Our Work

The existential threat to the planet requires urgent action. TEA works with faculty and staff to develop curricula that goes beyond learning outcomes, and leads to Earth Action. Action Learning enriches the community and the quality of our students' educational journeys.

All discipline areas and all curricula can be made climate-relevant while still delivering the learning experiences and achieving the learning outcomes important to a particular course. TEA works with faculty infuse Climate Literacy and Earth Action in their classes. For students to learn their subjects in school with climate woven into the learning experience enables them to connect their education to understanding and solving the climate crisis.

Addressing the climate crisis implicates all disciplines from Administration of Justice to Zoology. TEA works with faculty and departments to create cross-disciplinary learning experiences and actions. Interdisciplinary learning not only enriches the work experience of faculty but also deepens and contextualizes the learning experience of students.

Colleges and universities are uniquely positioned to influence and support local and global climate action. TEA works with higher education institutions to build initiatives that enhance Earth Action and Resilience on the campus and the service area. Students, faculty, and staff who take part in campus transformation can take pride in and transfer their work to the communities where they live and serve.

A commitment to a “Just Transition to Net Zero” is a significant undertaking, implicating many systems on campus . TEA works with campuses and key partner organizations to help campuses assess, plan, and activate all stakeholders in the process of transitioning to net zero within a climate justice framework. A campus which serves as a model for Earth Action inspires other institutions to follow suit.

When a butterfly lands on a flower, an entire complex ecosystem is implicated. TEA works with leaders and discipline faculty to create interdisciplinary programs and pathways that lead to environmental degrees and certificates. Unsiloing education to address the climate crisis dramatically increases the relevance of our students’ learning outcomes.

Each campus is a space, a place originally inhabited by indigenous peoples, native plants and species, even if now it resides in the middle of a city, or on manicured grounds. TEA works with campuses and partner organizations to recognize the original inhabitants and ecosystems of the property in order to honor the sustainability of the physical space. Every college campus can be returned to nature.

Many institutions are setting carbon, biodiversity, and ecosystem goals, such as the 30 by 30 initiatives. TEA works with campuses and community and civic partners to align their efforts around sustainability. Students, who often reside in the place where they go to college, are an untapped resource to help communities and municipalities achieve their laudable climate justice goals.

Students want to make an impact on mitigating the climate crisis and environmental hazards that harm our most vulnerable neighborhoods. TEA works with student groups, non-profits, and civic organizations to identify and address local and global climate injustices. By linking students to the work of civic organizations, both government and non-profit, they will gain momentum regarding their own climate agency.

Sustainability is bursting across all sectors of the economy. TEA works with campuses, career centers, and local employers to connect students to green career paths. Students who can be purposeful in their pursuit of an education tend to grow in their confidence about major and career choices.

Municipalities across the nation need help mitigating and adapting to the climate crisis and ecosystem destruction. TEA works with campuses and civic partners to identify areas where teachers, classes and student organizations can support research, data collection and communications needs regarding renewable energy, ecosystem health, and climate action. When municipalities and schools collaborate it changes the nature and meaning of a higher education experience.