This Friday, 4/20: A study guide for Hawken’s Ecology of Commerce
“advancing curriculum and faculty development
for sustainability in higher education”
Webinar This Friday:
Jane Talkington’s study guide
for Hawken’s Ecology of Commerce
Next SCC Webinar
Friday, April 20
at 2PM Eastern/11AM Pacific
“Using Hawken’s Ecology of Commerce with a study guide for discussion and co-creation by students”
Dr. Jane Talkington
Innovation Scholar-in-Residence
Wichita State University
After years of teaching with Paul Hawken’s classic book on business and sustainability, Ecology of Commerce, Dr. Talkington refined and tested a list of discussion questions as a study guide for Hawken’s book. The study guide is available through Amazon. In this webinar, you will learn why there is a need for guided class dialogue, what to expect when you use these questions, how the questions allow for students to co-create the content of a course discussion, and how these questions support the flipped classroom format.
Dr. Talkington has taught a wide variety of sustainability courses, online and on campus, at the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, and the University of California-Berkeley, Extension. In Fall 2018, she joins Wichita State University as the Innovation Campus scholar-in-residence. She spent a decade as the prototype graduate student in the effort to create a new PhD in Sustainability through the Environmental Science graduate program at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Her doctoral studies orbited around Entrepreneurship and Architecture. The result was a thesis focused on how higher education institutions could secure relevance by fostering innovation focused on sustainability-oriented solutions. It included research on innovation districts, innovation campuses, and corporate co-location partnership buildings on campus. A bound version of her thesis “Fostering Innovation” is also available on Amazon.
In her spare time, she is learning how to train her Belgium Malinois as a projection dog. Goose is an excellent student in spite of his novice teacher.
The Sustainability Curriculum Consortium is incorporated in Maryland as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
SCC is aligning its activities around three key themes:
• Pedagogy: Innovative approaches for ESD educators
• Substantive Content: Building capacity and sharing resorces on both fundamental topics and emerging trends
• Leadership: Understanding the significance of leadership in the ESD context
