The Sustainable Learning Community

"This book provides excellent examples of the type of cross-campus dialogue needed to develop sustainability curricula, innovative course outlines for introductory or capstone courses in global environmental issues, approaches for university provosts, vice-presidents for research, sustainability officers, and university presidents to follow in evaluating their university strengths, combining them with external funding, and generating academic excellence as leaders in campus sustainability programs."—Ecology

"In higher education we realize that our students will live out their personal and professional lives in circumstances enormously different from those that shaped our own studies and perceptions. One important response to this has been the effort to bring 'sustainable development' into the teaching, research, public service, and management of American universities. But the effort is recent; it gets diverted and confused by uncertainty about what kind of development is desirable and for whom. And, of course, it raises issues of intellectual sovereignty within the faculty. This book tells you why education for sustainability is important, and it offers an inspirationally diverse set of case studies that illustrate what can be done. Read here to learn how sustainability can be converted from an abstract theoretical idea into a large number of efforts that are changing teaching, research, public service, and management at a real university."—Dennis Meadows, co-author of the 1972 report, The Limits to Growth and Professor Emeritus of Systems Policy and President of the Laboratory for Interactive Learning