ABSTRACT
The goal of education for sustainability (EFS) is “to develop in young people and adults new knowledge and new ways of thinking needed to achieve economic prosperity, participate democratically, secure justice and equity, and all the while regenerate the health of the ecosystems, the gift upon which all life and all production depend” (The Cloud Institute, 2005). The environmental education (EE) movement has been instrumental in bringing awareness, knowledge, heart, and political capital to the plight and to the beauty of our natural systems and has forced many of us to think more deeply and profoundly about our relationship to nature. What then can the Decade for Education for Sustainable Development and, more specifically, what can we as Educators for Sustainability, contribute to the EE community?
