Studies in Sustainability and Justice

At Evergreen, we take a "seven generations" approach to questions of how to sustain human life and community in harmony with the planet. This is a cross-generational, ecologic ethic that has descended to us from the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.  We offer students who embrace this ethic the opportunity to design a curricular pathway that focuses on issues of sustainability. 

In the catalog, you can find programs in environmental studies, social justice, the humanities and the arts, to help you build the background, skills and vision needed to make change in areas that count—climate change, food systems, cultural survival, environmental justice, media and communications, applied ecology, green business and beyond.

In addition, the College’s Center for Community-Based Learning and Action works with programs to involve students in community-based work with a wide range of service, study and governance organizations in our area. Students also have chances to apply their studies to Evergreen itself.  Our Sustainability Task Force works with food services, purchasing, facilities, heat and power—even parking—to reduce our environmental and social impacts and enhance the health of the college’s land and people, and its presence in the wider community.

BACKGROUND: The Haudenosaunee, whose historical lands and continuous home is in what is now the Northeast US/Southeast Canada, consist of the Mohawk, Oneida, Tuscarora, Onondoga, Cayuga and Seneca Nations, and continue to provide leadership in educating people in how to conceive of planetary stewardship and in ensuring the health of human and animal populations.

Programs

Andean Roots: Language and Cultural Landscape Revised: 12/07/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter	Spring
Business Management, Diversity and Leadership in Social Enterprises Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Unrestricted	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Civic Intelligence in the Real World	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
Climate Solutions	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
Community-Based Research: Knowledge in Place Revised: 03/01/2010	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
Cultural Landscapes: Sustainability, Power, and Justice Revised: 03/15/2010 Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Lower Division	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Dream to Green: Sustainable Entrepreneurship Revised: 05/05/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	Lower Division	Fall	Winter
Earth Stewards: Sustainable Living in a Threatened World Revised: 05/05/2009 Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter
Ecological Agriculture Revised: 02/12/2010 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Ecology and the Built Environment	Unrestricted			Spring
Energy Systems and Climate Change Revised: 07/14/2009 Faculty Signature Required	All level	Fall	Winter
CANCELLED History and Philosophy of Biology: Mass Extinction	All level		Winter
Individual Study: Environmental Advocacy, Conservation, or Cultural Geography	Unrestricted			Spring
NEW! Internships: Community-Based Learning	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
Introduction to Environmental Studies Revised: 05/05/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter
Life of Things Revised: 02/22/2010 Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Lower Division	Fall	Winter	Spring
Practice of Sustainable Agriculture Revised: 06/09/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Junior/Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Shelter	All level			Spring
NEW! Social Change: Desire, Design and Composition	Core			Spring
Spirituality: The Eyes of the Unknown Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter	Spring
Sustainable Business Leadership Accepts Winter Enrollment	Unrestricted	Fall	Winter
NEW! Sustainable Design: A new building for the Organic Farm Revised: 08/04/2009 Faculty Signature Required	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter
NEW! Sustainable Forestry	Sophomore to Senior		Winter
Tend and Tell: Developing and Interpreting an Ethnobotanical Garden Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring