Free Webinar Series: 
An Active Learning Approach to Sustainable Environmental Responsibility
How to teach graduates and undergraduates, using inquiry and group effort, the principles and practice of applying sustainable environmental responsibility within their discipline.

Summary

How shall we develop environmental responsibility that is truly effective in bringing about a sustainable world?​

This webinar will introduce and elaborate on the concept of the book: the goal of developing the sense of responsibilities that would result in sustainability, and which could be sustained.  

The book focuses on the group effort, as a manifestation of democratic government, to understand problems, consider options intelligently, and generate consensus concerning action.  It illuminates relevant features of our system of law, and provides basic instruction on the scope of environmental issues and examples of effective solutions.  Key historical events are discussed and many references provided for scholars.

​The focus of inquiry is root causes.  Students will learn about contemporary efforts to enhance the movement towards sustainability and be prompted to think about what they can do. The book contains exercises that help participants think about healthy democratic interaction and to think in terms of larger contexts and capacities for good group decision-making.
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What you will learn:
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Dec 7     |      1:pm EST / 10am PST
1.   The Importance of Integrating Sustainable Environmental Responsibility into Your Curriculum and the Inquiry-based Book to Help You Develop It.​

• Rationale for Teaching Sustainable Environmental Responsibility
• Planetary Boundaries and the Environmental Emergency
• Learning as a Group
• The Task and Value of Redesigning Our Systems
• The Use of Government as a Shared Tool to Solve Common Problems
• Adding your own teaching resources / customizing for your course

Dec 6     |      3pm EST / 12pm PST               Dec 8     |      4pm EST / 1pm PST
2.  Framing the Shared Problem

• Grasping the Context, Intersubjectivity and Objectivity
• Using Democratic Principles for Comprehensive Problem-solving
• Root Cause Analysis and Prevention
• Rights-Based and Cost-Benefit Analysis

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Nov 29     &     Dec 8     |      1:pm EST / 10am PST
3. An In-Depth Tour of Developing Sustainable Environmental Responsibility

• A tour through the whole book 
• Key features and tool integrated into the book
• How best to integrate into you curriculum and implement for your course
• How to add your own teaching resources and customizing for your course

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Nov 28     |      1:pm EST / 10am PST
4.  History of Environmental Consciousness

• Key Moments and Timelines
• Relevant Ideas from Philosophy, Religion, Culture, Science
• War and Toxicity 
• Emergence from Domination to Co-Existence

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Nov 30     |      1:pm EST / 10am PST
5.  How Pollution is Prevented

• The Potential to Improve Our System of Laws
• Examples of Changes
• Engagement with Government

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Dec 6     |      12:30pm EST / 9:30am PST               Dec 8     |      3pm EST / 12pm PST
6.   Opportunities to Foster Sustainability

• Some Exercises for Fostering Sustainability
• Sample Items for an Agenda of Actions to Foster Sustainability
• Envisioning More Sustainable Societies

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Developing Sustainable Environmental Responsibility is an active learning, inquiry-based approach to teaching undergraduate and graduate level students the principles and practice of applying sustainable environmental responsibility in their discipline.

This textbook is designed to be used as a core curriculum textbook or to compliment specialized courses in Environmental Science, Law, Policy, Journalism, Diplomacy, Economics, International Relations, Sociology, Psychology and History.

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​Free evaluation copy of Developing Sustainable Environmental Responsibility ​

Presenter:
​The author of Developing Sustainable Environmental Responsibility

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Richard Reibstein                            
Rick Reibstein teaches environmental law at Boston University and Harvard’s Extension and Summer Schools. He has helped develop toxics use reduction policy and assistance practices for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has served as an attorney for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  He has trained businesses and governments in developing programs for pollution prevention, compliance assistance and environmental performance improvement.  He initiated the Massachusetts Environmentally Preferable Purchasing program, founded two Business Environmental Networks and is an individual winner of the EPA’s Environmental Merit Award (2000). Reibstein has published in Pollution Prevention Review, the Environmental Law Reporter, the International Journal of Cleaner Production, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and the Journal of Ecological Economics, as well as producing many reports, guidance and proposals as a state official.

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