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College Environmental Activists: Facilitators and Barriers
 * Working Title:**
 * Key Words: social ecology, AASHE, Power Shift, college, sustainability, college culture, environmental leadership, college energy/resource use, renewable energy, student government, student media**


 * DATA SETS? || SOCIAL

THEORETICAL

QUESTIONS || RESEARCH

QUESTIONS || WHY NOW? || HOW

PREPARED? || BIAS? || FIELDS OF

WORK? || `FUNDERS || --data on what student groups at those colleges have achieved --interviews and participant observation with leaders of college environmental clubs --data on how student organizations work at different colleges || --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?) --What shapes conceptions of sustainability among college students, particularly those in sustainability leadership? || --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 frustrations do student leaders of environmental clubs have when trying to promote sustainability? --What influences someone to becoming an environmental leader? || --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 --Involved with student government and student media || --I am involved with some of these organizations --I myself am an environmental club leader --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 different colleges are doing sustainability-wise