White Paper: Assessing Climate Risk and Strengthening Resilience for UK Higher Education Institutions
This working paper from the U.K. Universities Climate Network aims to support higher education institutions to develop processes to assess current and future climate risks, put in place plans to adapt to these risks, and identify opportunities to strengthen resilience. Authored by 19 experts from across 13 institutions, the guidance is intended to be a resource to support decision makers, senior leaders, sustainability practitioners and risk experts within HEIs.
Open Textbooks: The Billion Dollar Solution
This new report from Student PIRGs is a review of open textbook grant programs across the U.S. and provides recommendations for campuses interested in starting their own programs to expedite adoption of open educational resources (OER).
Survey Results on Higher Education and Research for Sustainable Development
The International Association of Universities released a report of the third global survey on Higher Education and Research for Sustainable Development (HESD), which was conducted in 2022. In total, 464 valid responses from higher education institutions in 120 countries were collected. The findings show that higher education and partnerships are essential to address the global challenges identified in the U.N. Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals.
New Issue: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
The most recent issue of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education features research related to student sustainability perceptions, sustainability among leadership, sustainability knowledge assessment across different academic programs, and student behavior change.
Sustainable Education Abroad: Striving for Change
This newly edited volume features scholars and practitioners from around the globe discussing the role global student mobility plays in climate impact and identifies practices that can be implemented to make change. This volume aims to help stakeholders of education abroad become familiar with sustainability challenges and take the necessary steps to do better.
How to Teach Climate Change Towards Empowerment
Offered through the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN), this collection of strategies and resources aims to help students process climate change-related emotions and inspire action.
November AASHE Webinar Recording
Accessible to AASHE members, Pollinators, Pesticides and People: Landscaping Certifications Explained is now available in the Campus Sustainability Hub.
Youth Climate Lab Toolbox
The Youth Climate Lab Toolbox is an open access digital library of interactive resources to help youth leverage their lived experiences and take action on key climate issues. The tools and activities were created to demystify climate policy processes, increase knowledge of the intersections of climate justice, and build skills such as critical thinking, design, advocacy and effective communication.
Introduction to Responsible Investing Academic Research
Produced by Principles for Responsible Investment, this guide features academic resources on responsible investment, evidence on environmental, social and governance indicators, and financial performance and academic tools.
Campus Sustainability Month Promotional Toolkit
Held every October, Campus Sustainability Month is an international celebration of sustainability in higher education. College and university campuses typically host events in October that increase awareness of institutional priorities, celebrate campus accomplishments and inspire sustainability. AASHE provides a toolkit to help promote Campus Sustainability Month activities on campus.
Waste Audit Manual
This 23-page manual contains best-practices, case studies and graphics about how to identify and assess data from waste streams on campus. It shows how to go beyond simply sorting trash to using waste audits as a powerful tool to advocate for lasting behavior change on campus.
Campus Sustainability Month Promotional Toolkit
Held every October, Campus Sustainability Month is an international celebration of sustainability in higher education. College and university campuses typically host events in October that increase awareness of institutional priorities, celebrate campus accomplishments and inspire sustainability. AASHE provides a toolkit to help promote Campus Sustainability Month activities on campus.
Enacting Student Success: Critical and Alternative Perspectives for Practice
The latest volume is designed to aid institutional leaders, student affairs educators and others in addressing challenges related to racial and ethnic disparities. Specifically, the contributors in this volume direct attention to the various considerations, approaches and conditions necessary for enacting student success commitments, especially for racially/ethnically minoritized and institutionally marginalized groups.
The Case for Living Wages
This report articulates how paying living wages throughout core operations and the value chain strengthens business performance, resilience and stability, while delivering measurable social impact and enabling businesses to more effectively deliver on human and labour rights obligations. The report is jointly published by Business Fights Poverty, the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and Shift, with support from Unilever.
Climate Anxiety Discussion Guide
This four-module discussion guide, designed by a group of young people trained in talking about climate anxiety, helps facilitate conversations about the climate crisis while safeguarding young people, navigating strong feelings, and fostering emotional resilience.
'Against the Ecofascist Creep' Teaching Resource
"Against the Ecofascist Creep" is a web zine and teaching resource that explores six everyday ecofascist myths and offers researched essays that address the structural conditions of climate crisis and other environmental concerns.
The Wiley Handbook of Sustainability in Higher Education Learning and Teaching
With contributors from a variety of disciplines, this book offers a way for higher education institutions to implement sustainability goals in their curricula and provides guidance to educators, researchers and practitioners. The authors discuss recent developments in technological innovations, best practices, lessons learned, current challenges, and reflections. They also examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sustainability education.
Towards Climate Sustainability of the Academic System in Europe and Beyond
This report delves into academia’s negative impact on the climate through its own operations from the perspective of various stakeholders that play a key role in shaping the academic system. It also makes a series of tailored recommendations to mitigate detrimental effects of the academic system.
New Issue: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
The most recent volume of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education includes articles on the Sustainable Development Goals, social responsibility, engaged teaching, sustainability action archetypes, and circularity and sustainability within waste management.
Re-Purposing Universities for Sustainable Human Progress
This collection of 24 articles focuses on the transformational role of academic institutions by breaking disciplinary silos and bridging theory and practice through purpose-driven organizations to make societies more sustainable.
The State of Ecological Campus Land Management Across the US
Released by Herbicide-Free Campus, The State of Ecological Campus Land Management Across the US details the current status of collegiate land care practices, as well as the costs and benefits of transitioning from conventional land care rooted in synthetic pesticides to organic land care. Based on interviews and survey data, this report shows that transitioning to organic land care can save water and money, and highlights the best practices currently employed by colleges across the country who are spearheading the movement to organic land care.
The Future of Academic Research on Climate Solutions
Released by Second Nature, the report evaluates the current climate research landscape supported by the U.S. federal government and highlights key levers to improve the effectiveness of academic research for climate solutions. Researchers compiled and analyzed a dataset of over 1,800 recently awarded federal climate solution grants to universities and colleges, totaling $1.42 billion dollars, and performed stakeholder interviews to produce five recommendations.
Procurement Guidance for Sustainable Research Laboratory Supplies
Published by the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council, the document provides a systems-level approach to guide the purchase of more sustainable laboratory supplies and services. The guidance includes targeted strategies and supporting resources to address specific impacts within the laboratory goods and services sector. Additionally, it provides systems-level approaches to integrating these strategies into procurement processes such as RFPs, supplier sustainability performance tracking, and more.
2021 Canadian National Student Food Insecurity Report
Meal Exchange’s 2021 National Student Food Insecurity Report highlights the experiences and demographics of students in Canada facing food insecurity and outlines key barriers that prevent students from accessing affordable, diverse and healthy food.
Leading With Justice: Net Zero Investing & Conversations on Climate Justice
Released by the Intentional Endowments Network, this paper explores climate justice and aims to do three things: provide a background and working definition of climate justice; argue that climate justice is central to reaching net-zero goals; and provide practical methods to implementing climate justice.
