From The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign:
This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history..This subject is of vital importance, seeking as it does to uncover the principles of the long-term welfare of all the peoples of the planet. As sustainability is a cross-disciplinary field of study, this foundation requires intellectual breadth: as I describe it in the class text, understanding our motivations requires the humanities, measuring the challenges of sustainability requires knowledge of the sciences (both natural and social), and building solutions requires technical insight into systems (such as provided by engineering, planning, and management).More details here including access to the free, downloadable course text. The 8 week course starts August 27, 2012.(Image source: Illinois SESE)
“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.”- Nelson Mandela
This is great! You get a certificate towards the end, for people who are in that sort of thing.
