In 2015, the UN launched the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Adopted by 193 member states, the goals represent an important international step in setting humanity on a trajectory towards sustainable development. Within this course, you will get a historical overview of how sustainability has been understood, as well as a thorough introduction to the SDGs - what they are, how progress can be measured, and how the SDGs are relevant for the management of the global systems supporting humanity.

Management of nitrogen loading into the watershed is a feasible proposition even with the likely further urban expansion on the northern shore of the Lake. The consequences of future nitrogen loadings resulting from population growth on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain can be compensated for by rather rudimentary sewerage treatment of existing non-point sources, from treatment or diversion of pumped urban runoff, and by sealing the leakage of water passing through the Bonnet Carre Spillway.

Audubon Naturalist Society's Creek Critters app walks you through finding and identifying the small organisms - or critters - that live in freshwater streams and creating stream health reports based on your findings." Creek Critters acts as a tool when identifying macroinvertebrates and allows users to contribute to a community science proje

What would you do if your job was to manage a small coastal community besieged by job loss, irate voters, hurricanes, oil spills, and hipsters? Here's a way to find out: boot up your laptop or tablet and check out the new "serious game," Digital Cards Against Calamity. Cards Against Calamity is designed to be not only entertaining, but also educational by raising awareness of the issues surrounding coastal resilience, backed up by government data.

With a changing climate, it is vital that we think beyond traditional engineering. Blue-Green infrastructure (BGI) emphasizes the importance of combining water management alongside green infrastructure, and seeks to meet the challenges of climate change by "building with nature". When incorporated into your projects, BGI can make your habitat more resilient to storms of increasing intensity and high-water events. Our speakers are recognized worldwide as experts in blue-green infrastructure and bring decades of expertise and case studies on storm recovery, resiliency and flood-event evaluation.

Nutrient pollution occurs when too much nitrogen or phosphorus enters a waterway, and is often caused by human activities. This can harm the waterway and aquatic life, and produce unsightly and sometimes harmful algal blooms. Do your part to protect our waterways from nutrient pollution.

Over 130 countries have declared support for a global agreement to combat marine litter and microplastics. There are numerous processes underway to build momentum towards an ambitious global plastics agreement at the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) 5.2 in February 2022. This webinar will discuss why a growing number of countries have indicated support for a plastic pollution treaty and what it could look like.

Wetlands are an in-between place where water settles. Learn about the benefits of wetlands and about threats to their survival.

Join Kimberli Ponzio, an Environmental Scientist IV in the Bureau of Water Resources, as she discusses the benefits of wetlands and the work of the St. Johns River Water Management District to restore and protect wetlands.

Like microbeads, polystyrene plastics are environmental hazards. They are extremely toxic to make and difficult to recycle. Polystyrene and "Styrofoam" are even banned from many recycling programs because of contamination problems - less than 2% of polystyrene was recycled in 2013.