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.

Design a Flowchart of a Circular Economy in a Consumer Packaged Good
Tim Bode, Wittenberg University
For my Busn340 marketing class, the class must divide up into groups and conduct a semester long research project to develop a new brand of product in one of the following consumer packaged goods categories: 1) ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Wicked Problem of Mental Health and an Equitable Zero-Waste Circular Economy
Stephanie Little, Wittenberg University
My primary approach to the course-specific module was to integrate mental health and its treatment into the common module as much as possible. The one stand-alone course activity involved the students reading ...

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 ...

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.

Making Vinyl Records Sustainably
Ross Jackson, Wittenberg University
The activity was focused on making vinyl records in a more sustainable way. The company was called "Witt World Records." The waste audit data were used as the basis of creating an internal memo and an ...