Curricular Initiatives
Curriculum for the Bioregion |
 BIBLIOGRAPHY & RESOURCES | Toxic Chemicals in People
This bibliography provides resources to address the statement: Toxics Chemicals in Washingtonians and What We Can Do about It.
Karen Bowman, MN, RN, COHN-S.
Environmental Justice Resources in Washington
This robust document includes a wide range of Environmental Justice resources from articles and books, to films and internet resources.
Millie Piazza, Environmental Justice Coordinator, Wa. State Department of Ecology. 2008.
 Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Indicators
The Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Indicators give a glimpse into the environmental conditions of our home, including the interactions between over seven million people and a complex system of water, animals and tiny microorganisms. By 2020, we will add another two million people to the Basin, without a corresponding increase in land and related natural resources.
Puget Sound Partnership
This website features the work of Washington State's Puget Sound Partnership. Information can be found here about the Puget Sound Water Quality Management Plan, the science and politics of "Shared Waters" between Washington State and British Columbia, and opportunities for public education and involvement.
Puget Sound River History Project
The Puget Sound River History Project, a project of the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, studies the historical landscape of Puget Sound's lowland rivers and estuaries as a dynamically linked geophysical, ecological, and human system. The site has some research, impressive interactive data and a number of recommended publications.
The Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington
The Climate Impacts Group (CIG) is an interdisciplinary research group studying the impacts of natural climate variability and global climate change (global warming) on the U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW). Through research and interaction with regional stakeholders, the CIG works to increase the resilience of the Pacific Northwest to fluctuations in climate.
Washington State Dept. of Ecology Climate Change Site
This section of the DOE's website is full of information about what Climate Change is and how our region is impacted. Check out "Climate Change Effects in Washington", look at climate change news, see what Washington State is doing about it and link to the sites of partners.
 CONFERENCE MATERIALS | Sustainability Across the Curriculum Summer Institute Agenda Brief
Our Summer Institute was held at the University of Puget Sound. It was a 4-day conference for institutional teams integrating sustainability across the curriculum. There was a competitive application process for the campus team spots. The teams were charged with the responsibility of using a Seed Grant to take a plan back to their campuses that would expose other faculty members to Sustainability Across the Curriculum. This agenda brief includes the schedule of events and bios of the speakers, explanations of the concurrent sessions and the field trips.
Jean MacGregor. 2008. July.
CONFERENCE MATERIALS | Building Bioregional Literacy
Presenters, field trip leaders and resource contributers at our "Building Bioregional Literacy" conference have provided their resources, websites and teaching approaches. Please open the word document and click on the blue, hyperlinked title of the resource that interests you to view it in its entirety.
Presenters/contributers at our conference at PLU. 2007. March 9th.
CONFERENCE MATERIALS | Teaching for a Sustainable Future
Presenters at our "Teaching for a Sustainable Future Conference" have contributed some examples of exercises, courses, workshops and concepts that they have developed or have found success with. Please open the word document and click on the blue, hyperlinked title of the resource that interests you to view it in its entirety.
Contributors/Presenters at our Evergreen Tacoma Conference. 2006. November 10th.
Examples of Bioregional Quizzes
These bioregional quizzes can be used as they are or can inspire the creation of other quizzes.
Facing the Future: People and the Planet
Facing the Future equips teachers and schools with tools and strategies to help students understand global issues and sustainability in order to help create thriving, sustainable, and peaceful local and global communities. This website provides information about their workshops and consulting services, links to service learning research and tools, and an extensive bibliography.
Oceanography/Environment 260: The Puget Sound Ecosystem
This interdisciplanary University of Washington course is an overview of the science and management of the Puget Sound land and water ecosystem. The course page has many resources, a draft syllabus, links and sample course material.
2008. Autumn.
The Piedmont Project
A curriculum development project that seeks to foster an invigorated intellectual community to address global issues and local environmental awareness.
Water on the Web
Water on the Web (WOW) helps college and high school students understand and solve real-world environmental problems using advanced technology.
WOW is a complete package containing two sets of curricula, data from many lakes and rivers nationwide, extensive online primers, data interpretation and Geographic Information System Tools, and additional supporting materials. This site has a handy "curricula lesson index" that makes looking for a specific lesson simple.
Various Email Listservs from AASHE
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education has many relevant listservs one can subscribe to, including a Campus Ecology E-Newsletter, an Energy Discussion list and a Sustainability Discussion list. Check these, and others, out. Simply sign up for the ones you'd like to see in your email inbox.
DIRECTORY | Environmental Justice
This document is a work-in-progress directory for Environmental Justice non-profit organizations, tribal and governmental contacts in Washington State.
Millie Piazza, Environmental Justice Coordinator, Wa. State Department of Ecology. 2007.
