Sustainability

EPA works to ensure that Americans have clean air, land and water.

Safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene are crucial to human health and well-being. Safe WASH is not only a prerequisite to health, but contributes to livelihoods, school attendance and dignity and helps to create resilient communities living in healthy environments.

Climate.gov provides timely and authoritative scientific data and information about climate science, adaptation, and mitigation from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Goal 13 (tackling climate change) is a calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. It is intrinsically linked to all 16 of the other Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Visit un.org/climatechange for more details.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is an organization whose mission is to provide independent, trustworthy advice and facilitate solutions to complex challenges by mobilizing expertise, practice, and knowledge in science, engineering, and medicine. This website contains a collection of expert studies, articles, and events related to climate change.

From the unique vantage point in space, NASA collects critical long-term observations of our changing planet.

Interactive maps and data from the 5th NCA that show projections of future regional climate conditions across the United States.

A circular economy reduces material use, redesigns materials and products to be less resource intensive, and recaptures “waste” as a resource to manufacture new materials and products.

UN DESA is a pioneer of sustainable development and the home of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), where each goal finds its space and where all stakeholders can do their part to leave no one behind. We are a leading analytical voice for promoting inclusion, reducing inequalities and eradicating poverty, and a champion for tearing down the barriers that keep people in poverty.

Working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.

The agency is a world leader in forest research, providing leadership in the sustainable management, conservation, use, and stewardship of natural and cultural resources on national forests and grasslands in the United States.

The mission of the Energy Department is to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions.

The EIA is an agency within the DOE that is responsible for energy data collection, analysis, and dissemination. The EIA website contains information, data, and analysis on energy sources, end uses, and flows, as well as energy market trends and U.S. and international outlooks.

A report that discusses environmental justice geospatial tool development and provides science-based recommendations on how to best use data in the development of these tools.

FAO’s vision for sustainable food and agriculture is one in which food is nutritious and accessible for everyone, and where natural resources are managed in a way that maintains ecosystem functions to support current, as well as future human needs. In this vision, farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk, foresters and other rural dwellers have their voices heard, benefit from economic development and enjoy decent employment. Rural men and women live in security, have control over their livelihoods and equitable access to resources which they use in an efficient way.

We provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on public policy, the best available science, and effective management.

Engineering for One Planet provides both a framework and teaching guides on essential sustainability-focused learning outcomes for future engineers. RHIT faculty have found the EOP Framework Quickstart Activity Guide very helpful.

VentureWell provides tool for design for professors, designers, inventors, and others that wish to use a mindset of “inventing green" in the areas of whole system mapping, measuring sustainability, greener materials, lightweighting, circular economy, energy effectiveness, changing lifestyles, biomimicry, and in integrating sustainability into classes.

The Solutions Library is an open-access and curated knowledge database showcasing technology-driven solutions addressing sustainable development challenges in resource-constrained settings.