Inspired by the idea that "when one teaches, many learn," Ryland King, a 2012 Brower Youth Award Winner, founded Environmental Education for the Next Generation, a program that recruits college students to teach elementary school kids about our environment. King wanted to "promote sustainable action throughout communities, from the youngest members of society up" and so he designed an eight-week curriculum for college students to teach first and second graders. The curriculum, which is aligned with the California State Board of Education's content standards, includes topics like "The Importance of Bees," "Composting," and "Water Conservation." In less than three years, 400 college student volunteers have taught more than 3,000 elementary school students in 200 classrooms across California. King hopes that by 2015 college students will be teaching at least 14,000 elementary school students a year.

Follow the journey of a little wave as it travels down a watery trail, encountering creatures along the way who explain mankind's careless misuse of natural resources. This beautifully illustrated environmental story, written in rhyme, teaches young and old that abusing the planet does not come without consequences, but even the smallest positive change in behavior can make a big difference.

By Stephen Lamoreaux • Properly educated children are the key to the future of environmental protection. Please review this children's book - The Little Wave: An Adventure in Earthly Care - Part One

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Professor Cornel Pewewardy is a traditional Comanche-Kiowa elder and Director of Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University. He talks about the negative effects of education on indigenous culture and language. Re-traditionalization is his term for this shift in education, a tribal approach to education.   He spoke on February 11, 2011 in Portland, Oregon.

UST Global has partnered with several government schools and other NGO's in southern India to provide uniforms, school supplies, books and computers to help in the education process. Associates also tutor, mentor and encourage children to stay in school and dream big.

The Sustainable Futures Academy is a distinctive international organization focusing on higher education and accelerating the effectiveness of higher education in addressing sustainability both within its own core business and as partners to all other sectors in society. This video features short interviews from some of our international leadership council members.

Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment, Institute of Education, University of London discusses the importance of teacher quality across all nations and types of government.

The Salzburg Global Seminar brought together 63 participants from 24 countries, in order to take a closer look at what needs to be done in order to ensure that quality education is available for all.

The conference was entitled, "Optimizing Talent: Closing Educational and Social Mobility Gaps Worldwide" at the Salzburg Global Seminar (Dec. 2011)

Ms. Iddrisu's presentation at the conference entitled, "Optimizing Talent: Closing Educational and Social Mobility Gaps Worldwide" at the Salzburg Global Seminar in Dec. 2011.

Betty Mould Iddrisu, The Minister of Education in Ghana, speaks on the critical importance of education on society, and how her country is working hard to reform the educational system to provide quality education to all. She elaborates on the necessity to replace the approx. 5000 "schools under trees" with more functional and permanent solutions, to provide quality teachers to rural children, and to make sure that girls have equal chances as boys do, regarding education.

Gary Hirshberg, CEO of  true blue organic and anti- GMO. Stonyfield is  a company on the front lines of doing good while advocating wealth creation. This video is part of a campaign promoting eating and drinking healthy and organic products.

Sustainability: As this ScienCentral News video explains, researchers havefound new evidence that "American Dream" achievements like wealth, fame and image are not the keys to happiness.

This animate was adapted from a talk given at The RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.

The RSA is a charity which encourages the development of a principled, prosperous society and the release of human potential.