Resources for Students
WAYS TO GET INVOLVED IN OUR PROGRAMS
- Apply for a student scholarship to attend the Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference. Explore other awards, competitions, and fellowships.
- Tell us if your institution has any green buildings, including completed projects, ongoing or future construction plans.
- Form a team of students from sustainability clubs or students interested in sustainability to develop a detailed case study for our web site. To learn more, send us an email inquiry.
- Tell your administration about the Kresge Fellowships for senior college and university executives.
- Take advantage of a 50% discount for access to Building Green’s suite of resources. To learn more about the Building Green Suite, click here.
- Stay connected with the green building higher education community by reading, posting and commenting to the Advancing Green Building Blog.
- Encourage your President to join the more than 650 higher education leaders in signing and implementing the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) to realize campus climate neutrality for your institution. To learn how students can effectively lobby college and university Presidents, click here.
- Read about green building and discover the ways in which it can benefit your campus community. Visit the Educational Resources page for suggestions on reading materials.
- Engage in debates and panel discussions about green building and sustainability.
- Do Internships or Independent Projects that will educate you about green building.
- Take Classes on these issues.
- Learn how other students are helping to create a sustainable future. Read Generation E, an example-rich, best-practices report by the National Wildlife Federation on exemplary student-led sustainability activities and programs at schools around the U.S.
- Join an already existing sustainability club, or Form a new sustainability student group on campus with a focus on the built environment, which accounts for an estimated 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions. To learn more about the challenges and opportunities of green building, click here.
- Create specialized student sustainability and green building “task force” with official institutional recognition & leverage, as well as a clear vision.
- Encourage other students to get involved by joining your student organization or “task force.”
- Plan special events, rallies, or demonstrations to promote student awareness about sustainability and green building issues.
- Volunteer or intern with the Sustainability Office or Facilities Department on your campus.
- Meet with campus administration & relevant faculty members either as a concerned individual student or as part of a concerned student group.
- Attain a copy of the institutional master plan of your college or university.
- Take inventory of the existing green buildings (new or retrofitted) on campus, and/or future plans for green building projects.
- Apply for retrofit grants, and Plan feasible campus building retrofit projects. Visit the Financial Resources page for suggestions on funding sources.
- Lobby campus leadership to pledge green building and sustainable practice.
- Implement student-led projects & initiatives to advance green building and sustainability on your campus. Visit the Communities page for suggestions and models of existing campus initiatives.
- Ask your professors to include sustainability and green building in their courses.
- Appeal to local and/or state lawmakers to adopt green building and sustainability policies.
Advancing Green Building Team 2009
WAYS TO GET INVOLVED IN GREEN BUILDING AND SUSTAINABILITY ON CAMPUS
Build Your Knowledge about the Issues and the Solutions
Rally for Support among the Student Body
LEED Gold Gingerbread House by Second Nature interns Alyssa P and Jessica D
Establish Relationships with Campus Decision-makers
Make Your Voice Heard: Take Action on Campus and in the Community
