Big Ideas, Learning Outcomes, Skills, and References

Relevant to a Sustainability Course or Curriculum

Polar Concepts

What follows is a series of polar or opposing concepts that are likely to be considered in a sustainability course or curriculum.

Back	Cause/Effect	Disciplinary/Interdisciplinary	Dualism/Relativism 4	Next
	Equity/Inequity	Hope/Despair 5	Justice/Injustice
	Monism/Pluralism 6	Objectivity/Subjectivity	Renewable/Nonrenewable
	Sustainable/Unsustainable	Top Down/Bottom Up	Utopia/Dystopia

Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons… Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well… but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good. --- Vaclav Havel

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Home Page	Higher Personal Goals	Virtues	Polar Concepts	Isms	Other Cultural Concepts
Systems Thinking Breakdown	Definitions and Facets of Sustainability	Indicators of Sustainability	Environmental Perspective	Economics Perspective	Sustainability Frameworks and Manifestos
Graphical Models	Ways of Thinking	Skills	Habits of Mind	Web Site Bibliography	Additional Teaching Resources

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