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Eco-Schools is an international program that provides resources, guidelines, and lesson plans to help teachers integrate sustainability into their curriculum.

Keywords: Youth Education, Lesson Plans, SDGs
Link to Resource: https://www.ecoschools.global/ 

Founded in 1991 by a diverse group of youth, educators, business leaders, government and community members, LSF is a non-profit Canadian organization that was created to integrate sustainability education into Canada’s education system.

Keywords: Youth Education, Teacher Resources, Policy & Research
Link to Resource: https://lsf-lst.ca/about/

All nine Educational Service Districts (ESDs) in Washington are launching programs for science teacher training around Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and climate science, thanks to grant money made available to the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) by Governor Inslee. This group includes teacher professional development and instructional materials resources developed under this grant. All ClimeTime developed resources are shared through the OER Commons group.  

Keywords: Youth Education, Resource Development Guidance, Community Science
Link to Resource: https://oercommons.org/groups/climetime/4081/

Why do we claim to value sustainability while acting in anunsustainable fashion? How can we reduce our consumption drasticallyand move toward a sustainable social system when our society isspecifically based on consumption? These two linked questions are atthe heart of this important book, the result of a four-yearinterdisciplinary study of British Columbia's Lower FraserBasin.

Keywords: Consumption, Urban Areas, Social Change Link to
Resource: https://www.ubcpress.ca/fatal-consumption

The authors aim at providing a critical discussion of various views of society-nature relationships embedded in different socio-cultural paradigms that might be used by curriculum writers as foundations for the construction of a notion of sustainability deemed responsive to a challenging world in terms of sustainable future

Keywords: Youth Education, Curriculum Development, Sustainble Development  
Link to Resource: http://www.susted.com/wordpress/content/conceptions-of-sustainability-wi...

This instructional resource referred to as the TEACHER’S GUIDE brings together a number of enticing educational components – outdoor experiential learning, place-based education, game development, digital & field mapping, and most importantly a clear understanding of climate change issues – all tailored to the new BC curriculum.  

Keywords: Pedagogy, Outdoor experiential learning, Place-based education
Link to Resource: https://calp.forestry.ubc.ca/teacher-resources/

From neurotechnology to sustainable energy sources, the young people featured in our podcast are working to better their communities through hard work and ingenuity. Episodes run around 45 minutes each.

Keywords: Education, Creative Engineering, Quantum HUb
Link to Resource: https://geeringup.apsc.ubc.ca/stem-resources/general-information/youth-i...

Library Resources for British Columbia, Canada and Internationally.  

Keywords: Policy, Natural resources, Agriculture
Link to Resource: https://guides.library.ubc.ca/c.php?g=306849&p=5068048

Climate change is the most significant threat globally and a key area of research in almost every discipline. This guide offers resources for researching climate change as well as news and UBC specific information.

Keywords: Climate research, UBC milestones,  
Link to Resource: https://guides.library.ubc.ca/climate