RESOURCES | Environmental Justice
This robust document includes a wide range of Environmental Justice resources from articles and books, to films and internet resources.
Millie Piazza, Environmental Justice Coordinator, Wa. State Department of Ecology. 2008.
BIBLIOGRAPHY | Environmental Justice & Environmental Racism
Annotated bibliographies from the Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics, at the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Community Coalition for Environmental Justice
Community Coalition for Environmental Justice's (CCEJ) mission is to achieve environmental and economic justice in low-income communities and communities of color. CCEJ believes that everyone, regardless of race or income, has the right to a clean and healthy community.
Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University
This center was founded by EJ scholar/activist Robert Bullard. It is home to path-breakers in research, community-based projects, technical outreach and political strategy. The website hosts EJ resources, archives, curriculum resource guide, video productions, links, and more.
BIBLIOGRAPHY | Sustainability in Higher Education: An Annotated Bibliography
A comprehensive, annotated collection of citations pertaining to sustainability in the higher education sector, complemented by a selection of books on sustainability in general, and engaged citizenship.
Jean MacGregor, Kim McNamara, Natalie Pyrooz. 2008. Spring.
Connecting Higher Ed. to Communities Through Community-Based Research
Evergreen faculty member Lin Nelson has put together a resource list called Education and Research in Democratic Context: Connecting Higher Education to Communities Through Community-Based Research (CBR). This annotated list includes CBR as related to popular education, participatory research, action research and service-learning in their various efforts to be collaborative, engaged and grounded in civil society.
Lin Nelson, The Evergreen State College. July 2008.
DEFINITIONS & RESOURCES | Sustainability, Environmental Justice and Bioregions
The three terms are defined at length and a resource list follows with publications and relevant websites.
Jean MacGregor, The Washington Center 'Curriculum for the Bioregion' Initiative. August 2007.
Sustainability Learning Outcomes
Over 130 faculty members involved in the Curriculum for the Bioregion initiative helped shape this set of sustainability learning outcomes. We organized them into three broad categories, "big ideas, skills, and habits of mind." We hope this list will stimulate conversation and integration across the entire curriculum. Feedback and improvements are most welcome; write us at bioregion@evergreen.edu.
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
This website features many resources to assist campus sustainability efforts, including a sustainability policy bank, a campus sustainability professionals page, interest groups, publications, classroom resources, and useful links for virtually every aspect of campus operations. AASHE is a membership-based association of colleges and universities working to advance sustainability in higher education in the U.S. and Canada.
College & University Sustainability Report Card
This Sustainability Report Card rates college campus greening practices. A link to the 2008 report, release date of late September, is included.
2008. Late September.
Teaching for a Positive Future
Teaching for a Positive Future is a project in the Woodring College of Education at Western Washington University that seeks to infuse education or sustainability into the preservice preparation of teachers. Visit the website for more information about this project.
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education Home Page
As per their website: "The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (IJSHE) is...the first scholarly publication to specifically address the need for the dissemination of information on sustainability matters at higher education institutions."
Look at sample articles or ask a reference librarian if your institution's library has the online subscription. It is probably cost prohibitive for a private subscriber. If your school does not have it and you like what you see, put in a request and perhaps they will order it!
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
This is a FREE online journal. NOTE: The home page does state that: "[t]he e-Journal is available free to all to read, download, copy, and reproduce for any scientific purposes without asking the author or publisher for permission to do so. The source of the article must however be clearly indicated. Copyright is retained by the author."
Simply click on the "Current Issue" link at the top of the page to access articles, essays and book reviews related to sustainability from a variety of international authors.
Arnold Creek Productions, Inc.
A member of the Sustainable Business Network and the U.S. Partnership Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, Arnold Creek Productions aims to create educational and inspirational media that supports the principles of sustainability and improves the lives of all people. This site is home to a blog, sustainability video shorts, production services and more.
BOOK | Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement In the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and hidden history, which date back many centuries. A culmination of Hawken's many years of leadership in the environmental and social justice fields, it will inspire and delight any and all who despair of the world's fate, and its conclusions will surprise even those within the movement itself. Fundamentally, it is a description of humanity's collective genius, and the unstoppable movement to reimagine our relationship to the environment and one another.
BOOK | Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and the University
The book Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and the University posits that universities and colleges are in a unique position to take a leadership role on global warming. As communities, they can strategize and organize effective action. As laboratories for learning and centers of research, they can reduce their own emissions of greenhouse gases, educate students about global warming, and direct scholarly attention to issues related to climate change and energy.
This book is a useful tool for faculty members as the authors suggest climate action projects for the classroom and some of the chapters stand alone well.
2007.
