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Curricular Resources
Here is a list of K-12 Education for Sustainability resources posted to the Western Kentucky University Center for Environmental Education and Sustainability’s web site: http://www.wku.edu/cees/k_12_resources.php
New South Wales Government: Education & Training (2009). Earth Citizenship: A conceptual framework for learning sustainability. Retrieved from: http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/env_ed/assets/pdf/earth_citizen.pdf
Commonwealth of Australia (2010). Sustainability Curriculum Framework: a guide for curriculum developers and policy makers. Australian Government: Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Retrieved from: http://www.environment.gov.au/education/publications/pubs/curriculum-framework.pdf
From Sustainability Academy in Burlington, VT
http://www.vtefs.org/resources/efslinks.html
Online course from UNESCO for teachers
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/
Articles
Barth, M., Godemann, J., Rieckmann, M. & Stoltenberg, U. (2007). Developing key competencies for sustainable development in higher education. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 8(4), 416-430.
Corcoran, P. & Wals, A., Eds. (2004). Higher education and the challenge of sustainability: problematics, promise, and practice. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Press.
Feinstein, N. (2009). Education for sustainable development in the United States of America. International Alliance of Leading Education Institutes. University of Wisconsin Madison.
McKeown, R. & Hopkins, C. (2002). Weaving sustainability into pre-service teacher education. Teaching sustainability at universities: Toward greening the curriculum, edited by Fihlo, W. L. Germany: Lange Scientific.
Pigozzi, M.J. (2010). Implementing the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD): achievements, open questions, and strategies for the way forward. International Review of Education, 56, 255-269.
Serhati, J. (2011). Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their relevance to higher education in Kosovo. Retrieved from http://web.guni2005.upc.es/news/detail.php?id=1717.
Sterling, S. (2005). Higher education, sustainability, and the role of systemic learning. In: Corcoran, P.B. & Wals, A.E.J (Eds.)(2004 Articles and Government Documents
Think Global. (2011). What Parents Want: The Role of Schools in Teaching about the Wider World.
Retrieved from http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/resourcesearch/details.aspx?id=1813.
Tilsbury, D. (2011). Education for sustainability, an expert review of processes and learning. UNESCO Section for Education for Sustainable Development, Paris, France.
Tilsbury, D. & Ryan, A. (2009). Education for sustainability, a draft framework for the University of Gloucestershire. Retrieved from http://www.glos.ac.uk/vision/sustainability/education.
UNESCO Education Sector. (2005). Guidelines and recommendations for reorienting teacher education to address sustainability. Education for Sustainable Development in Action Technical Paper No. 2.
United Nations: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board. (2001). Living beyond our means: Natural assets and human well-being. Retreived from http://maweb.org/en/index.aspx.
U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainability. (2009). National Education for Sustainability K-12 Student Learning Standards, v. 3. Retrieved from http://usp.umfglobal.org/resources/0000/0081/USP_EFS_standards_V3_10_09.pdf.
Wals, A.E.J. (2010). Message in a Bottle: learning our way out of unsustainability. Inaugural lecture, Wageningen University
Wals, A.E.J. (2006). The end of ESD…the beginning of transformative learning – emphasizing the E in ESD. Publication Series of the Finnish National Commission for UNESCO, No. 83 Helsinki.
World Commission on Environment and Development. (1987). Our Common Future. Geneva, CH: United Nations.
Books
Agencies, P. W. W. R. E. E. C. W. A. o. F. W. (2005). Aquatic Project WILD: aquatic education activity guide, Project WILD.
Agencies, W. A. o. F. W. and C. f. E. Education (2008). Project WILD: K-12 activity guide, Project WILD.
Association, N. S. T. (2001). Dig in!: hands-on soil investigations, NSTA Press.
Bartholomew, M. (1981). Square foot gardening, Rodale Press.
Benenson, G., J. Neujahr, et al. (2002). Mapping, Heinemann.
Benyus, J. (2002). Biomimicry: innovation inspired by nature, Perennial.
Berry, W. (1996). The unsettling of America: culture & agriculture, Sierra Club Books.
Boggs, Grace L. (2011). The next american revolution: sustainable activism for the 21st century, University of California Press.
Book, C. f. t. (2001). River of words: K-12 educator's guide : Watershed Explorer curriculum : a multidisciplinary approach to bringing nature & art into the classroom : and getting students and their creations outside the classroom! : educator's guide, River of Words.
