Sustainable Ecology

• Generally available once a year
• Three credit hours.two hours of lecture and two hours of lab per week
• We live in a world in which the rates for natural resource extraction exceed the rates for natural resource replenishment
• This imbalance is better known as "unsustainable development"
• To learn how to extract natural resources with sufficient replacement is the goal of Sustainable Ecology
• In this course we directly address the proposition: to live with sustainable growth is to live well

Sustainable Ecology Links:

• WorldWatch Institute ( http://www.worldwatch.org )
• United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO: http://www.fao.org )
• Sustainable environmental stewardship - U.S. Federal Office of the Environmental Executive ( http://www.ofee.gov )
• Pew Charitable Trusts for Just and Sustainable Societies ( http://www.pewtrusts.com )

Sustainable Ecology News:

• United Nations reports on diseases and marine " dead-zones " - March 2005 (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=13803&Cr=ecosystem&Cr1= )
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports on global greenhouse warming - January 1998 (http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/greenhouse/greenhouse4/kyoto.html )
• Habitat for Humanity reports on sustainable growth and urban ecology - October 2005 ( http://www.habitat.org/newceo/world_habitat_day.aspx )

Sustainable Ecology Resources & Job Opportunities:

• The EnviroLink Network ( http://www.envirolink.org )
• Green Dream Jobs ( http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/jobs )
• GreenBiz Buzz ( http://www.greenbiz.com )