Eco-tipping points success stories & needing teachers
Submitted by Josina on Sat, 2008-01-12 21:43.
The www.ecotippingpoints.org website features approximately 100 environmental success stories collected from around the world by a team of scientists and journalists. The stories display a diversity of detail but have something important in common: a lever referred to as an EcoTipping Point that is, a community-based process switching environmental decline to a course of restoration and sustainability. Building upon insights from the science of human ecology (www.gerrymarten.com/human-ecology/tableofcontents.html), the EcoTipping Points website offers lessons from the stories, while explaining how EcoTipping Points work and what it takes to create them.
The EcoTipping Points Project is seeking teachers interested in incorporating this powerful approach for dealing with environmental problems into their school activities. EcoTipping Points Project staff will work with teachers to help them do it. Interested teachers should contact Gerry Marten at gerry@ecotippingpoints.org.
Areas of Interest:
Community Engagement Ecological Literacy / Ecological Footprint Public Participation Community Health Food Production / Organic Agriculture / Urban Agriculture Community Economic Development / Building Local Economies Land Use and Transportation Planning Waste Management Global Citizenship / Global Education Poverty Reduction Peace and Human Security Biodiversity and Habitat / Bioregionalism Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Corporate Responsibility and Accountability / Triple Bottom Line Climate Change and Air Quality Alternative Energy / Peak Oil
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