new philosophies and new schools of thought Disclaimer: This is a thoughtful post on what we're doing and what we should do.
seems clear to me that you are catalyzing an interest in environmental issues and energy. A fairly large part of the population is questioning the accuracy of their lifestyle, the economic system and distribution both economic and environmental resources. The environmental movement has been enriched with many new and diverse philosophies, the decrease of the transition, with additional technical knowledge and new lifestyles.
Me and Daria, who was born in this way to Alcatraz in 2006, we have already made a number of important things ... made the movement of the transition in Italy, participated in the creation of territorial circles decresita happy, joined the buying group solidarity, began studying permaculture, started to invest in energy saving technologies (solar thermal, solar porch, etc. .. .) prepared vegetable garden and chicken coop, in short, we are trying to be consistent with our new values.
To date, however, we feel that we could make a new step ... In fact, we have launched many new practices of sustainability, but we find it hard to make everything uniform and especially to change our mentality and absurd to explain our choices to others ...
We need a new curriculum, including ourselves, to understand what we are doing and what we should do ...
The slogan could be: "How to learn to live in this new millennium?" because unfortunately the recipe that we used until now does not work anymore, we can not apply the economic theories born in 800.
Education for sustainability needs to make new steps, and create new concepts.
As the "Economist" I am blown away to have a cultural background can appreciate all the concepts related to financial sustainability and then be thrilled when they say that to grow one calorie food it takes 10 fossil ... how is it possible? In the economic world which can consume 10 to get one! E 'bankruptcy and is now a transformation that we realize ... as soon as possible and certainly before the end to the 10 calories fossil!
who follows this blog knows that I do not Daria and ourselves as teachers, do not look at form and certainly does not seek "public" (a rare type of post has become such that when il blog scende come numero di contatti diciamo .... ohh... finalmente...) avere 50 sconosciuti che ti leggono ogni giorno è una piccola responsabilità! e noi ce ne stiamo un po' defilando... (poi abbiamo anche problemi di connessione e quindi la voglia sparisce come neve al sole...) comunque siamo qui ad arrovellarci sulle scelte che abbiamo di fronte (come al solito), e la sintesi è che non abbiamo un sistema in grado di valutare le scelte. Andiamo a braccio, ad occasioni che si presentano, e con esperimenti.
Ad oggi per esempio non sono in grado di dire se fare i pannelli solari termici per il riscaldamento a pavimento puossono convenire in provincia di Bologna (novembre è veramente sempre grigio!!!).
L'ho made long and now I get to the point. I would like to make a school sustainable practices! In Bologna, with a program, with reflections to do together, by first creating a circle of teachers who make them and create a new culture. Making the theory and then disseminate the knowledge. We need experts on sustainability. We need philosophers who create values. We need parameters on which to base decisions.
Here, I would like a formula to show the efficiency of sustainability. A journey that proves mathematically that there is no other possibility. A sort of E = mc2 of sustainability that may say ... is simple, mathematically, it is. Then
to spread the concepts of what's better than a school?
