Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change (Urban and Industrial Environments) | 
| Creators: Peggy F. Barlett, Geoffrey W. Chase
Publisher: The MIT Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 137991
Media: Paperback
Pages: 337
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 0262524228
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1961
EAN: 9780262524223
ASIN: 0262524228
Publication Date: May 1, 2004
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Condition: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages are slightly warped, not stained on bottom edge. No highlighting or underlining. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 327 p. Contains: Illustrations. Urban and Industrial Environments (Paperback). Audience: General/trade.
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These personal narratives of greening college campuses offer inspiration, motivation, and practical advice. Written by faculty, staff, administrators, and a student, from varying perspectives and reflecting divergent experiences, these stories also 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 Earth Day, 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 part of what the editors call "the messy reality of participatory engagement in cultural transformation."
In Sustainability on Campus campus leaders recount inspiring stories of strategies that moved eighteen colleges and universities toward a more sustainable future. This book is for faculty, students, administrators, staff, and community partners, whether hesitant or committed, knowledgeable or newcomer. Scholars and activists have recognized the crucial role that higher education can play in the sustainability effort, and each chapter in the book is full of ideas about how to get started, revitalize efforts, and overcome roadblocks. Human and at times joyful, these stories illustrate many forms of leadership, in new courses and faculty development, green buildings and administrative policies, student programs, residential life, and collaborations with local communities.
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 Case Studies September 21, 2008
Joshua Clements (Madison, WI USA)
This book is a respectable collection of case studies of sustainability/greening activities on college and University campuses in the 1990s and early 2000s. Each group of case studies is accompanied by a lesson or narrative for how to begin similar activities on your campus. Although each case study is instructive, the movement has gone far beyond the lessons contained in this book.
 Very useful stories for sustainability leaders October 30, 2004
D. Paulson (Laramie, WY, USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a collection of very helpful stories about attempts to green university campuses around the U.S. The authors include faculty, staff and students who found themselves muddling through, learning and finally leading campus sustainability efforts at their own institutions. As a faculty member about to embark on a class on campus sustainability, I found the stories gave some invaluable insight that I used immediately in designing our course. The diversity of stories and experiences-- all of which include honestly portrayed problems and failures, as well as successes--give a succinct source of information and inspiration for anyone who aspires to move their own campus toward sustainability.
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