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How's Your Green "Literacy" Anyway?
Sometimes we hear the message but don't take action. Let's think again...
Take a look at this article about green literacy, education, and systems thinking for sustainable mindsets.
Sustainability Literacy in a Nutshell
Traditional education is too often reduced to job training. Sustainability literacy, on the other hand, focuses on the practical skills that students will need to survive and adapt in a world that is rapidly changing
due to climate change, dwindling energy resources and ecosystem degradation. Ecological literacy, place-based education and a cosmological approach to education are excellent suggestions. But they do not fully recognize that the transition to sustainability will require creating a learning society where people gain sustainability literacy skills together.
Check out these links and resources:
Just as it “takes a village to raise a child,” it will take human society
as a whole to learn how to live lightly on the Earth.
No one person or group of people has all the answers.
We need the knowledge of Indigenous peoples, the expertise of people who work on the land, the curiosity of children and the wisdom of elders.
We need artists, scientists, poets, engineers, spiritual leaders and film stars.
In short, we need everyone’s creativity and ingenuity.
Only by listening to each other and sharing what we know will humankind be capable of evolving truly sustainable societies.
Read more here:
What's happening in Thunder Bay?
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-- Margaret Mead
Check out these links and resources:
Eco Superior:
(check out the excellent links for you & your family)
Earthwise:
(see the Action Plan)
Community Change: Proof that it can be done!:
Building a Sustainable Cree Village:
Oujé-Bougoumou has won many awards including an award from the United Nations Association in 1995. The award, entitled the "Global Citizen" Award was presented at a special award ceremony held in Ottawa in recognition of Ouje-Bougoumou having built a community which was both environmentally and people-friendly.
What are your contributions
to build a more sustainable world?
Curious minds want to know: send in your comments
(link at end of this post)
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Coffee anyone?
It's time for "one on one" with Maggie - let's meet for an informal and "unofficial" tea/coffee break during February.
Your choice of place and time...
email or call me.
Best!
Maggie
