Welcome
to Sustainable University (SU) Notes blog!
Sustainable
University (SU) Notes is my new blog on Education for Sustainable Development
(ESD) and Sustainability in Higher Education (SHE). It is part of the second
anniversary celebration of my online experiment, The Sustainable University
One-stop Shop (http://www.sustainableuni.kk5.org/).
SU
Notes aims to share knowledge, perspectives and debate on ESD and SHE among
communities who are interested in or have a stake in these two overlapping
areas. In fact you will enjoy this blog even if you are simply interested in
sustainability, especially from a perspective of higher education, business,
media or charity sector.
The
driving force behind this blog is my belief that universities should place
themselves at the forefront of the sustainability endeavours of their wider
communities, from local to global. This can be summed up as follows:
Capability, Responsibility and Opportunity. Universities have the CAPABILITY to
drive the sustainability endeavours of their wider communities; universities
have a social RESPONSIBILITY to do so; and universities will consequently enjoy
a wealth of OPPORTUNITY in a number of areas, ranging from student recruitment
to graduate employability.
SU
Notes will mainly be based on contemporary research on ESD and SHE and a list
of academic articles I have read for a particular day’s Note will appear in
Bibliography. Despite its academic origins, the blog will be presented in
simple language in order to suit to non-academics too because ESD is about
working together.
A
list of online resources will appear at the end as further reading relevant for
the day’s topic.
The
first blog entry will be on the challenge of sustainability.
I
hope this blog will be useful and interesting to you….
Photograph by Asitha
Jayawardena
The Sustainable
University One-stop Shop:
Central platform: http://www.sustainableuni.kk5.org/
Satellite websites: News and Information, Research, Good Practice, Quotes and Facts, Blog, Micro-blog (Twitter)
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