BOOK | Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century, by Julian Keniry
This book highlights staff-initiated campus environmental reform, and details the best management practices in eight major categories: purchasing; landscaping and grounds; transportation; parking and fleet maintenance; energy and utilities; dining services; communications; and solid and hazardous waste management.
BOOK | Place-Based Education in the Global Age: Local Diversity
This is a powerfully relevant volume for researchers, teacher educators, and students across the fields of curriculum theory, educational foundations, critical pedagogy, multicultural education, and environmental education. Please read the publishers description for a great description of this promising book. Now Available!
BOOK | Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University, by Michael M'Gonigle & Justine Starke
Planet U places the university at the forefront of the sustainability movement. Questioning the university's ability to equip society to deal with today's serious challenges such as economic growth, democratic citizenship and planetary survival, it calls for a new social movement to take a lead in reforming the university - the world's largest industry.
YES! Magazine
YES! A Journal of Positive Futures is an award-winning quarterly magazine that invites readers to be part of a global community of change makers.
Each issue focuses on a theme, showing the possibilities and practical steps that can lead us all to a more positive future. In each issue you also find book reviews, practical advice for living more sustainably, the page that counts, special features, columns, and short "indicators."
Faculty/Staff Survey Results used 2005-06
In addition to extensive interviews with faculty and staff members on our 18 participating campuses, we invited faculty and staff to tell us more about their work and ideas for curriculum for the bioregion through a detailed online survey. The 131 faculty and staff members who completed this survey are all actively engaged in environmental or sustainability studies or sustainability-related campus projects or have interests in these topics. The online survey was not designed as a random sample; rather, the intent was to learn what already-engaged faculty and staff members are doing now and to hear their ideas and advice about directions this initiative might take. However, the results provide a useful snapshot of faculty perspectives about bioregional curriculum and teaching for a sustainable future.
Institutional Survey
We asked each of the 18 campuses participating in the inquiry and planning phase of our project to report on where and how bioregional learning, sustainability studies, and civic engagement is now occurring in the curriculum, and what institutional building blocks are now in place to support these emphases. Individuals or small campus teams completed these surveys.
Institutional Survey used 2005-06
Seventeen pilot campuses in the Puget Sound region are completing an institutional survey related to environment, community, and sustainability. This survey, however, would be useful to any campus interested in assessing its program with respects to bioregional curriculum or education for sustainability.
Student Survey Results used 2005-06
During the inquiry and planning phase for this initiative, we gleaned student perspectives from two sources: a short online survey completed by 490 students, and meetings with approximately 500 students in campus leadership groups and in an array of undergraduate classes. The online survey was not set up as a random sample; rather, the intent was to gather a range of student perspectives from different classes and campuses. Most of the student respondents were enrolled in various lower-division, general education classes.
Audubon Washington
Audubon Washington, a field office of the National Audubon Society, works with our 26 affiliated Audubon societies, called chapters, and 20,000 members statewide to protect our great natural heritage of birds, other wildlife, and healthy lands and waters.
Climate Solutions
Climate Solutions mission is to accelerate practical and profitable solutions to global warming by galvanizing leadership, growing investment and bridging divides.
The regional organizing approach is transforming the global warming debate in the region and laying the groundwork for a successful, multi-stakeholder climate action agenda. Climate Solutions is generating fresh political momentum for energy and transportation solutions that benefit the region's economy and quality-of-life.
Community Coalition for Environmental Justice
Community Coalition for Environmental Justice's (CCEJ) mission is to achieve environmental and economic justice in low-income communities and communities of color. CCEJ believes that everyone, regardless of race or income, has the right to a clean and healthy community.
Conservation Northwest
Conservation Northwest protects and connects old-growth forests and other wild areas from the Washington Coast to the BC Rockies, vital to a healthy future for us, our children and wildlife.
E3 Washington
E3 Washington is an initiative for an inclusive process to develop a comprehensive statewide environmental education plan that optimizes environmental education for everyone who lives, learns, works, and plays in Washington State.
Eco Encore (in the Pacific Northwest)
Donate used books books, CD's and DVD's. This innovative project finds buyers for these items, diverting them from landfills and channeling the proceeds into organizations working to protect the environment.
Environmental Education Association of Washington
This organization aims to improve student learning and achievement, enhance business practices, and support sustainable communities through environmental education. The website offers an overview of the organization, links to EE learning centers and organizations, and EEAW news articles.
Sightline Institute
Home of the Cascadia Scorecard, Sightline Institute is a wonderful local resource with a website that has loads of current content. The site focuses on Cascadia/The Pacific Northwest. Check out its maps and graphics or sign up for the Sightline Daily (formerly the Tidepool), its newsletter.
