Through education for sustainable living, students gain
knowledge, skills, and values to address the environmental and
social challenges of the coming decades. They learn to think
ecologically, understand the interconnectedness of human and
natural systems, and develop the capacity to apply this
understanding so that human communities and natural ecosystems
may thrive. At the same time, sustainability as understood by
the Center for Ecoliteracy is a far richer concept than simply
meeting material needs, surviving, or trying to keep a degraded
planet from getting worse. A truly sustainable community is
alive — fresh, vital, evolving, diverse, dynamic. It supports
the health and quality of life of present and future generations
while living within the limits of its social and natural
systems. It recognizes the need for justice, and for physical,
emotional, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual sustenance.
Fortunately, observes Center for Ecoliteracy cofounder Fritjof
Capra, We do not need to invent sustainable