Sustainability as the Core

Educating with Sustainability at the core 
Nuffield STEM Futures Cross Curricular Projects on Sustainability
Whole school curriculum model based on sustainability -Marcia Behrenbreuch
Slow Schools Movement       
eco-schools

Why put Sustainability at the core
David Orr 1992 - Education as if the world mattered 1992!  full reading

"We ought to encourage our students to find their calling in good and necessary work, The best and most necessary work for our age involves in a thousand ways the recalibration of humanities values, institutions, behaviours and expectations with those of the earth. This is the task of education in our time. .. "Education which fails to clarify our central convictions is mere training or indulgence. For it is our central convictions that are in disorder, and as long as the present anti-metaphysical temper persists, the disorder will grow worse. Education, far from ranking as our greatest resource, will then be an agent of destruction." E.F Schumacher - It is time to address the ecological emergency as, in fact, a crisis of mind and of education."

Earth Policy Institute   "We are facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency. Our challenge is to think globally and develop policies to counteract environmental decline and economic collapse. The question is: Can we change direction before we go over the edge?"(Lester R Brown) - PLAN B ......
People&Planet A gateway to the greatest issue of our time: the well being of the growing human family as it presses ever more heavily on the resources of our planet.
World Watch Institute - Vision for a sustainable world - delivers the insights and ideas that empower decision makers to create an environmentally sustainable society that meets human needs
GIFT: Global Institute for Tomorrow    Consumptionomics by  Chandra Nair
David Suzuki - we're going the wrong way. -we have to change the way we view the world