| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.71 |
| Liaison | Bridget Flynn |
| Submission Date | Feb. 15, 2012 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Oberlin College
PAE-20: Inter-Campus Collaboration on Sustainability
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
Colin
Koffel Environmental Sustainability Fellow Office of Environmental Sustainability |
Does the institution collaborate with other colleges and universities to support and help build the campus sustainability community?:
A brief summary of papers, guides, presentations, and other resources the institution has developed to share their sustainability experience with other institutions:
Professors at Oberlin research the effect of real-time feedback on resource use and developed an instrument to measure an individual's connectedness to nature, which has been found to be correlated with proclivity to engage in pro-environmental behavior.
The names of local, state, regional, national, and other campus sustainability organizations or consortia in which the institution participates and/or is a member:
• American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment
• Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
• Collegiate Sustainability Group
• The Oberlin Project
• US Green Building Council
A brief summary of additional ways the institution collaborates with other campuses to advance sustainability :
Oberlin routinely hosts tours of our campus and organizes sustainability related conferences, including:
• Climate Change Solutions in the Buckeye State and Beyond (April 2008)
• Ohio: Green & Growing: Local Governments Fostering Economic Development (with ICLEI) (October 2008)
• Fostering Sustainable Behavior Workshop (June 2010)
• Northern Ohio's Clean Energy Future: Prosperity, Opportunity, Leadership (September 2011)
The website URL where information about cross-campus collaboration is available:
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