Sustainability Learning Lab at Bellevue University

Films on Demand (17:37 min)
Creating sustainable structures has become the goal of many citizens, architects, and government officials. This lesson shows how some cities have utilized the best practices available for green building and landscaping. It explores scientific innovations, supportive community action, and effective political reform behind the advances in green building practices.

Films on Demand (17 min)
What are the different types of energy sources used in the United States? What is the impact of overall energy consumption on global climate change? What is energy conservation and how do we promote it in our communities? This topic will examine the future of a variety of alternative sources of fuel. Distributed by PBS Distribution.

Films on Demand (16:48 min)
This short documentary focuses on Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), which provides trades training and vocational education on 13 campuses and in six community learning centers. The flagship campus was designed to be a model of sustainability that would lead the whole province. The building was constructed to LEED Gold standards. The building has three living walls (two inside and one outside) plus 8,000 square feet of green roof growing a range of local plants. It has photovoltaic panels, geothermal and passive solar heating and cooling, and five types of wind turbines. It recently received Gold certification by STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System) ranking well ahead of senior institutions like Dalhousie, McGill, and Concordia.

Films on Demand (21:37 min)
Large urban cities consume large amounts of resources and create vast amounts of waste that needs to be dealt with. For decades little or no concern was paid to this vital issue, but now there is a much greater emphasis being paid to urban sustainability. What is sustainability though and how can cities become more sustainable given that they are already thriving centres? This program examines ways in which policy makers and business introduce strategies that make a city run more efficiently, use less non-renewable resources and reduce their carbon footprint.

From the EPA website, Sustainability runs through all of EPA's work across the country. The stories below make up a video series entitled Sustainability in Action. Through employees telling their stories and films produced on the ground, we tried to capture stories that will inspire others to seek the path to sustainability.

From the EPA website, Sustainability runs through all of EPA's work across the country. The stories below make up a video series entitled Sustainability in Action. Through employees telling their stories and films produced on the ground, we tried to capture stories that will inspire others to seek the path to sustainability.

Sierra magazine, a national publication of the Sierra Club environmental advocacy organization, recently published its latest annual ranking of undergraduate institutions in the U.S. and Canada, including both two-year and four-year institutions.

American Chemistry Council. Today, the men and women of the chemistry industry are focused on the needs of tomorrow. They are working with experts in other business sectors, at universities and in government, to develop new ways that chemistry can enable sustainability in every aspect of our lives.

The purpose of this document is to provide useful methods and guidance to support the application of sustainability indicators in EPA decision making, and particularly within the Office of Research and Development’s ORD) research programs. Published Oct 2012

The only digital publishing platform connecting the sustainability industry silos. We publish solutions for integrated vegetation, urban agriculture, smart cities, and green real estate resulting in better urban health, increased productivity, and lower environmental impact.

Sustainability is one of four cross-agency strategies in EPA’s Strategic Plan for FY 2014-2018. This strategy commits EPA to integrating sustainability into the Agency's day-to-day operations by routinely considering the following principles in decisions and actions, as appropriate.

Contains answers to the questions: What is sustainability? What does it mean? What are the principles and pillars behind sustainability? What examples of sustainability are there in technology, food, workplace, business, or transportation areas? How is sustainability connected to supply and demand?

Describes various EPA programs designed to help communities and businesses modify their practices in ways that provide better, cleaner tomorrows.

List ten sustainable colleges campuses and briefly describes what they are doing to incorporate sustainability.

Climate policy expert Farhana Yamin explains what becoming 'carbon neutral' means and how we can make it happen.

From U.S. News & World Report, discusses how colleges are embracing sustainability and highlights a few of them.