Conserving our natural world through education and community empowerment
Definitions
Ethical: A guiding philosophy; a consciousness of moral importance
Expedition: A journey undertaken by a group of people with a definite objective
Green Generation: The green generation lives in the world with, not against nature. This generation understands and lives within the natural laws that govern all living creatures. This generation understands the strength of both natural and cultural diversity to the health and well being of our planet. Individuals of this generation understand the power and limitations of technology to solve our problems. This generation spends more time outside, consumes less stuff, understands inter-connections and what it means to live together well.
Green Curriculum: A green curriculum is one that infuses an environmental ethic into all aspects of a school’s program. Each course seeks to find deep connections with environmental and social issues and equips students with the knowledge necessary lead environmentally ethical lives. Some characteristics of a school that has a green curriculum include: serving healthy and natural food, requiring an environmental/global ethics course for all students, working toward becoming carbon neutral, providing opportunities for students to become involved in meaningful environmental/social projects and exposing students to nature and natural settings as much as possible.
Social Entrepreneur: Individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change. Rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors, social entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to take new leaps. Social entrepreneurs often seem to be possessed by their ideas, committing their lives to changing the direction of their field. They are both visionaries and ultimate realists, concerned with the practical implementation of their vision above all else. Each social entrepreneur presents ideas that are user-friendly, understandable, ethical, and engage widespread support in order to maximize the number of local people that will stand up, seize their idea, and implement with it. In other words, every leading social entrepreneur is a mass recruiter of local changemakers—a role model proving that citizens who channel their passion into action can do almost anything. (www.ashoka.org)
Fellow: A member of a group having common characteristics. An equal in rank, power, or character.
Fellowship: A form of academic financial aid. The state of being a fellow.
Environmental Ethic: Individuals who possess an environmental ethic are not only aware of global environmental and social issues but are actively taking either small or large steps to make the world a better place. This may include reducing one’s carbon footprint, starting an environmental/social action project in one’s own community or actively working to share their knowledge with others.
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