Curricula
Living Sustainably: It's Your Choice
This guide and materials introduce the concept of sustainable living, identify barriers and how to overcome them, and help you decide how to incorporate sustainable behaviors into your life
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Living Sustainably - It's Your Choice - booklet from the OSU Extension Service
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Living Sustainably: It's Your Choice - slides from a presentation about the National Network for Sustainable Living Education. The presentation with a voice-over with tips for using this curriculum is available here.
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Living Sustainably Worksheets - 1 per page - 2 per page
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A Vision for Relevance - Should Cooperative Extension galvanize and lead a public shift to sustainability in response to climate change?
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Sustainable Living Education: A Call to All Extension - Journal of Extension article
Global Change Resources
The US Global Change Research Information Office provides excellent environmental education curricula from K through postgraduate.
A New Course for Higher Education: Sustainability across the Campus
Promotes understanding about sustainability at colleges and universities. Intended as a snapshop of the sustainability programs and activities at a range of public and private institutions across the U.S.
This framework, from Second Nature: Education for Sustainability, suggests critical themes for university-level coursework.
The University Modeling Sustainability as an Institution (PDF)
Taking an integrated approach to sustainability education. From Second Nature: Education for Sustainability
"Stuff" Curriculum and Resource Guide (PDF)
These education materials are designed to be used with Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things by John Ryan and Alan Durning.
Rethinking the American Dream
A video and companion guide designed to raise awareness about our nation’s consumptive ways, help viewers evaluate their current lifestyles, and introduce choices that can improve our natural environment and quality of life.
Simple Living: Choosing an Uncluttered, Focused, Rich Life
A two-hour introductory curriculum for adults and older youth, with instructors guide and supporting materials.
| • Teacher's Guide | • Bookmarks (PDF) | |
| • Discussion Cards (PDF) | • Unshopping Card (PDF): Single - Multiple | |
| • Participant Handout | • Lesson Evaluation Form(PDF) |
Education for Sustainable Development Tool Kit
An easy-to-use manual to help communities - and the educational systems within communities - dovetail their sustainability efforts.
Recycle City
The Environmental Protection Agency's Recycle City Web site offers students an interactive way to learn how recycling can affect their environment.
Sustainable Development Education: Confronting Global Issues with Decision-making Tools
Models, curricula, and online teacher professional development materials for integrating sustainability into daily learning.