A Climate and Sustainability Education Resource Hub
The resources curated on this page aim to support educators across all academic disciplines in integrating climate and sustainability-focused learning into their courses and co-curricular offerings at Duke University.
Duke instructors from the Climate and Sustainability Teaching Fellows Program initiated this resource hub as a way to support colleagues on campus in redesigning their own classes to meaningfully engage these topics in support of the Duke Climate Commitment and in alignment with Duke's Climate and Sustainability Fluency Framework.
Duke-Specific Climate and Sustainability Resources
- Office of Climate and Sustainability
- Duke Climate Commitment
- Faculty Development - Duke Learning Innovation and Lifetime Education
- Duke Gardens - Learning Resources
- Duke Campus Farm - Academic Resources
- Duke Forest - Teaching Resources
- Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
- Climate +
- EDGE Center: Center for Energy, Development, and the Global Environment
- UNIV102: Let's Talk about Climate Change
- Duke Coursera Offering: Climate Science for Everyone
- Design Climate
- RESILE: Risk Science for Climate Resilience
- Nicholas School of the Environment - Research Areas
- Podcast: Operation Climate
- Podcast: The Leading Voices in Food
- Podcast: On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice - Ryan Emanuel
- Earth & Climate Sciences - LibGuides at Duke University
- Environmental Sciences - LibGuides at Duke University
- Marine Science - LibGuides at Duke University
- Cultural Anthropology - LibGuides at Duke University
- United Nations - LibGuides at Duke University
- Durham and Local History - LibGuides at Duke University
- Welp: Climate Change and Arctic Identities - Michaela Stith (Duke Alumna)
Additional Climate and Sustainability Resources
- All We Can Save Project
- AASHE Campus Sustainability Hub - create a free account; Duke is a member institution of AASHE
- A Women's Crisis: How does the world water crisis affect women and girls?
- Bloomberg CityLab - for urban planning case studies and insights
- “Carbon Brief”: a UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy. It has “Daily Briefing” that readers can subscribe to receive a digest of the past 24 hours of media coverage related to climate change and energy as well as their pick of the key studies published in peer-reviewed journals.
- CDC resources about heat and health
- “China US Focus 中美聚焦”: an English & Chinese bilingual website covering topics like foreign policy, economy, environment, security, society & culture, etc.
- “Climate Action Tracker”: an independent scientific project that “tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement aim of "holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C." People can track how well China, the U.S., and other countries have done to address the climate warming.
- Climate Change Glossary
- Climate Mental Health Network
- CNN Special Report: How the Climate Crisis Fuels Gender Inequality
- “Dialogue Earth 对话地球” - Website on urgent climate and sustainability topics, especially committed to “accurately portraying China’s development impacts across the Global South through geopolitically even-handed reporting and constructive dialogue.” In addition to Chinese and English, it also has other language options including Portugal, Spanish, Hindi, and Arabic.)
- Electric Vehicle Myths and Facts
- Nanjing Botanic Garden for local examples of sustainable horticultural practices
- NASA.gov - Change in temperature of land versus ocean since 1880. Excellent resource for discussing specific heat of water and why the ocean temperature is increasing at a slower rate than land.
- Tree Tools - for tree inventory and landscape design
- The Nature of Cities – for interdisciplinary perspectives on urban ecology
- Water insecurity and population health: implications for health equity and policy
- What is Climate Change?
- WHO FactSheet Biodiversity
- Video: 3000 year old solutions to modern problems – Lyla June TedxKC
- Video: Dying to breathe: Mongolia's polluted air | Unreported World
- Video: Gen Z Mental Health: Climate Stories
- Video: Hatohobei and Helen Reef Program Case Study Video (USAID)
- Video: NASA Climate Change and Disasters interactive [extreme weather]
- Video: Tipping points of climate change - [Johan Rockström - TED)
- Podcast: French podcast on various themes related to sustainability (for e.g. biodiversity, zero waste, travel, fashion, etc.) to encourage action taking.
https://basilicpodcast.com/ - Podcast: French podcast mixing ecology and social issues and actions, with a positive reinforcement and a focus on steps for a better world. Language: French
https://soifdesens.fr/
- Sustainability - international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal on environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings
- International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education - provides information on new developments and trends on sustainability in a higher education context, and to catalyze networking and information exchange on sustainable development as a whole on a global basis
- Algae from Biofuels (Challenges and Potential)
- Carbon Dioxide Emission (from automobiles)
- Chlorofluorocarbons and the ozone layer (2010 to 2020)
- Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey
- Climate Change, Environment, and Health: The implementation and initial evaluation of a longitudinal, integrated curricular theme and novel competency framework at Harvard Medical School
- Earth at Risk: an urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future
- Envisioning environmental equity: climate change, health, and racial justice (Lancet)
- “If there is no water, we cannot feed our children”: The far-reaching consequences of water insecurity on infant feeding practices and infant health across 16 low-and middle-income countries
- Impacts of Climate Change on Black Populations in the United States. McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility and McKinsey’s Sustainability Practice. Nov. 30, 2023
- Integrating a Reproductive Justice Framework in Climate Research
- IPCC Report Annual Review 6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis
- Mental Health and Our Changing Climate Children and Youth Report 2023
- National Geographic explains how we got a "Fast Fashion World" (in French)
- Protecting maternal, newborn, and child health from the impacts of climate change: A call for action
- The impact of ocean acidifications on coral reefs.
- The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth
- Use of iron filings as a strategy to decrease carbon dioxide levels (and acidity) in the ocean.
- Women and Water in the Developing World: Linking Water Insecurity and Gender Disparities
- Grist: A nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future
- Daybreak a cooperative game about stopping climate change (copies available from Office of Climate and Sustainability)
Teaching Materials Developed by Duke Instructors
Explore open-source materials offered by Duke instructors, including an annotated syllabi bank and a variety of activities and class resources designed to enhance climate and sustainability-focused learning.
These tools are freely available to support educators in developing engaging learning experiences for students.