To Stop The Burning Train of Earth - Global Community's 20 Practicies of Environmental Education for All

@Authored by Harita Jeong, together with Meejeong Jang, Wonjung Byun, Sujung Im / @Illustrated by Meejeong Jang

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★★★ Winner of the Environmental Publishing Funds granted by Ministry of Environment and the National Environmental Education Center ★★★


Climate crisis, environmental disasters, pandemic and so on...Crisis becomes mundane, and penetrates our everyday life. "What will tomorrow look like if the climate crisis goes on like this?" "What can we do for/with our next generations to grab the last hope?" "Can education be our hope, then how?" Four authors, who have been active in the environmental education sector have united to answer these questions. As an integral part of the exploration, the authors visited various environmental education sites in Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sudan, South Africa, Cambodia, Cuba, Thailand, Japan and South Korea and asked questions. And the stories of hope they found unfold in this book. 

Also, the stories in this book are interwoven with eight core values as such: life and ecology, justice, equity, sharing and solicitude, empathy and responsibility. Each story begins with an everyday issue that anyone can sympathize with, and presents alternatives; living with nature, starting civil initiatives, switching to sustainable consumption etc. 


Table of Contents

Part 1. Life & Ecology

  • Wisdom from Nature | Totnes and the Schumacher College, UK

  • A canopy walk for both forests and people | The natural Heritage Center at Lügen Island, Germany

  • Land of life out of the wasteland | CERES Community Environment Park, Australia

  • Town forests and guardians of goshawks | A Local conservation initiative in the Tamagawa Academy, Japan

  • Empathy and respect beyond Speciesism | An animal welfare group Tier Mensch Bildung e.V., Germany

  • Stopping the burning train of earth | The Climate Camps, Europe 


Part 2. Equity & Justice 

  • Women at the forefront of the climate crisis | Women Empowerment Projects, Cambodia & Sudan, 

  • Tackling on the environmental injustice | Enkanini Village Project, South Africa.

  • Preparing for a sustainable future | Education for all projects, Cuba

  • Learning and sharing in the global communities | The Green Wind of Asia, Korea 

  • For an ecological, just and peaceful world | Education for sustainable development (ESD), UNESCO


Part 3. Sharing & Solicitude 

  • Spreading seeds of diversity | The urban gardening project zusammen leben e.V., Germany

  • Healing time in the nature | The eco-trips for single mothers Green Mom's Green, Korea

  • Re-learning how to live | Kurikoma Kougen Nature School, Japan

  • Connecting all through Education for Sustainable Development | Global Education Coalition for COVID-19 Response, UNESCO


Part 4. Empathy & Responsibility

  • Learning “sufficiency” | The Children of Infin Project, Thailand

  • Building everyday life in the middle of a desert | Environmental Education Facility Nadit, Namibia

  • Starting an sustainable economic cycle | The alternative city tour initiative kauFRausch e.V., Germany  

  • Aiming for wholesome happiness | Sunheul Village’s Ecotourism in Jeju Island, Korea

  • Cultivating curiosity to the wisdom of harmony | Harmony Education, UK