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Here are some incredible projects involving LSE Staff and Students working together to advance Education for Sustainability across the School.

2024/25

LSE Green Week: Sustainability Pop-Up Xpress (March 2025)

Sustainability Pop-Up Xpress, an unique exhibition on Education for Sustainability, was hosted in 2025 in collaboration with the LSE Eden Centre, LSESU and LSE Sustainability Team as part of LSE Green Week.

Taking place in the Great Hall of LSE Marshall Building (ground floor), the exhibition will from 9am to 6pm, 17–20 March 2025.

This living installation invites you to actively engage with sustainability through creative expression. Visitors can participate by sharing their thoughts, experiences, and ideas about sustainability on two interactive “pop-up walls”:

Wall A: Writing Sustainability – Use provided pens, crayons, or pencils to express your perspectives.
Wall B: Imagining Sustainability – Create or paste visual representations of sustainability using art supplies.

For those unable to attend in person, a Virtual Xpress Wall will be accessible via QR code, allowing for remote contributions. Virtual submissions will also be projected live within the exhibition space, fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment.

Come and share your vision for a sustainable future—together, let’s reimagine what sustainability means for our world.

2023/24

What can LSE do to further expand education for sustainability?

Wednesday 20 March (5-7pm) PAR.2.03

We aim for staff and students to use this as a platform to discuss together the following questions and then develop some recommendations for LSE:

1) Based on your experience (both students and academic staff), does the Department/Course offer any sustainability-related courses?

2) In your experience (and if any), in what ways do sustainability-focused courses address the topic (e.g. case studies, readings, a certain number of lectures, the whole course is focused on sustainability, certain learning approaches)?

3) How is sustainability framed?

4) What do you think LSE can do better?

This workshop was organised in partnership with the LSE Student Union, LSE Eden Centre and the LSE Sustainability team. Part of LSE Green Week.

Other LSE events and initiatives

Explore LSE Congress

LSE Congress is a simulation activity where students are invited to explore how LSE’s research can contribute to the progress towards the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Explore LSE students’ research for Change Makers

Change Makers is a collaborative programme between LSE and LSE Students’ Union which gives current students the chance to make meaningful change at LSE through independent research.

1) Climate Change Education Within the School of Public Policy, By Namita Gupta, Shruti Ratnaparkhi (2022/23). Learn more here.

2) Perceptions of University Waste Management within the International Cohort, By Isaac Berger(2022/23). Learn more here.

3) To what extent is LSE's IR department marginalising climate and environment education? By Harriet Freeman (2019/20). Learn more here.

4) How can Universities Embed Sustainability into the Curriculum? By Bala Nagendran Marimuthu and Joss Harrison. Learn more here.

LSE100

LSE100 is LSE’s flagship interdisciplinary course taken by all first-year undergraduate students as part of your degree programme. The course is designed to build your capacity to tackle multidimensional problems through research-rich education, giving you the opportunity to explore transformative global challenges in collaboration with peers from other departments and leading academics from across the School.

Watch below how LSE100 has embedded sustainability in the curriculum of all LSE undergraduate students.

Phelan US Centre Climate Change and Sustainability Syllabus Hub

Launched by the Phelan United States Centre, the Climate Change and Sustainability Syllabus Hub offers a curated collection of syllabi, reading lists, and lesson plans from top US institutions. It is a valuable resource for educators, students, and researchers, providing inspiration and best practices for teaching climate change and sustainability. Syllabi are organised by discipline.

LSE Faith Centre Module on Religion and Climate Change

The window for action to turn things around and avert the worst of the climate breakdown is rapidly shrinking. Faith communities are a major but neglected source for mobilisation, action, and new imaginings of our relationship with nature. Faith-based organisations own 8% of the habitable land surface, 5% of all commercial forests, 50% of the schools in the world and 10% of world’s total financial institutions. These can all be mobilised in line with the theologies of stewardship and sustainability we find in all the world faiths.

This extra-curricular module offered by the LSE Faith Centre to both staff and students highlights the action of faith leaders and faith-based NGOs, explores religious teaching on themes of climate change through scriptural reasoning, and allows participants to think about modes of influence within their communities.

Find out more here