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Stone, Center for Ecoliteracy, United States  \nAbstract  \nThis paper complements Fritjof Capra’s paper in this issue,“Sustainable Living, Ecological Literacy, and the Breath of Life.” It explores how concepts essential to ecological literacy can also guide strategies for overcoming barriers to introducing integrated, multidisciplinary pedagogy into school curricula. It examines how the crisis of childhood obesity and nutrition-related illness constitutes a point of systemic instability that creates an opportunity to integrate experiential learning and academics, and to promote ecological thinking while addressing mandated standards. It illustrates the contributions to environmental education that a small third-party organization with a clear conceptual framework can make.  \nRésumé  \nCet article complète celui de Fritjof Capra, « Sustainable Living, Ecological Literacy, and the Breath of Life » de cette publication. Il analyse comment des concepts essentiels à l’apprentissage de connaissances écologiques viennent aussi guider des stratégies pour venir à bout d’obstacles à l’introduction de la pédagogie intégrée et multidisciplinaire dans les programmes d’enseignement. Il examine comment la crise de l’obésité chez les enfants et les troubles liés à la nutrition constituent une raison d’instabilité systémique qui donne une occasion d’intégrer un apprentissage et une scolarité par l’expérience et de promouvoir une pensée écologique tout en abordant les normes requises. Il illustre la contribution envers l’éducation écologique qu’un tiers plus petit, doté d’un cadre conceptuel clair, peut fournir.  \nKeywords: ecoliteracy; sustainability; nutrition; systems; curriculum  \nIn “Sustainable Living, Ecological Literacy, and the Breath of Life” [hereafter,“Sustainable Living”] in this issue, systems theorist Fritjof Capra presents the conceptual framework for “education for sustainable patterns of living,”the mission of the Center for Ecoliteracy, a public foundation located in Berkeley, California. This experiential, participatory, and multidisciplinary pedagogy is grounded in understanding the patterns and processes by which nature sustains life—what the Center calls “ecological literacy”—and developing the commitment and competences to apply this understanding to designing sustainable communities.  \nCanadian Journal of Environmental Education, 12, 2007 19  \nDescribing pedagogy or designing curricula is one thing. Introducing it into the crowded agendas of actual school systems can be quite another. An examination of the development and application of one framework, the“Rethinking School Lunch” project of the Center for Ecoliteracy, may be instructive. It illustrates some of the obstacles to the inclusion of education for sustainable living in school curricula and suggests routes, perhaps unexpected, for responding to them. It also shows that the systems concepts that Capra identifies as essential to ecological literacy can guide strategies for integrating this teaching into curricula.  \nBarriers to Teaching Ecological Thinking  \nWhether our concern is global climate change, threats to biodiversity, economic globalization, or myriad other contemporary issues, we live in a world that needs leaders who have learned to understand complex systems, take long views, and “connect the dots”—to think ecologically. Capra identifies the ecological perspective as one oriented toward relationships, connectedness, and context, focused more on the whole than the parts. Unfortunately, education in many places is trending in just the opposite direction, toward reduction and fragmentation.  \nSince the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 in the United States and similar legislation in other countries, public school curricula have narrowed dramatically to subjects covered in standardized tests. 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