The SUNY Sustainability Faculty Fellows 

As outlined in SUNY’s Climate and Sustainability Action Plan, the SUNY Sustainability Faculty Fellows program supports faculty in incorporating sustainability into curricula and coursework. Because we will need leaders in every discipline to address the climate crisis, this program will support faculty to incorporate sustainability and climate concepts across a wide range of disciplines.

The Sustainability Fellows will assist other faculty in incorporating climate and sustainability topics into existing courses or develop and embed new applied learning opportunities, including to meet the sustainable learning outcome in the World History and Global Awareness knowledge and skills area of the SUNY General Education Framework.

The call for applications for this fellows program is out now and the fellows will be in place by August 2026. 

Apply to be a fellow

For information on how to apply to serve as a Sustainability Faculty Fellow for the 2026-2027 academic year, check out the Fellows Programs Application Portal webpage.

The deadline to apply is June 8, 2026.

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Events

2025-26 Academic Affairs Fellows General Education Support Webinars

The SUNY Academic Affairs Fellows Programs offered webinars through the 2025-26 academic year to support campuses, as well as faculty, staff and administrators, on a wide range of topics related to AI literacy, civic discourse, DEISJ, and sustainability.

The Sustainability Faculty Fellows offered a webinar series titled “SUNY Sustainability Faculty Series: From Foundation to Practice.” This was a four-part professional development series supporting SUNY faculty in integrating sustainability across General Education. Each session featured interactive activities, disciplinary applications from across General Education, and practical implementation tools. Participants left with ready-to-use resources, a growing community of practice, and confidence to make sustainability relevant in their courses.

Sustainability Across Disciplines: Introduction to General Education Integration, 02/06/26

Sustainability in the Arts, Humanities, History, and DEISJ, 03/06/26

Sustainability in the Natural Sciences and Mathematics, 04/02/26

Sustainability in Action: Approaches to Applied Learning, 04/24/26

The Sustainability Faculty Fellows in collaboration with the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Fellows also offered the following webinar.

At the Intersection of DEISJ & Sustainability, 02/23/26

These webinars and related materials are available in the SUNY Open Access Repository (SOAR).

For webinars offered by the other fellows programs, check out their webpages.

Resources for Campuses

The resources provided below are intended to assist faculty in teaching and developing courses that incorporate sustainability and climate literacy. To suggest a resource to be added to this list or to offer feedback about an identified resource, please fill out the Resource Idea Form.

The SUNY Climate and Sustainability Action Plan provides an overview of SUNY's efforts to create a culture of sustainability across the system.

Curriculum, Teaching, Programming, and Assessment

This Discipline-Specific Sustainability Assignments resource was created to provide quick examples of how sustainability could be integrated into many different types of courses. Each discipline has a few resources linked for more information.

Your existing assignments can likely easily be adjusted by adding sustainability elements to the topic. For inspiration, see the resources under our “What is Sustainability?” section for more information about how sustainability is related to nearly every topic.

To use this file and explore the example assignments, click the arrow next to Discipline/Subject or Assignment header. Search for the topic/type of choice, select all search results, and hit OK. Click on the arrow again and select 'Clear Filter' to search other terms.