Broda, H. (2007). Schoolyard-enhanced learning: using the outdoors as an instructional tool, K-8, Stenhouse Publishers.
Broda, H. W. (2011). Moving the Classroom Outdoors: Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning in Action, Stenhouse Publishers.
Brown, V. (1980). The amateur naturalist's handbook, Prentice-Hall.
Brown, V. (1984). Building your own nature museum: for study and pleasure, ARCO Pub.
Bryson, B. (1999). A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Broadway Books.
Bucklin-Sporer, A. and R. Pringle (2010). How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers, TIMBER PR INC.
Chalufour, I., K. Worth, et al. (2003). Discovering nature with young children, Redleaf Press.
Chancer, J. and G. Rester-Zodrow (1997). Moon journals: writing, art, and inquiry through focused nature study, Heinemann.
Christopher, T. (2010). The Green Hour: A Daily Dose of Nature for Happier, Healthier, Smarter Kids, Shambhala.
Cohen, M. J. (2007). Reconnecting with Nature: Finding Wellness Through Restoring Your Bond with the Earth, Ecopress.
Colby, A., T. Ehrlich, et al. (2010). Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility, John Wiley & Sons.
Collins, A. and R. Halverson (2009). Rethinking education in the age of technology: the digital revolution and schooling in America, Teachers College Press.
Comstock, A. B. (1986). Handbook of nature study. Ithaca, Comstock Pub. Associates.
Cooke, D. (2005). Fun with GPS, ESRI Press.
Cornell, J. (1989). Sharing nature with children II: a sequel to the classic parents' & teachers' nature awareness guidebook, Dawn Publications.
Cornell, J. B. (1998). Sharing nature with children: the classic parents' &teachers' nature awareness guidebook, DAWN Publications.
Costa, A. and B. Kallick (2000). Assessing and reporting on habits of mind, Assn Supervn & Curr Dev.
Council, A. F. F. W. R. E. E. (2004). Project Learning Tree: Environmental Education Activity Guide : Pre K-8, American Forest Foundation.
Council, W. W. R. E. E. (1995). Project WET: curriculum & activity guide, The Watercourse.
Cronon, W. (1996). Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, W. W. Norton & Company.
Daily, G. C. and K. Ellison (2007). The new economy of nature: the quest to make conservation profitable, Island Press.
Diamond, J. (2006). Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed, Penguin.
Education, C. f. E. (2009). Growing Up WILD: Exploring Nature with Young Children Ages 3-7, Council for Environmental Education (CEE).
Education, N. A. A. f. E. (2010). Early childhood environmental education programs: guidelines for excellence, North American Association for Environmental Education.
Education, N. A. A. f. E. and N. P. f. E. i. E. Education (1999). Excellence in environmental education: guidelines for learning (K-12), North American Association for Environmental Education.
Education, N. A. A. f. E. and N. P. f. E. i. E. Education (2004). Guidelines for the preparation and professional development of environmental educators, North American Association for Environmental Education.
Edwards, A. R. (2010). Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society, New Society Publishers.
Fenichel, M., H. A. Schweingruber, et al. (2010). Surrounded by science: learning science in informal environments, National Academies Press.
Ferra, L. and D. Boardman (1994). A crow doesn't need a shadow: a guide to writing poetry from nature, Gibbs Smith.
Forbes, B., E. Ferber, et al. (1995). The Walker's Companion, Time-Life Books, Inc.
Foundation, P. L. T. S. E. E. P. A. F. (1998). The changing forest: forest ecology, American Forest Foundation.
Foundation, P. L. T. S. E. E. P. A. F. (2005). Exploring environmental issues: focus on risk, American Forest Foundation.
Foundation, P. L. T. S. E. E. P. A. F. (2006). Exploring environmental issues: places we live, American Forest Foundation.
Friedman, T. L. (2008). Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution, and how it can renew America. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Friedman, T. L. and M. Mandelbaum (2011). That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Garber, S. D. (1998). The Urban Naturalist, Dover Publications.
Gardner, H. (2006). Five minds for the future, Harvard Business School Press.
Gawande, A. (2009). The checklist manifesto: how to get things right, Metropolitan Books.
Gladwell, M. (2000). The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference, Little, Brown.
Goleman, D. (2009). Ecological intelligence : how knowing the hidden impacts of what we buy can change everything. New York, Broadway Books.
