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Selah's Sustainability Strategy
Danielle DeRousse
Essay page detailing Selah School District's evolving sustainability education strategy under NGSS, covering curriculum shifts, local geology integration, interdisciplinary approaches, and challenges in implementing Earth science standards across K-12. 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.

Cheney High School Explores Earth Science and Sustainability
Jacob Troyer, Cheney High School
Educational essay page detailing Cheney High School's integration of Earth science and sustainability into NGSS-aligned curricula, covering interdisciplinary teaching strategies, eco-column projects, and systemic challenges in standards implementation. 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.

Putting Sustainability in Action at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University
Richard David Gragg III
This webpage is an essay detailing Florida A&M University's institutional journey toward sustainability, highlighting the establishment of the FAMU Environment and Sustainability Council, the Sustainability Institute, student-led initiatives like the Green Coalition, curriculum integration across disciplines, and the role of HBCUs in advancing environmental justice and sustainability 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.

Geology and Sustainability
Mary Savina, Carleton College
I think most geologists would say that sustainability is at the root of our discipline, though we certainly didn't invent the word or define the concept. Geology considers the earth as an open system of gases, liquids and solids, distributed from the outer limits of the atmosphere to the earth's center. We know that within this system are many interacting subsystems that involve the transfer of energy and materials from one area – and state – to another. Resources – minerals, fuels, water, soils and others – all exist within the earth system that geologists study. Geologists study how these resources are created, how they are altered, and how they move from place to place. Just tracing the routes of water on the globe, for instance, involves the atmosphere, the earth's land surface (sometimes called "the critical zone"), the oceans, the ice caps, and the crust and mantle of the solid earth. Humans alter many of the transfer processes and at the same time they alter the amounts of resources in storage. It may be true, as the physicists say, that matter can neither be created or destroyed, but matter can certainly be changed from an un-usable state to a usable one (think mining and smelting) or from a usable state to an un-usable one (think gasoline and carbon dioxide).

Sustainability and Understanding Time
Mary Savina, Carleton College
Sustainability and Understanding Time is an academic essay page from the InTeGrate collection that explores how geoscience education can reframe sustainability by emphasizing deep time, paleoclimate analysis, and historical context to better understand human impacts on natural systems and inform future societal resilience. 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 at the Tempe Campus
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.

What Are We Advocating For with Sustainability?
Robert Turner, University of Washington-Bothell Campus
This webpage is an academic essay advocating for transformative sustainability education in higher education, proposing a collective scientific warning and critical dialogue on defining sustainability, while addressing systemic educational reform, environmental literacy, and contested socio-political models for societal transformation. 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.

Putting Sustainability into Action at FAMU
Bakari McClendon, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Bakari McClendon, Sustainability Institute, Florida A&M University Downloadable version of this essay Putting Sustainability Into Action at FAMU (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 139.5MB Oct24 17)

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.

The imperative for chemists to teach about sustainability
Scott Cummings, Kenyon College
This essay page argues that chemistry education must integrate sustainability due to shifting student interests, career demands, and global challenges, emphasizing chemistry's role in clean energy, pollution remediation, and green technologies while addressing curriculum reform challenges and resources. 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.