Anderson+Memo+4*


 * Working Title: Inter-college Sustainability Organizations: Advancing or Limiting Environmental Culture?**
 * Key Words: social ecology, AASHE, Power Shift, college, sustainability, college culture, environmental leadership, college energy/resource use, renewable energy**


 * DATA SETS? || SOCIAL

THEORETICAL

QUESTIONS || RESEARCH

QUESTIONS || WHY NOW? || HOW

PREPARED? || BIAS? || FIELDS OF

WORK? || `FUNDERS || --data on what member colleges have achieved --interviews and participant observation with members of these organizations and college students || --How do social ecologies affect sustainability? --How have inter-college sustainability organizations contributed to environmental culture on campuses? --What social mechanisms needed to make a college more sustainable do these inter-college sustainability organizations change? (and are these changes effective?) || --How can a college sustainability ethic be promoted? --What are some of the challenges towards sustainability at colleges that other communities don't have? --What sort of "grading system" is ideal for colleges to truly achieve sustainability? --Does the grading system used by AASHE do more harm or more good? || --Climate change --Peak oil --Pollution --Colleges are big institutions and use a lot of energy, water, and other resources || --Research Methods last fall --Heavy involvement in RPI environmental clubs, both of which are doing a sustainability report using AASHE's grading system and one of which is going to PowerShift 2013 --I've gone to PowerShift 2011, PowerShift New York 2012, and am going to PowerShift 2013 this fall --My friend is on the AASHE board of directors, apparently || --I am involved with some of these organizations --I am very critical of organizations working on sustainability --This project would really focus on wealthier nations with colleges that have the resources to think about and care about these issues. || --STS with a focus on social ecology/community and behavior || --Possibly the organizations themselves --Colleges --Any type of board that might want to oversee these organizations ||
 * --data on how many colleges and which ones are involved with the organizations