“When you wake up tomorrow, the world will be a bit less hospitable. The earth will be a warmer place, the air will be more polluted, the supply of safe drinking water will have diminished, less food will be available per person, and biodiversity will be reduced. Social health, and economic disparities will be evident not only in comparisons of national wealth, but even within the richest nations the gaps between the richest and the poorest will contribute to social instability. The planet will be more crowded and still most of the wealth will be in the hands of a few.”
(Rowland, P. as cited in Johnston, L. 2013. Higher Education for Sustainability)
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retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circles_of_Sustainability
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Form the diagram of Circles of Sustainability, we understand the critical areas of sustainability are in the ecology domain. Emission & Waste, Materials & Energy, Water & Air, Habitat & Food are the most critical sub-domains of the whole sustainability issues.
This is the reason why we need to integrate the sustainability themes into VET( Vocational Education and Training) and expect to have a radical changes for much of higher education for saving the world for the future generations.
Understanding of the need of paradigm shift in our societies, I have to teach myself and future students how to transform from twentieth century resource intensive and extractive mode of production and wealth creation.
What can we do as an individual member of a society? It can be a low level of approach to achieve sustainability improvement, but something we can do in our daily life for example reducing waste, recycling resources, saving energy, decreasing consumption of materials and water, reducing the carbon footprint and etc.
Here is the link of my Lesson Plan integrated the values of Sustainable Development: My Lesson Plan
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