Resource Management: Environmental Sustainability Across the Financial Literacy Curriculum

Abstract

Despite a call to action for policymakers to incorporate sustainability into the family and consumer sciences (FCS) education curriculum, it has been overlooked in financial education. Utilizing data from the Arizona Pathways to Life Success for University Students (APLUS) Project1, this article explores the plausibility of including environmental sustainability principles in the financial education curriculum as an additional pedagogical method for FCS educators to use when teaching financial literacy. General linear regression results suggest that participants with more pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors display a larger number of positive financial attitudes, behaviors, and intentions providing initial support for the implementation of sustainability into FCS financial literacy curriculum.