About Center for Ecoliteracy

A leader in the green schooling movement, the Center for Ecoliteracy supports and advances education for sustainable living. Our expertise comes from two decades of work with schools and organizations in more than 400 communities across the U.S. and numerous other countries.

We recognize that schools play a pivotal role in moving us beyond our growing environmental crises and toward a sustainable society. We recognize schooling for sustainability as a process that fosters abundant living on a finite planet and makes teaching and learning come alive.

Our books include Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability; Big Ideas: Linking Food, Culture, Health, and the Environment; and the forthcoming Ecoliterate: How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and Ecological Intelligence, coauthored with bestselling author Daniel Goleman.

We also offer discussion guides to such acclaimed films as Food, Inc. and The Last Mountain; professional development seminars; a sustainability leadership academy; keynote presentations; consulting services; and a website with hundreds of downloadable resource materials.

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Areas of Focus

• Schooling for Sustainability
  Through schooling for sustainability, students gain the knowledge, skills, and values essential to sustainable living.
• School Food Reform
  Our vision: Healthy children ready to learn, “food literate” graduates, invigorated local communities, sustainable agriculture, and a healthy environment.
• School Gardens
  School gardens enable students to care for other living things, learn ecological principles firsthand, draw on different learning styles, and experience the joy of nature.
• Changing the Curriculum
  Large-scale curricular change to integrate sustainability doesn’t happen overnight. But the good news is, you don’t need to start from scratch.
• Greening the Campus
  "High-performance" design, construction, and maintenance demonstrate respect for the environment and the stewardship of resources.
• Whole School Change
  Student achievement depends as much on the vitality and health of the whole school environment as on the textbooks, curricula, or teachers.