The GSF Program is an initiative of The Sustainability Laboratory, a thought-leader in the global transition to a sustainable future. The program’s foundation is The Lab’s unique theoretical framework, offering an uncommonly rigorous and comprehensive, systems-based approach to addressing issues of sustainability, change processes, and development. By incorporating this framework with hands-on, experience-based learning, international exposure, and cross-disciplinary work, the GSF offers a road map for developing model sustainability processes and guiding project planning and implementation, within a context that accounts for the complexity of the real world.
By incorporating The Lab’s rigorous theoretical orientation with experience-based learning, international exposure, and cross-disciplinary work, the GSF experience adds an essential dimension to the education students receive at their home institutions.
As the GSF program grows, we anticipate that fellows’ work pioneering effective solutions to critical sustainability challenges will serve as a real-world testament to the efficacy of the GSF approach.
Participants in the program are among the first members of the GSF Alumni Association, a professional, interdisciplinary network, where a common purpose, language and framework serve as the basis for game-changing sustainability innovations and initiatives worldwide.
The program is currently recruiting for its third summer session, which will be held at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in Israel’s Negev Desert, a location which will also allow close contact with The Lab’s flagship model development project, Project Wadi Attir.
The pilot session of the GSF Program took place over two summer sessions at EARTH University in Costa Rica, during July of 2014 and August of 2015. Students from 16 countries on five continents, and representing a range of disciplines, participated in this session.
