resources

Books
//Cultivating Food Justice.// Edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman, 2011. "Bringing together insights from studies of environmental justice, sustainable agriculture, critical race theory, and food studies, Cultivating Food Justice highlights the ways race and class inequalities permeate the food system, from production to distribution to consumption. The studeis offered in the book explore a range of important issues, including agricultureal and land use policies that systematically disadvantage Native American, African American, Latino/a, and Asian American farmers and farmworkers; access problems in both urban and rural areas; efforts to create sustainable local food systems in low-income communities of color; and future directions for the food justice movement."

//Ecological Literacy//. Edited by Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow, 2005. "Reorienting the way human beings live on earth and education children to their highest capacities have much in common, say the thinkers and educators behind this goundbreaking book. Both endeavors muct be viewed and pursued in the context of systems: familial, geographic, ecological, political. And our efforts to build sustainable communities cannot succeed unless future generations learn how to partner with natural systems to our mutual benefit. In other words, they must become 'ecologically literate'."

//Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges, Strategies, and Practices in a Globalizing World//. Edited by Anastasia Nikolopoulou, Taisha Abraham, and Farid Mirbagheri, 2010. "//Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges, Strategies, and Practices in a Globalizing World// carves a path for future educators. It demonstrates that to pursue education for sustainable development, it is vital that one crosses disciplinary, institutional, and epistomological borders. The articles explore sustainable development as a process that embraces issues related to environment, poverty, health, security, democracy, gender, and human rights; they conceive sustainable development education as focusing on the holistic development of the body and mind. This idea is also central to the Gandhian tradition of life knowledge and 'Nai Talim' (New Education)."

//Food Justice//. Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi, 2010. "A food justice framework ensures that the benfits and risks of how food is grown and processed, transported, distributed, and consumed are shared equitably. Gottlieb and Joshi recount the history of food injustices and describe current efforts to change the system, including community gardens and farmer training in Holyoke, MA; youth empowerment through the rethinkers in New Orleans; farm-to-school programs across the country; and the Los Angeles school system's elimination of sugary soft drinks from its cafeterias. And they tell how food activism has succeeded at the highest level: advocates waged a grassroots campaign that convinced the Obama White House to plant a vegetable garden."

//Sentipensante Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice and Liberation//. Laura Rendon, 2009. "The author offers a transformative vision of education that emphasizes the harmonic, complementary relationship between the sentir of intuition and the inner life, and the pensar of intellectualism and the pursuit of scholarship between teaching and learning formal knowledge and wisdom; and between Western and non-Western ways of knowing. In the process she develops a pedagogy that encompasses wholeness, multiculturalism, and contemplative practice; that helps students transcend limiting views about themselves; fosters high expectations; and helps students to become social change agents."

//Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability//. Michael K. Stone/Center for Ecoliteracy, 2009. "Throughout the United States, a movement of educators, paents, and students is remaking K-12 education to prepare students for the environmental challenges of the coming decades. //Smart by Nature: Schooling for Susatainability// documents this movement through inspiring success stories from public and independent schools across the country. It describes strategies for greening the campus and the curriculum, conducting environmental audits, rethinking school food, and transforming schools into models of sustainable community."

//Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice Across Higher Education//. Edited by Paula Jones, David Selby and Stephen Sterling, 2010. "//Sustainability Education// examines how universities can make a major contribution towards a more sustainable future. It distills the curriculum contributions of a wide range of disciplinary areas, providing inspiration, theory, case studies, and transferable ideas from across HE. This book maps out the ground, both for those already somewhere down the sustainability road and those wanting to take first steps, whether policy makers and senior managers or curriculum developers and deliverers."

//The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy//. Edited by Arran Stibbe, 2009. "//The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy// covers a wide range of skills and attributes, from technological appraisal to ecological intelligence, and includes active learning exercises to help develop those skills. Far from being a rigid or definative statement of the 'one right way', the book is exploratory, aiming to open up new, previously unimagined paths, possibilities and choices. It is intended primarily for educators - across the spectrum from higher education to informal education - but is also suitable for learners and anyone interested in the litterally 'vital' issue of the skills necessary for building a more sustainable future."

//The Sustainability Revolution//. Andres R. Edwards, 2005. "//The Sustainable Revolution// provides a vital new approach to tackling the issues confronting the world today. By taking a comprehensive look at the interconnections among ecological, economic and equity issues ranging from global warming to pollution, health and poverty, we are more likely to seek and implement lasting solutions."

//Thinking in Systems//. Donella H. Meadows, 2008. "//Thinking in Systems// is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainabily Institue's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe considder critical for 21st Century life."

//Young Children and the Environment: Early Education for Sustainability//. Edited by Julie M. Davis, 2010. "//Young Children and the Environment// tackles one of the biggest contemporary issues of our times - the changing environment - and demonstrates how early education can contribute to sustainable living. An essential text for students in early childhood education and a practical resource for child care practioners and primary school teachers, it is designed to promote education for sustainability from birth to eight years."

Journals
The Journal of Sustainability Education: http://susted.com/

Journal for Education for Sustainable Development: http://jsd.sagepub.com/

Multimedia
//I Am// - a film by Tom Shadyak. This is the story of a man who had it all until something happened to make him realize he might have it all. . . wrong. What's wrong with our world? What can we do about it? Forget what you know. . . and wake up! $9.99

//The Economics of Happiness// - a film by Helena Norberg-Hodge. //The Economics of Happiness// is a project of the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC), a non-profit organization whose mission is to protect and revitalize cultural and biological diversity by strengthening local communities and economies worldwide. [|www.theeconomicsofhappiness.org] $25.00