ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the activities which would suit students from a variety of disciplines: pedagogy, sustainability, psychology, philosophy, ethics, theology and religious studies or cultural studies. Two projects, regarding the use of traditional stories as educational tools for the transmission of the new world-view, are just beginning their journey. Projects are being designed and will be implemented globally by three organisations: The Earth Charter International Secretariat, based at the United Nations’ University for Peace in Costa Rica; the Scottis International Storytelling Festival in Edinburgh; and the Avalon Project—Initiative for a Culture of Peace, which is an educational and activist non-governmental organisation based in Spain. In a similar way to the Global Seed Vault in the Svalbard Islands, Norway, the Earth Stories Collection aims to create a global bank of “cultural seeds” in advance of a possible global crisis. It would be a bank of myths, legends and folktales connected to the Earth Charter, capable of transmitting a sustainable world-view.
