The Sustainability Interactive web app guides students in collaboratively assessing the sustainability of a selected location, in either the contemporary or a historical time period. Through research, investigation, and fieldwork, students determine how the location rates in terms of sustainable culture, politics, ecology, and economics. They note how they arrived at the ratings and generate a profile circle as a visual representation of their findings, including the connections among the four areas assessed. The final part is proposing and engaging in systems-based activism aimed at change in an area marked by a critically low level of sustainability.
This tool draws upon the Circles of Social Life approach described online at CirclesOfSustainability.org.
Explore the interactive: circles.rosslearningsystem.org/
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