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Sustainability and Sustainable Development
Healthy People, Healthy Planet Summer Camp & Community Project Incubator
Slippery Rock University
Project Description:
SRU’s “Healthy Planet, Healthy People” summer camp will
provide high school students with high impact, immersive environmental
education experiences, while acting as a community environmental project
incubator by providing seed money for projects of the students’ choosing.This program will fill the void in post-elementary school environmental
education opportunities for young people, solidifying their interest in
environmental stewardship and positively impacting their communities. Financial
support from grants will provide incentives to the students’ teacher-coaches
and make the summer camp very affordable to the students. The camp is
scheduled to occur in June 2016.
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Net-Zero Energy Admissions Center (Lombardo Welcome Center)
Millersville University
Project Description:
The Lombardo Welcome Center will house the Admissions,
Marketing and Residence staff and serve approximately 10,000 visitors annually.
The building will serve as an educational center for net-zero energy as well as
net-zero water runoff design and construction. A key component of the building
will be the atrium educational center that will be designed for interactive
learning through a media touch screen wall and interactive demonstrations.
Visitors will be able to monitor in real-time as well as over time, energy
production and consumption in addition to rainwater runoff which is a critical
issue facing the Chesapeake watershed.
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Sustainability Minor Program
California State University, Northridge
Project Description:
At CSUN we offer students a Sustainability Minor where
they learn the current and best practices for planetary sustainability on an
individual, institutional, regional, and global level. This minor offers a
broad education in sustainability from many different perspectives. The minor
compliments most academic majors, and many of the courses offered within the
program satisfy requirements or electives for other degree programs. The
Sustainability Minor is located in the College of Humanities and under the
Liberal Studies Program. It requires 18 credit units to complete and includes
three core requirements (9 units) in the concepts of sustainability and
consideration of all factors: economic, environmental and social both in the
short and long term. These courses are SUST 300: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives in Sustainability, SUST 310: Best Practices in Sustainability,
and SUST 401: Applied Sustainability. Students are also required to take 9
units of electives.
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World’s Largest Installation of Filtered Fume Hoods
Framingham State University
Project Description:
Framingham State University’s new science laboratory
project represents the largest installation of filtered fume hoods in the
world. These fume hoods support Organic, Inorganic, Analytical, and Physical
Chemistry teaching laboratories. Installation of these filtered fume hoods
reduced project construction costs, will reduce annual operating costs, and
will have a significant sustainability impact as chemicals are no longer
vented to the environment.
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