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Web Seminars and Podcasts
- Cyberinfrastructure in a Carbon-Constrained World, EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, November 5, 2009.
- Making IT a Key Part of the Campus Sustainability Effort, EDUCAUSE Live! June 9, 2009. This session has been archived.
- From Desktops to Data Centers: Sustainable IT at Stanford, EDUCAUSE Live! April 3, 2009. This session has been archived.
- How Universities and R&E Networks Can Be Global Leaders in Helping to Reduce Global Warming, EDUCAUSE Live! February 10, 2009. This session has been archived.
- Greening the Internet Economy, January 22-23, 2009. Calit2 recently co-hosted this symposium in collaboration with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
- What's Your Carbon Footprint? Sustainability and Green IT Initiatives That Make a Difference, January 8, 2009. Listen to this Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference General Session podcast.
Articles, Papers and Reports
- Powering Down: Green IT in Higher Education, ECAR Research Study, April 2010.
- 7 Things You Should Know About Green IT, EDUCAUSE, March 2010.
- Campuses as Living Laboratories for the Greener Future, EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 44, no. 6 (November/December 2009).
- The Role of IT in Campus Sustainability Efforts, January 2009. This white paper captures key findings from an EDUCAUSE Summit on Green IT.
Plans and Guidelines
- University of California Santa Barbara Campus Sustainability Plan
- The Green Information Technology (IT) Strategic Plan, USDA
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Recent Conference Sessions on Sustainability
- WRC – What’s Your Carbon Footprint?, Jennifer Allen, Portland State; Mark Askren, U California, Irvine; Joyce Dickerson, Stanford
SERC – Leadership: The Key to a Sustainable Future, Joel Hartman, U Central Florida
Enterprise2009 – Greening IT: Sustainability in the Data Center and Across Campus, Mark Askren, U Cal, Irvine
Associations and Organizations
- AASHE - Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (2008 Conference Sessions)
- CoSN - Consortium for School Networking's Green Computing for K-12 Schools
- HEASC - Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium Resource Center
- NACUBO - National Association of College and University Business Officers Sustainability page
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Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Sustainability
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Green IT
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Green IT True Web Seminars and Podcasts …
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Sustainability
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Sustainability True Web Seminars and Podca…
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Information Technology Services in Community Colleges: Strengths, Opportunities, and Challenges
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July 17, 2012
This report is the product of a secondary analysis of the EDUCAUSE 2011 Core Data Service survey and the 2011 ECAR National Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology . Data fr…
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Achieving Energy Efficiency across Campus
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June 6, 2012
Richard Siedzik is Director of Computer and Telecommunications Services at Bryant University. Key Takeaways Connecting the IT and facilities departments at the outset of a pr…
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Rethinking Higher Education Technology
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May 9, 2012
Stephen Laster is Chief Information Officer, Harvard Business School. He is Editor of the EDUCAUSE Review Viewpoints department for 2012. These are interesting times for hig…
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Chapter 12: Athabasca University: Canada’s Open University
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May 2, 2012
A chapter from Game Changers Dietmar Kennepohl, Cindy Ives, and Brian Stewart This chapter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License The pri…
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Using Multi-Node Tools for Student Success in Non-Major Science Classes
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December 15, 2011
Key Takeaways General biology challenges many first-year students with a new technical language, foreign concepts and massive amounts of content, threatening their progress toward …
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How Your Next Technology Purchase Can Help Save the World
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March 14, 2012
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2012
While almost all of us want to do whatever we can to reverse industrial pollution, it's often hard to know where to start. Institutions of higher education are among the largest and most int…
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The Role of IT in an Energy Efficient Campus
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March 26, 2012
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2012
Universities are faced with unprecedented challenges to contain rising energy costs. Building inefficiencies are the largest contributors to energy waste and misuse of material resources, which res…
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Sustainable IT
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October 20, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
We are all challenged to save money and reduce our impact on the environment. This session will discuss best practices to make IT greener (green for IT) and to use IT to further environmental goals…
