The goal of the 'sustainability literacy' movement is to fashion a citizenry that not only understands and can discuss environmental sustainability, but one that can critically interpret actions associated with the environment (an just about every action is); recognize its causes and effects, opportunities and risk; and take thoughtful action.
To get there, we have a lot or prep work to do. So this book is for the sustainability thinkers.
It’s for the worriers who don’t want to be worriers anymore, but who want to facilitate broadly-distributed change in the face of an environmental crisis.
And it’s for the explainers trying to find the best way to impart complex sustainability information.
There are two parts to The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy, the first has 28 essays describing skills for a changing world; this section has some tough essays to parse, but it offers valuable thinking about the necessary skills of a sustainable citizenry need, and the complexities, barriers, opportunities and demands of developing sustainability literacy.
Skills topics include:
