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Climate Action Strategy Course Toolkit
The purpose of this class toolkit is to assist faculty across Lehigh’s five colleges with integrating Lehigh’s commitment to sustainability and climate action (including key concepts like climate change, climate action, social justice, and resiliency) into your class(es). There are eight different paths this integration can take ranging from minimal to moderate effort.

General Sustainability Resources

AASHE Resources for Faculty
Explore faculty resources and programs to get started right away and find content tailored to help you advance sustainability at your institution from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
Journal of Sustainability Education
Covers research, practices and initiatives that foster the integration of economic, ecological and social-cultural dimensions of sustainability within formal and non-formal educational contexts
United Nations Climate Change research guide
Links to United Nations publications, initiatives, and resources on climate change.
U.N. Sustainable Development Goals

Syllabi and Course Design resources

Climate Literacy and Awareness Network (CLEAN)
Resources in CLEAN include 700+ ready to use lesson plans, scientific data, visualizations, interactive computer models, and virtual field trips that have been peer-reviewed by scientists and educators.
Environmental Literacy and Inquiry Curriculum
Environmental Literacy and Inquiry, sponsored in part by the Lehigh Environmental Initiative, is centered around 5 major areas of Environmental Instruction: energy, climate change, tectonics, land use change, and socio-environmental science investigation.
Open Syllabus Project
The Open Syllabus Project searches textbooks that are used together on the same syllabi, as well as metrics on use and frequency. This may prove useful for building syllabi or identifying alternate textbooks.
Piedmont Project
Sample syllabi and resources from a website that emerged as part of a grassroots faculty effort to strengthen Emory's engagement with environmental issues and sustainability
Strengthening Sustainability Programs and Curricula at the Undergraduate and Graduate Levels
Report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Evidence-based core competencies for interdisciplinary sustainability programs can provide suitable guidance for curricular and program development, research, policy, communication, and pedagogical approaches at academic institutions. They can also serve as a guide for students to select academic programs and potential career options, a reference for employers to understand qualifications of graduates, and the foundation for a potential specialized accreditation for interdisciplinary sustainability programs. The growing demand for well-qualified sustainability professionals within the public, private, and nonprofit sectors also points to the value of developing core competencies.

Climate Change Organizations

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About this guide

This guide offers resources for incorporating sustainability into the wide variety of disciplines taught at Lehigh. As a premier residential research university, Lehigh is preparing students to address the grand challenges of our time by understanding the complex convergence of environmental, social, and economic factors underlying today's challenges and by creating sustainable solutions for our resource-strapped future.

Through the creation of a campus that is a model of sustainability in practice, teaching, and research, Lehigh will enhance awareness and knowledge of sustainable practices and ensure hands on learning is woven into Lehigh's educational experience.

For more information on sustainability efforts at Lehigh, visit Sustainability at Lehigh.

