN AND MATT O'KEEFE -- Transportation and Land Use, STEVE PESCI -- The UNH Greenhouse Gas Inventory, BRETT PASINELLA -- The Energy Task Force-A Cross-Campus Collaboration to Address Climate Change, SARA CLEAVES -- Operations: Food and Society -- The UNH Compost Program-From Waste to Compost, ELISABETH FARRELL AND RICK MACDONALD -- Acting Locally - The UNH Local Harvest Initiative, ELISABETH FARRELL AND RICK MACDONALD -- Innovative Dining Hall Hours and Plate Waste, RICK MACDONALD -- Operations: Culture and Sustainability -- Developing Our Sense of Place-The Role of the Committee for Campus Aesthetics, VICKI C. WRIGHT -- Sustainable Building Design, DOUGLAS BENCKS -- Moving the Kingsbury Mural, DOUGLAS BENCKS -- Sustainable Buildings-Do You Want Fries with Your Building? No Th ank You! DOUGLAS BENCKS -- Chapter 4. Creating the Intellectual Basis for Sustainability: Research and Scholarship JOHN ABER AND CAMERON WAKE, editors -- Research on Biodiversity and Ecosystems -- Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology, RICH LANGAN AND DOLORES LEONARD -- The History of Marine Animal Populations, ANDREW ROSENBERG, JEFF BOLSTER, KAREN ALEXANDER, AND BILL LEAVENWORTH -- The Stormwater Research Center, TOM BALLESTERO -- Oyster Restoration-Planning, Research, and Implementation in New Hampshire, RAY GRIZZLE -- Research on Climate and Energy -- The Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, DAVID S. BARTLETT -- The Environmental Research Group, KEVIN GARDNER AND TAYLOR EIGHMY -- Multidisciplinary Design Competition, JENNA JAMBECK AND KEVIN GARDNER -- Regional Climate Assessments-Supporting Informed Public Policy, CAMERON WAKE.

Research on Food and Society -- The UNH Organic Dairy Research Farm, JOHN E. CARROLL AND TOM KELLY -- The Atlantic Marine Aquaculture Center, RICH LANGAN AND DOLORES LEONARD -- The UNH Community Food, Nutrition, and Wellness Profile, JOANNE BURKE -- From Campus Farm to Dining Hall, JOHN MCLEAN -- Research on Culture and Sustainability -- The Undergraduate Research Conference-A Key Ingredient in the Sustainable Learning Community, ELEANOR ABRAMS -- The Carsey Institute- Building Knowledge to Support Opportunity for Families in Sustainable Communities, MIL DUNCAN -- The Growing a Green Generation Project, JOHN NIMMO -- Chapter 5. Sustaining the Larger Community: Engagement JEFFREY A. SCHLOSS, editor -- Engagement in Biodiversity and Ecosystems -- The New Hampshire Lakes Lay Monitoring Program- A Sustainable Model for Engaging Citizens, JEFFREY A. SCHLOSS -- Forest Watch-Enhancing Pre-College Understanding of Biodiversity and Ecosystems, BARRY ROCK -- The UNH Marine Docent Program, MARK WILEY -- Students Without Borders, JENNA JAMBECK AND KEVIN GARDNER -- Engagement in Climate and Energy -- Collaboration for a Low-Carbon Society-Carbon Solutions New England, CAMERON WAKE -- The New Hampshire Carbon Challenge, CHRIS SKOGLUND, DENISE BLAHA, AND JULIA DUNDORF -- WildCAP Discount Program, BRETT PASINELLA -- Informing Public Policy-Engagement on Climate with the State of New Hampshire, CAMERON WAKE -- Engagement in Food and Society -- The New Hampshire Farm to School Program, ELISABETH FARRELL AND LYNDA BRUSHETT -- Cooperative Fisheries Research-The Innovative Fisherman, KEN LAVALLEY -- The Organic Garden Club, REBECCA GRUBE -- New Hampshire Center for a Food Secure Future, ELISABETH FARRELL -- Engagement in Culture and Sustainability -- Deliberation in the Civic Sector-The Role of Higher Education in Sustaining Democracy, BRUCE L. MALLORY.

Building a Sustainable Community of Engaged Scholars-The UNH Outreach Scholars Academy, JULIE E. WILLIAMS, ELEANOR ABRAMS, AND CHRISTINE SHEA -- Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, VALERIE CUNNINGHAM -- Four Hands, One Heart-Ed and Mary Scheier Documentary and Exhibit, TOM KELLY -- Chapter 6. How the Sustainability Ethic Developed at UNH, and the Next Phase of Our "Journey to the Future" SARA CLEAVES, TOM KELLY, AND JOHN ABER -- Contributors -- Index -- Ecology & environment / sustainability.
Abstract:
Case studies from the University of New Hampshire explore all the dimensions of sustainability in campus life, combining frugality and creativity.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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