How is environmental sustainability a profoundly social challenge? This class will explore how environmental problems are deeply intertwined with social problems, just as humans and human institutions are part and parcel of nature. Students will be challenged to integrate sociological insights into efforts toward critically-engaged forms of sustainability management. The course will provide an overview of environmental sociology along with topics such as environmental injustice and toxic exposures, consumption and green capitalism, corporate culture and institutional change, environmental risk and disaster, and several weeks on various dimensions of the climate crisis including the political economy of climate adaptation, denialism, social movements and counter movements, and predicative politics.