Gore, A. (1992). Earth in the balance: ecology and the human spirit, Houghton Mifflin.
Grant, T. and G. Littlejohn (2001). Greening school grounds: creating habitats for learning, New Society Publishers.
Grant, T. and G. Littlejohn (2001). Teaching about climate change: cool schools tackle global warming, New Society Publishers.
Grant, T. and G. Littlejohn (2004). Teaching Green: The Middle Years, New Society Publishers.
Grant, T. and G. Littlejohn (2005). Teaching green: the elementary years : hands-on learning in grades K-5, New Society Publishers.
Grant, T. and G. Littlejohn (2009). Teaching green: the high school years : hands-on learning in grades 9-12, New Society Publishers.
Gruenewald, D. A. & Smith G. A. (2008). Place-Based Education in a Global Age, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group
Harwell, K. and J. Reynolds (2006). Exploring a Sense of Place: How to Create Your Own Local Program for Reconnecting with Nature, Conexions.
Hawken, P. (2007). Blessed unrest: how the largest movement in the world came into being, and why no one saw it coming, Viking.
Hawken, P. (2010). The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, HarperCollins.
Hawken, P., A. B. Lovins, et al. (2010). Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution, Earthscan.
Heath, C. and D. Heath (2010). Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Take Hold and Others Come Unstuck, Random House Inc.
Heinberg, R. (2006). Party's Over, New Society Publishers.
Heinberg, R. (2011). The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, New Society Publishers.
Heinberg, R. and D. Lerch (2010). The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises, Univ of California Pr.
Hensley, N. (2011). Curriculum Studies Gone Wild: Bioregional Education and the Scholarship of Sustainability, PETER LANG PUB.
Hopkins, R. (2008). The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, Green Books.
Institute, C. W. (2010). Connecting service-learning to the curriculum: a workbook for teachers and administrators, Community Works Press.
Jacobs, H. H. (2010). Curriculum 21: essential education for a changing world, ASCD.
Johnson, C. A. (1987). The local wilderness: observing neighborhood nature through an artist's eye, Prentice Hall Press.
Jones, E., B. Johnson, et al. (2007). The better world handbook: small changes that make a big difference, New Society Publishers.
Kao, J. J. (2007). Innovation nation: how America is losing its innovation edge, why it matters, and what we can do to get it back, Free Press.
Katz, A. and B. Lewer (1986). Naturewatch: exploring nature with your children, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.
Kesselheim, A., B. Slattery, et al. (1995). Wow! the Wonders of Wetlands: An Educator's Guide, Environmental Concern.
Kirkland, J., G. Kirkland, et al. (2007). No Student Left Indoors: Creating a Field Guide to Your Schoolyard, Stillwater Publishing.
Kriesberg, D. (1999). A sense of place: teaching children about the environment with picture books, Teacher Ideas Press.
Kunstler, J. H. (2006). The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate
Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century, Grove Press.
Lawlor, E. P. (1998). Discover Nature in Winter, Stackpole Books.
Lawlor, E. P. and P. Archer (1993). Discover Nature Close to Home: Things to Know and Things to Do, Stackpole Books.
Lawlor, E. P. and P. Archer (2000). Discover nature in water & wetlands: things to know and things to do, Stackpole Books.
Leclerc, G. and C. A. S. Hall (2007). Making world development work: scientific alternatives to neoclassical economic theory, University of New Mexico Press.
Leonard, A. and A. Conrad (2010). The Story of Stuff, Free Press.
Leopold, A. (1968). A Sand County almanac, and Sketches here and there, Oxford University Press.
Leopold, A. and I. Pheasants Forever (1996). The Leopold Education Project: lessons in a land ethic, Pheasants Forever.
Leslie, C. W. and C. E. Roth (2003). Keeping a nature journal : discover a whole new way of seeing the world around you. North Adams, MA, Storey Pub.
Lord, T. R. and H. J. Travis (2011). Schoolyard Science: 101 Easy and Inexpensive Activities, National Science Teachers Association.
Louv, R. (2008). Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Louv, R. (2011). The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Lyons, J. and S. Jordan (1989). Walking the wetlands: a hiker's guide to common plants and animals of marshes, bogs, and swamps, Wiley.
Marcinkowski, T. J. (2004). Using a logic model to review and analyze an environmental education program, North American Association for Environmental Education.
