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The Global Community and the Commons

The Global Community and the Commons. Kathy Smith Woodward North Sustainability Team Member. Introductions. Who are you? What brought you here? What do you hope to gain from today?. We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

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The Global Community and the Commons

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  1. The Global Communityand the Commons Kathy Smith Woodward North Sustainability Team Member

  2. Introductions • Who are you? • What brought you here? • What do you hope to gain from today?

  3. We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein

  4. What is Sustainability? • There are no experts in Sustainability as it is constantly changing. • “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” –World Commission on Environment and Development (1987)

  5. Woodward Academy’s BRTF Definition of Sustainability • Sustainability is the thoughtful process of optimizing the use of human, natural, and financial resources available to Woodward to honor our history, fulfill our present needs, provide for the future, and execute our mission, education.

  6. Why is this so important? • We bear a profound moral and social responsibility /opportunity to increase the awareness, knowledge, skills and values needed to create and implement viable solutions to the interconnected environmental, economic, and social problems that now threaten our physical survival as a species and threaten to increase human suffering.

  7. What is the Commons? • What is away? • Passage from Connected Wisdom • Define Commons • TerraCycle Curriculum link on wiki page • Using the Library as a Commons • The Fish Game

  8. The Fish Game • Go to Sustainability page on Woodward website. • Paper instructions available on request.

  9. The Global Community • Make the connection from Commons to the Global Community. • Why is the Global Community important to us? • How can I affect the Global Community? • See books on Wiki as “jumping-off” points.

  10. Ideas for the Classroom • Tree Diary • Bird Feeder • Bird Houses • Butterfly Garden-Lantanas • Growing Pumpkins, Harvest, Replant seeds. Done across grade levels. • Nature Walks, Observations • Zoo Panda Cam, Aquarium Cam, Eagle Cam – on wiki

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