Sustainability
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.”
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Many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are addressed in our series of research guides: “Expanding Our Worldview”
International Agreements
Podcasts
Podcasts
- Clarkson Ignite Podcast
- Crowdsourcing Sustainability
- Global Goalscast
- Green Dreamer
- Greenbiz 350
- No Little Plans
- Outrage + Optimism
- SDG’s: The Rising Tide
- Sustainababble
- Sustainability Agenda
- Sustainability Defined
- Sustainable Futures Report
- Sustainable(ish)
- UN SDG: Learn Podcast
- Think Sustainability
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
- Timeline of the Environmental Justice Movement 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 here.
Collections
Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Sustainability
Upcoming SDG Events at Clarkson
- Announcements about Sustainability at Clarkson
- Food Insecurity and Nutrition Education Conference April 9, 2022 from 9:00am-3:00pm.
- Sustainability Day and Green Living Fair – April 22 -23
