Environmental Education
Education has the power to
change the world. Only through better understanding of global
ecology and human impacts on the natural world can we expect to develop
appropriate new technologies, economic systems, and societies that
are truly sustainable. The new world ahead of us offers an emerging
vision of sustainability and tremendous opportunities to reduce human
environmental impacts while strengthening and building stronger,
more stable economies and better, more livable communities.
Washington
State University offers a large variety of educational opportunities
and courses in the ecological, environmental, and natural resource
sciences. WSU Extension has extensive, state-wide public
education offerings in these areas. The Campus & Community
Ecology Project highlights these campus and community education efforts
and expands them by offering selected online and campus-based
courses, and by publishing fact sheets, technical research reports,
and newsletters which are shared with the broader public.
Living
Classrooms
One of the primary goals of the WSU Campus &
Community Ecology Project is to create readily accessable living classrooms
for the study of the natural world as well as the design and
development of sustainable urban communities. Campus & Community
Ecology engages faculty and students to participate in habitat restoration
and the development of new outdoor ecological laboratories, the WSU
Arboretum and Botanical Garden, the Steffen Center Campus Forest,
the Smoot Hill Ecological Reserve, and other campus and urban environmental
laboratories for the interdisciplinary study of global and regional
ecology.
