2.+Rationale

= ** GREEN EDUCATION POLICY  Sustainable Green Education Policy and Practice - Sites for Transformative Change ** =


==The Teacher and the Three Propostions ==

“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
 * **Proposition 1**
 * Future Generations** ||

• I am increasingly beginning to feel that as teachers, if we do not start thinking about sustainability - all the other aspects will come to naught eventually for future generations.
 * World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission), 1987** ||

• I mean giving future generations an opportunity to learn in schools that actually model sustainable practices, not just water tanks and recycling paper, but schools that are built from sustainable materials, have solar panels, leave a low carbon footprint and do not have to apply for separate grants or find money to make these things happen because it is part of our Green Education Policy. media type="youtube" key="aBTZOg6l6cA" height="340" width="560" ||

The Challenge ** || “Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract — sustainable development — and turn it … into a daily reality for all the world’s people.”
 * ** Proposition 2

• The challenge is to design schools that practice holistic, green and sustainable design principles and provide students with a lived reality that empowers and teaches them through a lived experience. • The challenge is to educate students in a far more transformative way so that they feel like active agents in change rather than passive and apathetic. • The answers to these challenges are not just in curriculum design but also in building design, in policy design and in funding design - in a complete conception of Green Education Policy. //September 09: the Results are in for Youth Decide, the world’s first national youth climate vote!// **Youth Decide was a joint campaign of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and World Vision.
 * Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General, 2001** ||
 * 330 local voting events
 * 37,432 votes by young Australians aged 12 - 29
 * 91.5% voted for world three - 40+ emissions reduction targets
 * 5.9% voted for world two - 25 - 40% emissions reduction targets
 * 2.5% voted for world one - Government’s current emissions reduction target of 4-24%

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Making the Links ** || “Development must be sustainable not only ecologically, but socially and economically, too … Governments, corporations, and individuals need to understand the links between these different kinds of sustainability.”
 * ** __Proposition 3__

• As practitioners we do have to start making these links between educational theory, human resource management and professional learning but I am now beginning to think that an essential aspect also has to be sustainable living.
 * Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General, 2004** ||

• Policy makers need to be part of that discussion to make links but so do teachers, sustainable living and design experts and of course, our students.

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