Since 2008, Village Earth has provided its tailored in-person training for student and professional chapters of Engineers Without Borders at colleges and universities across the country including UC Santa Barbara, Colorado State University, Rutgers, Princeton, Hope College, MSU, San Francisco and Portland. We are excited to announce a new online training opportunity for Student and Professional Chapters of Engineers Without Borders. Combining live face-to-face discussions with offline content you can complete on your own schedule, this course makes our powerful community mobilization curriculum accessible to anyone with an internet connection. This course is available to individuals at our regularly scheduled times and to entire chapters upon request. To learn more about this new offering click here. Click here to to download a PDF flyer for this training
GSLL 1514 – Challenges and Opportunities of Utilizing Traditional Knowledge in Climate Adaptation
This class will explore key concepts of resilience, vulnerability, adaptive capacity and social capital in the context of community exposure to climate change. We will engage in critical analysis of tools and methods for building resilience to climate change and will look at several case studies from around the world.