Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.71
Liaison Bridget Flynn
Submission Date Feb. 15, 2012
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STARS v1.0

Oberlin College
PAE-20: Inter-Campus Collaboration on Sustainability

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Colin Koffel
Environmental Sustainability Fellow
Office of Environmental Sustainability
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Does the institution collaborate with other colleges and universities to support and help build the campus sustainability community?:
Yes

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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.

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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

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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)

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The website URL where information about cross-campus collaboration is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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