Sustainable Activism: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
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 ...

Introduction to Sustainable Practices part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
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 ...

Sustainability From the Inside Out: A Learning Community Guided by Patanjali's Yoga Sutras part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This year-long, interdisciplinary, learning community explored the challenges inherent in pursuing sustainable living in today's world and offered concrete tools to move toward a positive global future. Based ...

Climate Solutions: A Learning Community on Climate Science and Human Adaptations part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
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.

Science and Sustainability: A Freshman Seminar part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
Science and Sustainability is a seminar course on the scientific ideas that underlie the sustainability movement. The course is fundamental in the sense that philosophical underpinnings of science and ...

Conservation and Sustainable Development: an Upper Division Course part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This course examines how protection of human welfare and biodiversity are intertwined, but often are not pursued as joint goals. The course introduces essential concepts in biodiversity conservation and ...

Water and Sustainability part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This course provides a framework for students to learn about sustainability as a cultural ideal and point of contention, and more specifically about our water future and ways we might define and achieve ...

Consumption, Culture and Environment part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This course investigates why we consume the way we do, the environmental and social impacts of consumption, and examine possibilities for change. This course is a holistic and interdisciplinary survey of the study ...

Sustainability in Action part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This is a seminar course for students throughout campus. It exposes students to ideas, theories, and practices of sustainability and what stands in its way. Students use their campus to empirically research ...

Pathways To Sustainability: A Learning Community Focusing on Transportation, Power Generation, and Food part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This course explores the concept of sustainability and its application in three areas (transportation, power generation, and food). The course is a fusion of a conceptual chemistry course and a introductory social ...