Incorporating the Concept of Sustainability Across the FAMU Curriculum Using Geospatial Science Technologies
Katherine Milla, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Katherine Milla, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University In some ways the concept of "sustainability" has taken on a quality of political correctness. Various definitions of the term abound, ...

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.

Foundations for the Goals and Work of Sustainability
John Warford, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
John Thomas Warford, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University According to the Random House College Dictionary Revised Edition (1988), the word "sustain" means to "support, bear up, uphold, ...

Making Connections between Geoscience and Sustainability
Laura Rademacher, University of the Pacific
Laura Rademacher, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of the Pacific My approach to teaching sustainability in an interdisciplinary context has evolved out of years of teaching about the Earth and the ...

Sustainability at Monmouth - Ecology
Tim Tibbetts, Monmouth College
As a plant ecologist I look at sustainability through biodiversity lenses. How many corn and bean fields will be planted where native forests and prairies were cleared? How many invasive plants will threaten the remaining fragments? How will these fragments be used, preserved, protected? How will we deal with soil erosion, loss of soil fertility, increased fertilizer demands, run off and eutrophication of our waters? And still feed a growing population?

Sustainability and Hanford Reach
Tracy Lai, Seattle Community College-Central Campus
Tracy Lai, Humanities/Social Sciences, Seattle Central Community College The struggle over Hanford Reach, the last wild stretch of the Columbia River, is difficult to understand unless we take an interdisciplinary ...

Sustainability in Psychology at Coe College
Jennifer Lee, Coe College
Does your college have a sustainability program? If so, does the program have a web presence?

Teaching Sustainability in a Study Abroad Course
Lori Troxel, Vanderbilt University
Lori Troxel, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University As a structural engineering professor I wanted to incorporate more about sustainability in my courses. Because of limited class time, I was ...

Putting Sustainability into Action: Energy, Water and Food Nexus
Michael Eyob, Florida International University
Michael Kiflai, Florida International University Haile Woldesellasse, Hamad Bin Khalifa University The energy, water and food (EWF) nexus is a vital and central idea of the sustainable development, which plays a ...

Sustainability at Ripon - Communication
Steve Martin, Ripon College
As a newcomer to the academic application of sustainability, I admittedly have a lack of knowledge of official College efforts related to sustainability. I do know that four years ago, Ripon College received some favorable national attention for its "Velorution" program. The College provided a free mountain bike to incoming first-year students in exchange for an agreement that they would not bring a car to campus. In part, this was a response to a perceived "parking problem" (there really was not a problem, though students liked to think there was), but it was also done with the environment in mind. The College also closed and removed several city streets that went through the middle of the campus. It is now a much nicer green space. It is aesthetically more pleasing and also safer. Importantly, it has discouraged students from driving from their rooms to classes (something that was silly to do in the first place, since walking to class is actually faster than driving anywhere on our small campus.)