Sustainability Resources

The definition of sustainability for this class is broader than you might think. There are 17 total UN Sustainable Development Goals that encompass everything from clean energy to peace to gender equality to decent work for all. This page is a catch-all for various links to inspire and guide you.

Reminder, here is the library guide for the course.

Website examples

These all have fancier GUIs that you likely will and that’s okay (you don’t need to have a map).

• Cropping Calendar
• Our World in Data - has subpages for all the UN SDGs and you can download all the associated data
• Dark Sky
• Xcel Energy Hosting Capacity

Finding relevant datasets

• SDG Database
• Carleton’s Sustainability Across the Curriculum - has links to MN specific datasets
• Our World in Data - has subpages for all the UN SDGs and you can download all the associated data
• Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment Datasets
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Data
• Kaggle Sustainability Search

Ideas for combining datasets

Could combine any of the following:

• Recipes
• Native/sustainable species
• Farming yields
• Water usage
• Food deserts