Students in groups of two create a 4-minute educational video, brochure, and poster on an aspect of soil erosion, soil conservation, and/or watershed health for agricultural regions within the midwestern states. This is a half term project and the materials are presented in a forum towards the end of the semester. The project is aimed to help students learn to pitch science to a wide audience and provide practice (indirectly) applying scientific principles to conservation efforts.

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This essay in environmental SCIENTIST, 2019, grapples with the phenomenon of 'climate reductionism' to illustrate how researchers and policymakers, in emphasizing climate change, may miss important drivers of environmental vulnerability and change.

Students work collaboratively to construct knowledge about the intersection of social justice and ecological integrity. Students will chose a consumer product that has adverse ecological and social justice impacts and develop a set of proposals for action that would challenge, dismantle or diminish those adverse consequences.

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This activities provided reflective writing prompts to be used in conjunction with a service learning project in a science course (Restoration Ecology).

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This research-based student project used the problem of ocean acidification to cover the sustainability concept of fossil fuel combustion and the disciplinary concepts of kinetics, equilibrium, acid-base chemistry and solubility.

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This assignment pairs studies in environmental humanities with outdoor activity. Students complete a "field excursion" (gardening, hiking, environmental restoration) and reflect on sensory experiences involved in that activity to critique rationalist traditions/Cartesian legacies in their education more broadly.

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In this two̢ hour program, Jean Michel Cousteau and the Ocean Adventures team visit the Amazon River Basin. The mighty Amazon River flows through the world̢ĺŰĺŞs largest tropical rainforest, creating the most biodiverse area on the planet. Twenty̢ five years ago, Jean Michel explored this fabled region with his father, Jacques Cousteau. Since then, an area the size of Texas has been deforested. From this region of urgency and conflict - where human enterprise and expansion not only compromise the health and ecology of the river and rainforest basin, but also truly inflict consequences on a global scale - come new beacons of hope and sustainability.€âĺ_n acest program de douĚăĺÄ ore, Jean Michel Cousteau €_ĺŮi echipa Ocean Aventurile viziteazĚăĺÄ bazinul r€âč÷ului Amazon. Puternicul Amazon curge prin cea mai mare pĚăĺÄdure tropicalĚăĺÄ din lume, cre€âč÷nd cea mai mare zona de biodiversitate de pe planetĚăĺÄ. Cu douazeci €ÎĺŞi cinci de ani €â_n urmĚăĺÄ, Jean-Michel a explorat aceastĚăĺÄ regiune fabuloasĚăĺÄ cu tatĚăĺÄl sĚăĺÄu, Jacques Cousteau. De atunci, o zona de marimea Texasului a fost defri€_ĺŮatĚăĺÄ.

This is an in-class activity where students learn about the interconnectedness of land use, water quality, and water resource management. Students are assigned a river front parcel of land to develop, unaware that each parcel is connected to someone else's parcel. Each team presents their development choices to the class and learns that all of the river sections are contiguous, leading to discussions about the effects of development and downstream water quality issues.

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This activity is designed to engage students in an active debate about land use and planning, human populations, ecosystems, and sustainability by assigning every student to a "community" along a theoretical meandering river.

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Short Description:
A practical guide to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for post-secondary institutions

Long Description:
Please access to the pdf version of the SDG Toolkit here

Word Count: 18206

ISBN: 978-1-77897-001-6

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How can we translate real-world challenges into future business opportunities? How can individuals, organizations, and society learn and undergo change at the pace needed to stave off worsening problems? Today, organizations of all kinds—traditional manufacturing firms, those that extract resources, a huge variety of new start-ups, services, non-profits, and governmental organizations of all types, among many others—are tackling these very questions. For some, the massive challenges of moving towards sustainability offer real opportunities for new products and services, for reinventing old ones, or for solving problems in new ways. The course aims to provide participants with access and in-depth exposure to firms that are actively grappling with the sustainability-related issues through cases, readings and guest speakers.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Aquaculture is a critical industry for human food production, and strategies to improve fish nutrition while protecting the environment can help maximize aquaculture output and sustainability. However, the roles of the gut microbiome in fish nutrition are not well understood. To support further research, scientists recently developed SalmoSim, an in vitro model of the Atlantic salmon gut and microbiome. The researchers linked three bioreactors seeded with gut material from adult farmed salmon to simulate the stomach (S), pyloric caecum (PC), and midgut (MG). When a fishmeal “diet” (FMD) was supplied, SalmoSim’s microbial community stabilized in approximately 20 days and was ecologically indistinguishable from the real fish microbiome used to inoculate the system. Switching from the FMD to a fishmeal-free diet (FMF) for 20 days did not affect most microbes (operational taxonomic units, OTUs) in either SalmoSim or real salmon..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

These lessons were created with the aim of highlighting the need to reduce waste and being more sustainable. The lessons are targeted for Second Level Primary School Children (Primary 4-7) with Scottish Curriculum for Excellence Areas in Expressive Arts, Science, Social Studies and Technologies.

Students discuss and learn about the nature of scientific knowledge in the context of scientific and non-scientific debates about climate change. This 50-minute module can be taught in a small- to very large-size introductory religion, philosophy or ethics class.

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To prepare for this activity, the students must be familiar with different energy resources. This material is learned both by attending the course lectures and reading the associated textbook. Then, working in groups, the students will develop their plan to direct the future energy use and development in our country. Their task is to write a summary plan of which energy resource options would be best to invest in and why.

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Service-Learning is a means of exploring sustainability and connecting experiential learning with academic study of the topic.

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Students are introduced to a theory in the Normative Ethics of Behavior (NEB) known as Hedonic Ethical Egoism. They will learn to present and explain the "Invisible Hand Argument for Hedonic Ethical Egoism" shown to depend on the following assumption: that the community as a whole is better off if everyone acts selfishly. This assumption is false as the "Tragedy of the Commons" will show.

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The smart grid of the future is a complex electrical power system. Its study, design, and management requires the integration of knowledge from various disciplines including sustainability, technology and mathematics.

Smart grids show a level of complexity and heterogeneity that often cannot be covered by analytical methods. Therefore, modeling and simulation are of great importance.

In this course, you will apply modeling tools to study and analyze the performance of your self-designed intelligent electrical power grid. By modeling smart grids, you will explore the integration of renewable energy sources into a grid, its dynamics, control and cyber security.

The smart grid of the future is a complex electrical power system. Its study, design, and management requires the integration of knowledge from various disciplines including sustainability, technology and mathematics.

In this course, you will be introduced to the definition of a smart grid, its heterogeneity, dynamics, control, security and assessment strategies. The challenge of modeling such a system is also discussed. A group of researchers will offer their expertise on these topics and will introduce the modeling method which will be used in the second course of this program.