Sustainability Learning for Action and Community Engagement

This open access volume is a call to action and a toolbox for educators, administrators, community engagement specialists, and workforce developers who want to make their course content, institutional commitments, and outreach projects relevant to twenty-first century learners. The book demonstrates the impact a higher education institution, its faculty, and community partners can have through education and action for sustainability. By being a sustainability educator and doing sustainability work, individuals can create living and learning labs that make such interdisciplinary activity integral to campus life and regional engagement. This book answers the United Nations’ call to universities to step up and address the most urgent crises of our time by marshalling the resources, wisdom and energy of youth and communities to promote active listening, creative expression, greater climate stability, social equity, and, by extension, peace. Visit Earthrise Commons (earthrisecommons.org) for open access teaching materials related to this book, including lesson plans and resources you can adapt, reuse, and remix under a Creative Commons license. Earthrise Commons is a community hub where sustainability learning comes alive through the places and communities you call home. We welcome your contribution to this ongoing, co-creative project.