What is Urban/Suburban Ecoliteracy?

Just as none of us learned the principles of practical financial literacy in school, none of us were taught the practical principles of how to live on a finite yet abundant planet. Becoming ecoliterate is getting at the root of changing yourself and society with the intent and objective of leaving this Earth in better stead environmentally than the way we all found it. Sustainability is not possible without ecological literacy as a foundation. It is not possible to solve the environmental problems we have created with the same thinking and behavior that created the problems in the first place.

If you care about the future of your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, you owe it to them to pass on a better environmental legacy as opposed to deeper ecological debt. Striving for authentic sustainability at this point in human history is requisite for our survival as a species and it entails attunement with earths systems and cycles the sources of our collective survival, well-being, and wealth. Humans appropriate all of the material means of their sustenance and economic activity from the planet. Ecology trumps economy it always has and always will.

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