Using the Global Goals as a Teaching Framework – Curious about different models for utilizing the Global Goals to teach sustainability from lecture courses to studios or labs? Professor Andrea Varga will introduce some of her strategies for incorporating the Global Goals across a variety of courses, explore the UNESCO Learning for Sustainable Development resources, and help brainstorm ways any faculty member can creatively teach sustainability within their curricula. Visit www.globalgoals.org
Date: Tuesday, November 2
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Location: Honors Center, College Hall 111
Sustainability resources through the Sojourner Truth Library
Alternate frameworks to explore the Three Dimensions of Sustainability – environmental, social, economic
- “Bruntland Definition” of Sustainable Development (1987) from the Brundtland Report, Our Common Future
- Principles of Environmental Justice (1991) from the First People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit
- Just Transition (Evolved from 1990s – Present) – Recently articulated by Movement Generation and the Climate Justice Alliance
- John Elkington’s Triple Bottom Line: People, Planet & Profit of 21st Century Business (1997)
- Earth Charter (2000)
- Julian Agyeman’s Just Sustainabilities (2003)
- Kate Raworth’s Doughnut of Social and Planetary Boundaries (2012)
- United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development (2015)
- Drawdown Climate Change Solutions (2017)
- Multisolving