Video Resources Can A Collapse of Civilization Be Avoided? https://youtu.be/MtaGNQqUWo0 *********** Biologist Predicts how Civilization Collapses Soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw0AAsGaDg0&feature=youtu.be *********** For more wonder, rewild the world – George Monbiot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rZzHkpyPkc *********** David Orr at Schumaker College : Ecoliteracy and Ecological Education https://youtu.be/jxge4AhxlcY...

The challenge of environmental educators and their students, our youth,  is to build a new social order in which citizens seek to achieve the well-being of all life on Earth that is in harmony with Nature. We modern adults are robbing from the future. We our leaving our children, our grandchildren, and all future human generations with an ethical and an ecological mess that could spell disaster for the human race by the year 2100.  The...

  Is Ecoliteracy All Talk And No Action? Does the acquisition and the application of knowledge about our environment offer a solution to the ecological crisis created by humans? Or is ecoliteracy all talk and no action? As a biologist, I have encountered situations where I wonder if my knowledge can help change the worldview of humans that I have encountered. I live near an estuary that is a legally protected area. This fresh water estuary...

  “If literacy is driven by the search for knowledge, ecological literacy is driven by the sense of wonder, the sheer delight of being alive in a beautiful, mysterious, bountiful world.” – David W. Orr   ” Our greatest challenge lies in rethinking what kind of education is appropriate for a species whose standards of success threaten its ecological foundations.”  — David W. Orr   Environmental education...

Legacy building is about being mindful of the opportunity and the responsibility you have to serve humanity   Webster’s dictionary defines legacy as, “anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor.”  Legacy is not bound by age or time served. Your legacy is not defined at the end of the road but rather by the moments that you share your life with others. Your  legacy is reinforced and modified by the feedback that...

Everything within Nature is interconnected and interdependent   Interdependence is an important word that refers to the tendency of all creatures in Nature  to be linked and mutually dependent upon each other.  If we were to draw a diagram of this interdependence, we would see a massive network of living creatures, including ourselves, either directly or indirectly connected. This network of life is commonly called a “living...