- 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 FacultyExplore 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 EducationCovers 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 guideLinks to United Nations publications, initiatives, and resources on climate change.
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 CurriculumEnvironmental 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 ProjectThe 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 ProjectSample 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
- Sample Sustainability AssignmentsMultidisciplinary repository of sample lessons, activities, and syllabi from Penn State faculty
- Strengthening Sustainability Programs and Curricula at the Undergraduate and Graduate LevelsReport from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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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 EquityCivic 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 SeriesThe 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 AtlasThe EJ Atlas is a teaching, networking and advocacy resource that documents and catalogues social conflict around environmental issues.
- "How racism manifests in clean energy"Sarah Golden, GreenBiz, June 5, 2020
- National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in CommunicationsNAMIC's mission is to educate, advocate and empower for multi-ethnic diversity in the communications industry.
- Racial Equity ToolsRacial 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 NMAAHCResources 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 ISBN: 9789462092938Publication Date: 2013-06-13
Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities by Call Number: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/11133478ISBN: 9781496201690Publication Date: 2017-06-01Although 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 ISBN: 9780761854289Publication Date: 2011-04-01
Economic Prosperity and Sustainability
- CorporateRegister.comSearch 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 FunctionsA book that provides an overview of topics such as: Partnering with Stakeholders, Leadership Capabilities and Competencies and Organizational Challenges and Limitations.
- Greenbiz SustainabilityProvides articles on current trends in business, technology, and sustainability.
- Network for Business SustainabilityOrganization providing resources on all things sustainable business
Sustainable Supply Chain Management by 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.
