Whoever or wherever you are, if you want to create positive change at your university, this book is for you. Nudging has enormous potential to make our universities and our societies greener and we don’t have time to waste.
What is the Little Book of Green Nudges?
The Little Book of Green Nudges is a quick guide to reducing your campus' environmental impact through behavioural change in the form of a concise and user-friendly publication. It summarizes the evidence around what nudges work best while seeking to encourage more sustainable practices among students and staff across several behavioural categories. It also provides simple guidance on how to implement and evaluate behavioural interventions in a variety of contexts.
Download the full publication here.
What Are Nudges?
Nudges are positive and gentle persuasions that are meant to influence behaviour and decision-making. Such interventions include choice architecture, default setting, social influence and increased salience.
Target Audience
Anyone who wants to create positive change at their university, anywhere around the world, from provosts to campus sustainability coordinators to professors to student leaders.
Who are involved?
The following higher education institutions* have committed to take this green nudges journey with us.
- Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina)
- Universidad Nacional de Villa María (Argentina)
- Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
- Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno (Bolivia)
- Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- McGill University (Canada)
- University of British Columbia (Canada)
- University of Waterloo (Canada)
- Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (Chile)
- Universidad de Chile (Chile)
- Universidad Católica de Temuco (Chile)
- Hong Kong Bapsist University (China)
- Northwestern Polytechnical University (China)
- China West Normal University (China)
- Capital Normal University (China)
- Universidad Libre (Colombia)
- Universidad Católica de Manizales (Colombia)
- Universidad Autonoma de Bucaramanga (Colombia)
- Universidad Católica de Colombia (Colombia)
- Universidad de San Buenaventura Medellín (Colombia)
- Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (Colombia)
- Universidad de Manizales (Colombia)
- Universidad Ean (Colombia)
- Universidad de la Costa (Colombia)
- Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (Colombia)
- El Bosque University (Colombia)
- Universidad Simón Bolívar (Colombia)
- Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional (Costa Rica)
- Universidad para la Paz (Costa Rica)
- Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (Ecuador)
- Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabí (Ecuador)
- Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Ecuador)
- Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam (Ecuador)
- Unidad Ambiental de la Universidad de El Salvador (El Salvador)
- Universidad Gerardo Barrios (El Salvador)
- University of Turku (Finland)
- Aalto University (Finland)
- HEC Paris (France)
- Kedge Business School (France)
- University of Poitiers (France)
- Technische Universität München (Germany)
- Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (Germany)
- Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)
- University of Ghana (Ghana)
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana)
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
- University of Peloponnese (Greece)
- Athens University of Economics and Bussiness (Greece)
- Universidad Technologica de Honduras (Honduras)
- Indraprastha College for Women (India)
- Amity Institute of Environmental Sciences (India)
- Heritage School Vasant Kunj (India)
- Birla Institute of Technology and Science (India)
- Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (India)
- Sharda University (India)
- Miranda House, University of Delhi (India)
- Delhi Public School Vasant Kunj (India)
- Asn Senior Secondary School (India)
- Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, University of Delhi (India)
- University of Padua (Italy)
- University of Pavia (Università degli Studi di Pavia) (Italy)
- Felix Houphouët-Boigny University (Ivory Coast)
- University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Japan)
- Karatina University (Kenya)
- Kenyatta University (Kenya)
- Daystar University (Kenya)
- Strathmore University (Kenya)
- University of Malta (Malta)
- Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas (Mexico)
- Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico)
- Universidad La Salle (Mexico)
- Universidad Anáhuac México (Mexico)
- Universidad de Colima (Mexico)
- Universidad Autónoma Chapingo (Mexico)
- Kathmandu University (Nepal)
- University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- University of Nigeria Nsukka (Nigeria)
- Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (Nigeria)
- University of Benin (Nigeria)
- University of Agriculture Faisalabad (Pakistan)
- Universidad Internacional de Ciencia y Tecnología UNICyT (Panamá)
- Universidad Católica de Santa María (Peru)
- Universidad Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión (Peru)
- Universidad Continental (Peru)
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia)
- Fouray Bay College, University of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone)
- Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
- University of Jaffna (Sri Lanka)
- Uppsala University (Sweden)
- Mahidol University (Thailand)
- Prince of Songkla University (Thailand)
- King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (Thailand)
- Walailak University (Thailand)
- Siam University (Thailand)
- Abdullah Gül University (Türkiye)
- American University of Sharjah (UAE)
- Uganda Martyrs University (Uganda)
- Ndejje University (Uganda)
- University of Worcester (UK)
- University of Surrey (UK)
- University of Stirling (UK)
- Glasgow School of Art (UK)
- Durham University (UK)
- Cardiff University (UK)
- Glasgow School of Art (UK)
- University of Strathclyde (UK)
- Falmouth University (sharing campus with University of Exeter) (UK)
- Bournemouth University (UK)
- Glasgow Caledonian University (UK)
- University of York (UK)
- City of Glasgow College (UK)
- Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (UK)
- Harper Adams University (UK)
- UWE Bristol (UK)
- University of Glasgow (UK)
- Elon University (USA)
- Daemen College (USA)
- Champlain College (USA)
- Furman University (USA)
- Pikes Peak Community College (USA)
- Pacific University (USA)
- Lehigh University (USA)
- Bard College (USA)
- University of Rochester (USA)
- Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (USA)
- Bridgewater State University (USA)
- Fordham University (USA)
- Massapequa Public Schools (USA)
- Universidad Católica Andres Bello (Venezuela)
*at least one member, student group and/or faculty from each institution
