Comments on: This week’s good ideas in campus sustainability: 11/9/09 http://www.globalchangeblog.com/2009/11/this-weeks-good-ideas-in-campus-sustainability-11909/ Intersection of Nature and Culture Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:22:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Mark McCaffrey http://www.globalchangeblog.com/2009/11/this-weeks-good-ideas-in-campus-sustainability-11909/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Mark McCaffrey Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:54:09 +0000 http://www.globalchangeblog.com/?p=1506#comment-49 Reducing energy/carbon footprints is important, but as challenging as they are, they are low-hanging fruit compared with "making courses and other educational experiences" available to all students. Students can easily graduate without having basic competencies around climate and energy sciences, let along the massive challenge of building resilient communities or achieving true sustainability. Some of you might be interested in the article I published recently on Transforming the Academy: Fostering a Climate Literate, Energy Aware, Science Savvy Society" in the President's Climate Commitment newsletter: http://cires.colorado.edu/blogs/mccaffrey/2009/11/04/157/ Reducing energy/carbon footprints is important, but as challenging as they are, they are low-hanging fruit compared with “making courses and other educational experiences” available to all students. Students can easily graduate without having basic competencies around climate and energy sciences, let along the massive challenge of building resilient communities or achieving true sustainability.

Some of you might be interested in the article I published recently on Transforming the Academy: Fostering a Climate Literate, Energy Aware, Science Savvy Society” in the President’s Climate Commitment newsletter: http://cires.colorado.edu/blogs/mccaffrey/2009/11/04/157/

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