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?” Hopefully, the world will be much different in terms of our systems and energy use. When our children are our age, their homes will be heated and cooled with different technology and transportation fueled differently. 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. 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, Activists 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. To resister for the course, go to https://www.coursera.org/course/susdev. 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. They are on a mission to spread the message. ~Renee Owen, Rainbow Community School
