Studies in Sustainability and Justice

At Evergreen, we take a "seven generations" approach to questions of how to sustain human life and community in harmony with the planet. This is a cross-generational, ecologic ethic that has descended to us from the Haudenoshaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.  We offer students who embrace this ethic the opportunity to design a curricular pathway that focuses on issues of sustainability. 

In the catalog, you can find programs in environmental studies, social justice, the humanities and the arts, to help you build the background, skills and vision needed to make change in areas that count—climate change, food systems, cultural survival, environmental justice, media and communications, applied ecology, green business and beyond.

In addition, the College’s Center for Community-Based Learning and Action works with programs to involve students in community-based work with a wide range of service, study and governance organizations in our area. Students also have chances to apply their studies to Evergreen itself.  Our Sustainability Task Force works with food services, purchasing, facilities, heat and power—even parking—to reduce our environmental and social impacts and enhance the health of the college’s land and people, and its presence in the wider community.

BACKGROUND: The Haudenoshaunee, whose historical lands and continuous home is in what is now the Northeast US/Southeast Canada. consist of the Mohawk, Oneida, Tuscarora, Onondoga, Cayuga and Seneca Nations, and continue to provide leadership in educating people in how to conceive of planetary stewardship and ensuring the health of human and animal populations.

Programs

Climate Change	Lower Division			Spring
Conceptualizing Native Place	All level	Fall	Winter
Environmental Health: Science, Policy and Social Justice Faculty Signature Required	Junior/Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
Food, Health and Sustainability	All level	Fall	Winter
Food, Place and Culture	All level			Spring
Green Studio Revised: 05/13/2008 Faculty Signature Required	All level	Fall	Winter	Spring
Legacy of the American Dream: People, Power and Nature Revised: 05/09/2008	Core	Fall	Winter
NEW! Living in the Sacred Garden	Core	Fall	Winter	Spring
Mediaworks in Context: Sustainability and Justice Revised: 05/02/2008 Faculty Signature Required	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
The Olympic Peninsula	All level	Fall	Winter
Practice of Sustainable Agriculture Faculty Signature Required	Junior/Senior	Fall		Spring
NEW! Student Originated Studies: Community Development Faculty Signature Required	Junior/Senior			Spring
The Pacific Northwest: History, Culture and Environment	Core			Spring
Toward a Sustainable Puget Sound: Place, People and Policy	Core	Fall	Winter	Spring
Venezuela: Building Economic and Social Justice Faculty Signature Required	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Why Businesses Succeed: Designing A Sustainable Company	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Writing for Change	Sophomore to Senior	Fall