Teaching and Learning about Sustainability: A Transatlantic Perspective

The transatlantic perspective on environmental sustainability and energy security is rich with parallels and contrasts. This is true especially also in the area of climate protection, which remains a politically divisive issue in the United States. Building on my co-edited volume, Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective: A Multidisciplinary Approach (with Dana Elzey, 2013), I explore challenges and possibilities for integrated transatlantic teaching and learning about sustainability. The book was itself an outcome of a university course – “Generation Green” – that was cross-listed in the German Department and the School of Engineering’s program in Science, Technology and Society.