Center for Ecoliteracy--What Would Sustainability in the Schools Look Like?

The Center for Ecoliteracy has some very promising ideas regarding how to transform schools so that they begin to educate young people for sustainability. The following information has been provided by the Center for Ecoliteracy, based in Berkeley, CA.

Karen Brown , creative director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, is an award-winning designer who has lectured throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan on the human and environmental consequences of design. Her design has shaped the distinctive online and print publications of the Center for Ecoliteracy, including the Rethinking School Lunch Guide, Big Ideas, and educators' guides to the films Food, Inc., Nourish, and Connected. Her work has been featured in the Smithsonian Institution, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Edutopia, and dozens of other publications as well as NBC's Today show

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