Teaching Sustainability in 21st Century America

By G. Rendell. Much of the work I do focuses on making Greenback U's campus operations less wasteful, more efficient, and thus ostensibly more (closer to) sustainable.  But like any college or university anywhere in the world, Greenback's ultimate contribution to the eventual fate of society will consist less in what we do than in what we teach.  Knowing that, many schools have encouraged -- by various mechanisms -- the development and presentation of specifically sustainability-focused or -related curricular materials.  And while explicitly teaching sustainability concepts and techniques is hard to object to, by itself that won't solve any problem. Read more...