Sustainable Education

We are a long way from understanding how to create a resilient world. Nevertheless, it is possible to offer some visions for what a resilient world might look like.

Executive summary 4pp

Embercombe is a charity and social enterprise established \nto champion a way of living that celebrates the opportunities inherent in this \nchallenging time and that inspires people to energetically contribute towards \nthe emergence of a socially just, environmentally sustainable and spiritually \nfulfilling human presence on earth.\n\nIt is our view that humanity now stands at a cross-roads - \na defining time in which we will make choices that will greatly influence our \ncollective future, for better or worse. We have become so numerous, so \nindustrious, so ambitious, and so technologically powerful, that we have the \ncapacity to orchestrate the destruction of our species, habitat, and future. We \nalso possess the imagination, the vision, and the intellect to learn from \nexperience, meet our challenges, and build a positive, sustainable future. A \nradical shift in awareness, values, and behaviour is required to meet this \ncritical transition.

Table of major participants in Copenhagen conference.
What is on the table! Climate facts and Public opinion.

a personal collection of writing from the director of the Swiss ESD schools "Champion"

Here is someone working on the tag problem

Bevan Foundation

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Interviews from some authors for "The Handbook of Sustainable Literacy

Skills for a changing world
On-line chapters from "The Handbook fo Sustainability"

Skills for a changing world
Fuels the debate
Wide ranging chapters

Climate science maverick James Lovelock believes catastrophe is inevitable, carbon offsetting is a joke and ethical living a scam. So what would he do?

impressive USA collection

In El Alto, Saturnina and Felipa learned to knit and weave. Job after job,
both received low pay, late pay or no pay at all. At one point, Saturnina's boss
was paying her $4 per clothing article which he would then sell in Germany for
$70.

Saturnina and Felipa grew tired of seeing themselves and other rural migrants
exploited. So in 2000 they founded a women's collective called the Integral
Association of Kullakas (IAK). 'Kullakas' means 'sisters' in the Aymara
language. They used this word to symbolize their interdependence with the Aymara
and with the world. Says Saturnina: 'We decided that we needed to help each
other.'

Nine years later, the collective - of which Saturnina is President -
continues to teach handicraft and farming skills. Saturnina's living room is
where women come to be trained. The room displays colourful scarves, hats and
dolls made by hand, often entirely out of the fleece of the alpaca - similar to
the llama - which is warmer and softer than sheep's wool.

Fifty per cent of the price of each product goes to the woman who made it,
while the rest goes to communal living costs or to buy new materials. The
Kullakas are constantly on the lookout for markets so that they can pay women as
quickly as possible.