Sustainable Style Foundation
The Sustainable Style Foundation (SSF) is an international, member-supported nonprofit organization created to provide information, resources and innovative programs that promote sustainable living and sustainable design.
"Look fabulous, live well, do good" is the motto of this sustainable style weblog.
The Cascade Agenda
The Cascade Agenda is a 100-year program that conserves more than 1.26 million acres of land from Puget Sound to the Columbia River, encourages wise development of homes and business in the growing four-county area and fosters a non-regulatory, market-based approach to cooperation between business and conservationists.
Washington Toxics Coalition
Washington Toxics Coalition (WTC) protects public health and the environment by eliminating toxic pollution. WTC promotes alternatives, advocates policies, empowers communities, and educates people to create a healthy environment.
Whidbey Institute for Earth, Spirit, and The Human Future
Visit this website to access the many publications, interviews, speeches, conference notes, tape and video recordings, and presentations captured in a variety of different media that are born out of the Whidbey Institute.
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.
Washington Campus Compact
WACC is coalition of college and university presidents who have come together to advance the civic purposes of higher education. Programs and initiatives include Campus Connections, Students in Service, and Washington Reading Corps. They provide services such as training AmeriCorps members, implementing key annual events, and providing technical assistance for campus constituents involved in WACC programs. Has your president signed?
American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment
The American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment is a high-visibility effort to address global warming by garnering institutional commitments to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions, and to accelerate the research and educational efforts of higher education to equip society to re-stabilize the earth's climate.
Campaign for Environmental Literacy
The Campaign for Environmental Literacy was formally established in February 2005 as a response to the environmental education (EE) community's most vital political need: concerted support from the federal government.
Campus Climate Challenge
The Campus Climate Challenge is a project of more than 30 leading youth organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Challenge leverages the power of young people to organize on college campuses and high schools across Canada and the U.S. to win 100% Clean Energy policies at their schools.
Campus Ecology, National Wildlife Federation
Visit this website and learn how the NWF's Campus Ecology Program has helped transform college and university campuses into living models of ecological sustainable societies.
Focus the Nation
Focus the Nation is coordinating teams of faculty and students at over a thousand colleges, universities and K-12 schools in the United States, to collaboratively engage in a nationwide, interdisciplinary discussion about 'Global Warming Solutions for America'.
FORUM: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development
The Forum on Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development is an attempt to outline the burgeoning field. Rather than looking broadly at sustainability, the Forum focuses on the way in which science and innovation can be conducted and applied to meet human needs while preserving the life support systems of the planet. It highlights people and programs that are studying nature-society interactions and applying the resulting knowledge to create a sustainability transition around the world.
Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium
HEASC is an informal network of higher education associations (HEAs) with a commitment to advancing sustainability within their constituencies and within the system of higher education itself.
International Sustainable Solutions: Share the Knowledge
International Sustainable Solutions works with governments, corporations and non-profits to create healthy, economically robust cities, where people and nature thrive. Look at the Commuter Toolkit, see their current projects and visit their Learning Center, which has papers, articles and presentations.
Second Nature
Second Nature's Education for Sustainability Profiles highlight institutions that are leaders in sustainability in the areas of community involvement, curriculum change, greening the campus, institutional transformation and sustainability research.
University Leaders for a Sustainable Future
The Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF) works to strengthen the capacity of colleges and universities to make sustainability and environmental literacy a major focus of teaching, research, service, and operations.
US Partnership
A decade of education for sustainable development: United Nations Decade (2005-2014). The US Partnership consists of individuals, organizations and institutions in the United States dedicated to education for sustainable development (ESD). It acts as a convener, catalyst, and communicator working across all sectors of American society.
Pacific Lutheran University's Sustainability Committee
PLU's Sustainability Committee's Mission is: " To promote and celebrate sustainability at PLU." See what they are doing now.
Sustainability at University of Puget Sound
Details of University of Puget Sound's three different Sustainability Task Forces and information about what the school is doing on campus.
The Evergreen State College Sustainability Task Force
This website has links, stories, meeting minutes, Evergreen's paper consumption, frequently asked questions and more. Here is Evergreen's vision for a sustainable future: The Evergreen State College will be a laboratory for sustainability as demonstrated in its operations, curriculum, and quality of life for employees and students. We will nurture values and practical skills that motivate a lifetime commitment to a sustainable, intergenerationally just, way of living on a healthy planet.
Western Washington University Office of Sustainability
Western Washington University strives to be a national leader in campus sustainability.
From a commitment to green energy and waste reduction to WWU's sustainability committee and sustainability-minded courses, WWU incorporates sustainability into many areas of campus operations and academics.
The WWU Office of Sustainability is dedicated to furthering Western's strategic goal of campus sustainability.
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