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Environmental Sustainability (BA)

  • Earlham College (IN)

The Major in Environmental Sustainability prepares students for this through a collection of multi-disciplinary courses and a core Environmental Sustainability course sequence that helps students to frame and link those ...

  • Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Environmental Sustainability Minor

  • Earlham College (IN)

The Minor in Environmental Sustainability is open to students of any major who wish to study the environment from interdisciplinary perspectives. Environmental sustainability is an interdisciplinary field that integrates natural ...

  • Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Integrated Pathway in Outdoor Education

  • Earlham College (IN)

The Outdoor Education Integrated Pathway is designed to prepare students for a leadership role in the Outdoor Education industry, and/or in programs with remote or extended fieldwork components. Through ...

  • Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Integrated Pathway in Sustainability and Management

  • Earlham College (IN)

The Sustainability and Management Integrated Pathway seeks to provide students with: An understanding of environmental issues that will face future organizational leaders, an understanding of how business and governmental organizations ...

  • Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Integrated Pathway in Art, Nature, and Conservation

  • Earlham College (IN)

The Art, Nature and Conservation Integrated Pathway is designed for students to explore the intersections of art, creativity, nature and conservation. Through a combination of coursework, hands-on and experiential learning ...

  • Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Integrated Pathway in Sustainable Agriculture

  • Earlham College (IN)

The coursework and applied experiences in the Sustainable Agriculture Integrated Pathway engage students in different elements of food and agricultural systems, ranging from the soil to plants to production processes ...

  • Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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A Plan for A Zero-Waste Earlham

  • Earlham College (IN)

This research focused on waste streams at Earlham; specifically, we looked at how to reduce the amount of waste produced on campus and how to improve diversion from landfills. A ...

  • Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Diverting Waste, Fostering Community, and Making "Used" Useful

  • Earlham College (IN)

In recent years, the Earlham College Student Sustainability Corps has experienced success and growth in their waste diversion programs. These include a permanent Free Store, a yearly Move-Out Program, and ...

  • Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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From Theory to Practice: Applied Community Projects in Environmental Capstone Courses

  • Earlham College (IN)

Over the past five years, Environmental Studies and Environmental Sustainability seniors at Earlham College have completed an 'integrated research project (IRP)' in collaboration with a community partner. The IRP is ...

  • Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Finding the Hidden Gems While Building Community: Place-based Pre-orientation Programs at Earlham College

  • Earlham College (IN)

Earlham College's PLACE (Perspectives on Living and Community Engagement) Program, first offered in 2015, aims to connect incoming students with the local community, student and faculty leaders, and one ...

  • Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Teaching Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Earlham College (IN)
  • Luther College (IA)
  • Rice University (TX)
  • Stephen F. Austin State University (TX)
  • Wells College (NY)
  • Willamette University (OR)

The purpose of this session is to provide an informal discussion forum for faculty teaching in the humanities and sciences who are engaged in integrating sustainability into their courses. Each ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Critical Perspectives on Sustainability

  • Earlham College (IN)

Sustainability education can take on value stances that are, at times, taken-for-granted and uninterrogated. In an effort to educate students and raise awareness, advocacy can justifiably take the place of ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Small Campuses, Big Impacts: Making Sustainability Work in Smaller, Liberal Arts Schools

  • Dickinson College (PA)
  • Earlham College (IN)
  • Furman University (SC)
  • Luther College (IA)

In this panel presentation, teaching faculty and sustainability staff from several smaller, liberal arts schools will discuss the challenges and lessons learned in implementing sustainability across the curriculum, the co-curriculum ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Experiencing Sustainability: Thinking Deeper About Experiential Education in Higher Education

  • Earlham College (IN)

Jack Turner once wrote "we treat the natural world according to our experience of it."" How are our students "experiencing sustainability" in U.S. colleges and universities? With the rise ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Pedagogy of Place: Sustainability and Sense of Place in Higher Education

  • Earlham College (IN)

This paper reports on the findings of a grant project funded by the Great Lakes College Association that employed experiential learning methodology in an environmental philosophy class entitled "Pedagogies of ...

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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3 kW Rooftop Array: Dennis Hall

  • Earlham College (IN)

Green Science Group collaborates with Physics, Computer Science and Environmental Science on environmental projects. They have been responsible for a solar array and grid-tie system in Dennis Hall.

  • Posted Aug. 11, 2011
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