WELCOME TO THE SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE

The PURPOSE of the Sustainability Initiative (SI) is to provide the necessary skills, analytical tools, and resources to address global, national, regional, and local sustainability issues. The SI offers courses, programs, internships, and project activities that promote awareness about sustainable development and how sustainability best practices can be applied to gain progress against these ongoing issues.

The MISSION of the SI is to provide GVSU administration, faculty, staff, students and community stakeholders with the required skills and capabilities to become better stewards and responsible global citizens in the workforce, communities, and family life.

The VISION of the SI is sustainability is accepted and valued as having an integral role in fulfilling the mission of GVSU.  This systems integration of sustainability builds the capacity to improve upon global sustainability issues across complex and interrelated--financial, natural, human, social, manufactured, cultural, community--capital frameworks.  

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