What is Sustainability?
A common definition of sustainability comes from a 1987 United Nations Report, Our Common Future: “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
The Global Goals We’ve Made Progress On — and the ones were haven’t. Michael Green
Many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are addressed in our series of research guides: “Expanding Our Worldview”
General Information
International Agreements
Articles & Collections
News & Popular Reading
- 2022 Journalist’s Guide to Energy and the Environment: Year Ahead
- Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
- Pollution Is Killing Black Americans
- Extinction Rebellion News
- Grist Magazine
- NPR News: Sustainable Development
- Civil Rights are Green: A Concise History of Environmental Racism and Justice in the US
- UN News
- U.S. News: Environmental Justice
- U.S. News: Sustainable Development
Academic
- Challenge Based Learning
- Development and validation of an instrument for measuring student sustainability competencies
- Education for Sustainable Development Goals
- The Future of Sustainability
- Global Learning for Sustainable Development
- Revitalizing the global alliances for sustainable development
- See more in the Library Catalog
Sustainability at
Clarkson University is committed to sustainability throughout the institution. Working across campus and with local area resources, we are adjusting common practices to achieve our sustainable goals.
Groups and Goals
- Institute for Sustainable Development (ISE)
- Clarkson University has committed to “sustainability in all we do.”
- Clarkson University Libraries is now officially certified (and the first academic library) in the Sustainable Libraries Initiative
- Clarkson’s Strategic Planning Embodies the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals
- Sustainability News at Clarkson