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Our book is available Open Access via Springer Nature Link. Read 46 chapters on sustainability education in all subject areas from college faculty, rooted in the Hudson Valley, New York, and around the world. Go to Earthrise Commons for resources and lesson plans related to select chapters, below, and submit your own!

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Introduction

Green Leaves and Leverage Points: Sarah Wyman

I. Being a Sustainability Educator: Pursuing Questions and Shaping Values

Teaching the Wild Within and Around Us: Joshua Korenblat
From (Teaching About) Existential Threats to (Teaching) Existential Resilience and Sustainability: Christine Wamsler

II. Creating Transformational Learning Experiences

Physics 101: Understanding the Fuel of Our Modern Civilization: Samrat Pathania
Teaching the UN SDGs in a Child Development Course: Empowering Educators: Andrea M. Noel
Psithurism: What Musicians and Other Artists Bring to the Climate Justice Movement: Christiana Fortune-Reader
Using the UN SDGs to Teach Strategic Industry Research: Jack L. Harris

III. Enacting Principles of Human and Environmental Flourishing in Teaching

We're still working on adding these chapters into Earthrise Commons. In the meantime, check out the full book on SpringerLink.

IV. Building a Sustainability Action Culture in Institutions

Wicked Questions and Writing: Program-Level Transformations: Matthew Newcomb

V. Engaging Communities: Campus and Region as Living Laboratories

Role-Playing Case Study on Wind Farm Acoustics: From Technology to Environmental Justice: Heather Lai
Using Hemp and Public Benefit Contracts to Build a Green Economy by Collaborating with Disproportionately Impacted Communities: Henry Gage, Jr.
STREAM: A Theory of Community-Led Engagement for Health, Wellness, and Healing: Edward Lawson, Jr
Formative Participatory Communication and Engagement in Mali and Malawi, West Africa: Carrie Young

VI. Reimagining and Remixing Materials for Circular Cycles: Sourcing - Design - Disposal

Finding and Working with Wild Clay: Anat Shiftan
De-Fetishizing Commodities for Sustainable Futures: How Commodity Chain Analyses Expose the Hidden Social and Environmental Costs of Consumption: Melissa Yang Rock

Book Authors

Naif Alghamadi: King Saud University (KSU)
Arnau Amat: Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya
Michael Asbill: SUNY New Paltz
Anne C. Balant: SUNY New Paltz
Kara Belinsky: SUNY New Paltz
Kelly Bellody: SUNY New Paltz
Ripley Butterfield
Laia Solé Coromina: Didàctica de les Arts i les Ciències at Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya
April B. Coughlin: SUNY New Paltz
Jessica Kate Crowell: SUNY New Paltz
Anthony Dandridge: SUNY New Paltz
Megan Ferguson: SUNY New Paltz
Christiana Fortune-Reader: SUNY New Paltz
Andrea Frank: SUNY New Paltz
Henry Gage, Jr.: Build Green Now
Tiokasin Ghosthorse: Itazipcola and Mnicoujou Lakota of the Sakowin Oyate
Jack L. Harris: Rutgers University
Demond M. Hill: University of Chicago
Paul Hirsch: SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF)
Lisa C. Hix: Keene State College
Will Hong: SUNY New Paltz
Emilie Houssart: SUNY New Paltz
Andrea Kantrowitz: SUNY New Paltz
Eric Keeling: SUNY New Paltz
Joshua Korenblat: SUNY New Paltz
Heather Lai: SUNY New Paltz
Edward Lawson, Jr
Nosipho Faith Makhakhe: Durban University of Technology Centre for General Education in South Africa
Ilarion Merculieff
Lisa Mitten: SUNY New Paltz
Jared Nelson: Keene State College and SUNY New Paltz Sustainability Faculty Fellow
Matthew Newcomb: SUNY New Palz
Andrea M. Noel: SUNY New Paltz
Brian Obach: SUNY New Paltz
Joel Oppenheimer: SUNY New Paltz
Ş. İlgü Özler: SUNY Global Engagement and SUNY New Paltz
Samrat Pathania: SUNY New Paltz
Emily Puthoff: SUNY New Paltz
Melissa Yang Rock: SUNY New Paltz
Libby Roderick: University of Alaska Anchorage
Kimberly Sanford: SUNY New Paltz
Anat Shiftan
Nicole Simon: SUNY Nassau Community College
Suzanne Stokes: SUNY New Paltz
Roland Tormey: Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Andrea Varga: SUNY New Paltz
Christine Wamsler: Lund University
Dr. Sally Warren: Build Green Now and Voices for Progress
Sarah Wyman: SUNY New Paltz
Carrie Young: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill