Sustainable Futures Initiative

Imagining and Implementing Sustainable Solutions for Society

About the Sustainable Futures Initiative

To work toward a more sustainable future, one must first reimagine that future. The Sustainable Futures Initiative works to bring together students, staff, scholars, and practitioners to envision and realize the best of those futures.

Through consultation with our outside partners and conversation with our best minds in-house, we will seek to foster transformative research and on-campus application to provide forward-oriented solutions to our most pressing problems. Throughout, we will seek to cement NC State as a national and global leader in sustainability research, education, and application.

Our People

Christopher Galik

Deputy Executive Director, Climate and Sustainability Academy

919-513-6011

csgalik@ncsu.edu

Dawn Rodriguez-Ward

Program Coordinator

919.515.1651

dtward2@ncsu.edu

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Imagine

Think about what a more sustainable future could look like at NC State and around the world.

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One of the copper wolves near the Free Expression Tunnel at Wolf Plaza. Photo by Becky Kirkland.

Implement

Take the steps to make a more sustainable future a reality.

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First cohort of NC State's Sustainable Futures Fellows

First Cohort of Sustainable Futures Fellows Announced

Twenty students have been selected for the inaugural cohort of the Sustainable Futures Fellows program, which engages interdisciplinary student teams in a unique 15-week exploration of the sustainability challenges and opportunities across key sectors of the economy.

The court of North Carolina looking up at the 1911 building on main campus.

CHASS Seeks Applications for Inaugural Cohort of Faculty Fellows

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences invites faculty at all ranks across the college to apply to a new interdisciplinary fellowship program aimed at exploring ways humans can sustain positive cultural and climatic change in an increasingly global and interconnected world.

Are Universities Connected to Local Sustainability? A New Study Suggests Yes…and No.

A new study co-authored by Christopher Galik finds that universities scoring strongly on measures of sustainability are associated with innovation and economic growth in their surrounding communities. However, the study did not find similar connections between university sustainability performance and environmental sustainability in their home communities.

Coping with Climate Anxiety Through Poetry, Visual Arts

An interdisciplinary poetry and visual arts workshop will take place this month aimed at inspiring campuswide awareness of global climate change and its impact now and in the future. In this story, Christopher Galik speaks about Arts United.

Arts and Your Major Month

Christopher Galik will speak on “Climate Change and the Arts” on Wednesday, November 8 at 4 p.m. in Hill Library.

Envisioning Urban Futures

Christopher Galik spoke at the Envisioning Urban Futures event on Wednesday, October 18.