Living sustainably on earth.

We live in an era in which the global community increasingly recognizes significant environmental imperatives that require action: climate change, potable water, pollution/toxins, resource depletion, and habitat decline. We are also in an era when discussion of these topics is often divisive and polarizing.

Sustainability and energy-related issues play heavily in our economy, our built environment, national security, quality of life and future. Complex and inter- related, these issues require an understanding of systems, science, and global perspective.

Components

• National public television broadcast program
  A 90-minute program will define sustainability through a series of interwoven short stories of positive change.
• Extensive website and social marketing program
• Outreach Initiatives
  Capitalizing on partnerships with existing organizations and the network of local PBS stations, local outreach initiatives will be supported to drive discussion at the community level.
• Mobile media players
  The project design will intentionally allow the breakdown of media into discreet short-story elements for distribution via mobile players, iPad, cellphone, etc.
• Higher education learning modules
  The short-story design allows media incorporation into courses on sustainability, energy, policy, etc.
• K-12 teaching tools
  A library of digital learning objects distributed for secondary education
• Story catalog
  A library of visual assets and stories broadly available for use by educators and museums

Contact

Cynthia Berger

Project Manager
814.863.6225
cberger@psu.edu

Tom Keiter

Executive Producer
814.863.9381
tek2@psu.edu

Project Overview