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Faculty co-created content for teaching sustainability

In 2024, members of Concordia's faculty interest group on Education for Sustainability have contributed multimedia content.

About the content

The multimedia content provides exemplary learning materials that may support educators in teaching sustainability. The content is categorized by several themes and includes books, videos, news articles, online simulations, interactive databases and websites.

Contributing faculty members

  • Govind Gopakumar
  • Peter Graham
  • James Grant
  • p.k. langshaw
  • Stuart James Macmillan
  • Mitchell McLarnon
  • Elizabeth Miller
  • Rebecca Tittler

Content by subject

Illustrations by Wednesday Laplante.

Collage of a woman falling in vertigo, with a climbing plant reaching to support her.

Adaptation and mitigation
Collage of a background map with a mouse following a path, a racoon placing a waypoint, and a landmark of mushrooms.

Animals as guides
Collage of a child holding the Earth in front of their lips.

Climate change
Collage of a hand holding up a clothes hanger with a button-down shirt that is partly composed of a landfill.

Costs of fashion
Collage of a cityscape with giant animals, including a lion scratching a skyscraper, a boar emerging between buildings, a raccoon relaxing on top of a glass building, and a wolf sniffing a bridge.

Design for all habits, habitants and habitats
Collage of a punctured polar bear amidst a back alley with trash bins and cranes for loading shipping containers.

Discards
Collage of a shopping cart full of trash bags on the left half, and a shopping cart full of giant make-up products on the right half.

Economism

Collage of a woman covering her ears with her hands overlain with a wildfire and human eye. Another woman is looking up hopefully, overlapped with the image of a seedling.

Emotional responses
Collage of massive server racks standing out on a pastoral landscape dotted with trees and gravel roads, with reddish dust clouds on the horizon.

Environmental costs of information communication technologies
Collage of improvised shacks, an oil derrick pump, a smokestack and two Brown men sorting through discards in a landfill.

Environmental justice
Collage of a herd of cows next to an open fridge spilling out bananas, carrots, white bread, and other vegetables.

Food sovereignty
Collage of an Asian woman surrounded by green leaves looking face-to-face at a projection of herself.

Frameworks and frames of mind
Collage of a Black person wearing a white tank top hugging a plant as a human-shaped silhouette.

Land as pedagogy
Collage of a woman, vintage TV, red-lit skull, anatomical drawings of a heart and brain, and rounded square shapes with portions of English text.

Relational perspectives
Collage of a human boot stepping on a cluster of various animals, including a mouse, turtle, ladybug, duck, mushroom, and yellow tang.

Troubling anthropocentrism
 
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