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Higher Ed/Teaching College
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher
Education (AASHE)
AASHE is a member-based association of colleges and universities working
to advance sustainability in higher education in the U.S. and Canada. Their mission is to promote sustainability in all sectors of higher
education - from governance and operations to curriculum and outreach -
through education, communication, research and professional development. Businesses, NGO's, and government agencies can participate as AASHE
partner members.
The
Cloud Institute
The mission of The Cloud
Institute is to ensure the viability of sustainable communities by
leveraging changes in K-12 school systems to prepare young people for
the shift toward a sustainable future.
Washington Center for Improving the Quality of
Undergraduate Education (Evergreen State College)
We work with faculty, staff, and administrators at regional and national
levels to support student engagement and academic achievement,
particularly for students underrepresented in higher education.
The Piedmont Project (Emory University)
A curriculum development project that seeks to foster an
invigorated intellectual community to address global issues and local
environmental awareness.
The
Ponderosa Project (Northern Arizona University)
The Ponderosa Project at NAU is an interdisciplinary faculty
group effort to incorporate environmental sustainability issues into
university courses with the ultimate goal of providing future citizens
the education and skills necessary to achieve sustainable communities
and societies.
K-12 Resources
Social Education:
The
Mosaic Project
The Mosaic Project,
nonprofit organization, works towards a peaceful future by reaching
children in their formative years. The Project unites young children of
diverse backgrounds, provides them with essential skills to thrive in an
increasingly diverse society, and empowers them to strive for peace.
Teaching for Social Justice Links
A website by State University of New York at Oswego with several
resources for teachers looking at social justice.
Teachers Against Prejudice (TAP)
TAP is a non-profit group dedicated to
fighting prejudice, intolerance and bigotry through education. TAP stands
for a future built on the respect and acceptance we can all create
today.
Justice Matters!
Justice
Matters’ mission is to bring about racially just schools by developing
and promoting education policy rooted in community vision.
Educational Justice
The Educational Justice Program promotes access to quality
education for students from all racial and cultural groups.
Environmental Education:
People for the Puget Sound Education Site
People for the Puget Sound offers in
class visits, curriculum guides, beach walks, and other teaching
resources looking at ecological issues in the Puget Sound.
Washington State Department of Ecology Climate
Change Site
A look at what
global climate change means to Washington State.
Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change Site
The EPA's climate change site has many resources looking at
climate change.
Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change Kid’s Site
A colorful, animated site looking at climate change targeted towards elementary students.
Department of Agriculture’s Outreach and Education
Site
The Department of Agriculture has a
Education and Outreach section with facts and resources involving our
agricultural practices in the United States.
NOAA’s Education Site
This site has been designed to help students, teachers, librarians and
the general public access the many educational activities, publications,
and booklets.
Washington Native Plants Society
Education Site
Find out how teachers can become
informed and involved with native plants. This site also has a
list of further resources for native plant education and action.
The Edible Schoolyard
"The Edible Schoolyard, in collaboration with Martin Luther King Junior
Middle School, provides urban public school students with a one-acre
organic garden and a kitchen classroom. Using food systems as a
unifying concept, students learn how to grow, harvest, and prepare
nutritious seasonal produce. Experiences in the kitchen and garden
foster a better understanding of how the natural world sustains us,
and promote the environmental and social well being of our school
community."
Economics
Education
World Watch Institute's Sustainable
Economics Site
This site has many useful
readings involving sustainable economics.
Sustainableeconomics.org's Education Site
offers an extensive reading list looking at all aspects of
making economics sustainable.
Center for Economic and Social Justice
The Center for Economic
and Social Justice (CESJ), established in 1984, promotes a free
enterprise approach to global economic justice through expanded capital
ownership. CESJ is a non-profit, non-partisan, ecumenical, all-volunteer
organization with an educational and research mission.
Pre-Service
Teachers
Americorps members serve through more than 3,000
nonprofits, public agencies, and faith-based and other community
organizations, helping meet critical needs in education, public safety,
health and the environment. The variety of service opportunities is
almost unlimited. Members may tutor and mentor youth, build affordable
housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and streams, run
after-school programs, or help communities respond to disasters.
Citizen Schools is a leading national education initiative that uniquely mobilizes
thousands of adult volunteers to help improve student achievement by
teaching skill-building apprenticeships after-school. Our programs blend
these real-world learning projects with rigorous academic and leadership
development activities, preparing students in the middle grades for
success in high school, college, the workforce, and civic life.
Edutopia's Teacher Preparation Site offers resources and ideas on teacher preparation.
