Green Threads
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Mog,Justin M
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Weaving sustainability into the curriculum. Green Threads: Sustainability Across the CurriculumGreen Threads is an on-going series of workshops for tenured and tenure-track faculty sponsored by the UofL Sustainability Council's Education & Research Committee. The program is designed to expose faculty to sustainability issues and help them weave sustainability themes into existing courses or to create new courses focused on sustainability.
Sustainability in the Classroom
Invitation to ParticipateAre you interested in environmental issues and sustainability? Are you thinking of adapting a course or creating a new course to focus on issues of sustainability? If so, please consider this invitation to participate in Green Threads: Sustainability Across the Curriculum. This faculty development workshop, sponsored by UofL’s Sustainability Council, began in 2009 and a new Green Threads cohort forms each April. The process of bringing faculty together to discuss sustainability across the curriculum was pioneered at Northern Arizona University (Ponderosa Project) and Emory University (Piedmont Project), and their approach has garnered national attention for engaging faculty in collegial experiences leading to curricular change. In the Green Threads workshop, we explore a variety of ways to embed issues of sustainability into the curriculum and into our classrooms. Participants receive an honorarium of $500, information on local and regional sustainability issues, and resource materials as well as have opportunities to network with other faculty. Previous participants have evaluated this workshop as intellectually stimulating and exciting! The workshop is open to tenured and tenure-track faculty. Green Threads participants must agree to: 
We look forward to hearing from you. Green is really happening here! Best, Resources for Teaching about Sustainability
Sustainability Course Books Available!The Education & Research committee has acquired the full set of excellent course books produced by the Northwest Earth Institute and is eager to loan them out to anyone at UofL interested in weaving sustainability into their courses or educational events. Contact Justin Mog at 502-852-8575 or justin.mog (at) louisville.edu. Course books available include: VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY This course explores the personal and environmental benefits of simplicity. Topics covered include: The Meaning of Simplicity ♦ Living With Less ♦ Making a Living ♦ Do You Have the Time? ♦ Living Simply on Earth ♦ Celebration & Call to Action DISCOVERING A SENSE OF PLACE This course considers the potential benefits of knowing and protecting our place. Will a commitment to the local bioregion affect our willingness to accept responsibility to care for the Earth? Topics covered include: A Sense of Place ♦ Responsibility to Place ♦ Knowing Your Bioregion ♦ Living in Place ♦ Mapping Your Place ♦ Building Local Community ♦ Empowerment ♦ Celebration & Call to Action CHOICES FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING Each of us makes choices that have an impact on the Earth. In this course, learn about which options are more sustainable than others. Topics covered include: A Call to Sustainability ♦ Ecological Principles ♦ Food ♦ Buying ♦ Communities ♦ Business and Economy ♦ Visions of Sustainability ♦ Celebration & Call to Action MENU FOR THE FUTURE This course explores food systems and their impacts on culture, society and ecological systems. Participants will gain insight into agricultural and individual practices that promote personal and ecological well-being. Topics covered include: What’s Eating America ♦ Anonymous Food ♦ Farming for the Future ♦ You Are What You Eat ♦ Towards a Just Food System ♦ Choices for Change ♦ Celebration & Call to Action HEALTHY CHILDREN—HEALTHY PLANET This course explores the influence our fast-paced, consumer-oriented society has on children, and how families can deal with these influences. Topics covered include: Cultural Pressures ♦ Family Rituals and Celebrations ♦ Advertising ♦ Food and Health ♦ Time and Creativity ♦ Technology and the Media ♦ Exploring Nature ♦ Celebration & Call to Action GLOBAL WARMING: CHANGING CO2URSE Learn more about the history and science of global warming. Explore personal values and habits as they relate to climate change and consider actions to curb global warming. Topics covered include: Off Course ♦ Collision Course ♦ Changing Course ♦ Setting a New Course ♦ Celebration & Call to Action SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS AT WORK This five session course for the workplace is designed to further organizational sustainability initiatives. Session topics include: Seeing the Big Picture ♦ Taking a Closer Look ♦ Framing Sustainability ♦ Seeing It Through ♦ Focusing on Action A WORLD OF HEALTH: CONNECTING PEOPLE, PLACE, AND PLANET A six-session discussion guide that explores "good health," the connections between human health and the environment, and how we can sustain both. Session topics include: Redefining Health ♦ Eating Well ♦ Building Healthy Communities ♦ Curing Consumption ♦ Healthy Planet-Healthy People RECONNECTING WITH EARTH A six-session course addressing core values and how they affect the way we view and treat the Earth. This discussion course is designed to: clarify values through discussions about our relationship to Earth; discover how personal beliefs and values affect the way we view and treat the earth; and explore what it means to take personal responsibility for Earth. Session topics include: Wild Nature ♦ Shifting Paradigms ♦ Nature and Spirit ♦ The Universe Story ♦ Ecopsychology ♦ Bringing it Down to Earth JUST BELOW THE SURFACE: PERSPECTIVES ON THE GULF COAST OIL SPILL A one session discussion guide that explores the connections between
Deepwater Horizon, energy policies and our lifestyles. The course offers
an opportunity to reflect further on this historical event and the
lessons it holds for us moving forward—individually and collectively.
The intent is not to assign blame, but rather to take responsibility—as
conscious consumers and concerned, active citizens.
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Participants receive inspiration, resources, and mutual support. Incentives also include an honorarium of $500, a series of workshops and tours with local food meals, and resource materials on sustainability.
