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Indigenous Values And Their Place In Contemporary Discussions Of Sustainability, Joey Miller Oct 2023

Indigenous Values And Their Place In Contemporary Discussions Of Sustainability, Joey Miller

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar on "Indigenous Values and their Place in Contemporary Discussions of Sustainability" by Professor Joey Miller, Department of Philosophy, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.


The Medieval Climate Anomaly: Drought And Societal Collapse, T. Elliott Arnold Oct 2023

The Medieval Climate Anomaly: Drought And Societal Collapse, T. Elliott Arnold

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar on "The Medieval Climate Anomaly: Drought and Societal Collapse" by Professor (Thomas) Elliott Arnold, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.


Should My Next Car Be An Ev?, Lorenzo Cena Sep 2023

Should My Next Car Be An Ev?, Lorenzo Cena

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar on "Should My Next Car Be An EV?" by Professor Lorenzo Cena, Environmental Health Program, Department of Public Health Sciences, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.


The State Of Sustainability At Wcu: Key Insights From Wcu’S First Sustainability Census, Aliza Richman Apr 2023

The State Of Sustainability At Wcu: Key Insights From Wcu’S First Sustainability Census, Aliza Richman

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Aliza Richman, Sociology - The State of Sustainability at WCU: Key Insights from WCU’s First Sustainability Census


Offsets And The Path To Carbon Neutrality In Higher Education And Study Abroad, Paul Sylvester, Michael A. Di Giovine, Bradley Flamm Apr 2023

Offsets And The Path To Carbon Neutrality In Higher Education And Study Abroad, Paul Sylvester, Michael A. Di Giovine, Bradley Flamm

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professors Paul Sylvester, Early & Middle Grades Education, and Michael Di Giovine, Anthropology, in conversation with Bradley Flamm - Offsets and the Path to Carbon Neutrality in Higher Education and Study Abroad


Silicon In Renewable Power Generation And Storage: Decarbonizing The Grid And Automobile Transport, Kurt W. Kolasinski Apr 2023

Silicon In Renewable Power Generation And Storage: Decarbonizing The Grid And Automobile Transport, Kurt W. Kolasinski

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Kurt Kolasinski, Chemistry - Silicon in renewable power generation and storage: Decarbonizing the grid and automobile transport.


What's In A Name? The Politics Of Commemoration From The Un-Naming Of The Alexander Graham Bell Dorm At Rit To The Samuel Schmucker Controversy At Wcu, Brent Ruswick Apr 2023

What's In A Name? The Politics Of Commemoration From The Un-Naming Of The Alexander Graham Bell Dorm At Rit To The Samuel Schmucker Controversy At Wcu, Brent Ruswick

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Brent Ruswick, History - What's in a Name? The Politics of Commemoration from the un-naming of the Alexander Graham Bell dorm at RIT to the Samuel Schmucker controversy at WCU


Urban Mass Transit: New York State And The Mta Sustainability Initiatives On Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction, Omosehin Moyebi Mar 2023

Urban Mass Transit: New York State And The Mta Sustainability Initiatives On Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction, Omosehin Moyebi

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Dr. Omosehin Moyebi, Health - Urban Mass Transit: New York State and the MTA Sustainability Initiatives on Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction


Something Fishy About Crime: How To Teach Conservation And Sustainable Use Of The Oceans, Seas, And Resources For Sustainable Development In An Animal Cruelty Criminal Justice Elective Course, Cassandra L. Reyes Mar 2023

Something Fishy About Crime: How To Teach Conservation And Sustainable Use Of The Oceans, Seas, And Resources For Sustainable Development In An Animal Cruelty Criminal Justice Elective Course, Cassandra L. Reyes

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Cassandra L. Reyes, Criminal Justice - Something Fishy about Crime: How to Teach Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Oceans, Seas, and Resources for Sustainable Development in an Animal Cruelty Criminal Justice Elective Course


Transition Town Media - What Do Transition Towns Bring To The Table?, Sari Steuber, Skip Shuda Mar 2023

Transition Town Media - What Do Transition Towns Bring To The Table?, Sari Steuber, Skip Shuda

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Sari Steuber and Skip Shuda, Transition Town Media - What do Transition Towns Bring to the Table?


