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It offers an operational definition of ecological sustainability, and proposes study of living systems as a framework for understanding ecology.  \nIt considers key concepts for understanding living systems and their implications for educators. The paper addresses experiences that foster emotional connections with nature within a pedagogy for education for sustainable living. This paper is paired with Michael Stone’s paper in this issue,“Rethinking School Lunch,” which discusses practical applications of this conceptual grounding.  \nRésumé  \nCet article examine les bases conceptuelles de la mission du Center for Ecoliteracy de Californie, « Éducation en vue d’un mode de vie durable » . Il suggère une définition opérationnelle de la durabilité écologique et propose une analyse des modes de vie à titre de plans-cadres pour comprendre l’écologie. Il se penche sur des concepts cléspour comprendre les modes de vie et leurs conséquences pour les éducateurs. L’article aborde des expériences qui stimulent les relations émotionnelles avec la nature à l’intérieur d’unepédagogie d’éducation visant un mode de vie durable. Cet article s’inscrit dans le sens de celui de Michael Stone dans ce numéro, « Rethinking School Lunch », lequel débat des applications pratiques de ces assises conceptuelles.  \nKeywords: ecological systems; sustainability; emergence; metabolism  \nOne of the great challenges facing environmental educators is preparing students to participate effectively as members of sustainable communities inan ecologically healthy world. Since 1995, my colleagues and I at the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley have sought to develop and explore concepts and practices for cultivating in children the competencies of mind, hands, and heart that they will need to create sustainable communities.“Education for Sustainable Patterns of Living,” our name for this process, is intended to facilitate understanding of nature’s principles, while fostering a deep respect for living nature through an experiential, participatory, and multidisciplinary approach.  \nThis essay addresses the conceptual grounding of our work. The essay by Michael Stone in this issue, “Rethinking School Lunch: Education for Sustainability in Practice” explores the practical application of these concepts.  \nCanadian Journal of Environmental Education, 12, 2007 9  \nWe are sometimes asked, why such complexity? Why not just teach ecology? An examination of the theoretical foundations of our approach will show that its complexities and subtleties are inherent in a full understanding of ecology and sustainability, and of life itself.  \nIn recent years, the term “sustainable” has been used so frequently, and often so imprecisely, that the concept has become confusing or empty to many, more a rhetorical refrain than a source of practical guidance. The definition that we encounter most often was given by Lester Brown, the founder of the Worldwatch Institute, who wrote in the early 1980s that a sustainable society is one that can fulfill its needs without diminishing the chances of future generations. That was taken up by the 1987 United Nations report, the so-called Brundtland Report, which defined sustainable development as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. These are important moral exhortations, in spite of evident limitations (speaking only of human needs, for example, without reference to the natural world) . They do remind us of our responsibility to pass on to our children and grandchildren a world with as many opportunities as we inherited, but they do not tell us anything about how to actually build a","cbCaifNbs18sfLfT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifNbs18sfLfT","pdf",90062,"English","# Abstract\n## Conceptual foundations for sustainable living education\n## Operational definition of ecological sustainability\n## Ecological literacy and living systems theory\n## Pedagogical implications and emotional connection to nature\n## Link to practical applications (school lunch)\n## Broader discussion of sustainability definitions","[{\"question\":\"What is “Education for Sustainable Patterns of Living” aiming to do?\",\"answer\":\"It is intended to facilitate understanding of nature’s principles while cultivating deep respect for living nature through experiential, participatory, and multidisciplinary learning.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper define ecological sustainability operationally?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes not inventing sustainable human communities from scratch and uses comparisons of societies, then models human communities after nature’s ecosystems to guide design of ways of life and institutions that support life.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author argue that ecological literacy matters for educators?\",\"answer\":\"Because building sustainable communities requires understanding principles of organization evolved in ecosystems over billions of years, and that understanding is described as “ecological literacy.”\"}]","Sustainable Living, Ecological Literacy, and the Breath of Life - Conceptual Foundations | PDF",1792084898,25]