Service  |  Academic Work  |  Education & Training  |  Capacity Building  |  Deliberative Democracy 

Subcategories:

• Sustainable development
• Renewable energy
• Peak oil
• Mountaintop removal
• Air and water pollution
• Transition Town
• Recycling
• Food security
• Ecological design
• Slow food
• Health
• Empowerment
• Ecology

Types of Service   short-term  |  ongoing school year  |  summer

• Madison County Energy Survey
• Pedal Power
• Homegrown Hideaways
• Hunger Hurts Food Drive
• Energy and Empowerment list-serve
• Tree planting
• Berea Bikes

Academic Work   courses  |  service-learning  |  CBR and policy research   |  departments and institutes

• Learn and Serve America Community-Based Research grant
• Sustainability and Environmental Studies (SENS) minor and independent major
• Courses (including service-learning)
  • SENS 100 - Introduction to sustainability and environmental studies
  • SENS 215 - Sustainable Appalachian communities
  • SENS 345 - Ecological architecture
  • AFR/PSJ/WST/APS/SENS Capstone (Transition Town focus)
  • ENG 227 - Grant-writing (energy focus)
  • HLT 210 - Health in Appalachia
  • GSTR 410 - Strring the pot: food politics, gender, and globalization
  • COM 302 - Organizational Communication

Education & Training   forums  |  workshops  |  reflection activities

• Re-skilling workshops
• Energy and empowerment: power through collaboration (community gathering)
• Globalization and the world food crisis (lecture by Vandana Shiva)
• Preparing for the next pandemic (lecture by Dr. Michael Osterholm)
• Healing the land, the food, the economy, and the culture (lecture by Joel Salatin)
• Appalachia: where is that, and why haven't we been there? (film and lecture by Jamie Ross and Ross Spears)

Campus and Organizational Capacity-Building   training  |  fundraising  |  resource development

• Eco-village
• LEED building renovations
• Transition Town
• SENS house
• Sustainable Berea
• Energy and Empowerment Coalition
• Kentucky Environmental Foundation
• Madison County Home Energy Improvement Project
• Health in Appalachia forum
• Kentuckians for the Commnwealth

Research, Policy Analysis, Deliberative Democracy   evaluations  |  policy research  | issue forums  |  advocacy

• Energizing Kentucky conference
• Campus Community Partnerships for Sustainability conference
• Community-Based Research Networking Initiatives conference
• PowerShift conference
• Energy and Empowerment gatherings

Contacts   staff  |  faculty  |  students  |  community partners (local, regional, national)

• Megan Naseman, VISTA
• Richard Olson, SENS Chair
• Sustainable Berea
• Kentucky Environmental Foundation
• Kentuckians for the Commonwealth