Daniel Goleman - Ecoliterate

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One of the most urgent issues facing humanity is fixing our broken relationship with the earth, on which all life depends. To do that, we have to think, feel, and act differently. With vivid examples and lucid analysis, this powerful and persuasive book shows just how much inspired educators and students can achieve together. It should enlighten and invigorate schools and communities everywhere.

Sir Ken Robinson, creativity expert and author of The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

The worlds of thought and action have been fundamentally changed by the delineation of emotional, social, and ecological intelligences. In this pioneering book, Dan Goleman and his collaborators demonstratein vivid and compelling fashionhow education can be transformed through a synthesis of these intelligences.

Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Gutsy, eloquent, moving, Ecoliterate is a masterpiece of motivation and practical guidance. Yes, it is perfect for educators, but it is also perfect for students, parents, grandparents, and all of us yearning to contribute to life on our planet. Ecoliterate will help young people discover their own powerand that genie is impossible to get back in the bottle! I love this book.

Frances Moore Lapp, author of EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want

If there is one book on education that needs to be read by every teacher on the planet, Ecoliterate is that book. With extremely lucid prose that reflects decades of pioneering work, Goleman, Bennett, and Barlow provide the essential navigation points for a pedagogy that can begin to undo the damage of an antiquated educational and economic system. Theirs is an education for system change. An education infused with hope, passion, and beauty.

Laurie Lane-Zucker, cofounder and former Executive Director, The Orion Society, founder and CEO of Hotfrog

This book is a treasure. Crucial for educators, a gift to the next generation, a realistic ray of hope for us all. So much ground is covered herethe watersheds where we live as well as the waters of consciousness, how we can change, how we do change, our children finding wisdom while saving this precious earth.

Susan Griffin, author of Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

Beautifully written, accessible, and urgently important, Ecoliterate introduces us to individuals and communities around the country who in very real, practical ways are demonstrating that a new world is possible. No harangue here; this is about hope, embodied in educating our childrenhead, heart, and handsto deeply understand how to take care of themselves, their neighbors, and the natural world on which we all depend.

Michael Ableman, farmer and author of From the Good Earth, On Good Land, and Fields of Plenty

In the 21st century, we need a new relationship with nature, a redefinition of both environmentalism and ecoliteracy. In Ecoliterate, Daniel Goleman, Lisa Bennett, and Zenobia Barlow offer a roadmap for educatorsand the rest of usto that future, one based on empathy, kinship, natural intelligence, and hope. We're in their debt for showing the way.

Richard Louv, author of The Nature Principle and Last Child in the Woods

Socially and emotionally engaged ecoliteracy can lead to deeply meaningful, inspiring, and effective education. This book shares compelling stories about educators and students who demonstrate the capacity to understand and care about human actions and ecological challenges, and are motivated to take action to make positive differences in today's world. Implementing this vision of education will excite teachers and students, and also improve environments and quality of living in communities across the globe.

Roger P. Weissberg, NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair in Social and Emotional Learning, University of Illinois at Chicago, and president and CEO of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

Ecoliterate is the story of educators with heart, courage, and vision transforming lives, places, and minds. This is education as it should be! Must reading

David W. Orr, Paul Sears Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College

Preparing our children to live resourcefully in a future few adults can scarcely imagine is daunting for even the most talented educators. Goleman, Bennett, and Barlow convincingly advance a new paradigm for educating children that is founded on the integration of emotional, social, and ecological intelligence. Ecoliterate provides a veritable how-to guide for educators to creatively engage young people in the most important ecological issues of the day, helping them gain knowledge of and empathy for all living systems, which is bound to enrich their lives and protect the future of our planet.

Gail Connelly, Executive Director, National Association of Elementary School Principals

To be ecoliterate is to be equipped to be Earth Citizens, to reach our full potential as human beings. This important book shows us how.

Vandana Shiva, founder, Navdanya International and author of Soil Not Oil

Timely, important, healing, and hopefulEcoliterate is a must read, must implement guide to a healthy and sustainable present and future.

Cheryl Charles, president and CEO, Children & Nature Network

The Center for Ecoliteracy has for years been a preeminent thought leader for how we can educate our children in a way that creates generations of earth-stewards. Ecoliterate is a much-needed guide for exactly how to accomplish this goal and includes great examples that demonstrate the success of their approach.

Oran B. Hesterman, Ph.D., president and CEO, Fair Food Network

Ecoliterate is a must-have tool for the twenty-first-century educator seeking ways to connect learning and the environment.

Cindy Johanson, Executive Director, Edutopia

With our educational system is in drastic need of a makeover, Ecoliterate reveals that the key is helping our children understand themselvestheir bodies, their communities, and their place in historyin a deep and meaningful way. This book can bring us and our children back to our sensesof taste, touch, and compassion. And its many lessons, resources, and websites help us do that, not someday, but Monday!

Milton Chen, senior fellow, the George Lucas Educational Foundation and author of Education Nation

Ecological intelligence is more important today than ever before, and educators are the ideal leaders for this movement to attain a greater understanding of both the environment and ourselves. Ecoliterate is a practical and inspirational resource for all educators and communities.

Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University

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