A New Experience from Gale…

Why Sustainability Now?

We are the first generation capable of determining the habitability of the planet

for humans and other species.

The world is changing…

August 1941 August 2004

NSIDC/WDC for Glaciology, Boulder, compiler. 2002, updated 2006. Online glacier photograph database. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Are Your Students Prepared?

37 Million jobs by 2030

A Different Type of Resource

Focused on the academic study of sustainability and the environment.

Interactive and current. Built as a forum,

facilitating open discussion.

Browseable Topics and Organizations

Customizable Journals and News

Contextual Multimedia

Refereed Case Studies

Localization to highlight community

resources

Global in Nature

Students can navigate the globe to identify how different regions are affected by climate change and how their demographics and resource consumption is affecting the global environment.

Community Tagging

Forums and Networking to

facilitate discussion

Web 2.0 Tools to facilitate

content portability.

Document Ratings to make most useful and relevant content

easy to find

Forum Capabilities

Students and Faculty can participate in general forums or forums assigned to a specific class.

Initial User ResponseProfessors were very enthusiastic about the concept.

“Yeah, it sounds terrific. It sounds like something that would be incredibly helpful… Yeah, I could see making heavy use of something like that.”

And students feel the same.

“It’s great. Two things that kind of struck a chord. One of them was the fact that you’re going to have news stuff on there, which is good because the people that are researching the stuff and the students that want to get a job in the future kind of have to rely on what’s current and what’s happening in the news (…) And then also, you know, to have the discussion things on there, that’s great, because a lot of classes that you have will have a discussion group like on that specific topic… So to have that conversational aspect to the website, that could be cool as well.”

Of nearly 400 students and professors surveyed, the majority felt that they need and would use a resource like this.

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