On this page the following entries were made in the “April, 2009” time-frame.
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Teaching Sustainability - Part Three
In 1987 the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development defined SUSTAINABILITY as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.
If only our grandparents and great grandparents had operated with this definition in their hearts and minds!
We live in [...]
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Teaching Sustainability - Part Two
Give historical context:
For millennia humans lived sustainably - up until the onset of the industrial/technological revolution.
For many thousand years
We made everything by hand
Then came industrialization
Marching through the land
Now we could make and do things
Much easier and faster
No one thought this revolution
Would lead to such disaster
The demand for resources increased
With the demands of growing populations
Robbing the [...]
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Teaching Sustainability -Part One
We live in a time now rife with contradictions.
Never before have we had the capability of mass self destruction on one hand; and at the same time stand at the threshold of such extraordinary breakthroughs in the human potential.
Never before have we faced environmental degradation and biological devastation on a global catastrophic scale on [...]
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