Book References:
Title: Greening the Ivory Tower: Improving the Environmental Track Record of Universities, Colleges, and Other Institutions (Urban and Industrial Environments) by Sarah Hammond Creighton. MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts; 1998.
Book Description:
Greening the Ivory Tower is a motivational and how to guide for staff, faculty and students at colleges and universities around the country. The book gives detailed greening strategies, which teach and demonstrate how colleges and universities can lessen their environmental impact. Sarah Hammond focused on Tufts University. The author was the program manager of TUFTS CLEAN! Although this book focuses on Tufts University, the story goes beyond Tufts and includes examples of successful practices at other institution. Sarah Hammond Creighton is Energy Conservation Manager, Massachusetts Division of Capital Planning and Operations; consultant on special projects to the Tufts University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Tufts Institute of the Environment.
Title: Collett , Joseph and Karakashian , Stephen (editors) Greening the College Curriculum: A Guide to Environmental Teaching in the Liberal Arts by Joseph Collett (editor) and Stephen Karakashian. Island Press; 1995.
Book Description:
Greening the College Curriculum provides the tools college and university faculty need to meet personal and institutional goals for integrating environmental issues into the curriculum. Leading educators from a wide range of fields, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, literature, journalism, philosophy, political science, and religion, describe their experience introducing environmental issues into their teaching. The book provides a rationale for including material on the environment in the teaching of the basic concepts of each discipline and guidelines for constructing a unit or a full course at the introductory level that makes use of environmental subjects sample plans. For upper-level courses it provides a compendium of annotated resources, both print and nonprint. Contributors to the volume include David Orr, David G. Campbell, Lisa Naughton, Emily Young, John Opie, Holmes Rolston III, Michael E. Kraft, Steven Rockefeller, and others.
Title: Campus Ecology: A Guide to Assessing Environmental Quality & Creating Strategies for Change by April Smith and the Student Environmental Action Coalition Living Planet Press; 1993.
Book Description:
Campus Ecology is a book designed to provide members of the campus community with a framework, a guide for analyzing the nature and magnitude of environmental issues on campus. The book is split up into four sections. The first two sections of the book, "Wastes and Hazards" and "Resources and Infrastructure," outline how to research and analyze campus environmental practices issue by issue. The third section of the book, "The Business of Education," addresses the environmental impacts of the institution's research and economic activities and its ethical stance. The forth section is called "Taking Action" and provides strategies for working with members of the campus community to create and implement environmentally responsible, sustainable practices. Hopefully, the ideas in this book will provide the foundation for planning and implementing recommendations, and creating long-term environmental goals for your campus.
Title: Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21stCentury By Julian Keniry. National Wildlife Federation; 1995.
Book Description:
This book highlights staff-initiated campus environmental reform, and details the best management practices in eight major categories: purchasing; landscaping and grounds; transportation; parking and fleet maintenance; energy and utilities; dining services; communications; and solid and hazardous waste management. Ecodemia presents case studies of green initiatives and programs at various colleges and universities around the U.S. The book documents the fact that creative and ecologically smart management can reduce institutional operating costs, improve the quality of services ranging from food served in dining halls to lighting; reduce waste and ecological impacts, and help to rejuvenate local economies.
Title: Green investment, Green Return: How Practical Conservation Projects Save Millions on America's Campuses by David J Eagan. National Wildlife Federation; 1998.
Book Description:
This Campus Ecology report highlights 23 cost-saving conservation initiatives at 15 public and private institutions across the United States. The projects collectively saves the institutions nearly $17 million annually, showing that what is good for the environment is also good for the bottom line.
Title: Greening of the Campus: a Whole-Systems Approach by R.J. Koester, J. Eflin , J. Vann. Elsevier Ltd; 2006.
Book Description:
An overview is presented of the comprehensive, whole-systems approach used at Ball State University to institutionalize its ongoing 'greening of the campus.' This approach bridges academic content, administrative policies, and facilities management practices. It enables a campus-wide unfolding of education for sustainability. Tracking the history, evaluating the progress, modifying the approach and continually refocusing the effort are presented as essential to a whole-systems approach.
Title: Sustainability and University Life by Walter Leal Filho. Peter Lang Publishing; 2nd Rev edition; 2000.
Book Description:
Prepared in cooperation with the Association of University Leaders for Sustainable Futures (ULSF), this book represents a number of case studies and experiences which illustrate how higher education institutions may pursue sustainability. A wide range of views and perspectives illustrate how, via projects, networks, academic programs, curriculum greening initiatives and student involvement, higher education institutions in various countries (U.S., United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, France) are trying to bring sustainability closer to their institutional lives.
Title: Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change (Urban and Industrial Environments) by Peggy F. Barlett (Editor), Geoffrey W. Chase (Editor). The MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2004.
Book Description:
The authors of Sustainability on Campus report from a diverse group of institutions ranging from two-year community colleges to famous research universities. They tell of environmental stewardship on campus, curriculum changes, green building design, working with local communities, and system-wide initiatives. Written by faculty, staff, administrators, and a student, from varying perspectives and reflecting divergent experiences, these stories map the growing strength of a national movement toward environmental responsibility on campus. Environmental awareness on college and university campuses began with the celebratory consciousness-raising of the first Earth Day in 1970. Since then environmental action on campus has been both global (in research and policy formation) and local (in efforts to make specific environmental improvements on campuses). The stories in this book show that achieving environmental sustainability is not a matter of applying the formulas of risk management or engineering technology but instead is part of what the editors call "the messy reality of participatory engagement in cultural transformation."
Title: The Campus and Environmental Responsibility by David J Eagan, David W. Orr. Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishing; 1992.
Book Description:
The Campus and Environmental Responsibility briefly lays out various environmental issues and problems occurring within the framework of colleges and universities around the United States. The book is a composite of eleven different projects, initiatives and organizations that have been started at various colleges and universities. One such project is the "Hendrix College Local Food Project" - which shows the reader that by purchasing locally grown foods, a college's food service can offer better nutrition, cut environmental damage, and spur economic development. "Can Brown be Green? Lessons from One University's Quest for Environmental Responsibility" is another section of this book which breaks down the complex process of becoming a "green" campus, through improvements in areas such as energy efficiency and waste reduction. The projects in this book aim to act partly as a "how to do it" volume with practical suggestions.