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Why Science Is Important To Us All: Identity And Environment, Anita K. Foeman Dec 2021

Why Science Is Important To Us All: Identity And Environment, Anita K. Foeman

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Anita Foeman, Communication and Media - Why Science is Important to Us All: Identity and Environment


Creative Collaborations: Graphic Design For Sustainability Advocacy, Scotty Reifsnyder Nov 2021

Creative Collaborations: Graphic Design For Sustainability Advocacy, Scotty Reifsnyder

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Scotty Reifsnyder, Art + Design - Creative Collaborations: Graphic Design for Sustainability Advocacy


Getting Out Of A Sticky Situation: Differential Escape Of Spotted Lanternfly From Two Commonly-Used Trapping Techniques, Jennifer L. Chandler Nov 2021

Getting Out Of A Sticky Situation: Differential Escape Of Spotted Lanternfly From Two Commonly-Used Trapping Techniques, Jennifer L. Chandler

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Jen Chandler, Biology - Getting out of a Sticky Situation: Differential Escape of Spotted Lanternfly from Two Commonly-Used Trapping Techniques


Sustaining Diversity In Higher Education: The Importance Of Investigating Success, Lisa C. Huebner Oct 2021

Sustaining Diversity In Higher Education: The Importance Of Investigating Success, Lisa C. Huebner

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

No abstract provided.


Co-Creating A Pedagogy Of The Great Acceleration, The 6th Mass Extinction, And The Climate Crisis, Charles A. Hardy Iii, Brady Day, James Lingman Oct 2021

Co-Creating A Pedagogy Of The Great Acceleration, The 6th Mass Extinction, And The Climate Crisis, Charles A. Hardy Iii, Brady Day, James Lingman

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Charles Hardy, History - Co-Creating a Pedagogy of the Great Acceleration, the 6th Mass Extinction, and the Climate Crisis


Disasters And Bipoc Communities: The Imperativeness Of Sustainability, Hadih Deedat, Frida Navarro, Donna Phillip Oct 2021

Disasters And Bipoc Communities: The Imperativeness Of Sustainability, Hadih Deedat, Frida Navarro, Donna Phillip

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

No abstract provided.


Waste Reduction At Wcu: Benchmarking Systems With The Atlas Zero Waste Program, Amy Maxcy Sep 2021

Waste Reduction At Wcu: Benchmarking Systems With The Atlas Zero Waste Program, Amy Maxcy

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Ms Amy Maxcy, Office of Sustainability - Waste Reduction at WCU: Benchmarking Systems with the Atlas Zero Waste Program


Getting To Neutral: Updating Wcu's Climate And Sustainability Action Plan, Bradley Flamm Sep 2021

Getting To Neutral: Updating Wcu's Climate And Sustainability Action Plan, Bradley Flamm

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Dr. Bradley Flamm, Office of Sustainability - Getting to Neutral: Updating WCU's Climate and Sustainability Action Plan


Communicate Sustainability Successfully: How To Connect With Your Audience, Drew Anderson Sep 2021

Communicate Sustainability Successfully: How To Connect With Your Audience, Drew Anderson

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Meteorologist Drew Anderson, Earth and Space Sciences - Communicate Sustainability Successfully: How to Connect with Your Audience


Women, Globalization, Migration, And Work, Martha Donkor Apr 2021

Women, Globalization, Migration, And Work, Martha Donkor

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Martha Donkor, History and Women’s and Gender Studies - Women, Globalization, Migration, and Work


Environmental Health - The Impact Of Oil Sands Mining On Peatland Ecosystems In Alberta, Canada, Melanie A. Vile Apr 2021

Environmental Health - The Impact Of Oil Sands Mining On Peatland Ecosystems In Alberta, Canada, Melanie A. Vile

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

No abstract provided.


Creating Community Connections On & Off Campus: Ramcorps, Shannon Gillespie, Nick Marcil, Mckenna Kovatch Apr 2021

Creating Community Connections On & Off Campus: Ramcorps, Shannon Gillespie, Nick Marcil, Mckenna Kovatch

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

No abstract provided.


Dogs, Stress, And Tests, Oh My! A Wellness Program For Students Taking A High Stakes Test, Kathryn (Tina) Alessandria Mar 2021

Dogs, Stress, And Tests, Oh My! A Wellness Program For Students Taking A High Stakes Test, Kathryn (Tina) Alessandria

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

No abstract provided.


