Sustainability Essays

These essays were submitted by faculty in preparation for the Systems, Society, Sustainability and the Geosciences workshop in July 2012. Participants were asked to share their approaches to teaching sustainability in an interdisciplinary context and ideas for exploring opportunities for enhancing the integration of geoscience and sustainability.

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Value of Co-Teaching, Project-Based Learning, and Common Communication for Teaching Sustainability to an Interdisciplinary Class
Steven Burian, University of Utah
This academic essay page discusses interdisciplinary sustainability education, emphasizing co-teaching, project-based learning, and shared communication as key strategies, authored by an engineering educator reflecting on pedagogical successes and challenges. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

The Waldo Canyon wildfire: A case study of the western urban-wilderness interface
Mari Lee, Colorado College
This webpage is an academic essay discussing the Waldo Canyon wildfire as a case study of urban-wilderness interface challenges in the western U.S., exploring themes of sustainability, forest management, climate stress, and community resilience within an interdisciplinary environmental science and policy context. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

The Relevance of Place and Sense of Place to Sustainability
Steven Semken, Arizona State University Campus Immersion
This academic essay page explores the role of place-based education in promoting environmental and cultural sustainability, emphasizing how sense of place fosters ecological integrity and community attachment in contested landscapes, with applications in geoscience and interdisciplinary teaching. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Service Learning in Interdisciplinary Courses
Maureen Padden, McMaster University
This webpage is an academic essay discussing the integration of service learning in interdisciplinary sustainability courses, highlighting pedagogical challenges, student outcomes, and real-world application in higher education. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Sustainability in an Oceanography Course
Katryn Wiese, City College of San Francisco
A pedagogical essay page detailing how sustainability is integrated into an oceanography course through interdisciplinary case studies, local environmental data labs, and active learning strategies to foster student engagement and real-world application. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Economics, Sustainability and Teaching Interactive Approach
Nelson Altamirano, National University
This essay page discusses integrating geosciences into economics education through interactive, game-based learning to teach sustainability, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches for business students and providing a downloadable PDF of the full text. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Making Sustainability Real
Dan Vaughn, Vincennes University
This webpage is an educational essay in a mini-collection from the InTeGrate project discussing pedagogical strategies for teaching sustainability, focusing on connecting students to environmental realities through interdisciplinary methods, quantitative reasoning, and ethical reflection to foster environmental responsibility. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Demonstrating why sustainability is complex
Cailin Huyck Orr, Carleton College
This essay page from the InTeGrate project discusses the complexity of teaching sustainability, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches, adaptive management, and scenario planning through water resource case studies to help students grasp the multifaceted challenges of achieving sustainability. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Sustainability: The Key To Student Engagement
Ben Fackler-Adams, Skagit Valley College
This essay page presents interdisciplinary teaching strategies for integrating sustainability into geoscience and chemistry education, emphasizing student engagement through real-world relevance, cognitive learning principles, and hands-on activities across courses like environmental geology and oceanography. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Interdisciplinary Environmental Science Reflection and Communication
Kathleen Phillips, Stanford University
This webpage is an educator-authored essay within an InTeGrate workshop collection, detailing strategies for teaching interdisciplinary environmental science through reflective seminars that emphasize peer learning, science communication, stakeholder analysis, and presentation skills development across diverse sustainability topics. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Teaching Sustainability Through History
Derek Larson, Saint Johns University
An academic essay page detailing how interdisciplinary environmental studies programs integrate historical context into sustainability education, emphasizing curriculum design, historical precedents in green building and resource management, and pedagogical strategies for teaching sustainability through history. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Using Small Team Presentations to Examine Energy Production and Energy Utilization
Tom Termes, Black Hills State University
This webpage is an educational essay detailing a teaching activity where small student teams research and present on U.S. energy production and utilization topics to foster consensus on unsustainable energy trajectories, part of the InTeGrate project’s sustainability pedagogy collection. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Using process-focused assessments for teaching sustainability
Meghann Jarchow, University of South Dakota
An academic essay page advocating for process-focused assessments in sustainability education, emphasizing systems thinking, student creativity, and risk-taking through reflective evaluation of learning processes rather than end products. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Productive sustainability discourse through insisting on diverse perspectives
Hitesh Soneji, City College of San Francisco
This webpage is an academic essay discussing the importance of fostering interdisciplinary sustainability education by intentionally incorporating diverse student perspectives and multiple disciplinary viewpoints to avoid groupthink and enrich discourse. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Geoscience is by its nature interdisciplinary
David Kobilka, Central Lakes College-Brainerd
This webpage is an educational essay discussing how geoscience, particularly in environmental contexts, is inherently interdisciplinary, integrating chemistry, physics, biology, and social sciences, with a focus on teaching methods, current event integration, and sustainability education in undergraduate courses. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Sustainability in Mining Activity
Stephen Kissin, Lakehead University
This webpage is an academic essay discussing sustainability in mining activities, focusing on environmental, economic, and social dimensions, with a case study on northwestern Ontario, and highlighting Lakehead University's initiative to establish a multidisciplinary Centre of Excellence in Mineral Exploration and Sustainable Mining Development. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Teaching Sustainability: Students & Professors
Bill Stigliani, University of Northern Iowa
This webpage is an academic essay detailing pedagogical strategies for teaching sustainability, emphasizing systems thinking, interdisciplinary integration, student-led envisioning of sustainable futures, and faculty development programs to embed sustainability across university curricula. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Teaching Sustainability in a Study Abroad Course
Lori Troxel, Vanderbilt University
An academic essay page detailing a structural engineering professor's interdisciplinary study abroad course on sustainable buildings in Northern Ireland, covering topics such as energy efficiency, retrofitting housing, tidal and wave energy, policy impacts from the Kyoto treaty, and challenges in teaching sustainability across disciplines. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

The Sustainability Challenge in the Classroom
Tim Lutz, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
This webpage is an academic essay discussing the pedagogical challenge of teaching sustainability by transcending disciplinary boundaries, emphasizing interconnectedness, experiential learning, and transformative education to address systemic unsustainability in higher education. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

How do we teach the science of sustainability?
Noah Snyder, Boston College
This webpage is an essay within an educational collection exploring sustainability in geoscience education, specifically addressing how to integrate sustainability science into curricula while balancing interdisciplinary approaches and avoiding advocacy, authored by Noah Snyder for a 2012 InTeGrate workshop. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.