Additional Curriculum, Teaching, Programming, and Assessment Resources

Resource Title	Description
A GCSE Proposal Statement on Key Competencies in Sustainability	Guidance on the Accreditation of Sustainability and Sustainability-Related Programs in Higher Education. Global Council for Science and the Environment
Sustainability Frameworks	A compendium of sustainability frameworks that can be used in designing class content, brainstorming student activities, shaping campus policy.
SISL Website	Sustainability Improves Student Learning (SISL) website with many teaching resources (guidelines for assignments, SLOs, tools to bring sustainability into the classroom). Hosted by Carleton College.
The Ponderosa Project: Infusing Sustainability in the Curriculum book chapter	Geoffrey Chase's book chapter from Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change that covers the creation of the Ponderosa Project at Northern Arizona University in the late 1990s into the early 2000s.
Key Competencies: Practical Approaches to Teaching Sustainability	This publication is a joint project of the Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (SCC) and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) and highlights innovative approaches faculty are employing in sustainability education to meet this challenge head on.
Basics of Climate Change	The EPA's climate change page.
Teaching Sustainability Competencies across the Disciplines A Guide for Instructors	Members of AASHE’s Scaling Up Sustainability Across the Curriculum Community of Practice produced this guide for instructors in our curriculum development workshops and for others who seek to integrate sustainability across the curriculum in higher education.
Teaching Climate (NOAA)	Collection of data for teaching about climate change. From NOAA.
Toolbox for Teaching Climate and Energy	NOAA's collection of topic ideas related to teaching about climate change.
New York State Climate Impacts Assessment: Understanding and Preparing for Our Changing Climate	Perspective of New York State on climate change looking at "how climate change is affecting the communities, ecosystems, infrastructure, and industries of the Empire State."
Show Your Stripes	Graphic representations of global temperatures through time.
Climate Literacy Resources	Collection of links for resources that support climate literacy. Curated by Strategic Energy Innovations.
Climate Change and the US Energy Sector: Regional Vulnerabilities and Resilience Solutions	Information about energy sources and use across the US.
Built This Way: Why residential and commercial buildings are key to addressing climate change for New York	Video recording of a webinar about buildings, their energy requirements, and how they can address climate change - specifically looking at NY.
Introduction to Energy and Climate Systems Lesson	Instructional notes for a Introduction to Energy Systems and Climate Lesson. Has information about energy sources and use.
Climate and Energy Systems Training	Slide deck with notes about energy options and their climate impacts.
Decarbonization and Energy Systems course	Notes for a Introducing the Decarbonization Course including information about carbon release from energy systems, and example student activities.
Decarbonization - Building Level	Information about the use of energy by buildings.
Decarbonization -Community Level	Information about reducing carbon emissions in campuses and communities including student activities.
Nursing on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis: Education for Action	Nursing on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis Course: Education for Action was developed through a partnership between the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE); the Global Nurses Working Group (GNWG)/Nursing Climate Resources for Health Education (N-CRHE); the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (AHNE), the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment (CANE), and Climate Action Nurses (CAN) to increase nursing professionals’ knowledge, self-efficacy, and communication skills related to the climate crisis. Although the course is not currently being offered, this website provides information about the course and links to session recordings under "Session Topics"
Responding to the Climate Change and Health Crisis: A framework for academic public health	This framework examines climate change and health across four primary domains – Education and Training, Research, Practice, and Policy and Advocacy - to inform the integration of climate and health into academic public health programs.
Climate and Health Guidance and Trainings	This suite of materials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers practical trainings in integrating climate and health information to local health decision-making. Also included are spatial story maps that can be integrated into curriculum and foundational readings.
Climate for Health Trainings	Climate RX makes available free, self-paced, online training to equip current or future health professionals with the knowledge, hands-on experience, and resources to speak and take action on climate change in communities. Trainings can be individual or as a group.
WHO Climate and Health Toolkit	This toolkit from the World Health Organization offers foundational resources for climate and health topics and key publications for learning more.
Electrification 101	An overview of how electrification can reduce emissions, from the feasibility of electrifying different technologies to the policy options for encouraging economy-wide electrification.
VIDEO: What is the smart grid?	The basics of the smart grid and how the technology impacts you.
VIDEO: What is the duck curve?	A short video with a simple explanation of the the duck curve and how solar can help balance hourly energy loads.
The Cost of Climate Pollution	A website that aims to highlight some of the most significant efforts to incorporate the social cost of greenhouse gases (SC-GHG) in policy making across the United States, so that decision makers, advocates, and other stakeholders can better understand this critical tool to advance progress on climate change. The site includes a range of resources and information including a tool to calculate the damages from greenhouse gas emissions.
Thinking in Systems: A Primer	Donella Meadows' classic book on systems thinking. Required reading for students embarking on sustainability studies, but also accessible to anyone involved in organizational management as well as interested laypeople.
The Palgrave Handbook of Social Sustainability in Business Education	This book provides a holistic conceptualization of social sustainability, going beyond the topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and showcases how the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasizing social sustainability can be integrated into business studies’ curricula in different parts of the world. A unique collection of literature comprising educational principles, content, activities, and cases will guide educators, managers of business study programs, and higher education leaders in developing engaging, high-impact educational experiences that enable students to solve grand societal challenges and grow as ethical, inclusive leaders.
NYS Department of Health: Climate Change and Health	NYS Department of Health topics page on climate change and health provides an overview of health impacts of climate change and information about community resilience efforts.
American Public Health Association: Climate Change, Health, and Equity	Resources designed to help integrate climate change and health equity into practice at the local level.
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation: Air Monitoring Website	Links to air monitoring sites and data across New York State
Environmental Public Health Tracking Network	New York's Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program focuses on tracking environmental and health patterns and trends. Environmental Public Health Tracking is a national program led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is intended to improve access to environmental health information and support research, programs and policies that may help protect our communities.
NYC Environment & Health Data Portal	The data portal provides historical and recently updated data on a variety of topics that intersect public health and the environment in New York City