Student Advocacy As A Catalyst For Sustainable And Social Change, Joshua Filer Feb 2023

Student Advocacy As A Catalyst For Sustainable And Social Change, Joshua Filer

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Joshua Filer, Finance ‘23 - Student Advocacy as a Catalyst for Sustainable and Social Change


Saving The Critically-Endangered Western Gray Whale, Jen Maresh Feb 2023

Saving The Critically-Endangered Western Gray Whale, Jen Maresh

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Jen Maresh, Biology - Saving the Western Gray Whale: How Science, Industry, and the Public are Coming Together to Protect a Critically Endangered Species from Oil & Gas Activities


Milk Diets, Grape Cures, And Bananas Galore: An Examination Of Past And Present Wellness Culture Turned Sour, Jacqueline Alnes Feb 2023

Milk Diets, Grape Cures, And Bananas Galore: An Examination Of Past And Present Wellness Culture Turned Sour, Jacqueline Alnes

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Jacqueline Alnes, English - Milk Diets, Grape Cures, and Bananas Galore: An Examination of Past and Present Wellness Culture Turned Sour


Sustainable And Organic Beekeeping In Chester County, John Pisciotta Feb 2023

Sustainable And Organic Beekeeping In Chester County, John Pisciotta

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor John Pisciotta, Biology - Sustainable and Organic Beekeeping in Chester County


Realizing The Vision Of Wcu’S Landscape Master Plan: A Panel Discussion, Josh Braid, Rodney Mader, Bradley Flamm Nov 2022

Realizing The Vision Of Wcu’S Landscape Master Plan: A Panel Discussion, Josh Braid, Rodney Mader, Bradley Flamm

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Bradley Flamm, WCU Office of Sustainability (Moderator), with Josh Braid, WCU Grounds Department, and Rodney Mader, WCU Campus Tree Committee Chair - Panel discussion: Realizing the Vision of WCU’s Landscape Master Plan


Sustaining Communities Through Transformative Justice, Casey Bohrman Nov 2022

Sustaining Communities Through Transformative Justice, Casey Bohrman

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Casey Bohrman, Graduate Social Work - Sustaining Communities through Transformative Justice


The Role Of It In Campus Sustainability Efforts: Model Sustainability In It Operations, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, And Teaching And Learning, J. T. Singh, Kevin Partridge, Teresa Hudson, Pete Calvert Nov 2022

The Role Of It In Campus Sustainability Efforts: Model Sustainability In It Operations, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, And Teaching And Learning, J. T. Singh, Kevin Partridge, Teresa Hudson, Pete Calvert

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

JT Singh (and colleagues), WCU Information Services and Technology - The Role of IT in Campus Sustainability Efforts


Our Need For Seed: How News Media Framed The Pandemic Gardening Boom, Roger Gatchet, Amanda Davis Gatchet Nov 2022

Our Need For Seed: How News Media Framed The Pandemic Gardening Boom, Roger Gatchet, Amanda Davis Gatchet

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Roger Gatchet, Communication and Media, and Professor Amanda Davis Gatchet, Department of Communication Studies, Montgomery County Community College - Our Need for Seed: How News Media Framed the Pandemic Gardening Boom


Decency Won't Save Us: Critical Considerations For Occupational Sustainability, Nia Johnson Oct 2022

Decency Won't Save Us: Critical Considerations For Occupational Sustainability, Nia Johnson

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Nia Johnson, Graduate Social Work - Decency Won't Save Us: Critical Considerations for Occupational Sustainability


Eco-Rational Conversion: Spheres Of Influence Into Spheres Of Transformation - Creating An Ecological Society, Douglas Morris Oct 2022

Eco-Rational Conversion: Spheres Of Influence Into Spheres Of Transformation - Creating An Ecological Society, Douglas Morris

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Douglas Morris, Educational Foundations & Policy Studies - Eco-rational conversion: spheres of influence into spheres of transformation - creating an ecological society


A Not-So-Clean Slate: A Progress Report Of Pa’S Automated Record Sealing Law, Matt B. Saboe, Tekia Huger-Burton Oct 2022

A Not-So-Clean Slate: A Progress Report Of Pa’S Automated Record Sealing Law, Matt B. Saboe, Tekia Huger-Burton

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Matt B. Saboe, Economics and Finance, and Tekia Huger-Burton - A Not-So-Clean Slate: A Progress Report of PA’s Automated Record Sealing Law


Wcu Center For Civic Engagement & Social Impact - Student Basic Needs Insecurity At West Chester University, Seth Jacobson Apr 2022

Wcu Center For Civic Engagement & Social Impact - Student Basic Needs Insecurity At West Chester University, Seth Jacobson

