Tuesday 1 January 2013

Sustainable University (SU) Notes: An introduction

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
 
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