The Sustainability-in-LIFE project will create inquiry-driven laboratory activities that explicitly engage students around the science of sustainability in the context of basic biological principles for two of the highest enrollment natural science courses at CSU (LIFE 102 and 103). Ten

The recent disruption of supply chains has highlighted not only the global nature of product flows in the 21st century, but also the need for resilient and sustainable supply chain management (SCM) solutions. The economic dimension of sustainability is inherently

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria are becoming important for investors, consumers, managers, and regulators. Increasingly, many institutional investors and other stakeholders strongly favor investment in companies that provide ESG performance reporting. However, due to the ESG framework’s relatively new

Economics can help us understand the relationship between the economy and environmental degradation and management. To enrich students’ learning in this area, this project will update and refocus an existing course, ECON240: Issues in Environmental Economics, to increase focus on

The geosciences play a key role in many of the sustainability grand challenges faced by society.  Mineral, water, and energy resources are under pressure, and communities are being impacted by hazards from flooding, mass wasting (e.g. landslides) and sea level

The built environment (e.g., homes, commercial buildings, infrastructure) and the process of creating it consumes the most energy and produces the most waste of any other industry. The emerging discipline of Circular Economics can be a useful tool in tackling

The clays, glazes, and other chemicals used in pottery-making have profound social-environmental-economic impacts that are often overlooked. The materials must be mined, refined, and may travel thousands of miles via complex global distribution networks. This project will help students directly