Markham, B. (2011). Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1⁄4 Acre, Constable & Robinson Limited.
McDonough, W. and M. Braungart (2002). Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things, North Point Press.
McGlashan, P., K. Gasser, et al. (2007). Outdoor inquiries: taking science investigations outside the classroom, Heinemann.
McKibben, B. (2006). The end of nature. New York, Random House Trade Paperbacks.
McKibben, B. (2008). Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Henry Holt & Company.
McKibben, B. (2010). Eaarth : making a life on a tough new planet. New York, Time Books.
Meadows, D. H. and D. Wright (2008). Thinking in systems: a primer, Chelsea Green Pub.
Medina, J. (2009). Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, Pear Press.
Merchant, C. (1980). The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution, Harper San Francisco A division of Harper Collins Publishers.
Michaels, S., A. W. Shouse, et al. (2008). Ready, set, science!: putting research to work in K-8 science classrooms, National Academies Press.
Miller, E. W. and R. M. Miller (1993). Energy and American society: a reference handbook, ABC/CLIO.
Mitchell, M. and W. Stapp (1986). Field manual for water quality monitoring: an environmental education program for schools, Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Mooney, C. and S. Kirshenbaum (2010). Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, Basic Books.
Morton, O. (2007). Eating the sun: how plants power the planet, Fourth Estate.
Mycio-Mommers, L. and C. W. Federation (2003). Below zero: below zero activity guide, Canadian Wildlife Federation.
Nabhan, G. and S. Trimble (1995). The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places, Beacon Press.
O'Sullivan, E. and M. M. Taylor (2004). Learning toward an ecological consciousness: selected transformative practices, Palgrave Macmillan.
Odum, H. T. (2007). Environment, power, and society for the twenty-first century: the hierarchy of energy, Columbia University Press.
Orr, D. (2004). Earth in mind: on education, environment, and the human prospect, Island Press.
Orr, D. W. (1992). Ecological literacy: education and the transition to a postmodern world, State University of New York Press.
Pink, D. H. (2006). A whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future, Riverhead Books.
Pink, D. H. (2011). Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us, Penguin Group USA.
Plumwood, V. (2002). Environmental Culture: The ecological crisis of reason, Routlege Taylor and Francis Group.
Plumwood, V. (1993). Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, Routlege
Pollan, M. (2009). Food Rules: An Eater's Manual, Penguin Group USA.
Pollan, M. and R. Chevat (2009). The Omnivore's Dilemma, Young Readers Edition: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, Turtleback Books.
Pranis, E., J. Cohen, et al. (2009). Growlab: Activities for Growing Minds, Natl Gardening Assn.
Pranis, E. and J. Hale (1988). Grow lab: a complete guide to gardening in the classroom, National Gardening Association.
Press, N. A. (2006). Learning to think spatially, National Academies Press.
Program, A. F. F. P. L. T. S. E. E. (2002). Exploring environmental issues: municipal solid waste, American Forest Foundation.
Project Food, L. a. P. (1998). Project Food, Land & People resources for learning, Project Food, Land & People.
Quinn, D. (1991). Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit, Auckland: A Bantam/Turner Book.
Ritter, M. E. (1996). Earth online: an Internet guide for earth science, Wadsworth Publishing.
Roam, D. (2008). The back of the napkin: solving problems and selling ideas with pictures, Portfolio.
Robinson, K. and L. Aronica (2009). The element: how finding your passion changes everything, Viking.
Rock, D. (2007). Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work, HarperCollins.
Rock, D. (2009). Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long, HarperCollins.
Rosenberg, M. B. (2003). Life-enriching education: nonviolent communication helps schools improve performance, reduce conflict, and enhance relationships, PuddleDancer Press.
Roth, C. E. (1982). The wildlife observer's guidebook, Prentice-Hall.
Roth, W. M. & Barton, A. C. (2004). Rethinking Scientific Literacy, Routledge Falmer
Rubin, H. and M. Futrell (2009). Collaborative leadership: developing effective partnerships for communities and schools, Corwin.
Ruef, K. (1997). The private eye: looking thinking by analogy : a guide to developing the interdisciplinary mind : hands-on thinking skills, creativity, literacy & scientific literacy, Private Eye Project.
Sachs, J. (2006). The end of poverty: economic possibilities for our time, Penguin Books.
Sachs, J. (2009). Common wealth: economics for a crowded planet, Penguin Group USA.
