Sublime

Insure that the project is manageable and challenging. Crafting projects that are challenging without being overwhelming, that require real solutions, not just academic ones, and that stand a chance of implementation so students don’t feel as if they are doing make-work is a big challenge.

University of Massachusetts economist James Boyce, Indian environmentalists Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain, and others, this work has found that income and human well-being expand when degraded land, water, and ecosystems are cleaned up and repurposed by the people who live on and around them.

But if their only exposure to nature is in places where protective barriers are necessary, how can we expect our kids to feel connected to the natural world? If we want our kids to feel a true and pragmatic sense of stewardship for the environment, we need to let them relate to it as a peer, as something that they’re entwined with through symbiotic

One practical way to address this would be to teach and embody eco-literacy in every school so that coming generations develop a worldview based upon understanding the living world’s interdependent systems that make life on Earth possible.

A story filled with heart and humor. A story that expressed authenticity, vulnerability, and truth. This should be our goal.