Partner with public and private schools to build stewardship education and recognition of the empowerment available thru engaging
Revitalizing anything, be it your body or your block requires active participation, a serious antidote to the apathy, depression and woes of all sorts (economic, educational, political, environmental, etc) that plague our culture.
By bringing joyful meaningful activity, be it weeding a garden, community mapping or building model wind turbines - involving young people with the development of their place is essential to forming effective solutions.
I am not quite singularly sure how this would work, be it partnering with existing school events or running new ones...?
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Beverly Woodbeck commented
Yes! Have you read anything on Kinetic energy?
It's a very under promoted technology. (human powered) An example is the hand cranked flashlights you find in Gander Mountain. It takes our everyday activity and converts it into energy like riding a bike or walking on a sidewalk. This technology in our community and educational system would promote self reliance and allow everyone to help create energy for their home, school and community. -
AdminValerie Bieberich (Admin, Michigan Suburbs Alliance: Climate Action Planning Homepage) commented
Thanks, Rebecca! I somehow had not come across this organization before, but will look them up and probably contact them now.
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Rebecca M. commented
Yes and we have an organization in town, the Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition (semiscoalition.org), that is already very experienced in creating the sorts of partnerships between schools, community orgs, and university folks to do exactly this sort of community-based learning with students.
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AdminValerie Bieberich (Admin, Michigan Suburbs Alliance: Climate Action Planning Homepage) commented
Jack Lessenberry recently had a great report on schools as community anchors: http://www.michiganradio.org/post/new-idea-schools-make-them-centers-community