Sharpen your (sustainably harvested wood) pencils: school is back in session!
If you think schools should be supplementing reading, writing and arithmetic lessons with some schooling on those other three r’s – reducing, reusing and recycling – the Story of Stuff Project has some great resources for you, your kids and their teachers….
posted by Last week, I finally got to meet the people at the New Economics Foundation, whose motto is “economics as if people and the planet mattered.”
These are the guys in London who create the fascinating Happy Planet Index, or HPI, which evaluates countries based on 3 components: their level of health, level of well-being and rate of resource consumption. Basically, the HPI is a measure of how effectively a country converts resources into human well being. As you can see from the HPI map, some countries do this very efficiently and some countries – like mine – less so.
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From the time we arise in the morning until after we fall asleep, we participate in a continuous cycle of using stuff that affects ourselves, other people, animals and the planet. We do what we can to buy products and use stuff that do more good and less harm, but it can be a real challenge to uncover the details of how these gadgets and goodies that we buy to meet our wants and needs are produced, transported, and disposed of and whether the secret lives of our stuff reflect our deepest values. Industry and government don’t make it easy to find out. Fortunately, people passionate about creating a better world are creating more resources to help us. Here are 7 resources for finding out more about the impact of your stuff on people, animals and the earth:…
posted by This Earth Day—and every day—each of us can promote sustainability and justice at multiple levels: as an individual, as a teacher or parent, a community member or businessperson, as a national citizen, and as a global citizen.
Like I say in The Story of Stuff, “the good thing about such an all pervasive problem is that there are so many points of intervention.” In other words, lots and lots of places to plug in, get involved, and make a difference!
There is no single simple thing to do because the set of problems we’re addressing just isn’t simple. And yes, everyone can make a difference, but the bigger your action the bigger the difference you’ll make.
Here’s our list of 10 Little and Big Things You Can Do.
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A six-session curriculum that helps Christian teenagers explore the relationship between their consumption, their faith, and the health of the planet. (13.3 MB)
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