Michael K. Stone and Center for Ecoliteracy.

“Throughout the United States, a movement of educators, parents, and students is remaking K-12 education to prepare students for the future environmental challenges. What would a green school or an eco-schooling curriculum look like? Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability offers firsthand accounts and strategies for greening campuses, rethinking school food, and transforming schools into model sustainable communities.
Green and healthy campuses with rooftop gardens and innovative designs are serving as living laboratories in which educators teach energy conservation, resource management, and earth sciences.

Smart by Nature documents this movement through inspiring success stories from public and independent schools across the country. Practical “what you can do” checklists and pages of resources make this a twenty-first-century guide for our educational future.”

“The Children & Nature Network (C&NN) was created to encourage and support the people and organizations working to reconnect children with nature. C&NN provides access to the latest news and research in the field and a peer-to-peer network of researchers and individuals, educators and organizations dedicated to children’s health and well-being.”

“Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability
June 22-24, 2009: Berkeley, California
A three-day Center for Ecoliteracy seminar for educators and others committed to schooling for sustainability.

A Short Course: Systems Thinking, Education, and the State of the World
August 13-15, 2009: Berkeley, California
A rare opportunity to study with Fritjof Capra, one of the world’s leading systems theorists, and learn how our major global problems are interconnected and how the challenge of building sustainable communities will require both systems thinking and an ecological conception of life. Capra will be joined by David W. Orr, one of the nation’s leading environmental educators, and Carolie Sly, education program director for the Center for Ecoliteracy.

Climate Change and the Connections that Bind Us
August 14, 2009: Berkeley, California
David W. Orr, one of the nation’s leading environmental educators, will discuss his forthcoming book, Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse in a special evening reading and talk benefiting the Center for Ecoliteracy’s initiative, Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability.”

For more details, visit the Center for Ecoliteracy’s website.