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| Autor/in | Stephens, Rusty |
|---|---|
| Titel | A New Climate: The Time is Now for Colleges to Rally around the Sustainability Movement |
| Quelle | In: Community College Journal, 81 (2010) 2, S.48-49 (2 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 1067-1803 |
| Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Environmental Education; Community Colleges; Population Growth; Biodiversity; Climate; Pollution; Higher Education; Sustainable Development |
| Abstract | Environmentalist Lester Brown famously likened the declining natural environment to a global Ponzi scheme, where the decimation of the planet's natural asset base has yielded high, yet unsustainable economic returns. Brown cited a range of examples, from population growth to food security to air pollution. His claims took on new urgency this year when a team of international scientists published a report in the April "Scientific American" warning that people are no longer within the "safe operating space" of their natural environmental systems. The report warned soberly of tipping points already arrived and approaching, from a decline in biodiversity to irreversible climate change and destructive levels of chemical pollution. Community colleges will be the central driving force as sustainable living becomes the new platform upon which society rethinks, reinvents, redevelops, and transforms. In this article, the author urges community college leaders to renew their sense of who they are and from where they have come and to embrace their colleges and communities in leadership inspired by the critical, growing, learning, developing, and organic new movement in sustainability. Leaders must become students, scholars, and shirtsleeve practitioners of this movement. (ERIC). |
| Anmerkungen | American Association of Community Colleges. One Dupont Circle NW Suite 410, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 202-728-0200; Fax: 202-833-2467; Web site: http://www.aacc.nche.edu/bookstore |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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