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Lesson Plans

U Sustain is creating an inventory of lesson plans used in various disciplines that incorporate global warming or environmental initiatives. The environment is a topic that is important to all subject matter and incorporating it into class will help prepare Union graduates for the future.

Union College
  • A lecture by Jeff Corbin discussing Union College's advances in sustainability (2008).

    Sciences
  • A Lecture by Professor Jay Newman discussed the Physics of Wind Power (2008).
  • A lecture developed by Focus the Nation on Climate Change (2008).
  • A discussion in Professor Willing's Food in the 21st Century Class (BIO-65) analyzed the documentary King Corn.
  • Students working under Jackie Cockburn for Senior Environmental Seminar researched the Environmental Costs of Meat (Kern), Environmental Impacts of Fisheries, Ecological Impacts from Invasive Species (Morlando), and Renewable Energy.

    Social Sciences
  • Professor Dvorak's Comparative Economics Class analyzed the relationship between a nation's productivity and rate of CO2 production.
  • Several students from Natural Disasters (GEO-109) researched the impacts of climate change on Indonesia (Barringer), the Middle East (Habayeb), the Netherlands (Wehrum), and Fiji (Maynard) as part of Jackie Cockburn's class on Natural Disasters. One other student also researched the History of Earth Day.

    Humanities

  • Professor Batson and Miryam Moutillet co-taught a dance class on the environmental destruction due to war: In the context of our class's focus on the politically engaged experimental theater and dance of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, we used the 'Focus the Nation' day to examine artists' responses to the environmental destruction of war.





































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    U Sustain seeks to promote sustainability initiatives and educate the campus community about ways to live, work, and enjoy Union in the most environmentally friendly and sustainable ways possible.

     

    Carbon Footprint
    Learn about Union's carbon footprint

    Lecture Resources
    Download environmental lectures to supplement your class

    Media Resources
    The latest pictures, videos, and documents about Union sustainability

    Do it in the Dark
    Information on the student run energy saving competition