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Sustainability Education Organizations
- The Center for Ecoliteracy, Berkeley, CA: http://www.ecoliteracy.org
The Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainable living.
The Center for Ecoliteracy was founded in 1995 by Fritjof Capra, Peter Buckley, and Zenobia Barlow. The Center for Ecoliteracy is a public foundation that supports a grantmaking program for educational organizations and school communities, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area; convenes networks of its grantees; sponsors projects consistent with its mission; administers donor-advised funds; and manages a publishing imprint, Learning in the Real World®.
- The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education: www.sustainabilityed.org
The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education's mission is to monitor the evolving thinking and skills of the most important champions of sustainability, and to transform them into educational materials and a pedagogical system that inspire young people to think about the world, their relationship to it, and their ability to influence it in an entirely new way.The Cloud Institute has developed curriculum for schools throughout New York City. The Cloud Institute offers high-quality products and services to K-12 schools and school systems.
- Creative Change Educational Solutions: http://www.creativechange.net/
Based in Michigan, CCES develops custom educational programs, designs curricula and courses, and provides workshops and trainings for: K-12 schools and educators; Higher education institutions; Nonprofit-, governmental-, and community organizations.
- Education for a Sustainable Future: http://www.cobb.k12.ga.us/~Grants/
One of the most successful and ambitious SE initiatives in the U.S.. This on-going project, launched nearly ten years ago, created, implemented and disseminated a collection of flexible, technology-based educational resources that support learning about the environment, the economy and social equity as it relates to a sustainable future. The project took place in Cobb County, GA and provides professional development to support the use of these new resources. Using an on-line template designed specifically for the project, teachers have created units for grades K-12 which infuse the use of technological tools to support student inquiry and systems thinking.
Education for a Sustainable Future is a Technology Innovation Challenge Grant that was funded in 1997 by the United States Department of Education. ESF is a collaboration among Cobb County School District, Fulton County School District, and Center for a Sustainable Future (a division of Concord Consortium). Cobb County School District is the fiscal agent for the grant. For additional information on ESF, link to http://csf.concord.org/esf/index.cfm
- Environmental Leadership Program: http://www.elpnet.org/aboutus
- Education For Sustainable Development Toolkit: www.esdtoolkit.org
An easy-to-use manual for individuals and organizations from both the education and community sectors.
- Facing the Future: www.facingthefuture.org
SE curriculum and workshops
- Learning to Change our World: International Consultation on Education for Sustainable Development: http://www.learning2004.se/main.html
- National Environmental Education and Training Foundation: http://www.neetf.org/
Since the inception of its annual National Report Card on Environmental Attitudes, Knowledge and Behavior, NEETF has commissioned Roper Starch Worldwide to conduct this survey of adult Americans. The results of the survey are widely distributed by NEETF to educators, policy makers, business executives and the media to help America’s leaders, and the general public, better understand what Americans know about the environment and how that knowledge relates to their attitudes and daily actions.
This survey is the only longitudinal data available on what Americans know and think about important environmental issues.
As the results of the most recent surveys make clear, Americans lack the basic knowledge and are unprepared to respond to the major environmental challenges we face in the 21st century. Helping to prepare people of all ages to understand their role in addressing those issues is an important part of NEETF’s mission.
- National Foundation for Educational Research: http://www.nfer.ac.uk/EUR/intro.asp
This U.K. website is about making connections between research and practice in relation to education for sustainable development (ESD). It tells the story of seven practitioners who have made use of research findings in their own school or outdoor center over the last year.
- The School Lunch Initiative: http://www.schoollunchinitiative.org
The School Lunch Initiative is a project to design and implement curriculum and food service innovations across a public school district. This project is a partnership of the Chez Panisse Foundation and the Berkeley Unified School District, in collaboration with the Center for Ecoliteracy and Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute.
- Schoolyard Ecology: http://www.ecostudies.org/syefest/appen1main.htm
This site offers a wealth of sample activities and investigations that have been field tested by participants in the Schoolyard Ecology project.
- Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives, http://www.zeri.org
ZERI believes that working in harmony with nature does not mean abandoning science or becoming an escapist. While science is the key driver to ZERI, it is the fun part of demystifying science and making a culture of enquiry possible for younger minds that has led to the creation of an extensive ZERI educational component through the format of using fairy tales.
ZERI explores the deep science that informs the workings of nature through fun filled stories; and thus paves the way towards the creation of a new breed of scientists working with nature as opposed to being ignorant or even working against nature. For ZERI the real investment lies in the creation of a present and future generation which is assured of sustainable livelihoods, capable of responding to the basic needs of all living species on Earth.
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