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"Putting Tomorrow's Earth into Today's Classrooms"
KEY WEBSITE RESOURCES
K-12 EDUCATION RESOURCES
Facing the Future works within the education system to help
teachers help students achieve academic success,
while preparing them to create and maintain
positive, healthy, and sustainable
communities. They provide curriculum resources, teacher
workshops, and service learning opportunities
used by teachers, schools, and districts in all
50 states and over 100 countries.
The Sustainable Schools Project is a dynamic new model for school improvement and civic engagement designed to help schools use sustainability as an integrating context for curriculum, community partnerships, and campus practices.
United Nations Decade for Education for Sustainable Development,
for which UNESCO is the lead agency, seeks to integrate the principles,
values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of
education and learning, in order to address the social, economic,
cultural and environmental problems we face in the 21st century.
The U.S. Partnership consists of individuals,
organizations and institutions in the United States dedicated to
education for sustainable development (ESD). It acts as a convener,
catalyst, and communicator working across all sectors of American
society.
HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education works to empower higher education to lead the
sustainability transformation. They do this by providing resources,
professional development, and a network of support to enable
institutions of higher education to model and advance sustainability in
everything they do, from governance and operations to education and
research. Second Nature's mission is to accelerate movement toward a sustainable
future by serving and supporting senior college and university leaders
in making healthy, just, and sustainable living the foundation of all learning and practice in higher education.
Click here for more Sustainability Education Resources made available through the Institute of Sustainable Energy at Eastern Connecticut State University
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