{"id":145,"date":"2010-09-08T16:05:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T23:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/2010\/09\/challenges-to-identifying-sustainablility-research-and-courses\/"},"modified":"2010-09-08T16:05:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T23:05:23","slug":"challenges-to-identifying-sustainablility-research-and-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2010\/09\/08\/challenges-to-identifying-sustainablility-research-and-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges to Identifying Sustainablility Research and Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainability in a school&#8217;s curriculum is crucial to fostering a campus culture that uses resources wisely, out of care for and understanding of the environment. But it is hard to identify what specific classes\/instructors have a focus on sustainability. You can read someone&#8217;s research and think, &#8220;this is sort of sustainability related, but it doesn&#8217;t really address economic issues&#8221;. The researcher may totally disagree. Likewise, you can read a course syllabus, and think &#8220;what does music culture have to do with sustainability&#8221;? The instructor may say, &#8220;music is a form of expression, and in many places, is related to highly meaningful symbols or ideals which represent local resources and the importance of conservation&#8221;. So any thoughts on how we figure out which classes are related to sustainability without having to actually take them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainability in a school&#8217;s curriculum is crucial to fostering a campus culture that uses resources wisely, out of care for and understanding of the environment. But it is hard to identify what specific classes\/instructors have a focus on sustainability. You can read someone&#8217;s research and think, &#8220;this is sort of sustainability related, but it doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6567,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}