Bibliographies
Resources on Campus Sustainability
Compiled by Jeff Howard, School of Urban & Public Affairs, U. Texas at Arlington
Please notify me about new items, omissions, or errors (howardj@uta.edu)
Updated 8/1/07
Books
Bartlett, Peggy F., and Geoffrey W. Chase, eds., Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change (MIT Press, 2004).
Blewitt, John, and Cedric Cullingford, Sustainability Curriculum: The Challenge for Higher Education (Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2004).
Bowers, C.A., The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools (State University of New York Press, 1997).
Creighton, Sarah Hammond, Greening the Ivory Tower: Improving the Environmental Track Record of Universities, Colleges, and other Institutions (Cambridge: MIT, 1998)
Filho, Walter Leal, ed., Sustainability and University Life (New York: Lang, 1999)
Forrant, Robert, Jean L. Pyle, William Lazonick, and Charles Levenstein, eds., Approaches to Sustainable Development: The Public University in the Regional Economy, University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
Forrant, Robert, and Linda Silka, eds., Inside and Out: Universities and education for Sustainable Development (Amityville, NY: Baywood, 2006)
Keniry, Julian, Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century (National Wildlife Federation, 1995). [see http://www.nwf.org/campusecology/html/ecodemia.cfm]
M'Gonigle, Michael, and Justine Starke, Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University (New Society Publishers, 2006).
Orr, David W., Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect (Island Press, 1994).
Pyle, Jean L., and Robert Forrant, eds., Globalization, universities and issues of sustainable human development (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002).
Wheeler, Keith A., and Anne Parraca Bijur, eds., Education for a Sustainable Future: A Paradigm of Hope for the 21st Century (New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2000).
Reports
Sustainable Endowments Institute, College sustainability report card: A review of campus & endowment policies at leading institutions, Cambridge, MA: SEI, 2007. http://www.endowmentinstitute.org/sustainability/CollegeSustainabilityReportCard.pdf
U.S. Green Building Council, “LEED Application Guide for Multiple Buildings and On-Campus Building Projects” [pdf] https://www.usgbc.org/FileHandling/show_general_file.asp?DocumentID=1097
Journals
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education Articles – 2006 series in Chronicle of Higher Education (10/20/06)
“What Is a Sustainable University?” http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i09/09a00801.htm
“In Search of the Sustainable Campus” By SCOTT CARLSON
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i09/09a01001.htm
· Map: What a sustainable campus might look like
· Slide show: How to turn fryer oil into fuel
“Students Call for Action on Campuses” By SARA LIPKA
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i09/09a01801.htm
“Saving the Planet, by Degrees” By PIPER FOGG
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i09/09a02301.htm
“A Sustainability Library”
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i09/09sustain_resources.htm
“Lessons From Animals and Land” By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i09/09a05601.htm
· Slide show: Photographs of Warren Wilson College's farm
“Support at the Top for Sustainability” By RICHARD MONASTERSKY
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i09/09a02501.htm
“Sustainability: the Ultimate Liberal Art” By FRANK H.T. RHODES
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i09/09b02401.htm
“A Meditation on Building” By DAVID W. ORR
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i09/09b00601.htm
“A New Science Breaks Down Boundaries” By RICHARD MONASTERSKY
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i09/09a02001.htm
“The Corporate Captain Who Aims for 'Zero Footprint'” By SCOTT CARLSON
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i09/09a02401.htm
“The Intellectual Territory” By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i09/09a02201.htm
“A Social Critic Warns of Upheavals to Come” By SCOTT CARLSON
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i09/09a01901.htm
Colloquy: Transcript of a live discussion with Anthony D. Cortese, a founder of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/live/2006/10/cortese/
“Truth in Advertising: Middlebury College's Biomass Plant” http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i09/09a01201.htm
“Truth in Advertising: Furman University's Local Produce” http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i09/09a01202.htm
“Truth in Advertising: University of Minnesota's Ethanol Fleet” http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i09/09a01203.htm
Interactive quiz: “How sustainable are you and your campus?” http://chronicle.com/media/flash/v53/i09/quiz/quiz.htm
Articles – Others in Chronicle of Higher Education
“‘Sustainability’ from A to Z: A round-table discussion,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/23/07, pp. B18-20, http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i25/25b01801.htm (focuses on architecture)
Biemiller, Lawrence, “Sustainability Tops the Agenda as College Planners and Architects Meet,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 8/5/2005,
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v51/i48/48a02501.htm
Cahn, Peter S., “It's Not Easy Being a Green Department,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 6/26/07, http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/06/2007062601c/careers.html
Crawford-Brown, Douglass J., “Forging a Place for Environmental Studies,”
Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/20/2005,
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v51/i37/37b01501.htm
Articles – 2003 series in Planning for Higher Education (vol. 31, no. 3)
“Introduction: Sustainability: Taking the Long View” by Camille M. Kirk
“From the SCUP Sustainability Task Force” by Nancy Tierney
“The Critical Role of Higher Education in Creating a Sustainable Future” by Anthony D. Cortese
“K–12 Sustainability Education: Its Status and Where Higher Education Should Intervene” by Keith A. Wheeler and John M. Byrne
“International Efforts to Promote Higher Education for Sustainable Development” by Wynn Calder and Richard M. Clugston
