{"id":992,"date":"2020-03-30T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T19:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/?page_id=992"},"modified":"2025-04-23T17:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:00:58","slug":"get-involved","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/soar-sdgs\/get-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The campus community can contribute a great deal to the achievement of the SDGs. Click on the links below to see how you can make a difference:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/actnow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Act Now<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>ActNow is the United Nations\u2019 global call to individual action on climate change. The campaign is a critical part of the UN\u2019s coordinated effort to raise awareness, ambition, and action for climate change and accelerate implementation of the Paris Agreement.<\/dd>\n<dd>Primarily an online and social media campaign, ActNow will educate and encourage individual actions, mainly by adjusting consumption patterns. By changing our habits and routines, and making choices that have less harmful effects on the environment, we have the power to confront the climate challenge.<\/dd>\n<dt><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/takeaction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lazy Person\u2019s Guide to the SDGs<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change. Whoa. The Sustainable Development Goals are important, world-changing objectives that will require cooperation among governments, international organizations and world leaders. It seems impossible that the average person can make an impact. Should you just give up?<\/dd>\n<dd>No! Change starts with you. Seriously. Every human on earth\u2014even the most indifferent, laziest person among us\u2014is part of the solution. Fortunately, there are some super easy things we can adopt into our routines that, if we all do it, will make a big difference.<\/dd>\n<dd>Have a look at just a few of the many things you can do to make an impact!<\/dd>\n<dt><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sulitest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sulitest<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Today, a proof of a minimum level of English is required from candidates applying for admission to a university or for a job in international companies. Other Higher Education Institutions verify applicants\u2019 standardized test scores in key skills areas for entering competitive MBA and Master\u2019s programs. Tomorrow, organizations will require that their students, staff and faculty possess a basic understanding of the current global challenges and their responsibility in resolving them.<\/dd>\n<dd>The Sulitest initiative was created to help Higher Education Institutions, Companies and Organizations around the world ensure that their graduates, employees, stakeholders and managers demonstrate core knowledge about the global challenges of the 21st century.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The campus community can contribute a great deal to the achievement of the SDGs. Click on the links below to see how you can make a difference: Act Now ActNow is the United Nations\u2019 global call to individual action on climate change. 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