The Georgia Tech Sustainability Platform is a curriculum transformation initiative — not just a file repository. It helps faculty discover, adapt, and contribute sustainability-focused teaching materials, aligns them to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and tells the story of how grant-funded course innovations travel from award to classroom to a shared, governed Commons.
We prioritize the durable competencies sustainability work demands — systems thinking, anticipatory thinking, and ethical reasoning — over content coverage alone. Courses are framed around what students can do, not just what they know.
Real-world sustainability problems are the starting point, not an afterthought. Problem-, project-, and challenge-based learning put students in the position of practitioners working on consequential, open-ended challenges.
Technical capability is paired with responsibility. We connect engineering and computing training to sociotechnical ethics and the public good, preparing students to lead at the intersection of technology and society.
The campus and the city of Atlanta are classrooms. Living-lab and community-engaged learning ground coursework in real places, partners, and stakes — turning the institution itself into a site of sustainability practice.
Open educational resources and AI-assisted reuse are built on a foundation of governance: clear licensing, faculty consent, FERPA-aware handling of student work, and transparent permissions so materials can be shared and adapted with confidence.
Anyone can explore published spotlights, news, past grant recipients, and approved Commons materials.
Georgia Tech faculty, staff, and students can access GT-internal materials and contributor contact options (post-SSO).
The sustainability committee and curators use the console for analytics, moderation, consent review, and the contributor pipeline.
Questions or interested in contributing? Email sustainability@gatech.edu.