The Declaration, Volume 3, Number 1 : March 1999 [Feature] by Thomas J. Rogers The 1992 UN Summit for Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, which produced Agenda 21, the global sustainable development agenda, set in motion a wide array of government and civil society activities to implement sustainability. Amongst these was the…… Continue Reading
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A Strategy to Accelerate the Shift to Sustainability through Higher Education
The Declaration, Volume 2, Number 2 : June 1998 [Feature] While there are many hopeful signs that academic disciplines and institutions are responding to the environmental challenge, a commitment to sustainability- in academic programs, operations and outreach- is not present in most academic settings. ULSF has established a set of strategic goals to help accelerate…… Continue Reading
ULSF Joins Forces with Center for Respect of Life and Environment
The Declaration, Volume 2, Number 1 : Winter 1998 [Feature] In a move that enhances ULSF’s benefits and services and provides greater organizational strength, ULSF merged with the Center for Respect of Life and Environment (CRLE) on July 1, 1997. Common vision CRLE, located in Washington, DC, is an affiliate of The Humane Society of…… Continue Reading
Integrated Education for Holistic Thinking
The Declaration, Volume 1, Number 3 : September – December 1996 [Feature] The call for interdisciplinary curriculum and research on environment and development issues is familiar to the point of being a cliché, nevertheless it remains largely an unfulfilled ambition, and a fringe activity within the mainstream of universities worldwide. There are many important reasons…… Continue Reading
Learning from the “Shadow Curriculum” – Message from the Director
The Declaration, Volume 1, Number 2 : May – August 1996 [Feature] Environmental literacy is an ambitious educational objective requiring that students integrate and internalize a broad range of values, principles, theories, facts, and skills. One of the richest educational resources we have in higher education to support this is our immediate surroundings–the campus. While…… Continue Reading
A Declaration of Action: Message from the Director
The Declaration, Volume 1, Number 1 : January – April 1996 [Feature] By Thomas H. Kelly, Ph.D. With this first issue of The Declaration, the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF-formerly the Secretariat of University Presidents for a Sustainable Future) begins a dialogue among a growing membership that includes more than 230…… Continue Reading
Talloires in Action: Creating Leaders and Laggards in the U.S.
The Declaration, Volume 6, Number 1: December 2002 [Research] By Michael Shriberg While several U.S. colleges and universities have used the Talloires Declaration (TD) as an organizing framework and impetus for campus environmentalism, other institutions have largely ignored the commitments embodied in the TD. Although case studies reveal the process and progress of TD implementation…… Continue Reading
Assessment and Policy Development in Sustainability in Higher Education with AISHE
The Declaration, Volume 5, Number 2: May 2002 [Research] This article includes excerpts from an expanded article that will appear in a future issue of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. By Niko Roorda The Dutch approach to the development of Sustainability in Higher Education (which from now will abbreviated to “SHE”, for…… Continue Reading
A Glimpse into the Future: A New Report by NWF on Campus Greening Efforts
The Declaration, Volume 5, Number 1: December 2001 [Research] Excerpted from “State of the Campus Environment: A National Report Card on Environmental Performance and Sustainability in Higher Education” By Mary McIntosh, Julian Keniry, Kathy Cacciola and Stephen Clermont As our nation and world struggle to define the parameters of a sustainable future that supports environmentally…… Continue Reading
A Management Tool to Improve Educational Performance in Higher Education
The Declaration, Volume 4, Number 2 : May 2001 [Research] By Thomas Balf and Ralph Stuart Higher education is at a crossroads with regard to its environmental performance. On the regulatory front, the Environmental Protection Agency is putting significant compliance pressure on colleges and universities. At the same time, interest is rapidly increasing in many…… Continue Reading