Water Crisis
Megan Brown, Northern Illinois University
Following the circular economy common exercise, the "Water Crisis" lecture and activity includes information on water resources, direct water use, and virtual water. The main activity has the students determine their water footprint and then try to decrease it to the rationing level used in Cape Town, South Africa during the countdown to "Day Zero" in 2018.

Waste Audit
Cody Hyman, Bentley University
We conducted 2 waste audits, one voluntary and one to be turned in to share with the class. This captures different incentives involved with current ESG disclosure (voluntary) and the SEC's proposed mandatory rule.

Wick3d Designs New Product Negotiation
Bethany Cockbrn, Northern Illinois University
This is a multi-party negotiation role play in which students are given negotiating roles and then are asked to negotiate and agree on a new product for their company. The company's values include ...

Sustainable Business Model Development
Sunny Jeong, Wittenberg University
This course will explore this emerging, highly interdisciplinary field of social entrepreneurship through a social venture business plan and teams can choose topics provided at the beginning of this semester ...

Food Systems Interventions (Discussion)
Emily McKee, Northern Illinois University
Students participate in small-group discussions, followed by full-class discussion to apply some of their learning from the BASICS module to our exploration of food systems.

Sustainability and Tax Policy
Tracy Noga, Bentley University
In this assignment students were asked to propose a tax policy change that would encourage businesses or individuals to promote a more sustainable economy. Students are encouraged to think broadly in terms of ...

Sustainable Lifecycle Project
Tomoyuki Shibata, Northern Illinois University
Group of students investigate impacts on health from linear lifecycle and propose how to make it circular lifecycle. Students are required to interview stakeholders, conduct SWOT analysis, and address challenges ...

Campus Waste Audit
Elizabeth Stoner, Bentley University
The course specific excercise we did was to take Bentley University waste data across multiple years (and different buildings). Student evaluated waste diversion rates, compost rates, and landfill rates to assess ...

Patterns of Herpetofauna Biodiversity using HerpMapper
Richard Phillips, Wittenberg University
HerpMapper is a community science application that allows the public to submit records of amphibians and reptiles to contribute to our knowledge on their distribution and a lesser extent their abundance. To submit ...

Apply Circular Economy to Own Businesses
Furkan Gur, Northern Illinois University
Students start and run micro businesses in this class. After students worked on personal waste audit and gallery map exercises, we actually worked on a 'brain dumping' session in which students worked on ...