“Effective Campus Environmental Assessment” by Ann Rappaport and Sarah Hammond Creighton
“Getting It Done: Effective Sustainable Policy Implementation at the University Level” by Joshua M. Pearce and Christopher F. Uhl
“Environmental Management Systems: A Framework for Planning Green Campuses” by Julian Keniry
“The Role of Leadership in Fostering and Maintaining Sustainability Initiatives” by Tom Wojciechowski
“Planning to Learn” by David W. Orr
“Applying a Model of Sustainability on Campus” by Phillip S. Waite
“Impeding Sustainability? The Ecological Footprint of Higher Education” by William E. Rees
“How Green Is Green? Developing a Process for Determining Sustainability When Planning Campuses and Academic Buildings” by Anthony Bernheim
“Successful Strategies for Planning a Green Building” by William D. Browning
“Building Better Buildings: Sustainable Building Activities in California Higher Education Systems” by Arnold Sowell, Amanda Eichel, Leon Alevantis, and Maureen Lovegreen
“The Road Less Traveled: Sustainable Transportation for Campuses” by Will Toor
“The Role of the Landscape in Creating a Sustainable Campus” by Carol Franklin, Teresa Durkin, and Sara Pevaroff Schuh
“Energy Sustainability and the Green Campus” by Walter Simpson
“Aligning Values for Effective Sustainability Planning” by William R. Moomaw
“Resources for the Practitioner” by Joan Hackeling and the SCUP Sustainability Task Force
The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention (book review)
reviewed by Diane E. Cho
Sustainability and University Life (book review) reviewed by Dixon B. Hanna
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (book review) reviewed by David L. Parkyn
Approaches to Sustainable Development: The Public University in the Regional Economy (book review) reviewed by Robin M. Dasher-Alston
Sustainable Architecture: White Papers (book review) reviewed by George Humphrey
Articles – Other
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, “AASHE Digest 2006: A Review of Campus Sustainability News,” http://www.aashe.org/resources/pdf/AASHEdigest2006.pdf
Breyman, Steve, “Sustainability through incremental steps: The case of campus greening at Rensselaer” in Sustainability and University Life, ed. W. L. Filho. Oxford: Lang, 1999.
Cortese, Anthony D., "Integrating Sustainability in the Learning Community," Facilities Manager, January-February 2005
http://www.appa.org/FacilitiesManager/article.cfm?ItemNumber=2255&parentid=2248
Deutsch, Claudia H., “College leaders push for carbon neutrality,” New York Times, June 13, 2007, A21.
Egan, Timothy, “The greening of America's campuses,” New York Times, Jan. 8, 2006, sec. 4A, pp. 20-22 .
Fisher, Jenna, “A guide to green campuses: A resource round-up for picking an eco-friendly college,” Utne Reader, 2/15/07, http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2007_287/news/12446-1.html.
Makower, Joel, “Alma matters: Colleges and universities are learning what it takes to go green,” Grist, Sept. 12, 2006. http://www.grist.org/biz/tp/2006/09/12/green-U/index.html?source=daily
Khalaf, Joan, “The organic option: One student group seeks a totally organic dining experience.,” The Shorthorn [University of Texas at Arlington], Nov. 16, 2006, p. 4.
Porter-Bopp, Susanne, and Michael M'Gonigle, “Precautionary governance and the planetary university,” The Networker [Science and Environmental Health Network] 12(3), 2007. http://www.sehn.org/Volume_12-3.html#a2
Raffensperger, Carolyn. “Wanted: The planetary university,” The Networker [Science and Environmental Health Network] 12(3), 2007. http://www.sehn.org/Volume_12-3.html
Samuelson, Ruth, “Focus on sustainability,” Rice Sallyport, Winter 2007, pp. 28-33, http://www.rice.edu/sallyport/2007/winter/features/sustainability.html.
Sharp, Jo Ellen Meyers, “Live green or die - Can engineering schools ‘go green’ fast enough to save our planet?” Prism [American Society for Engineering Education], April 2007.
Web pages – Pages focusing primarily or exclusively on campus sustainability
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
http://www.aashe.org/
Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future
http://www.ulsf.org/
Campus Climate Challenge
http://climatechallenge.org/
Campus Ecology Program of the National Wildlife Federation
http://www.nwf.org/campusecology/
Campus Sustainability Day (October 25, 2006)
http://www.scup.org/csd/4/
Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow
http://www.cfactcampus.org/
Eco Imagination Challenge
http://www.ecocollegechallenge.com/
Green Building Council – Higher Education Resources
http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=1589
Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium
http://www.aashe.org/heasc/
American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment
http://www.ulsf.org/programs_talloires_td.html
North American Alliance for Green Education
http://www.naage.org/
Worldwatch – How Green is Your Campus
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4504
Web pages – Other pages with info/initiatives on campus sustainability
Engineers for a Sustainable World
http://www.esustainableworld.org/
Focus the Nation
http://www.focusthenation.org/
Forum: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development
http://sustainabilityscience.org/
International Institute for Sustainable Development
http://www.iisd.org/
It's Getting Hot in Here
http://www.itsgettinghotinhere.org/
National Council for Science and the Environment
http://ncseonline.org/
The Natural Step
http://www.thenaturalstep.org/
Restoring Eden
http://www.restoringeden.org/
Second Nature
http://www.secondnature.org/
Society for College and University Planning
http://www.scup.org/
Student Environmental Action Coalition
http://www.seac.org/
Sustainable Endowments Institute
http://www.endowmentinstitute.org/
Discussion Groups – General discussion on campus sustainability
GRNSCH-L
Discussion related to campus operations (e.g., building maintenance, campus transit)
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Brown_Is_Green/discussion.html
EFS-Acad
Discussion related to curriculum, research, and academic programs
http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=efs-acad&A=1
EFS-News
Announcements, news, opportunities, events, and accomplishments
http://lists.efswest.org/mailman/listinfo/efswnlist/%20
Discussion Groups – Regional or state focus on campus sustainability
Campus Sustainability Networking in Texas
http://groups.google.com/group/TXgreencampus