Year-Round
Are you interested in integrating concepts of sustainability (as defined by the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals) into your Spring courses? As you plan, the UNH Sustainability Institute Team stands ready to help support you with events, tools, and other opportunities that can be woven into your course in a variety of ways.
Virtually Sustainable Tour
Bring the virtual UNH Sustainability Tour into your course with our prerecorded tour, or we can tailor a session to your course with a live Q&A session by SI staff or faculty. See the tour or schedule an appointment with Michelle.Fox@unh.edu
What Sustains Us? Online Learning Module
Incorporate this online learning module as a course assignment. This 11-part video series (2-5 minutes each) features different facets of sustainability efforts at UNH, each followed by a short quiz.
Custom Presentations
If you have additional sustainability topics you'd like covered in a custom class presentation, please reach out to make an appointment and discuss your needs. Our faculty and staff have a wide range of expertise in sustainability topics ranging from UNH’s campus sustainability, sustainable food systems, climate change, greenhouse gas management and carbon accounting, racial equity, and sustainable business.
Submit Your Course to Count as Approved Elective in the Sustainability Dual Major (SDM)
Contact Cameron.Wake@unh.edu Program Chair of the SDM
Spring 2022
Bring Your Students to the Changemaker Speaker Series
A program of the Changemaker Collaborative, the Sustainability Institute's partnership with the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics and the Carsey School of Public Policy, the Changemaker Speaker Series brings innovative and inspiring leaders to campus. This spring’s events will be broadcast live via Zoom webinar and recordings will also be available to faculty to share with students for viewing at any time. We will also help with identifying relevant readings, creating post-event discussions and/or assignments for your classes. Interested? Please reach out to Faina.Bukher@unh.edu
How Purposeful Business Creates Remarkable Competitive Advantage & Changes the World
Thursday, February 10~12:30-2pm
This event features highly successful, yet largely under-the-radar organizations, that have been authentically purposeful for decades. Leaders will join us to discuss how purpose transformed their own lives, made their companies better, and changed the world. Read details of speakers.
Public Policy, Governance & the Private Sector: New Approaches for Accelerating Climate Action
Thursday, April 21~12:30-2pm
The world needs urgent action to address the climate crisis. Government and business sectors, because of their scale and influence, must be major drivers of solutions in the next pivotal decade to 2030. While the current reality demands that both business and government make radical changes, the real power lies in the nexus of the two sectors, with innovative collaboration between government and business to drive change on the scale needed. This event will explore examples of cross-sector collaboration on climate, as well as opportunities for greater partnership to accelerate climate action. More information coming soon.
Building Racial Equity into Your Spring Course
UNH 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge
April 4-21 Learn More
An excellent opportunity to allow students to consider issues of racial equity in the context of your course. The Challenge provides resources and prompts focused on deepening understanding of, and willingness to confront, racism. The Challenge goes beyond individual or interpersonal racism by helping to demystify structural and institutional racism. Contact Karen.Spiller@unh.edu or Thomas W. Haas Professor at the UNH Sustainability Institute, for more information. If the timing of the Challenge does not fit with your course, you are welcome to use the prompts and wealth of curriculum materials on racial equity at any time. Available here.
Mentor a Student Team Making a Difference in Emerging Economies
The UNH Emeriti Council Student International Service Initiative (EC-SISI) provides up to $10,000 for students to bring knowledge, enthusiasm, and expertise to community-based service projects in emerging economies. Students work with faculty mentors to identify an international NGO partner to co-develop a meaningful service project during summer, J-Term, or Spring break. Have connections with international NGOs who might benefit from a team of students and/or are interested in mentoring a student team? Contact Faina.Bukher@unh.edu
Encourage Your Students to Present at the URC University-wide Sustainability Research Symposium
April 20 & 21
Part of UNH's Undergraduate Research Conference (URC), the University-wide Sustainability Research Symposium welcomes students from all disciplines to present research on a broad range of sustainability challenges – and may use the framework of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals as the definition of sustainability. Registration opens mid-February; learn more.
Dr. Fiona Wilson, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer, University of New Hampshire; Director, Sustainability Institute
Affiliate Faculty, Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics; 107 Nesmith Hall
Email: Fiona.Wilson@unh.edu
Tel: (617)-953-1670 (Best way to reach me)
Tel: (603)-862-3903
