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Summary
Summary
University communities have the potential to serve as models in the development and application of sustainability principles and practices, not only by what they teach and study, but also by how they operate facilities and engage with off-campus partners. With the oldest endowed campus-wide sustainability program in the country, established in 1997, the University of New Hampshire has become a leader in advancing a campus culture of sustainability. The UNH experience provides a unique window into the development of a new and integrated approach to teaching, learning, research, and operations. It is also a valuable guide for other institutions that aim to enhance the quality of campus life while reducing their environmental footprint. The book's organization along four functional domains (curriculum, operations, research, and engagement) allows faculty, staff, students, and managers to focus on sections of particular relevance to their university roles. Each chapter develops standards of best practices and presents interesting case studies to humanize the larger effort.
Author Notes
John Aber is Professor of Environmental Science and former Vice President for Research, University of New Hampshire. Tom Kelly is Chief Sustainability Officer and Director, Office of Sustainability Programs. Bruce Mallory is Provost and Executive Vice President.
Reviews 1
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From the title and cover of this book, this reviewer feared it was another work about a self-promoting college touting its adherence to the latest greenwashing campaign--another "living" building, more local produce in the dining hall, a new recycling program. Instead, he read a remarkable account of a campuswide culture of sustainability at a state land grant institution, one that embraces aesthetics as well as science, food as well as fuel, and academics as well as community engagement. The CORE program (Curriculum, Operations, Research, and Engagement) at the University of New Hampshire is discussed in its entirety here. The book offers dozens of case studies of success, stumbles, controversy, and collaboration, and includes several essays on the meaning of sustainability and the development of a sustainability ethic at UNH. Chapter contributors describe lots of ideas for teaching, learning, and thoughtful action; most striking is the broad participation of every level of the UNH community from food services and grounds operations to faculty, students, and administration. An amazing interdisciplinary, multidimensional project that acknowledges its historical roots and future responsibilities, the sustainable learning community at UNH is well worth studying. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. S. Hammer Boston University
Table of Contents
Editor's Preface | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Chapter 1 Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Higher Education | p. 1 |
Chapter 2 Teaching and Learning Sustainability: Curriculum and Pedagogy | p. 54 |
Curriculum: Biodiversity and Ecosystems | p. 58 |
Engaging Students in the Sciences | p. 59 |
How Does a Local Master of Public Health Program Address Global Emerging Infectious Disease? | p. 61 |
Sustainable Science and Engineering | p. 64 |
UNH-EcoQuest and Sustainability in New Zealand-Te Rarangahau Taiao | p. 66 |
Curriculum: Climate and Energy | p. 68 |
ESCI 405: Global Environmental Change | p. 69 |
The Energy Waste Watch Challenge and Student Energy Captains | p. 72 |
Organizing a Curriculum on the Environment-Inclusiveness or Security? | p. 75 |
Science, Politics, and Policy from Global to Local in an Undergraduate Seminar | p. 77 |
Curriculum: Food and Society | p. 79 |
Dual Major in EcoGastronomy | p. 79 |
Integrating Sustainability into the Professional Development of Dietetic Interns | p. 83 |
"The Real Dirt" | p. 86 |
UNH Cream | p. 87 |
Curriculum: Culture and Sustainability | p. 90 |
The Promise of the Sun | p. 90 |
Artistic Engagement-Discovering and Developing a Theatrical Response to Sustainability | p. 94 |
The University Dialogue and a Sense of Place | p. 97 |
How the Sustainable Living Minor Came to Be | p. 99 |
Chapter 3 Practicing Sustainability: Campus Operations | p. 101 |
Operations: Biodiversity and Ecosystems | p. 104 |
Landscape Master Plan | p. 105 |
Land Use Committee | p. 108 |
The MUB Meadow | p. 112 |
Operations: Climate and Energy | p. 117 |
It's Risky Business Doing the Right Thing-The Co-Gen Plant and EcoLine | p. 118 |
Transportation and Land Use | p. 123 |
The UNH Greenhouse Gas Inventory | p. 128 |
The Energy Task Force-A Cross-Campus Collaboration to Address Climate Change | p. 129 |
Operations: Food and Society | p. 132 |
The UNH Compost Program-From Waste to Compost | p. 133 |
Acting Locally-The UNH Local Harvest Initiative | p. 136 |
Innovative Dining Hall Hours and Plate Waste | p. 139 |
Operations: Culture and Sustainability | p. 141 |
Developing Our Sense of Place-The Role of the Committee for Campus Aesthetics | p. 142 |
Sustainable Building Design | p. 145 |
Moving the Kingsbury Mural | p. 149 |
Sustainable Buildings-Do You Want Fries with Your Building? No Thank You! | p. 151 |
Chapter 4 Creating the Intellectual Basis for Sustainability: Research and Scholarship | p. 153 |
Research on Biodiversity and Ecosystems | p. 157 |
Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology | p. 158 |
The History of Marine Animal Populations | p. 161 |
The Stormwater Research Center | p. 163 |
Oyster Restoration-Planning, Research, and Implementation in New Hampshire | p. 164 |
Research on Climate and Energy | p. 166 |
The Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space | p. 166 |
The Environmental Research Group | p. 169 |
Multidisciplinary Design Competition | p. 171 |
Regional Climate Assessments-Supporting Informed Public Policy | p. 173 |
Research on Food and Society | p. 175 |
The UNH Organic Dairy Research Farm | p. 175 |
The Atlantic Marine Aquaculture Center | p. 179 |
The UNH Community Food, Nutrition, and Wellness Profile | p. 182 |
From Campus Farm to Dining Hall | p. 183 |
Research on Culture and Sustainability | p. 185 |
The Undergraduate Research Conference-A Key Ingredient in the Sustainable Learning Community | p. 185 |
The Carsey Institute-Building Knowledge to Support Opportunity for Families in Sustainable Communities | p. 188 |
The Growing a Green Generation Project | p. 192 |
Chapter 5 Sustaining the Larger Community: Engagement | p. 195 |
Engagement in Biodiversity and Ecosystems | p. 198 |
The New Hampshire Lakes Lay Monitoring Program-A Sustainable Model for Engaging Citizens | p. 199 |
Forest Watch-Enhancing Pre-College Understanding of Biodiversity and Ecosystems | p. 202 |
The UNH Marine Docent Program | p. 204 |
Students Without Borders | p. 206 |
Engagement in Climate and Energy | p. 208 |
Collaboration for a Low-Carbon Society-Carbon Solutions New England | p. 209 |
The New Hampshire Carbon Challenge | p. 212 |
WildCAP Discount Program | p. 215 |
Informing Public Policy-Engagement on Climate with the State of New Hampshire | p. 217 |
Engagement in Food and Society | p. 219 |
The New Hampshire Farm to School Program | p. 219 |
Cooperative Fisheries Research-The Innovative Fisherman | p. 223 |
The Organic Garden Club | p. 226 |
New Hampshire Center for a Food Secure Future | p. 227 |
Engagement in Culture and Sustainability | p. 230 |
Deliberation in the Civic Sector-The Role of Higher Education in Sustaining Democracy | p. 230 |
Building a Sustainable Community of Engaged Scholars-The UNH Outreach Scholars Academy | p. 233 |
Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail | p. 237 |
Four Hands, One Heart-Ed and Mary Scheier Documentary and Exhibit | p. 238 |
Chapter 6 How the Sustainability Ethic Developed at UNH, and the Next Phase of Our "Journey to the Future" | p. 241 |
Contributors | p. 251 |
Index | p. 255 |