Climate Justice and Climate Consequences: Education and Action for Social Justice and Regeneration
Marna Hauk, Faculty, Institute for Earth Regenerative Studies and Postdoctoral Scholar, Prescott College
This graduate climate justice course brings clarity to the structural dimensions of climate change. It is designed around the belief that community-based action and contemplative processes to redress structural ...

An Intentional Media Diet
Christina Serkowski, University Prep English Department
It's not just that we are what we eat, it's that we are what we consume. In the same way that the food we eat becomes our bodies, the media to which we pay attention, and the conversations in which we ...

Writing Mount Tahoma: Place-Based Writing
Wendy Call, Pacific Lutheran University
In this discussion-based creative writing course, we take Mount Rainier / Tahoma / Ta-co-bet as topic, text, and inspiration. Students read a variety of literary texts about Mount Tahoma, by a wide range of authors ...

Sustainable Activism: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation
laura feldman, Latino Network and City of Portland
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation is a complex and multi-dimensional issue that demands new ways of thinking and living, rooted in what is local—the unique history, environment, culture, economy, story of a ...

Ethics and Climate Change
Lauren Nichols, University of Washington-Bothell Campus
This course addresses ethical issues related to climate change such as: Why is climate change an ethical issue? What would constitute a just allocation of the burdens of climate change? In what ways does ...

Service Learning and Food Security
Christie Flynn, Pierce College District
Service Learning and Food Security is a two-credit course that uses practical examples, local demographics, and community connections to examine issues of food security. Students connect classroom learning with ...

Living in (and with) the World Arguing About Sustainability
Riki Thompson, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus
This intermediate expository writing course is designed for students with previous college-level expository writing experience and focuses on writing critical analyses of a range of texts in the arts and sciences ...

Bite Me: Consumption in U.S. Society: A Learning Community on the Ethics of Food, Clothing and Shelter Choices
Michael Hanson, Bellevue College; Michael Meyer, Bellevue College
This is a 10-11 credit interdisciplinary, learning community composed of life science courses and English composition courses. The focus of the course is the ethics of food, clothing and shelter choices. We ...

Climate Solutions: A Learning Community on Climate Science and Human Adaptations
Robert Cole, The Evergreen State College
This program was a full-time (16 credit) learning community that focused on the scientific basis of climate change, and on a variety of strategies that societies could take to respond to climate change.

Introduction to Sustainable Practices
Rebeca Rivera, University of Washington-Bothell Campus
This course looks critically at a diverse arena of ideas, theories and practices around sustainability. We examine these ideas, theories practices as part of larger socio-ecological systems and look at how they fit ...