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We hope to provide both raw and curated resources for your own learning, for research, and for the classroom.

General Classroom Resources
    SISL: Sustainability Improves Student Learning - teaching resources, activities, and events

Climate Change
    The Global Carbon Project   -  An international partnership established in 2001 and a reliable source of current scientific information.
    NASA Carbon Monitoring System - Prototyping the development of capabilities necessary to support stakeholder needs.
    NASA Climate Change - The latest on the vital signs of the planet.  One stop shop with links for educators, media, and kids.
    The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) - The United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
    UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) - The policy side.

Sustainability
    The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - A great resource for understanding the scope of sustainability and seeing the connection between its many different aspects.

Mathematics
    SIAM: Geosciences and Mathematics of Planet Earth - resources, activities, and events.
    AMS: Mathematics of Planet Earth - A list of resources.
    Mathematics for Sustainability - a highly accessible textbook at the introductory level.  Lots of ideas about both sustainability and decision making.
    Revealing the Mathematics of Sustainability, in Shifting Contexts, Stable Core - A chapter in an MAA Notes volume related to quantitative literacy.
    Climate Change and Mathematics - a compiled set of resources explicitly for teachers, primarily aimed at middle and high school students.

Journals
    Natural Resource Modeling - An international journal devoted to mathematical modeling of natural resource systems.

Please send additional links and resources to Eric Marland.