Greening Our Campus -- Fall 2021: Getting Started

• Select an interesting and doable topic.
• Identify each component of your topic.
• Select appropriate terms to describe the components and use truncation as appropriate.
• Determine the correct use of Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT).
• Select fields to search if appropriate (author, title, subject).
• Limit your results as necessary (date, scholarly vs. popular, etc.).
• Evaluate your results and rethink your strategy as necessary.

A good encyclopedia can provide beginning researchers with the following:

• an overview of a topic and its various aspects
• the vocabulary associated with the topic
• the names of important people, companies or places,
• a bibliography to lead to other relevant items on the topic, including major studies, books, articles and researchers.

Some good examples are:

• Encyclopedia of Earth, comprehensive material in traditional environmental disciplines.
• Encyclopedia of Earth Science [Ref 550.3 K97e 2005]
• Encyclopedia of Energy, e-book from Credo Reference (2004)

Environment and Sustainable Development

Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus

Sustainable Development and the Environment: An Aspect of Development

A video on Constructing a Thesis Statement

Purdue Online Writing Lab

Excelsior Online Writing Lab

• Campus Ecology Resource Center
• Second Nature

   

   

   

   

   

   

A simple Google search of the phrase "campus sustainability" can uncover initiatives at colleges and universities.