Moving forward on educating for sustainability in Manitoba

Interactive Bottle Recycler: A “Green” Senior Design Project Case Study

“…MacDonald [9] described how educating for sustainability is done in Manitoba including "policies that integrate sustainable development concepts into provincial curricula, establishing sustainability indicators and reporting on indicators, developing regulations and policies that work towards greening operations of educational institutions, and supporting educators in the field". They concluded that there is a need for "strategic, systemic, and concerted action to support educators as they work to develop students' knowledge, skills and values that contribute to a sustainable future".…”

Integrating Sustainability into Systems Engineering Curriculum

“…MacDonald [8] described how educating for sustainability is done in Manitoba including "policies that integrate sustainable development concepts into provincial curricula, establishing sustainability indicators and reporting on indicators, developing regulations and policies that work towards greening operations of educational institutions, and supporting educators in the Field". They concluded that there is a need for "strategic, systemic, and concerted action to support educators as they work to develop students' knowledge, skills and values that contribute to a sustainable future".…”

“…Borchers et al [13] , Lynch-Caris and Sutherland [14] , Kumar [15] 13 Benchmark by being aware of locally and globally available sustainability success and failure stories Wheeler [6] 14 Design system processes and practices that are not only lean but also sustainable Lynch-Caris and Sutherland [14] 15 Make sourcing and supplier selection incorporating sustainability objectives Borchers et al [13] , McDonald. [8] 16 Understand sustainability related metrics and their tradeoffs Borchers et al [13] 17 Be familiar with software and technology that enables sustainable systems.…”