A Sustainable Psychology Deborah S. Podwika, M.A., C.S.M. Kankakee Community College MISTOP...

A Sustainable PsychologyDeborah S. Podwika, M.A., C.S.M.

Kankakee Community CollegeMISTOP Conference - February 25, 2012

A Sustainable Psychology

• KCC’s Sustainability Efforts– Campus Changes – Sustainability Committee• Campus Events• Greening Your Curriculum

– Other Disciplines– My 3 Courses

– Your Ideas?

Campus Changes

Solar-Photovoltaic Panels

Renewable Energy Program

Campus Changes

Horticulture Program

Campus Changes

Sustainability Committee

• Expo

Sustainability Committee

• Green Drinks• Green Happenings• Green Minute• Green Scene

Greening Your Curriculum• Fall 2010 (16 Faculty thus far)• Online Course • 2 wks; 15 hrs/1 CEU/15 CPDU• Free KCC & $29 for all others• Next Classes: Mar 4th & Apr 23rd

• Grace: 815. 802.8207

Greening Your Curriculum• Other Courses– English 2 Whole Course

• Inconvenient Truth• Into The Wild• Various on Katrina

Greening My Curriculum

• This is Psychology: Ep 4: Climate Change• Society’s Grand Challenges: Global Climate Change• Changing Minds To Prevent Climate Change• Closer Look: Call of the Wild• American Psychologist: Psychology & Global Climate Change

Also : Dr. Wallace J. Nichols – Blue Marbles & Outside Article

All Courses - APA• Div 34 – Conservation– Ecopsychology – Behavior & the Built Environment– Psychology on the Population Level

Greening My Curriculum• Introductory – Video from List• 10 Sustainability Information• 10 Concepts from Course Apply– Example 1– Example 2

• Abnormal– Article: “Toxins in Seafood – ALS, Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s?”

• Social• Semester Project – Active Change• Persuasion/Attitudes: Ads/Commercials

A Sustainable Psychology

Copy of Powerpoint

Email: dpodwika@kcc.edu

PT@CC Electronic Project Contest:

http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/undergrad/ptacc/ptcc-contest-guidelines.aspx