Adventures at AASHE

Thanks to support from many friends and relatives (and a scholarship from some conference sponsors that covered my registration) I just got back from the American Association for Sustainability in Higher Education conference in San Antonio, Texas.  I presented a poster, Higher Education for Sustainability in Asian Contexts, about the book (Education for Sustainability: Paradigms, Policies and Practices in Asia). 

I also delivered a one-hour workshop on Techniques to Foster Interpersonal Competences (slides | references | metaphors worksheet). The workshop participants seemed to enjoy the event, and were especially enthusiastic about the section on language and metaphors, and the 1-2-4-All activity from Liberating Structures. I met many wonderful people doing great work to improve the ways that higher education institutions can serve the interests of sustainability for future generations on earth.

A few things I learned about:

• Sustainability Literacy Test: sulitest.org
• climatefixes.org
• Citizen’s Climate Lobby
• We Mean Buisness
• The US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
• Sustainability Across Research and Teaching
• Disciplinary Associations Network for Sustainability
• Fix-It Friday
• Sustainability Curriculum Consortium
• Education for Sustainable Development Goals: Learning Objectives
• Pew Research Center study on Political Polarization
• Engineers for a Sustainable World
• Books:
  • Leading Change from the Middle: A Practical Guide to Building Extraordinary Capabilities
  • Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
  • Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education

It was so inspiring to meet so many passionate and effective change-makers. Thanks  to  and  for sponsoring scholarships so some of us could attend, and special thanks to all of those who supported me on GoFundMe.