Speaker Symposiums

White Plains, NY— On July 12, 2005, PACE Center for Environmental Legal Studies co-sponsored CELF’s summer speaker symposium, A Presentation on Education for a Sustainable Future with Gunter Pauli.

School administrators, educators, public officials and environmentalists from Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties and beyond were invited to attend an evening with internationally renowned sustainable development pioneer, economist and environmentalist Gunter Pauli.    

           

Pauli, former CEO of Ecover, founder of Worldwatch Institute Europe, and ZERI (Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives), will be speaking about “Changing Education Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow.”  The event addressed the critical need for sustainability education (SE) in the United States, and examined how it’s being taught here and abroad.

A dynamic speaker, Pauli was a keynote presenter in March 2005 at the United Nations launch of the “UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.”  His system of sustainable-education “fables,” or ZERI tales, is one of a growing number of SE programs being taught around the globe, and was the focus of CELF’s Summer Institute on sustainability education.

Pauli was joined by Scott Beall, co-facilitator of the CELF Summer Institute and member of CELF Teacher Advisory Board, who shared how SE theories are put into practice in the classroom.  Also on the panel was CELF board member Jon Jacobs, of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, who discussed the status of environmental education in U.S. public schools.