Introduction to Personal Sustainability Practices

Abstract

This chapter introduces the volume on Faculty Personal Sustainability: Walking our Talk at Home, at Work, at Play, and On the Way and the purpose of this work, which is to explore faculty experiences and reflections in practicing and communicating sustainability in our personal lives, in the classroom, and in the community in general. In our Call for proposal submissions, we asked our faculty colleagues to consider their personal sustainability practices as related to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which set tangible social, environmental, and economic goals that need to be met by the year 2030 in climate action, poverty, hunger, infrastructure, health, and other vital areas. This chapter provides a brief summary of the 19 essays and interviews by 36 authors, representing 25 institutions, seven countries (United States, United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, France, Australia, and Romania), and six disciplines (Management, Economics, Finance, Physics, Biology, & Fine Arts).