Sustainability Leadership Badge

Recognition for Environmental Student Leaders

As part of UNE鈥檚 Badging Program, the Sustainability Leadership Badge offers students a non-credit bearing opportunity to validate and document experiential learning and leadership competencies through the fostering of campus sustainability projects and habits of mind. The badge provides recognition of the advocacy and leadership efforts of learners who have a passion for environmental sustainability and can serve as an important credential on a resume by confirming one鈥檚 commitment to and competencies around environmental stewardship. 

Criteria

Learners who earn this badge will have demonstrated their ability to:

  • Engage stakeholders and build collaborative teams to further campus sustainability initiatives.
  • Solve complex problems by analyzing current practices, determining benefits of and barriers to sustainable alternatives.
  • Advocate for environmentally responsible practices by creating and communicating inspiring messages.
  • Analyze and reflect on their own demonstration of sustainable choices and their leadership impact on the UNE community.

How to Earn the Sustainability Leadership Badge

To earn the badge, a student must demonstrate competency in four key areas:

  • Engaging Stakeholders
  • Solving Problems
  • Communicating Effectively
  • Leading by Example

Competency 1: Engaging Stakeholders

Engage stakeholders and build collaborative teams to further campus sustainability initiatives.

Learning Activities
  • Students will respond to prompts in the planning and reflection stages of stakeholder engagement opportunities.
  • Students will participate in, convene, or facilitate group meetings (or portions of meetings) where sustainability initiatives are discussed and decided.
Additional Information
Reflection Prompts

Pre-engagement planning:

  • Identify a sustainability-related project/initiative of interest.
  • In thinking about the particular sustainability-related project or initiative, identify campus stakeholders (people or existing organizations) who could provide insight and/or approval to all aspects of the project/initiative.
  • How might you approach engaging with these stakeholders?
  • Describe the goals of your engagement.

Post-engagement reflection:

  • Name of environmental sustainability-related club/organization in which you participated:
  • Date(s) of meeting/event:
  • What applied environmental sustainab