RESOURCES: Understanding Food and Climate Change - An Interactive Guide

[Ryan Goble]

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The Center for Ecoliteracy has released a new suite of free digital resources that explore the connections between food and climate change.

Understanding Food and Climate Change: An Interactive Guide uses text, video, photography, and interactive experiences to help educators, students, and advocates learn how food and climate interact and how personal choices can make a difference. Ideal for grades 6-12 and general audiences, and connected to Next Generation Science Standards and the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies themes, the guide offers activities for student research and provides extensive resources for further investigation.

Learn about An Interactive Guide >




Understanding Food and Climate Change: A Systems Perspective explores the links between food systems and our changing climate with an emphasis on systems thinking. The systems approach in these essays illuminates how seemingly disconnected phenomena are often dynamically linked and can be understood best when viewed in a larger context.

Learn about A Systems Perspective >

"To foster ecological intelligence, educators help students experience and understand how they are connected to the natural world. The Center for Ecoliteracy's new suite of resources, Understanding Food and Climate Change, provides helpful tools for visualizing and deepening knowledge of these connections, and a hopeful frame for taking action."
David Orr
Paul Sears Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Counselor to the President, Oberlin College



"Teaching children how climate change impacts the food we grow and eat has never been more important. The Center for Ecoliteracy has done a wonderful job of synthesizing many critical issues into this highly useable teaching tool, and they have made it available for free! I hope Understanding Food and Climate Change will be used in classrooms across the country. A sustainable future for the planet depends upon the edible and environmental education of every child."
Alice Waters
Founder, The Edible Schoolyard Project

You can receive the entire suite for free by visiting our website. When you do, we would be grateful if you shared it with your network.


Sincerely,



Zenobia Barlow
Cofounder & Executive Director
Center for Ecoliteracy