What are your thoughts on the SDGs? Are they reasonable and achievable? In 2000, the United Nations developed the millennium development goals with a 15-year timetable to reach. Select this to view the MDGs. Now, several years later, while great progress was made, not all the goals were reached. The UN has now developed sustainable development goals. Select this to view the SDGs. If you select each goal, you can see smaller goals for each of them. Read the following article from The Guardian which discusses the SDGs and why they came to be chosen: Sustainable development goals: All you need to know Discussion board assignments/discussions are asynchronous learning activities which allow students to research and present pertinent information to the entire class. Each student is expected to post relevant information obtained from peer reviewed journals, Internet sources that are organization, education or governmental sites (.org/.edu/.gov). Commercial Internet sources are not appropriate unless from reputable news organization, i.e. New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Time Magazine, etc