Sustainability Education Books at Lehigh

Social Equity & Sustainability

"Black Environmentalists Talk About Climate and Anti-Racism"
New York Times, Jun 3, 2020
Civic Science Resources for Racial Equity
Civic science seeks to redress systemic racism and other forms of marginalization to advance a more inclusive, diverse, equitable, and resilient future. This collection of resources and calls to action, created and recommended by members of the civic science network, reflects the longstanding work of many, particularly by people of color. It is designed to support shared learning and action to build racial equity and dismantle systemic racism as part of the work of civic science.
Diversity and the Environment Webinar Series
The diversity webinar series from the Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience at Antioch University provides education on diversity in environmental studies and promotes the participation of women, people of color, and other minority groups in the environmental field. Videos highlight the barriers for minorities in the environmental field and strategies for improving diversity and inclusion in research, education, and practice. This webinar series was presented March-June 2020
Environmental Justice Atlas
The EJ Atlas is a teaching, networking and advocacy resource that documents and catalogues social conflict around environmental issues.
"Environmental justice" search results
"How racism manifests in clean energy"
Sarah Golden, GreenBiz, June 5, 2020
National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications
NAMIC's mission is to educate, advocate and empower for multi-ethnic diversity in the communications industry.
Racial Equity Tools
Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large.
"Read Up on the Links Between Racism and the Environment"
by Somini Sengupta, New York Times, June 5, 2020
Talking About Race from NMAAHC
Resources for talking about race from the National Museum of African American History & Culture.
"Transnatural ethics: revisiting the nuclear cleanup of Rocky Flats, CO, through the queer ecology of Nuclia Waste"
Krupar, Shiloh R. "Transnatural ethics: revisiting the nuclear cleanup of Rocky Flats, CO, through the queer ecology of Nuclia Waste." cultural geographies 19, no. 3 (2012): 303-327.
"Trump's EPA Concludes Environmental Racism Is Real"
By Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, Feb 28, 2018
"Unequal Impact: The Deep Links Between Racism and Climate Change"
By Beth Gardiner, Yale Environment 360, June 9, 2020
"Why racial justice is climate justice"
By Claire Elise Thompson, Grist, Jun 4, 2020

Contemporary Studies in Environmental and Indigenous Pedagogies by Andrejs Kulnieks (Volume Editor); Dan Roronhiakewen Longboat (Volume Editor); Kelly Young (Volume Editor)
ISBN: 9789462092938
Publication Date: 2013-06-13
Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities by Sarah Jaquette Ray (Editor); Jay Sibara (Editor); Stacy Alaimo (Foreword by)
Call Number: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/11133478
ISBN: 9781496201690
Publication Date: 2017-06-01
Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between "wild" and "built" environments for several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies. On the other hand, scholars in disability studies have demonstrated the ways in which the built environment privileges some bodies and minds over others, yet they have rarely examined the ways in which toxic environments engender chronic illness and disability or how environmental illnesses disrupt dominant paradigms for scrutinizing "disability." Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities employs interdisciplinary perspectives to examine such issues as slow violence, imperialism, race, toxicity, eco-sickness, the body in environmental justice, ableism, and other topics.
Ecofeminism: Towards Integrating the Concerns of Women, Poor People, and Nature into Development by Jytte Nhanenge
ISBN: 9780761854289
Publication Date: 2011-04-01
Practising Feminist Political Ecologies by Wendy Harcourt (Editor); Ingrid L. Nelson (Editor)
ISBN: 9781783600892
Publication Date: 2015-05-14
Queer Ecologies by Katie Hogan (Contribution by); Gordon Brent Ingram (Contribution by); Rachel Stein (Contribution by); Noël Sturgeon (Contribution by); Nancy C. Unger (Contribution by); LaDelle McWhorter (Contribution by); Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands; Bruce Erickson; Stacy Alaimo (Contribution by); David Bell (Contribution by); Giovanna Di Chiro (Contribution by); Andil Gosine (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780253004741
Publication Date: 2010-07-14

Economic Prosperity and Sustainability

CorporateRegister.com
Search this global directory of CSR reports on sustainability and the environment, covering thousands of companies.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Business: A Guide to Leadership Tasks and Functions
A book that provides an overview of topics such as: Partnering with Stakeholders, Leadership Capabilities and Competencies and Organizational Challenges and Limitations.
Greenbiz Sustainability
Provides articles on current trends in business, technology, and sustainability.
Network for Business Sustainability
Organization providing resources on all things sustainable business

Social Responsibility and Sustainability by Robert A. Corrigan (Foreword by); Tracy McDonald (Editor); Gerald S. Eisman (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781579227258
Publication Date: 2012-03-12
Sustainable Supply Chain Management by Joëlle Morana
The use of Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SuSCM) is now increasingly at the center of thought. However, there are still obstacles to the implementation of SuSCM, including significant costs, the complexity of coordination and the lack of communication within the whole supply chain. This title explores these concepts.
Economics and the Environment by Eban S. Goodstein
ISBN: 0471470546
Publication Date: 2004-02-09

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