Episode 3, Part 1: Krista Hiser, University of Hawaii System - Sustainability Designation for College Courses

Dr. Krista Hiser

Guest:  Dr. Krista Hiser, Kapiʻolani Community College, University of Hawai`i System
Host: Dave Karlsgodt, Principal, Fovea, LLC

Part one of a two-part series based on a conversation with Dr. Krista Hiser, the interim sustainability curriculum coordinator for the ten campuses of the University of Hawaii system and a professor of Composition and Rhetoric at Kapiʻolani Community College.

Part 1 focuses on Krista’s work to create the S-Designation or Sustainability Designation for college courses in the University of Hawai’i system.

Part 2 picks up where we left off with a deeper dive into how we can teach sustainability concepts without devolving into green rhetoric and without falling victim to green fatigue. 

Web Resources:

• University of Hawai’i Sustainability – Website: www.hawaii.edu/sustainability

• Teaching to big questions - Blog: https://teachingtobigquestions.wordpress.com/

• The Rules of the Game: Evidence Base for the Climate Change Communications Strategy (PDF), Futerra:
  http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/Futerra_RulesOfTheGame.pdf

• Update on UofH Sustainability: May 2019: https://medium.com/@mklynch/higher-education-must-teach-to-the-issues-of-our-times-to-remain-relevant-90ee63133ac0

Books:

• Sustainability in Higher Education: Stories and Strategies for Transformation
  Barlett, Peggy F. and Chase, Geoffrey W. MIT Press, 2013
  https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sustainability-higher-education
  

• Big Bang Being: Developing the Sustainability Mindset
  Rimanoczky, Isabel. Greenleaf Publishing, Ltd, 2013
  https://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/big-bang-being
  

• Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change
  Barlett, Peggy F. and Chase, Geoffrey W. MIT Press, 2004
  https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sustainability-campus
  

• Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence
  Morton, Timothy. Columbia University Press, 2016
  https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dark-ecology/9780231177528

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