Physics: Sustainability

This is a collection of sustainability materials that can be used to enhance teaching and learning. This page highlights some of the sustainability resources available, but this is by no means an exhaustive list. 

This area contains articles dealing with sustainability and physics. This section highlights some of the sustainability articles available, but this is by no means an exhaustive list. To locate more materials you can use the Search Library Articles Widget below to locate more resources.

Lindstrom, & Middlecamp, C. (2018). Campus as a Living Laboratory for Sustainability: The Physics Connection. The Physics Teacher, 56(4), 240–243. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5028242

Rodríguez, Riera, R., & Delgado, J. D. (2017). Ecology: Science or philately? An interdisciplinary analysis of sustainability by exploring if it is possible to get more and more information by reducing collateral environmental damages. The Science of the Total Environment, 596-597, 43–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.04.053

Rogers, Pfaff, T., Hamilton, J., & Erkan, A. (2013). Incorporating Sustainability and 21st-Century Problem Solving into Physics Courses. The Physics Teacher, 51(6), 372–374. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4818380

Tomkiewicz. (2015). Energy and sustainability, from the point of view of environmental physics. MRS Energy & Sustainability, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1557/mre.2015.14