Course Readings:
All of the readings for SUST 101 can be found within Canvas (and should be accessed from there in order to earn credit for associated work).
Textbooks:
Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation (2021 edition edited by Heriberto Cabezas. Sourced from GALILEO Open Learning Materials)
The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science. A multimedia web siteby Learner.org (Release date: 2007)
Supplemental Material:
An Introduction to Sustainability
Systems Thinking
"The U.N.'s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to transform our world"
Ecology & the Environment
The Sixth Mass Extinction:
Miscellaneous Helpful/Additional Resources
Ecosystems: the video introduction to the The Habitable Planet's chapter on Ecosystems
Biodiversity Decline: the video introduction to the The Habitable Planet's chapter on Ecosystems
The Skeptics Society’s Baloney Detection Kit costs money, but this link takes you to the freely available Junior Skeptics version. It's for a younger audience, but it is still excellent: “An Easy Guide to Baloney Detection.”
Earth Jurisprudence/Wild Law
"The Rights of Mother Earth": an essay by Pablo Solón that provides a thorough overview of Earth Jurisprudence/Wild Law and related concepts.
Climate
From the Center for International Environmental Law (https://www.ciel.org/): This link, https://www.smokeandfumes.org/fumes, includes a great overview video and a trove of documents outlining how the Oil Industry discovered and then worked to confuse the science on climate change much earlier than previously thought--at least the 1950s. Scroll down or click on the dots on the lower right of the screen to read the many documents they've uncovered.
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