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Join the
Global Sustainability and Earth Literacy Studies
(GSELS) Learning Network
The Global Sustainability and Earth Literacy Studies (GSELS) Learning
Network
provides inclusive educational opportunities for
the Miami Dade College community to explore
global citizenship,
ecological sustainability, and civic engagement,
through understanding
planetary challenges and limits and
by developing values,
skills, and behaviors that promote
prosperity and communities of well-being.
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EEI
Professional Development for MDC Faculty and
Staff
GSELS Learning Network:
Transforming Paradigm
Offering 6 hours Professional
Development Credit
This workshop offers an overview of Earth Ethics
Institute’s Global Sustainability and Earth
Literacy Studies (GSELS) Learning Network.
Participants learn about development and
operations of GSELS. GSELS faculty learn how to
broaden their GSELS-designated courses to
include additional GSELS course criteria, as
well as best practices of faculty learning
communities. Participants explore Sustainable
Education, a concept created by Stephen Sterling
and described as “a change of educational
culture, one which develops and embodies the
theory and practice of sustainability in a way
which is critically aware. Contrast will be
made of mechanistic versus ecological
worldviews, and a multidisciplinary
collaborative approach to education will be
endorsed.
Wednesday, June 7th,
2017 at Kendall Campus, (9:00 am –
12:00 pm), Room: TBA:
EEI1010-1
Friday, June 9th, 2017
at InterAmerican Campus, (1:00 pm –
4:00 pm),
Room: TBA:
EEI1010-2 |
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Plants and Indoor Air
Quality
Find out how plants help keep office air healthy
15 plants have been identified as great air
purifiers
Projects like installing new
carpet and painting walls can release chemicals that pollute indoor
air. These are called VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds), they’re
chemicals used to manufacture and maintain
building materials, interior furnishing,
cleaning products and personal care products.
Luckily, some houseplants moonlight as efficient
purifiers. For the best results, put as many
plants as you can care for in the rooms you use
most.
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