Great news, fellow Knights!  There is an amazing opportunity to take a course with Professor Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia University for free. Here is the link.

The course description states:

This course provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development, drawing on the most recent developments in the social, policy, and physical sciences. Sustainable development is the most urgent challenge facing humanity. The fundamental question is how the world economy can continue to develop in a way that is socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable. The course describes the complex interactions between the world economy and the Earth’s physical environment. Ecological processes and constraints (climate, disease ecology, physical resources such as soils and energy sources, topography and transport conditions) significantly shape the patterns of economic development, demography, and wealth and poverty. At the same time, human activities (farming, land use, urbanization, demographic change, and energy use) change the physical environments, increasingly in dangerous ways. The course offers a broad overview of the key challenges and potential solutions to achieve sustainable development in the 21st century.

The course is available to ANYBODY that is interested in the topics surrounding environmental issues.  I suspect that it will foster an all-encompassing perspective when it comes to thinking about sustainability.  As students, I believe it is important to make an effort to take every learning experience one can participate in (time-permitting) and become more cosmopolitan in our thinking as we figure out our place on this earth.