Courses and Programs

Website Resources

Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit is an online resource developed by the University of Tennessee's Energy, Environment and Resources Center. The toolkit was designed to begin the process of combining education and sustainability, and is organized into eight major components. It includes information, exercises, case studies, resources, and more to help users reach local sustainability goals.

Sustainable Careers Institute's "Good Work Central" is a wide-ranging library and collection of links on work ethics and options, education, and career counseling to create a society that is more democratic, just, humane and ecologically sustainable.

EPA's Community-Based Environmental Protection program offers a number of ecosystem tools in PDF files, including "The Economics of Sustainability," "Conservation-Based Green Marketing," and "A Citizen's Guide to Achieving a Healthy Community, Economy and Environment."

Izaak Walton League of America Sustainability Education Project offers a number of educational publications and materials designed to inspire individuals and communities toward sustainability.

Second Nature assists colleges and universities in their quest to integrate sustainability as a core component of all education and practice, and to help expand their efforts to make human activity sustainable.

Urban Options makes their Sustainability Education Handbook available online. The handbook was developed as a resource guide for K-12 teachers in Michigan.

Publications, Software and Other Materials

Education For Sustainability: An Agenda for Action is a publication resulting from the National Forum on Partnerships Supporting Education about the Environment, that makes a number of recommendations as to how we can build concepts of sustainability into our educational programs. The recommendations provide a framework for a flexible strategy and a toolbox of ideas, which can be tailored to educational strategies that meet individual and community needs.

A Librarian's Guide to Global Programming for a Sustainable Future was compiled by the American Library Association and Global Learning, Inc. This guide provides school and public librarians with a variety of practical resources to help the public understand the isuses surrounding a sustainable future. It identifies materials, as well as library planning ideas, for children, young adults, adults and school settings.

The Shape of Change is a curriculum on sustainability and economics offered by Creative Change Educational Solutions. The curriculm includes a unit titled "Introduction to Sustainability" with four chapters for up to three weeks of classroom instruction in science, social studies or humanities courses.

The Sustainability Education Center explores the relationships between economic systems, ecological systems, and justice in contexts ranging from local communities to global institutions. They offer several different curriculum units, on topics such as food systems, ecological economics, and sustainable development. SEC also provides links to a number of other sustainability education resources.

Thinking Like a Sustainable Community: A Workbook for Applying a Sustainability Framework to Community Challenges (PDF), was compiled by Minnesota's Office of Environmental Assistance Sustainable Communities team to help users think about community challenges with a view toward sustainability.

UNESCO -- Education for Sustainable Development offers several environmental education modules, addessing the topics of global change, freshwater resources, oceans and coastal areas, and biological diversity.

Last updated: February 19, 2004

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