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Dr. Seth Jacobson, Director, WCU Center for Civic Engagement & Social Impact - Student Basic Needs Insecurity at West Chester University


How Inaccessible Retailer Websites Affect Blind And Low-Vision Consumers: Their Perceptions And Responses, Alex Cohen Mar 2022

How Inaccessible Retailer Websites Affect Blind And Low-Vision Consumers: Their Perceptions And Responses, Alex Cohen

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Alex Cohen, Marketing - How Inaccessible Retailer Websites Affect Blind and Low-Vision Consumers: Their Perceptions and Responses


2022 Strategic Vision For Institutional Zero Waste - West Chester University, Alex Freid, Melisa Posner, Alden Ritchey Mar 2022

2022 Strategic Vision For Institutional Zero Waste - West Chester University, Alex Freid, Melisa Posner, Alden Ritchey

WCU Campus Sustainability Initiatives

In Spring, 2022, the Office of Sustainability at West Chester University hired two Zero Waste Fellows (Melisa Posner 23’ and Alden Ritchey 25’) to work with the Post-Landfill Action Network. As Fellows, Melisa and Alden utilized PLAN’s Atlas Stage 1 process to perform a comprehensive assessment of West Chester University’s campus-wide policies, infrastructure, and logistical capacity to establish a materials management system that achieves zero waste.


Innovative Ideas For A Changing Geoscience: Moving Toward A Sustainable World By Attending To Its Complexity, Tim Lutz Mar 2022

Innovative Ideas For A Changing Geoscience: Moving Toward A Sustainable World By Attending To Its Complexity, Tim Lutz

Earth & Space Sciences Faculty Publications

Rapidly changing environmental and social conditions require thinking outside boxes and pioneering unconventional practices. But not just any innovative line of thought or novel practice will be a positive response to the major problems of our time; some might make things worse. How can we recognize unconventionality that orients us toward being more sustainable rather than less? One approach is to attend to complexity. Conventional thinking – that which is embedded throughout culture and is generally accepted – sees complexity as a characteristic of the world (earth systems are complex; society is complex) and as a problem to be simplified, …


Considering Sustainability From The Perspective Of Accountability: Rethinking Consumerism And The Environment, Tabassum Fahim Ruby, Madeline Mulcahey, Christine Recchi Mar 2022

Considering Sustainability From The Perspective Of Accountability: Rethinking Consumerism And The Environment, Tabassum Fahim Ruby, Madeline Mulcahey, Christine Recchi

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Tabassum Ruby, Women’s and Gender Studies, with Madeline Mulcahey and Christine Recchi - Considering Sustainability from the Perspective of Accountability: Rethinking Consumerism and the Environment


Removing Confederate Statues, Now What?: Sustainability And Reimagining Space, Tonya Thames Taylor Feb 2022

Removing Confederate Statues, Now What?: Sustainability And Reimagining Space, Tonya Thames Taylor

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor tonya thames-taylor, History - Removing Confederate Statues, Now What?: Sustainability and Reimagining Space


Planning For Resilience And Equity Through Accessible Community Technology: A Research Agenda, Christina Rosan, Megan Heckert Feb 2022

Planning For Resilience And Equity Through Accessible Community Technology: A Research Agenda, Christina Rosan, Megan Heckert

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Christina Rosan, Temple University Department of Geography and Urban Studies, and Professor Megan Heckert, Geography & Planning - Planning for Resilience and Equity through Accessible Community Technology: A Research Agenda


Invisible Trash: Emerging Contaminants In Streams And Rivers, Megan Fork Feb 2022

Invisible Trash: Emerging Contaminants In Streams And Rivers, Megan Fork

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Megan Fork, Biology - Invisible Trash: Emerging Contaminants in Streams and Rivers


Coping With Grief And Loneliness: The Healing Power Of Green Spaces, Jasmin Tahmaseb Mcconatha, Georgina Hanna, Katherine Ford, Carolyn Cusmano, Nicole Lyman Feb 2022

Coping With Grief And Loneliness: The Healing Power Of Green Spaces, Jasmin Tahmaseb Mcconatha, Georgina Hanna, Katherine Ford, Carolyn Cusmano, Nicole Lyman

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Jasmin Tahmaseb McConatha, Psychology, with Georgina Hanna, Katherine Ford, Carolyn Cusmano, and Nicole Lyman - Coping with Grief and Loneliness: The Healing Power of Green Spaces