Sustainable Education

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"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."

"A look at the coalition government's policy on the National Curriculum, and the decision to abandon Labour's primary curriculum reforms, following the Rose Review."

"In zerocarbonbritain2030, a huge array of measures will be implemented in each sector to address climate change. Many of these are policy driven, however individuals and communities must also play an active part in decarbonisation."

"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.

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

"After appropriate management changes land can remove CO2 from the air and sequester it in soil or above-ground biomass. Carbon can also be sequestered by forming biomass into human artefacts and preserving it, preventing its carbon from being returned to the atmosphere."

"The large reduction in the consumption of animal products within the zerocarbonbritain2030 scenario frees up land that can be used to grow biomass. One of the uses to which we put this biomass is to create biofuel in order to power those transport sectors for which there is currently no alternative to liquid hydrocarbon fuels: aviation, shipping, some heavy goods vehicles and some farm machinery." Summary from zerocarbonbritain2030 on "Transport biofuels" a contentious subject.

summary from zerocarbonbritain2030 on transport

"The largest decrease in emissions from building stock will come from refurbishment." Summary from zerocarbonbritain2030

"Often those least responsible for emissions are those most vulnerable to a changing climate. Therefore it is clear that climate change is also a question of equality."

summary of zerocarbonbritain2030 report 2010 for "Energy Security"

summary of zerocarbonbritain report 2010 for Climate Science

"zerocarbonbritain2030 provides political and economic solutions to the urgent challenges raised by the climate science, outlining how we can transform the UK into an efficient, clean, prosperous zero-carbon society."

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

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.

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

Action research lies at the very centre of human life. . Action research is a family of approaches through which we can work to develop democratic dialogue in the service of mutual understanding and more informed action. It is an approach to living based on experience and engagement, on love and respect for the integrity of oneself and others. It depends on our willingness to rise above presupposition, to look, and to look again, to try out different behaviours, to risk security in the search for understanding and appropriate forms of action. All this in the service of opening possibilities for creative living.A

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.