ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the various chapter of this book. In this chapter, we return to that concept to explore how communities and schools across North America and around the world are working to teach from an EcoJustice framework, in order to reclaim the commons as a means of learning to live more sustainably and build community. While modern technology has a lot to contribute, much of the knowledge we had existed for many thousands of years all over the world, and indeed, still exists, even in our own highly consumerist society. In fact, all those modernist discourses that we have been discussing throughout this book are anthropocentrism, androcentrism, ethocentrism, mechanism, and individualism, for example, by virtue of the ways they infiltrate our beliefs and behaviors, part of our cultural commons. As we've been discussing throughout this book, we live in a culture that is organized around the naturalization of value hierarchies.
