You know that human behavior is the cause of environmental problems including climate change. You know that no change in human behavior will lead us to environmental catastrophe. Still, humans have not been successful in changing their behavior for sustainability. Why? This is the key question to be addressed in this course.

I propose one potential answer to this question, i.e., our mainstream culture prevents us from changing our behavior. This course first examines the basic concepts of existing mainstream approaches. This course then proposes an alternative approach that I name ‘the cultural approach’. The cultural approach aims to rewrite our cultural script for greater sustainability. You will eventually learn to see the sustainability problems and your own research topic from a different perspective.