Green Academies – a Second Chance at Education

1. Green Academies – a Second Chance at Education Robert D. Cormia Foothill College

3. Civilization 2.0 How do we live? What do we do? Is the planet healthy – or in peril?

5. Sustainable Core Values Environment 1. Ecosystem services – Eco-economy and valuing ecosystem services 2. Concept of limits – linear / exponential rates of extraction in a finite world. Peak Everything. 3. IPAT (Gapminder) – impacts from population, affluence (consumption) and technology 4. Waste = food and ‘cradle to cradle’ manufacturing / remanufacturing and recycling 5. Biomimicry – learning from nature – and employing ‘natural’ (biogenic) solutions 6. Diversity – how it works in nature – how it works in society – specialization of skills (economic) Social 7. Social equity – healthy societies / social systems – foundation of sustainable societies 8. Environmental justice (more complex subset of industry, and social systems, class issues) 9. Cultural sustainability – awareness of cultural identity and cultural values, language, art 10. Personal sustainability – health, personal relationships, foundation for lifelong learning 11. Intergenerational impacts (economics and environmental – debt and resource depletion) 12. Civic engagement (interaction of individual and society) – healthy societies / social systems 13. Ethics (doing what’s right when no one is looking) 14. Conflict resolution (at all levels – personal / interpersonal / organizational / political) Economic 15. Sustainable development – building new innovation economies not tied to consumption 16. Built to last – design, build, and maintain for the long haul 17. Collaboration vs. individualism (as an ethic vs. individual wealth) 18. Collaborative value creation (personal, social and economic models) – Wikinomics 19. Value vs. wealth (new economic models and metrics) 20. Social production / Social capital (adding to information, knowledge and culture)

13. Green Collar Academy

18. Sociograms

23. Sustainability System Social Natural Economic Self Directed Sustainability Graph – goal is to build ‘capital’ in all four dimensions!

26. Wrenching on Humanity http://www.valuenewsnetwork.com/davos-2015-a-pivotal-decade.html

27. Indigenous Sustainability Science Nature-society interactions confront a range of challenges including maintenance of ecosystem services, conservation of biodiversity, and continuance of ecosystem functioning at local and global scale. Local people over thousands of years, have developed an intimate knowledge about landscapes they interact with, inhabit and manage. Natural and social sciences are now converging into a novel discipline called sustainability science. Recognizing that transition to sustainability shall be a knowledge-intensive journey, this paper argues that a careful use of Indic resources provides options to design innovative policies and programs for management of natural resources. Sustainability science of tomorrow shall be a basket of tools drawn across disciplines from the natural and social sciences, as well as local and formal knowledge systems. Equity of knowledge between local and formal sciences results in empowerment, security and opportunity for local people. Incorporation of people’s knowledge into the resource management decisions, reduces the social barriers to participation and enhances the capacity of the local people to make choices to solve the problem. In order to facilitate the humanity’s progress towards a sustainable future, traditional knowledge systems and Indic traditions can contribute to local actions relevant to the sustainability of earth system as a whole. http://www.infinityfoundation.com/indic_colloq/papers/paper_pandey2.pdf

28. Building a Better World It’s time that we got serious about working together to build a better world