SDG Campus Worlds
Our Living Learning Labs
This page is the “field guide” to the Sustainable Development Goals educational portal, SDG Campus Worlds. Each world below is a living laboratory where people learn the SDGs through everyday life — from coffee cups and cornfields to consent, cars, climate, and civic action.
Status Key to the Labs
Living World – ready for learners and partners now.
In Development – active build; content and tools expanding.
Use this page to pick a world, see its focus, and find which SDGs it helps teach. Over time these cards will connect to a status-aware directory so educators, partners, and students can see which worlds are live, in pilot, or open for collaboration.
Food, Resources & Sustainable Consumption
EcoCafe.com
Tagline: Good coffee, clean conscience.
EcoCafe is a sustainable coffee culture world where students and communities explore how everyday café choices connect to waste streams, carbon footprints, and local economies. It’s a perfect entry point for circular economy audits, zero-waste campaigns, and responsible consumption projects.
Primary SDGs: 12 – Responsible Consumption & Production · 13 – Climate Action · 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
EcoConcern.com
Tagline: From “I’m worried” to “I’m doing something.”
EcoConcern turns climate anxiety into practical climate action by linking local worries to hands-on projects, citizen science, and ecosystem repair. This world is built for classes and community groups who want to move from doomscrolling to measurable impact.
Primary SDGs: 13 – Climate Action · 11 – Sustainable Cities & Communities · 15 – Life on Land · 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
WeAreCorn.com
Tagline: Why our food system is… mostly corn.
WeAreCorn is a story-rich food systems world rooted in a fictional rural Mexican village where corn underpins daily life, culture, and economy. Learners use the People of the Corn narrative to unpack GMOs, HFCS, hidden corn derivatives, and how policy and trade shape health, equity, and the environment.
Primary SDGs: 2 – Zero Hunger · 3 – Good Health & Well-Being · 11 – Sustainable Cities & Communities · 12 – Responsible Consumption & Production · 15 – Life on Land
Your RIL HouseKey
Tagline: Navigating food, housing, and basic needs with dignity.
HouseKey is a basic needs and financial stability world that prototypes chatbots and concierge tools for food access, emergency aid, and housing resources. It anchors SDG Campus work on poverty, hunger, and campus equity in partnership with local organizations like Pitchfork Pantry.
Primary SDGs: 1 – No Poverty · 2 – Zero Hunger · 10 – Reduced Inequalities · 11 – Sustainable Cities & Communities
Health, Emotional Intelligence & Equity
Cognifi-AI.com
Tagline: Making invisible illnesses visible.
Cognifi-AI is a health and disability equity world built around long COVID, POTS, and chronic illness tracking. It explores how AI, data, and design can support patients, caregivers, and workplaces in recognizing invisible conditions and closing gaps in care.
Primary SDGs: 3 – Good Health & Well-Being · 10 – Reduced Inequalities · 8 – Decent Work & Economic Growth
EQGuide.com
Tagline: Emotional literacy for a more just world.
EQGuide is the emotional intelligence world for SDG Campus, focused on communication skills, boundaries, and relational design. It supports modules on conflict de-escalation, equity in relationships, and emotionally healthy leadership, with optional advanced modules for older youth and adults that explore consent and healthy boundaries in age-appropriate ways.
Primary SDGs: 3 – Good Health & Well-Being · 5 – Gender Equality · 10 – Reduced Inequalities
AI Education & Workforce Development
MidlifeCollege.com
Tagline: AI literacy for real-world careers.
Midlife College is the AI literacy and workforce readiness world for adults who are reskilling or upskilling in the age of generative AI. It connects micro-credentials, portfolio projects, and ethical AI practice to SDG 4, SDG 8, and SDG 9.
Primary SDGs: 4 – Quality Education · 8 – Decent Work & Economic Growth · 9 – Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure · 10 – Reduced Inequalities
Civic Action, Communities & Mobility
DoWhatMATAs.org
Tagline: When “someone should do something” becomes “we did.”
Do What MATAs is a civic storytelling world that turns outrage into organized, sustainable action. Through porch talks, satire, and movement-building frames, it helps learners explore democracy, media literacy, and collective power at local, state, and national levels.
Primary SDGs: 11 – Sustainable Cities & Communities · 16 – Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions · 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
ChevyLegacy.com
Tagline: Looking back at car culture to drive a cleaner future.
Chevy Legacy is a micro-world that uses automotive nostalgia and car culture to unpack mobility transitions, right-to-repair, and the circular economy. It provides a relatable lens on how infrastructure choices shape climate, memory, and everyday life in communities.
Primary SDGs: 9 – Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure · 12 – Responsible Consumption & Production · 13 – Climate Action
Innovation, Governance & Systems Thinking
ResponsibleInnovationLab.org
Tagline: Innovation that remembers who it is for.
The Responsible Innovation Lab (RIL) is the institutional backbone of SDG Campus, anchoring methods, safeguards, and governance for ethical, sustainable, and future-resilient innovation. It connects student projects, community partners, and AI-powered tools to a shared values framework.
Primary SDGs: 4 – Quality Education · 9 – Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure · 16 – Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions · 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
SolHavenWorlds.com
Tagline: Middle-grade systems fiction for energy and infrastructure.
SolHaven Worlds is a narrative systems world that uses middle-grade science fiction to teach energy grids, infrastructure, corruption, and resilience. It pairs with Atlantis to give young learners a story-first way into systems thinking, engineering, and SDG 7, 9, 13, and 16.
Primary SDGs: 7 – Affordable & Clean Energy · 9 – Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure · 13 – Climate Action · 16 – Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions
K–12 Discovery Worlds
TidesOfAtlantis.com
Tagline: Water, resilience, and oceans through story.
Tides of Atlantis is a K–12 friendly story world that uses a drowned city, shifting tides, and mythic politics to teach clean water, sanitation, ocean health, and climate resilience. It is designed for middle-grade readers and classrooms exploring SDG 6, SDG 13, and SDG 14.
Primary SDGs: 6 – Clean Water & Sanitation · 7 – Affordable & Clean Energy · 13 – Climate Action · 14 – Life Below Water
Together, SolHaven and Tides of Atlantis form the SDG Campus K–12 cluster: a pair of story-driven worlds that help younger learners explore systems, energy, water, oceans, and resilience through age-appropriate fiction.
How to Work With Campus Worlds
Educators: Pick one world as a semester case study, or string several together (for example, EcoCafe + DoWhatMATAs + ChevyLegacy) to show how SDG 12 and SDG 13 play out from café to community to mobility. Over time, this page will connect to a dynamic inventory powered by the Responsible Innovation Lab CRM so you can filter by SDG, status, and age level.
Learners & communities: Start with the world that feels closest to your life — coffee, corn, consent, cars, health, or housing — and track how many SDGs you can touch with one small change.
Partners: Embed pilots inside a specific world (café audits, consent education, repair days, basic needs concierge tools, civic storytelling, or systems-fiction labs) and co-design living laboratory projects that intersect with everyday life alongside the Responsible Innovation Lab and SDG Campus teams.
To see how these SDG Campus Worlds fit into the bigger picture, visit the main SDG Campus overview for the full index by SDG, partner pathways, and the story behind the project.
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