Sustainable Teaching Network

  Our connection with place and the environment has become more and more problematic. This has dire consequences, and is putting life as we know it at high risk of collapsing, if not everywhere certainly in some parts of the world. If our relationship with our world is broken, our life in this world also suffers the consequences.  As a network of educators enabling young people to connect or reconnect with our world we can help restore the balance we need. We need to learn about the ecological failure we are facing to steer away from it. We need to pool together our skills, knowledge, creativity and responsibility and help to bring meaningful change through our most precious and powerful tool: teaching. Biodiversity and bio-cultural diversity intersect. Humans have co-evolved with nature and in the process of our mutual adaptation countless cultures and languages have developed. Regaining a good relationship with our world, the non-human other, leads to a better relationship with other

The philosopher Toby Ord, fears that humanity is rushing into its extinction. He believes that the destruction of our civilization could come in this century if we do not do more to avoid it. He is one of the researchers working at the Institute for the Future of Humanity (IFH), a research centre at the University of Oxford founded to give answers to the great questions about the future of our species. In his latest book, The Precipice (2020) he reminds us that with the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back. Since then, these dangers have only multiplied, from climate change to engineered pathogens and artificial intelligence. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Ord is making clear what steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last and how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. He points the way