Wcu’S Geoexchange System, Stream Salinization, And Heated Sidewalks: Exercises In Sustainable Connections, Martin Helmke, Patricia Haug, Abigail Keebler Mar 2021

Wcu’S Geoexchange System, Stream Salinization, And Heated Sidewalks: Exercises In Sustainable Connections, Martin Helmke, Patricia Haug, Abigail Keebler

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

No abstract provided.


Bog Plant/Lichen Tissue Nitrogen And Sulfur Concentrations As Indicators Of Emissions From Oil Sands Development In Alberta, Canada, R. Kelman Wieder, Melanie A. Vile, Kimberli D. Scott, Cara M. Albright, James C. Quinn, Dale H. Vitt Mar 2021

Bog Plant/Lichen Tissue Nitrogen And Sulfur Concentrations As Indicators Of Emissions From Oil Sands Development In Alberta, Canada, R. Kelman Wieder, Melanie A. Vile, Kimberli D. Scott, Cara M. Albright, James C. Quinn, Dale H. Vitt

Public Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Increasing gaseous emissions of nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) associated with oil sands development in northern Alberta (Canada) has led to changing regional wet and dry N and S deposition regimes. We assessed the potential for using bog plant/lichen tissue chemistry (N and S concentrations, C:N and C:S ratios, in 10 plant/lichen species) to monitor changing atmospheric N and S deposition through sampling at five bog sites, 3-6 times per growing season from 2009 to 2016. During this 8-year period, oil sands N emissions steadily increased, while S emissions steadily decreased. We examined the following: (1) whether each species showed …


Covid-19 And Sustainable Development Goals: The Pandemic, Politics, And The Road Ahead, Gopal Sankaran Mar 2021

Covid-19 And Sustainable Development Goals: The Pandemic, Politics, And The Road Ahead, Gopal Sankaran

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

No abstract provided.


Climate Change Communication In The [M]Anthropocene, Steve Sassaman, Michael Sofis, Scott Ramsey Mar 2021

Climate Change Communication In The [M]Anthropocene, Steve Sassaman, Michael Sofis, Scott Ramsey

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

No abstract provided.


Adventuring Into Complexity By Exploring Data: From Complicity To Sustainability, Tim Lutz Mar 2021

Adventuring Into Complexity By Exploring Data: From Complicity To Sustainability, Tim Lutz

Earth & Space Sciences Faculty Publications

Problems of sustainability are typically represented by major present-day challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental and social injustice. Framed this way, sustainable lives and societies depend on finding solutions to each problem. From another perspective, there is only one problem behind them all, stated by Gregory Bateson as: “…the difference between how nature works and the way people think,” and complexity provides a way to define and approach this problem. I extend Edgar Morin’s conceptions of restricted and general complexity into pedagogy to address problems of simplicity and reductionist teaching. The proposed pedagogy is based on long …


Sustainability Impacts Of Building Energy Use Management, John Lattanze Feb 2021

Sustainability Impacts Of Building Energy Use Management, John Lattanze

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

No abstract provided.


West Chester Borough Urban Forest: An Environmental Benefit For All, Michael B. Dunn, Joan Welch Feb 2021

West Chester Borough Urban Forest: An Environmental Benefit For All, Michael B. Dunn, Joan Welch

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

No abstract provided.


Teaching Transition: Organizing Sustainably Through Service-Learning, Megan A.K. Schraedley Feb 2021

Teaching Transition: Organizing Sustainably Through Service-Learning, Megan A.K. Schraedley

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

No abstract provided.


West Chester University Zero Waste Atlas Campus Assessment 2021, Alex Freid, Grace Bowden, Andrew James Jan 2021

West Chester University Zero Waste Atlas Campus Assessment 2021, Alex Freid, Grace Bowden, Andrew James

WCU Campus Sustainability Initiatives

In Spring 2021, West Chester University’s Office of Sustainability hired the Post- Landfill Action Network (PLAN) to support two Sustainability Peer Educators, Grace Bowden ‘21 and Andrew James ‘21, to conduct a holistic assessment of the University’s waste management system. WCU’s Climate Action Plan includes a goal of achieving zero waste (as defined by 90% diversion from landfills and incinerators), with no defined timeline for achievement. The plan also outlines a number of key next steps in working towards that goal, many of which have yet to be achieved as outlined in this report. WCU remains committed to reduce waste …