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Sustainable Activism: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Laura Feldman
Sustainable Activism: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Laura Feldman
Leadership for Sustainability Education Comprehensive Papers
This is a proposal for a community/university partnership which would integrate education and activism, "Sustainable Activism" into the PSU sustainability curriculum. This collaboration would provide students and community members with the opportunity to share expertise and resources in addressing the dangerous transportation and storage of nuclear wastes in our bio-region. Through place-based, participatory learning activities, such as a nuclear pilgrimage to Hanford, we will renew and celebrate our relationship with the ecosystems and communities along the Columbia River, and begin to heal the sacrificial landscape that is Hanford.
Empowering Sustainability Leaders: Developing An Authentic Leadership Identity, Heather Diamond
Empowering Sustainability Leaders: Developing An Authentic Leadership Identity, Heather Diamond
Leadership for Sustainability Education Comprehensive Papers
This project focuses on how we are not preparing students to step into much-needed leadership roles. Leadership, when it is taught at all, is typically taught in a traditional and linear way – as a set of skills, a particular role to be filled, or as a hierarchy of one person above others. This type of leadership is not effective in solving today's problems. First, it is fragmented and specialized while the world's problems are complex and interconnected. Second, it is exclusive and disempowering. By defining leadership as a specific role or skill set, fewer people are likely to see …