The Green Education Initiative aims to educate students on campus sustainability. By providing access to this education, students will learn about climate issues, what their school is doing to combat these problems, and how students can take action on climate solutions. The project embodies a presentation that can easily be given for incoming First-Year students during their orientation. This presentation is broken down into a few parts. Firstly, we will educate students on the climate crisis and issues relating to biodiversity. Next we will discuss what Georgia Tech and the Atlanta area has done and their goals relating to climate action/solutions. Finally, we will talk about ways students can become involved on and off campus (in a multitude of different ways). We want to highlight existing infrastructure for sustainable development (such as recycling and waste management on campus) and the various ways one can become involved - whether through education, fellowships, training, and lobbying.
We hope to expand our project during our time at Georgia Tech from orientation presentations to the creation of online sustainability education modules (similar to Alcohol Edu) for students. Additionally, we plan to encourage participation with sustainability badges for online recruitment sites. The goal is to create modules in the most informative and interactive platform available for incoming first-year students to review during orientation. By providing this education early on, students will gain a greater understanding of their surrounding environment and how everyday actions can instigate change.
Following implementation of this sustainable education project at Georgia Tech, our goal is to create an outline for other schools in Georgia to create and implement more modules on their campuses.