Sachs, J. (2011). The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity, Random House Publishing Group.
Saylan, C. and D. T. Blumstein (2011). The Failure of Environmental Education (and How We Can Fix It), University of California Press.
Senge, P. M. (2008). The necessary revolution: how individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world, Doubleday.
Simmons, B. and N. A. A. f. E. Education (2005). Preparing effective environmental educators, North American Association for Environmental Education.
Simmons, D., N. A. A. f. E. Education, et al. (1999). Excellence in Environmental Education - Guidelines for Learning (K-12): Executive Summary and Self Assessment Tool, North American Association for Environmental Education.
Smith, B., P. Senge, et al. (2010). The Necessary Revolution: Working Together to Create a Sustainable World, Broadway Books.
Smith, G.A. and Gruenwald, D.A. (2007). Place-based education: In the global age. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Smith, G. A. and D. Sobel (2010). Place- and community-based education in schools, Routledge.
Sobel, D. (1996). Beyond ecophobia: reclaiming the heart in nature education, Orion Society.
Sobel, D. (1998). Mapmaking with children: sense-of-place education for the elementary years, Heinemann.
Sobel, D. (2004). Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities, Orion Society.
Sobel, D. (2008). Childhood and Nature, Stenhouse Publishers.
Sobel, D. (2011). Wild Play: Parenting Adventures in the Great Outdoors, Sierra Club Books.
Sterling, S. R. (2001). Sustainable education: re-visioning learning and change, Green Books for the Schumacher Society.
Stibbe, A. (2009). The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a Changing World, Green Books.
Stone, M. and C. f. Ecoliteracy (2009). Smart by nature: schooling for sustainability, Watershed Media.
Stone, M. K. and Z. Barlow (2005). Ecological literacy : educating our children for a sustainable world. San Francisco
Berkeley, Sierra Club Books ;
Produced and distributed by University of California Press.
Tallamy, D. W. and R. Darke (2009). Bringing nature home: how you can sustain wildlife with native plants, Timber Press
Turnbull, D. (2003). Masons, Tricksters and Cartographer, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.
Uhl, C. (2003). Developing ecological consciousness: path to a sustainable world, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Verran, H. (2001). Science and an African Logic, University of Chicago Press.
Waite, S. (2011). Children Learning Outside the Classroom: From Birth to Eleven, SAGE Publications.
Ward, J., S. Ghahremani, et al. (2008). I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature, Trumpeter.
Watercourse (2003). Healthy Water, Healthy People: Water quality educators guide, Watercourse.
Waters, A., D. Liittschwager, et al. (2008). Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea, Chronicle Books.
Weisman, A. (2000). The World Without Us, Picador; Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press.
Young, J., E. Haas, et al. (2009). Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature, Owlink Media Corporation.
Zhao, Y. (2009). Catching up or leading the way: American education in the age of globalization, ASCD.
Zogby, J. (2008). The way we'll be: the Zogby report on the transformation of the American dream, Random House.
Zwinger, A., C. Leslie, et al. (1999). Into the Field: A Guide to Locally Focused Teaching, Orion Society.
Here is a list of K-12 Education for Sustainability resources posted to the Western Kentucky University Center for Environmental Education and Sustainability’s web site: http://www.wku.edu/cees/k_12_resources.php
New South Wales Government: Education & Training (2009). Earth Citizenship: A conceptual framework for learning sustainability. Retrieved from: http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/env_ed/assets/pdf/earth_citizen.pdf
Commonwealth of Australia (2010). Sustainability Curriculum Framework: a guide for curriculum developers and policy makers. Australian Government: Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Retrieved from: http://www.environment.gov.au/education/publications/pubs/curriculum-framework.pdf
From Sustainability Academy in Burlington, VT
http://www.vtefs.org/resources/efslinks.html
Online course from UNESCO for teachers
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/
Articles
Barth, M., Godemann, J., Rieckmann, M. & Stoltenberg, U. (2007). Developing key competencies for sustainable development in higher education. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 8(4), 416-430.
Corcoran, P. & Wals, A., Eds. (2004). Higher education and the challenge of sustainability: problematics, promise, and practice. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Press.
Feinstein, N. (2009). Education for sustainable development in the United States of America. International Alliance of Leading Education Institutes. University of Wisconsin Madison.
McKeown, R. & Hopkins, C. (2002). Weaving sustainability into pre-service teacher education. Teaching sustainability at universities: Toward greening the curriculum, edited by Fihlo, W. L. Germany: Lange Scientific.
