By Lamont O. Repollet and Saul Petersen New Jersey’s first-in-the-nation climate change curriculum, spearheaded by First Lady Tammy Murphy, is a necessary and bold initiative that integrates lessons on climate change throughout K-12 education. It offers an opportunity to teach a new generation of students about the real dangers of climate change so that we can move quickly to create sustainable ways of life that will restore a healthy planet. But let’s be clear, no teacher or school or district or government policy can do this alone. Higher education must step in to help. We need to develop la…
