by Renee Owen | Nov 13, 2014 | Director's Blog
I often ask, “If we are preparing our children for the future, what does the future look like?” ย Hopefully, the world will be much different in terms of our systems and energy use. ย When our children are our age, their homes will be heated and cooled with different technology and transportation fueled differently. ย As Jeffrey Sachs points out in this article, we have to be completely out of the fossil fuel business if we are going to even have a world. ย Click on some good news from Jeff:
The Climate Breakthrough in Beijing Gives the World a Fighting Chance
(Photos: Above, Renee Owen and Jeff Sachs, summer, 2013, Harvard)
Below, Activistsย launching from Rainbow to go to the NY Climate Change Rally in September)
by Renee Owen | Jan 1, 2014 | Director's Blog
Jeffrey Sachs, one of Time’s “Most Influential People,” is the world’s most important economist. ย He works for the UN and countries around the world to promote sustainability, and he is on a life-long mission to wipe out poverty. ย Dr. Sachs is the originator of the Happiness Index — the concept that we should be quantifying a nation’s success on the measure of their happiness rather than their GNP. ย I was fortunate to meet Jeffrey Sachs when I was at Harvard this summer for the Future of Learning program, and was so inspired that I am going to be taking on online course with him beginning in a few weeks called the Age of Sustainable Development. ย Columbia University is offering the course free of charge, and it is open to anyone who desires a deep holistic understanding of how to move into the future sustainably. ย To resister for the course, go toย https://www.coursera.org/course/susdev. ย If you are a teacher, Dr. Sachs and Columbia’s Earth Institute are allowing teachers to use the course materials to incorporate into their own instruction without copyright infringement. ย They are on a mission to spread the message. ย ~Renee Owen, Rainbow Community School