Pigozzi, M.J. (2010). Implementing the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD): achievements, open questions, and strategies for the way forward. International Review of Education, 56, 255-269.
Serhati, J. (2011). Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their relevance to higher education in Kosovo. Retrieved from http://web.guni2005.upc.es/news/detail.php?id=1717.
Sterling, S. (2005). Higher education, sustainability, and the role of systemic learning. In: Corcoran, P.B. & Wals, A.E.J (Eds.)(2004 Articles and Government Documents
Think Global. (2011). What Parents Want: The Role of Schools in Teaching about the Wider World.
Retrieved from http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/resourcesearch/details.aspx?id=1813.
Tilsbury, D. (2011). Education for sustainability, an expert review of processes and learning. UNESCO Section for Education for Sustainable Development, Paris, France.
Tilsbury, D. & Ryan, A. (2009). Education for sustainability, a draft framework for the University of Gloucestershire. Retrieved from http://www.glos.ac.uk/vision/sustainability/education.
UNESCO Education Sector. (2005). Guidelines and recommendations for reorienting teacher education to address sustainability. Education for Sustainable Development in Action Technical Paper No. 2.
United Nations: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board. (2001). Living beyond our means: Natural assets and human well-being. Retreived from http://maweb.org/en/index.aspx.
U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainability. (2009). National Education for Sustainability K-12 Student Learning Standards, v. 3. Retrieved from http://usp.umfglobal.org/resources/0000/0081/USP_EFS_standards_V3_10_09.pdf.
Wals, A.E.J. (2010). Message in a Bottle: learning our way out of unsustainability. Inaugural lecture, Wageningen University
Wals, A.E.J. (2006). The end of ESD…the beginning of transformative learning – emphasizing the E in ESD. Publication Series of the Finnish National Commission for UNESCO, No. 83 Helsinki.
World Commission on Environment and Development. (1987). Our Common Future. Geneva, CH: United Nations.
Books
Agencies, P. W. W. R. E. E. C. W. A. o. F. W. (2005). Aquatic Project WILD: aquatic education activity guide, Project WILD.
Agencies, W. A. o. F. W. and C. f. E. Education (2008). Project WILD: K-12 activity guide, Project WILD.
Association, N. S. T. (2001). Dig in!: hands-on soil investigations, NSTA Press.
Bartholomew, M. (1981). Square foot gardening, Rodale Press.
Benenson, G., J. Neujahr, et al. (2002). Mapping, Heinemann.
Benyus, J. (2002). Biomimicry: innovation inspired by nature, Perennial.
Berry, W. (1996). The unsettling of America: culture & agriculture, Sierra Club Books.
Boggs, Grace L. (2011). The next american revolution: sustainable activism for the 21st century, University of California Press.
Book, C. f. t. (2001). River of words: K-12 educator's guide : Watershed Explorer curriculum : a multidisciplinary approach to bringing nature & art into the classroom : and getting students and their creations outside the classroom! : educator's guide, River of Words.
Broda, H. (2007). Schoolyard-enhanced learning: using the outdoors as an instructional tool, K-8, Stenhouse Publishers.
Broda, H. W. (2011). Moving the Classroom Outdoors: Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning in Action, Stenhouse Publishers.
Brown, V. (1980). The amateur naturalist's handbook, Prentice-Hall.
Brown, V. (1984). Building your own nature museum: for study and pleasure, ARCO Pub.
Bryson, B. (1999). A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Broadway Books.
Bucklin-Sporer, A. and R. Pringle (2010). How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers, TIMBER PR INC.
Chalufour, I., K. Worth, et al. (2003). Discovering nature with young children, Redleaf Press.
Chancer, J. and G. Rester-Zodrow (1997). Moon journals: writing, art, and inquiry through focused nature study, Heinemann.
Christopher, T. (2010). The Green Hour: A Daily Dose of Nature for Happier, Healthier, Smarter Kids, Shambhala.
Cohen, M. J. (2007). Reconnecting with Nature: Finding Wellness Through Restoring Your Bond with the Earth, Ecopress.
Colby, A., T. Ehrlich, et al. (2010). Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility, John Wiley & Sons.
Collins, A. and R. Halverson (2009). Rethinking education in the age of technology: the digital revolution and schooling in America, Teachers College Press.
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