About This Course

This course is intended to inspire thinking about the way we construct our living environments in order to find a sustainable balance. It examines a broad range of sustainability issues, and examines how they are related at Global, Territorial and Local / Personal scales:

- population and urbanization;
- resources - water; energy; and food;
- systems – transportation; technology and communicational health and environment; and community and governance.

The ideas raised in the on-line videos are discussed, researched and examined in weekly classroom sessions. The early assignments build technical knowledge and skills in: critical thinking; developing a position; and a advocacy within complex situations, and across different written, oral, and visual media. These allow students to complete a self-selected, individual sustainability project which is developed in later classroom sessions.