What is Sustainability?

Resource Title	Description
AASHE Campus Sustainability Hub	The Campus Sustainability Hub is a one-stop shop for AASHE members to access toolkits and resource collections about all aspects of sustainability in higher education, from academics to operations to governance. Some items are open, some require an AASHE membership.
The Global Goals	Home website for the UN Global Goals
Three Pillars of Sustainability	An overview of the pillars of sustainability from Bard College
UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development Goals: learning objectives	Learning objectives, suggested topics, and student activities for each of the UN Global Goals. Great aid in designing curricula with a sustainability component.
What is Climate Justice?	Information about Climate Justice from the University of California

Student Engagement

Resource Title	Description
Map a Career in Energy	Career maps to help students think about what a career can look like in energy innovation, based on their education and experience.
Project Drawdown	Whether through systems change, individual actions, business leadership, philanthropy, investments, national policies, or international negotiations, we’re advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies around the world.
NYSERDA Climate Justice Homepage	NYS programs and resources related to climate justice including the Climate Justice Fellowship Program.
New York State Children's Environmental Health Centers	The mission of NYSCEHC (or “NYSCHECK”) is to prevent, diagnose, and treat environmentally related conditions for families across New York State. As the first state-based model for pediatric environmental health services in the country, New York now has dedicated pediatric champions across the state working together to protect and promote children’s health and the environment. They offer training programs for students and others looking to protect and promote children's health.
Resources for working with climate emotions	The All We Can Save Project teamed up with Britt Wray of Gen Dread to develop this shortlist of resources created specifically for navigating the emotional terrain of climate.

Advocacy and Campus Governance and Policies

Resource Title	Description
Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change	Excellent primer on bringing sustainability content and practice to institutions of higher education. This link provides an overview of the book, including chapter titles. Some SUNY schools have access through their libraries. Of particular note for advocacy is Chapter 3, No Longer Waiting for Someone Else to Do It.
APHA page on Climate Health and Equity	Visit APHA’s Center for Climate, Health and Equity, which leads public health efforts to inspire action on climate and health equity, advance policy and galvanize the field to address the climate crisis. Resources and articles.

Scholarship and Research

Resource Title	Description
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report	Latest report in climate change from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Ocean and Climate Physics	Research from the Columbial Climate School, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change	Website for the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. The site includes reports, information about activities and the four working groups, and news updates.
EPA Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID)	The Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) is a comprehensive source of data from EPA's Clean Air Power Sector Programs on the environmental characteristics of almost all electric power generated in the United States. The data includes emissions, emission rates, generation, heat input, resource mix, and many other attributes. eGRID is typically used for greenhouse gas registries and inventories, carbon footprints for electricity purchases, consumer information disclosure, emission inventories and standards, power market changes, and avoided emission estimates.

Contact sustainabilityfellows@suny.edu with questions.  