Essays on the Food Crisis
Taking Back Our
Food, by Miguel A. Altieri
2008 Goldman
Prize Speech, by Jesús León Santos
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Educators Changing the World
Barlow Submits Testimony to Congressional Subcommittee
CEL Joins No Child Left Inside Coalition
Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming
Essays
Taking Back Our Food, by Miguel A. Altieri
Local agriculture and a return to small-scale farming are essential to solving the
global food crisis, author and University of California, Berkeley, professor Miguel
A. Altieri argues in this essay written for the Center for Ecoliteracy. Through farm-to-school
programs, a growing number of schools are supporting regional small-scale farms.
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2008 Goldman Prize Speech, by Jesús
León Santos
Indigenous people have farmed for centuries without exhausting limited resources, offering
examples of sustainable living from which we can still learn today. In this speech,
2008 Goldman Environmental Prizewinner Jesús León Santos describes how
indigenous practices have transformed barren countryside into rich, arable land in
Oaxaca, Mexico.
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2008 Goldman Award speech by Jesús León Santos >
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about indigenous wisdom that has shaped the work of CEL (400k pdf download) >
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by the late indigenous studies scholar John C. Mohawk >
Educators Changing the World
Educators and activists from across the United States and the world have attended Center
for Ecoliteracy seminars since 2006. Find out where these pioneers are helping young
people develop the knowledge, skills, and values needed for sustainable living.
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Barlow Submits Testimony to Congressional Subcommittee
In April, Center for Ecoliteracy executive director Zenobia Barlow submitted written
testimony in support of environmental education to the Early Childhood, Elementary
and Secondary Education Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Read the testimony (80k pdf download) >
CEL Joins No Child Left Inside Coalition
The Center for Ecoliteracy has joined the No Child Left Inside Coalition of environmental,
educational, business, and other groups in support of legislation to authorize new
funding for states to provide high-quality environmental instruction.
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more about the coalition >
Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming
When some Vermont middle school students noticed school buses idling in front of their
campus every morning, they petitioned their school board to require buses and cars
to turn off their engines when parked in front of the school. Then they testified
before the state legislature on the same topic. Thanks to their efforts and those
of others, both the school and the state banned idling. These and other stories appear
in a new book for children and teachers, How We Know What We Know about Our Changing
Climate, by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch (Dawn Publications, 2008).
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more about the book >
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