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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.

Earth and Sustainability Science Within Spokane Public Schools
Kendra Robinson-Harding, Spokane Public Schools
This informational essay page details efforts to integrate earth and sustainability science into Spokane Public Schools' K-12 curriculum, highlighting challenges in meeting state standards, current course offerings, partnerships with environmental organizations, and the ongoing transition to NGSS-aligned instruction. 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 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.

Sustainability at Coppin State University
Mintesinot Jiru, Coppin State University
This webpage is an educational essay detailing Coppin State University's sustainability initiatives, including its Climate Action Plan, LEED-certified buildings, energy-efficient technologies, curriculum integration, and community engagement efforts, authored by Mintesinot Jiru for the InTeGrate project. 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 and Me
Jim Farrell, St. Olaf College
Curiosity brought me to sustainability, and it still keeps me interested. Many years ago, Alexander Wilson wrote a book called The Culture of Nature,a title that seemed so strange to me that I decided to teach it (which is what I often do to satisfy my curiosity). My first step was a course by that title in the first year writing program. My second was an interdisciplinary course on "The Environmental Imagination," meant to introduce the Humanities as part of our Environmental Studies major. In both of those classes, I encouraged students to think about their own place, St. Olaf College.

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.

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).

Teaching sustainability through project based learning
James Stone, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
A standalone essay page from the InTeGrate project detailing an interdisciplinary, project-based course on sustainability in engineering education, covering water conservation, renewable energy, and life cycle assessment, authored by James Stone of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. 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: Teaching for a Moving Target
Julie Maxson, Metropolitan State University
This webpage is an academic essay discussing the challenges and evolution of teaching sustainability in higher education, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches, climate change impacts, and the need for solution-oriented, systems-based curricula amid institutional resistance to environmental 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.

Putting Sustainability into Action: Energy, Water and Food Nexus
Michael Eyob, Florida International University
This webpage is an academic essay from the InTeGrate project discussing the interconnectedness of energy, water, and food (EWF) within sustainable development, emphasizing their interdependence, governance challenges in developing nations, and the need for integrated resource management to ensure long-term resilience and equity. 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.