Resources
If human behaviors are associated with climate change, it
relates to how we consume, entertain, travel, do business,
relate to “natural resources”, to ourselves and to each other.
The authors posit that human behaviors are but the visible
tip of the iceberg, sustained underwater by a voluminous
mass comprised of our values, beliefs, assumptions, the
anchors of our identity and shared paradigms. They trace
back the history of a shared paradigm that has become
dysfunctional and introduce the Sustainability Mindset
Principles - a scaffolding to address the complexity of the
paradigm.
The 12 Sustainability Mindset Principles
Isabel Rimanoczy
COP 26 02/11/2021
David Attenborough
"We are going to have to learn together"
What did you do in the 2020's?
The Grantham Institute
To share with students in answer to the question "What can I do?"
The Great Transition Initiative website below has a vast range of authors reflecting on innovations in education for a more sustainable world. Click on the mini buttons benath 'Frameworks' or 'Practices' to browse the options.
Try Stephen Sterling's opening essay; 'Educating for the future we want'
Video explainer on Climate Change
Underpinned by ecolinguistics principles, this free online course by Arran Stibbe at the University of Gloucestershire explores how language, stories and visual images encourage people to protect or destroy the environment.
A helpful resource for EAP or subject modules. Clear and thought provoking. Accompanying PPTs and resources. Arran Stibbe came to OBBS last semester to talk about his work.
Part of a collection of practice guides to support Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education curated by Advance HE and QAA.
Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories that individuals or nations live by and you change the individuals and nations themselves (Ben Okri, 2020).
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2021 report confirms the urgency of climate action.
Read about this in more detail on Carbon Brief