A Fashionable Way to Help the Environment
Popular clothing exchange events on campus allow students to educate their peers about the pitfalls of fast fashion.
Combine studies of ecological and environmental health with a calling for economic welfare and social justice.
Sustainability is most commonly defined as meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The field of Sustainability Studies explores and critiques ways to do this in the context of maintaining ecological and environmental health while generating economic welfare and ensuring social justice.
The Sustainability Studies curriculum integrates across disciplines with its goal of instilling understanding, appreciation and thoughtful problem solving skills in students regarding the relationships and interactions of human society and the environment. Students examine issues related to sustainability and explore how those issues impact and are addressed at local, national and global levels, providing an interdisciplinary background that is needed to understand many of the complex challenges facing our world and equipping students with the skills needed to develop solutions to these problems. We seek to build a community of faculty and students with a diversity of perspectives and areas of expertise committed to seeking creative solutions for sustainability.
Popular clothing exchange events on campus allow students to educate their peers about the pitfalls of fast fashion.
Muhlenberg College invites the community to an information session and guided tour of The Fahy Commons for Public Engagement and Innovation on the evening of January 10 to learn about sustainable design and building practices.
Getting to travel to Bangladesh with my classmates and professors after a semester-long course about climate change and sustainable development in the nation was such a unique and unparalleled experience.
Jayson Williams-Johnson '25, a finance major and men's basketball player, was part of the Summer Seedbox program, which combines research in sustainability alongside innovation and entrepreneurship.