Local
Resources
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Sustainability is looking at the
broader connections between economy, society, and the environment in
order to build a disciplined approach to understanding how we might
affect change positively, systemically, and comprehensively. This project is focusing on how to introduce
pre-service teachers to these concepts, to give them the tools to
re-create this knowledge in their classrooms, and to weave some of these
broader discussions throughout their curriculum.
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Every community is home to a unique population, a unique environment,
and is facing unique challenges. There
is a wealth of resources in every community to help guide learning
opportunities for our diverse classrooms, subject areas, and students. We encourage you to find allies
in your communities to help you build place-specific curriculum and
experiential learning opportunities to
work for a positive future.
There are many organizations working to build a culture of
sustainability and social justice in our community, here in Bellingham,
WA. Our greatest
resource in building a culture of sustainability in our schools, is to
utilize these community allies, to become familiar with their work, and to organize formal learning
experiences highlighting their areas of expertise. Teachers can
use local resources to focus community-based research projects, to find
public speakers, or as a venue to generate service-learning
opportunities. It is crucial to build
relationships between teacher colleges, schools and the larger community
for these reasons. Our communities are a learning resource. Here are just
a few examples of local organizations that are working for a just and
sustainable future, right here in our community.
 Society education,
social justice, democracy
Schools
Western Washington University
Woodring College of Education
Center for Educational
Pluralism
Center for Holocaust Education-Genocide
and Ethnocide Education
Center for Service Learning
The Outback
Experiential Learning Site
Local schools and teachers
taking the initiative to affect change
Geneva Elementary
WellSpring Community School
Place-based
experiential education, stewardship
North
Cascades Institute
We inspire close relationships with nature through direct experiences in
the natural world. Since 1986, North Cascades Institute (a nonprofit
organization) has worked to conserve and restore Northwest environments
through education.
Social Justice Organizations
Social Justice/Economics/Environment
C2C;
Community to Community Development
Community to Community Development is a place-based,
grassroots organization committed to creating alliances in order to
strengthen local and global movements towards social, economic and
environmental justice.
Small Potatoes Gleaning Project
This group is a volunteer based gleaning organization, also
focusing on making food security a visible need in our community.
http://www.foodjustice.org/
Social Justice
Peace and Justice Center
A diverse group of concerned citizens, who are working to promote peace
and justice in our community, and beyond.
Democracy/Independent media
Democracy Now!
can be found on
KUGS 89.3
Whatcom Independent
Whatcom Watch
 Economy
self-reliance, social responsibility
Sustainable Connections - Maximize Community Benefit | Minimize
Environmental Impact
"We envision sustainable business practices that lead to
a healthy environment, meaningful employment, strong communities and
buying local first as commonplace in our region and a model for the rest
of the world."
Community building/Economics/Environment
Community Food Co-op
 Environment
education, conservation, stewardship
Community Education
ReSources
RE Sources empowers
children and adults in the Pacific northwest region to do all we can to
protect our home.
By providing key information, citizen trainings and workshops, and
volunteer-led field programs, RE Sources helps community members
actively safeguard our marine waters, rivers, lakes, beaches and air.
Re Sources offers,
youth education programs- invite them to your classroom!
RE Sources' education team
offers free, in-class presentations to schools throughout Whatcom,
Skagit and Island Counties. These presentations about air quality,
recycling & waste reduction, and global warming get local students out
of their seats and actively participating in solution-oriented learning.
Recycling
building materials, environmentally sound construction
Re Store
Network of local organizations
Sustainable Bellingham
City initiatives, government, public works
City of Bellingham - endorses the Earth Charter!
Stewardship and volunteer opportunities
Bellingham Parks and Recreation
Volunteer
opportunities
Park Stewards
Backyard Habitat Mentor Program
Environmental
education, stream restoration, habitat preservation
Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association
Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association (NSEA) is a
community–based nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring
sustainable wild salmon runs in
Whatcom
County.
Puget sound restoration and education
People for
the Puget Sound
People For Puget Sound is a citizens' group working to
protect and restore the health of Puget Sound and the Northwest Straits
through education and action. Our vision is a clean and healthy Sound,
teeming with fish and wildlife, cared for by people who live here.
Community
education, conservation, stewardship
Audubon Society
Audubon's mission
is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other
wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's
biological diversity.
Place-based experiential education,
stewardship
North Cascades Institute
We inspire close relationships with nature through direct experiences in
the natural world. Since 1986, North Cascades Institute (a nonprofit
organization) has worked to conserve and restore Northwest environments
through education.
There are
many more groups who are working for a just, sustainable future in our
community, some do not have websites or we are not aware of, and so are
not shown here. We encourage you to explore these sites, to search
for other potential allies, and to really become familiar with this
amazing community and the work that is done here! Please contact
us if you should be on this page!
positive.future@wwu.edu
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