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Rivers for Life
Education is about imparting skills for understanding the past and for navigating the future. As the crises of climate change and peak fossil fuels have become increasingly apparent just the last decade, the future suddenly looks a lot different than what we've been expecting. Many institutions are already exploring new directions. They're adding "ecoliteracy", resilience thinking, and green jobs training to curricula. They're building school cafeteria gardens and partnering with local farms to give students hands-on experience with cultivating food.
But these are only the first responses to a very big question: How do we best prepare our children and ourselves for a climate-changing world without cheap oil?
Zenobia Barlow, founder of the Center for Ecoliterarcy (http://www.ecoliteracy.org) and Education Fellow at Post Carbon Institute, answer the question "What's the biggest obstacle to building ecological awareness into our education system?"
US public education has been retreating into an ever-narrower curriculum for several decades, and the early casualties have been programs that involve kinesthetic experiences and the manipulation … >>
I was speaking today with a mom at my sons' school. She was concerned about a teacher who was doing such a poor job that even his students were complaining that they weren't learning enough. … >>
EXCERPT: Food systems can be a very powerful tool for resilience. In a revolutionary way, you can completely transform things without people realizing what's happening--they are … >>
Reorienting the way human beings live on the Earth and educating children to their highest capacities have much in common, say the thinkers and educators behind this groundbreaking book. Both … >>
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what is pci?Founded in 2003, Post Carbon Institute is leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world. The Institute has gathered 29 of the world's leading experts on a wide range of interdependent social and scientific issues.
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take actionJoin the party! - 10/10/10
Circle 10/10/10 on your calendar. That’s the date. We’re calling it a Global Work Party, with emphasis on both 'work' and 'party'. We want to send a message to politicians: if we can get to work on climate change, you can get to work too. You can sign up to host a local event at www.350.org/oct10, or search for an event to join at www.350.org/map.
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