Sustainability Metrics
Natalie Hunt, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Sustainability is a complex term applied to many different contexts in a variety of ways. As a result, it can be challenging to determine how sustainable something really is. In this module, students will use an ...

Sustainability Daily Practice
Greg Gordon, Gonzaga University
The Daily Practice is an ongoing assignment that asks students to make a lifestyle change that contributes to environmental sustainability.

Sustainability Spotlights: Instructional resources for highlighting sustainability across the curriculum
Christy Visaggi, Georgia State University
Utilizing "spotlights" as resources for students has become an increasingly popular approach to broaden the visibility of who contributes to science such as is promoted by the Scientists Spotlights ...

Action to Enhance Sustainability
Bill Stigliani, University of Northern Iowa
This assignment is a 10-hour, out-of-class project where each student designs and carries out an action plan to enhance sustainability. Students select from a large suite of alternative actions, most of which can be quantified for reductions in CO2 and energy consumption, as well as in dollar savings.

Design Portfolio Sustainability Survey
Jeanne Broussard, Pierce College District
‪In this activity, the student would be asked to review or portfolio using a survey of items related to sustainability.

Unit 1: What is Sustainability in the Context of Water?
Robert Turner, University of Washington-Bothell Campus
In this three to four class unit, students will: Assess the case for a global water crisis and its relevance in America. Expand their understanding of sustainability as a contestable concept and movement. Consider ...

Seeing Sustainability
Kate Davies, Antioch University
This assignment requires students to reflective observations of a particular place and to identify signs of sustainability and unsustainability.

Teaching about Teaching Sustainability
David Shapiro, Cascadia Community College
This course combines an in-class activity and a service-learning option. Students familiarize themselves with the dynamic behind a particular kind of human induced environmental challenge and then develop a lesson plan to teach the dynamic to younger students in a classroom setting.

The Sustainability of Place: Making Scholarship Public
Jill Gatlin, University of Washington
Students are assigned to observe and research a local place of their choosing and to develop a unique analytical argument about the social and/or ecological sustainability of this space. The final project is a pamphlet directed to a public audience accompanied by a proposal for its production and distribution.

Sustainability of Ocean Resources Research Project: Law of the Sea
William Hoyt, University of Northern Colorado
Students consider the history and development of the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty, with a focus on extraction of natural resources from the ocean. Sustainability of a single resource is investigated in detail.