Campus Sustainability Case Studies

Taking Action for the Climate

Campus Ecology has been helping individuals and campuses address sustainability and climate change since 1989, and our members have been making a difference. We have their stories to prove it.

You can browse through these case studies by year, topic, state, or school. Campus Ecology gathers these case studies to document and celebrate the great work being done at colleges and universities across the country, and to help others learn from these projects.

We hope you gain inspiration from these accounts, as well as insight into effective methods for implementing your own projects. The annual compendium is well-publicized as a valuable resource of sustainability practices and has been featured in the Princeton Review and other national, local, and campus newspapers.

The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) also has a sustainability case study database, check it out.

Submit a case study!

We are not accepting case studies at this time. The 2010-2011 Case Studies will be published in the fall.

Benefits to Campuses:

  • Share your efforts with campuses nationwide (NWF's case study database is accessed by hundreds of students, faculty, & staff)
  • Case studies will be featured in our e-newsletter, ClimateEdu: News for the Green Campus (reaches more than 30,000) and on the Campus Ecology homepage.
  • Documentation of our efforts in a searchable database (searchable by topic, state, year, and school)

Take these steps to submit a case study:

Step 1: Review the 2010-2011 Case Study Guidelines and Use the Template to Create your Case Study 


Step 2: Submit case studies, photos, and image release forms to campus@nwf.org.

If your images are too large for email, please let us know and we will suggest other options.

Please contact campus@nwf.org or 703-438-6000 with questions.

 

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