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Sustainability resources: Home

Sustainability websites

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) homepage
AASHE website "Publications on Campus Sustainability" page
Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future
Campus Ecology: National Wildlife Federation
Second Nature: education for sustainability
College Sustainability report card
"George,"resources for place, environmental, and sustainability studies
Provides a basic bibliography and portal to World Wide Web for environmental and sustainability resources.

Some books in our library on higher education and environmentalism

Higher Education for Sustainability by Lucas F. Johnston (Editor)
Call Number: LB2324 .H543 2012
ISBN: 9780415519359
Publication Date: 2012-07-26
Sustainability Education by Stephen Sterling; Paula Jones; David Selby
Call Number: Campus Life LC65 .S87 2010
ISBN: 9781844078776
Publication Date: 2010-06-23
Boldly Sustainable by Peter Winthrop Bardaglio; Andrea Putman
Call Number: Campus Life LB2324 .B36 2009
ISBN: 1569720460
Publication Date: 2009-02-01
Teaching As Activism by Linda June Muzzin; Peggy Tripp
Call Number: LC191 .T42 2005
ISBN: 9780773528079
Publication Date: 2005-09-27
Greening the College Curriculum by Jonathan Collett (Editor); Michael Kraft (Contribution by); Holmes Rolston (Contribution by); Karl Grossman (Contribution by); Lisa Naughton-Treves (Contribution by); John Opie (Contribution by); Steven Rockefeller (Contribution by); Emily Young (Contribution by); Gerald Alonzo Smith (Contribution by); Stephen Karakashian (Editor); William Balee (Contribution by); Michael Black (Contribution by); David Campbell (Contribution by); Vern Durkee (Contribution by); Ann Filemyr (Contribution by); Owen Grumbling (Contribution by); Dan Katz (Contribution by)
Call Number: Campus Life LC1023 .G74 1996
ISBN: 9781559634212
Publication Date: 1995-12-01

Search for articles and books

Discovery search
This system searches the library catalog and myriad databases simultaneously. Advantages: easy to use, broad in scope. Depauw resources come up first. Disadvantages: Hard to find specific editions and titles.

Databases

GreenFILE
GreenFILE covers all aspects of human impact on the environment. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Academic Search Complete
Articles (some full-text some just abstracts) from journals, popular magazines, etc. For many titles, excludes the most recent 3,12 or more months of full text. Includes some coverage for every discipline. This is a good source for popular articles on sustainability.
Science Direct College Editions
Includes some 1,600 full-text Elsevier journals in four collections: Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Social Sciences & Humanities. Full-text coverage starts in 1995 or later (depending on journal) and continues to the present.

Science.gov
Full text journal articles, etc. From U.S. government agencies such as Agriculture Dept., Energy Dept., NASA, National Technical Information Service.

Some books in our library related to sustainability

These links are dynamic so the information is always current.

Sustainability: the Basics by Peter J. Jacques
Call Number: Science GE .J34 2015
ISBN: 9780415608473
Publication Date: 2014-08-19
Flourishing by John Ehrenfeld; Andrew Hoffman
Call Number: HC79.E5 E36465 2013
ISBN: 9780804784146
Publication Date: 2013-05-15
Complexity and Sustainability by Jennifer Wells
Call Number: Science Q175.32.C65 W45 2012
ISBN: 9780415695770
Publication Date: 2012-08-16
Eco-Republic by Melissa Lane
Call Number: GE42 .L36 2012
ISBN: 9780691151243
Publication Date: 2011-11-06
The City as Fulcrum of Global Sustainability by Ernest J. Yanarella (Editor); Richard S. Levine (Editor)
Call Number: HT241 .Y37 2011
ISBN: 9780857287724
Publication Date: 2011-09-01
The Business of Sustainability by Scott G. McNall (Editor); James C. Hershauer (Editor); George Basile (Editor)
Call Number: HD60 .B8847 2011
ISBN: 9780313384943
Publication Date: 2011-10-01
The Sustainability Transformation by Alan AtKisson
Call Number: Science GE170 .A856 2011
ISBN: 9781849712446
Publication Date: 2010-11-19
Encyclopedia of Sustainability by Robin Morris Collin; Robert William Collin
Call Number: Science GE10 .C65 2010
ISBN: 9780313352614
Publication Date: 2009-12-01
Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability by Kerri Woods
Call Number: JC571 .W8766 2010
ISBN: 9781848448537
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Now or Never by Tim Flannery
Call Number: HC79.E5 F53 2009
ISBN: 9780802118981
Publication Date: 2009-09-29

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