Sustainability, Green Jobs, and EarthXDesign

Project Description

Participating fully in the future of work requires developing skills related to green jobs. As existing jobs become greener and new green jobs emerge, the workforce will need skills related to understanding complexity, innovation, and problem-finding and -solving. We are developing an inventory of green jobs skills by researching relevant component skills, vetting the inventory with practitioners in Workforce Development, and engaging in a testing and validation study with learners ages 16-24.

Resources

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  Beyond Design Thinking: High-Leverage, Earth-Resonant Moves for Green Innovation
  This learning module looks at how the Next Level Learning Team is bringing together high leverage practices from innovation, creativity, design, and engineering that focus specifically on climate and green jobs and shares progress to date.
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  Educating for Sustainable Development: What Will It Take?
  This slide deck was presented as part of the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) panel at the China Education Symposium (CES). This special event focused on how to empower ESD in light of global climate change and China’s carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. 
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  Teaching Climate Change
  This video provides an overview of Teaching Climate Change, an intensive January Term course taught by Dr. Tina Grotzer. The course invites educators to consider how they can best support young people as they navigate between anxiety/despair and hope/action when they think about climate change.

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