March 3, 2025 • By Cindy Pereira Cooper

This year's World Engineering Day theme, "Shaping Our Sustainable Future Through Engineering," offers an opportunity to view sustainability as both a destination and a approach.

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November 21, 2024

ABET and The Lemelson Foundation recognized Dr. Jennifer Watt, Director of Sustainability Education at the University of Utah, with the inaugural Engineering for One Planet Innovation in Sustainability Award.

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October 3, 2024

Engineering for One Planet (EOP) and our partners brought a strong sustainability focus to this year's 2024 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) - which included a presentation by Lemelson Foundation President Eric Lemelson about how to define sustainability in new ways to address our global climate crisis.

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June 4, 2024

A new EOP brochure details how engineers are uniquely equipped to help achieve the UN's 17 SDGs.

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April 13, 2022 • By Cindy Pereira Cooper

Ambitious climate commitments and sustainability goals are driving a massive trend in the growth of green jobs. As governments and companies across the globe set policies and plans to address the climate crisis, there is an urgent need to fill those new positions with a workforce that can meet the challenge.

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June 4, 2021 • By Cindy Pereira Cooper, Michael K. J. Milligan

As we look to recover and rebuild from a tumultuous pandemic year, “Build Back Better” has been the guiding principle of the Biden administration. But it can equally be applied to our natural environment, as we look at degraded ecosystems and the disruption caused by climate change.

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April 16, 2021

On April 22, 1970, millions of Americans took to the country’s streets, parks, college campuses and classrooms to demand action for a healthier planet. This was the first Earth Day, and it sparked the modern environmental movement.

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June 20, 2020 • By Cindy Pereira Cooper, Michael K. J. Milligan

The United Nations Environment Program has crowned June 5th World Environment Day. And although the pandemic may have caused many news desks to push aside climate change headlines for the time being, we cannot afford to forget the very real environmental challenges faced by communities around the world.

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