Concentration 5
“Sustainability looks to protect our natural environment, human and ecological health, while driving innovation and not compromising our way of life.“
Matthew Mason, What Is Sustainability and Why Is It Important?, environmentalscience.org
Overview
Module 1 – Confronting Our Complex Climate Crisis – 9 Courses
Module 2 – Sustainability, Society and You – 16 Courses
Module 3 – Renewable Energy Technologies – 7 Courses
Module 4 – Environmental Philosophy – 9 Courses
Module 5 – Religions and Ecology – 6 Courses
Module 6 – Journey of the Universe – 4 Courses
Module 7 – Sustainable Cities – 7 Courses
Module 8 – Green Building – 11 Courses
Module 9 – Environmental Entrepreneurship – 8 Courses
Module 10 – Solving Our Complex Climate Crisis – 8 Courses
Diplomas – 73 CertificatesÂ
Final Project – Serving as a Sustainability Change Agent
I built this concentration to fully understand the global ramifications of the climate crisis and how we can go about solving it in a way that is mutually enhancing for the natural environment and human being alike…
“The orientation toward the natural world should be understood in relation to all human activities. The Earth would be our primary teacher in industry and economics. It would teach us a system in which there would be a minimum of unusable or unfruitful waste.“
Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way Into The Future, 1999:64-5