How our Teaching Changes our Thinking, and How our Thinking Changes the World: A Conversation with Jaimie Cloud
In this insightful, foundational and wide-ranging interview, Jaimie Cloud makes the case...and defends it...for the prime importance of Education for Sustainability (EfS). Her ground-breaking work and years of experience bring an authoritative voice to this nascent field and give confidence that, as she says, "it all begins with a change in thinking" and "we just have to educate for it." Her impressive accomplishments and the examples she brings to the interview are a must-read of inspiration for anyone involved with sustainability education....
Review of The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a Changing World
In this detailed and insightful review, Laura Henry-Stone admires the breadth and cohesiveness of this edited volume from mostly European sustainability educators. She makes a good case for bringing this wide array of pieces under one cover, for avoiding static definitions of sustainability, even the traditional “triple bottom line”, and rather looking outside reductionist approaches to find integration, inter-relation and the kind of broad strokes that the chapters in this book propose for educating and solving for sustainability....
Can Uncertainty Lead to Sustainability? Review of Science, Society and Sustainability: Education and Empowerment for an Uncertain World, edited by Donald Gray, Laura Colucci-Gray and Elena Camino
In this insightful review, John Gist gives us some perspective for thinking about science education and its potential for framing the sustainability debate. This is a brief introduction to Gray et al.'s fascinating book Science Society and Sustainability: Education and Empowerment for an Uncertain World. Gist presents the issue of uncertainty in science, in all its complexity, and finds value in the book for addressing deep understanding in a comprehensible and useful way....
Primary care—what it should embrace. A review of “A World of Health: Connecting People, Place and Planet”
In their review of the Northwest Earth Institute's A World of Health, the Frolich brothers look to place the wide-ranging issue of environmental health concerns into the every-day framework of so-called "primary health care." They see value in the book where it addresses what can really be done, through action, and through a guided study group, to confront and change the way our interactions with the environment affect our every-day health....
Living Systems and Leadership: Cultivating Conditions for Institutional Change
Since its founding, the Center for Ecoliteracy, where Zenobia Barlow is executive director and Michael Stone is senior editor, has supported and advanced education for sustainable living in K–12 schools. One of our particular concerns has been leadership and systemic institutional change. We have sought to understand both how schools can themselves change and how [...]...
Tina Evans received her Ph.D. in Sustainability Education from Prescott College. She teaches sustainability-oriented graduate and undergraduate courses at Prescott College and Fort Lewis College. She is also the author of the forthcoming book Occupy Education: Teaching and Learning Sustainability (Peter Lang Publishers). A selection of her course materials can be found on her website: http://faculty.fortlewis.edu/evans_t/ 
