Sustainable Education

"A sustainable, secure, efficient Britain can be powered without relying on fossil fuels or nuclear power." Summary from zerocarbonbritain2030 on Renewables

"In the scenario a healthy diet is provided for the population on only 29% of the land currently used for food production, supplemented by low-carbon imports. It provides a much higher degree of food security than at present." Summary from zerocarbonbritain2030 on landuse ans agriculture.

"If you're looking for the latest guidelines on National Cycle Network signage, information sheets from our projects such as Active Travel, Travel Smart and Safe Routes to Schools or Cycle Tourism statistics, you will find it all in this section."

Report of a project to mainstream education for sustainability (EfS) in pre-service teacher education. Pilot project identifies enablers and constraints to mainstreaming EfS in two regions in Australia. Five actions enabling change were identified: collaboration; development of an ethos of sustainable practice; connecting existing EfS content; provision of experiential learning; and creating opportunities for integrated programs. The greatest constraint was providing overall systemic support for this action to happen.

Biodiversity is life. Scientists use the word to describe the links and variety between all living things on the planet - including humans. You may think of biodiversity as the environment, or as nature, wildlife, plants and animals, but the important thing to remember is it's all inter-connected. That includes every person too - we all rely on biodiversity for our survival, because of the vast number of goods and services our planet provides for us

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"Days of world consumption: A warning label for oil and gas discoveries\nby Kurt Cobb "\n"We should leave fossil fuels before they leave us."

Lots of extra ideas on how to make good use of Diigo

"If we cut the average speed of all vehicles by half, fuel consumption would decrease by a whopping 75 percent."

"Almost since life began on earth, mycelia have performed important ecological roles: nourishing ecosystems, repairing them, and sometimes even helping create them. The fungi's exquisitely fine filaments absorb nutrients from the soil and then trade them with the roots of plants for some of the energy that the plants produce through photosynthesis. No plant community could exist without mycelia."

Icelandic spirit 3.33min sound clip\nSigrun Davidsdottir looks at how Icelanders are coping with their recession and knitting their way out of the downturn!

A one-year, part time Action Research programme. Through practical examples, theory and creative processes, participants will have the opportunity to explore ideas in a dynamic learning environment. The part time structure enables participants to experiment with, reflect on, and document their learning in between sessions, and to integrate the work into their professional and personal practice. There is support and feedback from the certificate tutors and peers during the intervals.

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed. "How might we organize differently if we understood how Life organizes?" "problems that are impossible to solve with one paradigm may be easily solved with a different one."

The Deep Ecology Platform 1. All life has value in itself, independent of its usefulness to humans. 2. Richness and diversity contribute to life's well-being and have value in themselves. 3. Humans have no right to reduce this richness and diversity except to satisfy vital needs in a responsible way. 4. The impact of humans in the world is excessive and rapidly getting worse. 5. Human lifestyles and population are key elements of this impact. 6. The diversity of life, including cultures, can flourish only with reduced human impact. 7. Basic ideological, political, economic and technological structures must therefore change. 8. Those who accept the forgoing points have an obligation to participate in implementing the necessary changes and to do so peacefully and democratically.

Six myths about the foundations of modern education, and six new principles to replace them. David Orr article

The Food for Life Partnership is a network of schools and communities across England committed to transforming food culture. Led by the Soil Association, the Food for Life Partnership brings together the practical expertise of the Focus on Food Campaign, Garden Organic and the Health Education Trust. We want to transform school and community food culture across England, by harnessing the ideas and initiative of young people and community leaders. We aim to reach out through schools to give communities access to seasonal, local and organic food, and to the skills they need to cook and grow fresh food for themselves. We'd like this generation to explore how their food choices impact on their health and that of the planet, and to rediscover the pleasure of taking time to enjoy real food.

"To demonstrate the University's commitment to environmental protection and improvement, Kingston University has established an environmental management system (EMS) based on the IEMA BS8555 Acorn Scheme step approach. The scope of the EMS implementation is to cover all University's activities and sites. "

An example of Kington Universitiy's approach.

Executive summary 4pp

"Crispin School in Somerset is part of a community of practice that enables pupils and teachers to explore what it means to live a sustainable life."

SDC's "Redefining Prosperity" project has looked into the connections and conflicts between sustainability, growth, and wellbeing.