What is the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado doing to promote
sustainability literacy?
Collaborating with the University of Colorado at Denver Wirth Chair in Sustainable Development, Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education and other partners, the Alliance is:
- Supporting the Colorado Department of Education and the Department of Natural Resources to adopt and implement a meaningful statewide PreK-12 Environmental Education Plan that provides resources to every school district in Colorado,
- Increasing the involvement of young people in the Alliance’s sustainability Alliance Center, Policy, and Education & Outreach programs,
- Providing sustainability literacy resources for schools, businesses, governments, and nonprofits.
Young people are naturally curious about the world around them. We can help them make connections from their lives to the rest of the world. Improving sustainability literacy will equip tomorrow’s leaders with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed individual choices that will invariably affect their personal and social spheres. They will be better critical thinkers, able to evaluate the long-term environmental, social and economic benefits and impacts of their decisions.
Support the Colorado Department of Education’s Environmental Education Plan
Read the draft Colorado Environmental Education Plan. Click here. The Alliance supports a final plan that:
- Enables students to better utilize the community and the outdoors as a context for learning,
- Provides educators with access to training and resources to teach environmental education,
- Creates a statewide mechanism to share environmental education resources.
Join the Coalition to support sustainability literacy in Colorado schools.
Case studies of schools with great sustainability education programs
Nine schools in Colorado will be featured for the exemplary environmental education programs they’ve infused into the culture of the school. Watch for the Case Studies Report in May, 2012.
The map below displays schools considered for the report. Please refer to the following key while viewing the map below.
- Blue = Elementary School or School District
- Red = Middle school
- Green = High school
- Yellow = K-12 school
Think we missed someone? Please help us build the map of schools in Colorado by emailing your recommendation to us.
View Colorado Green Schools in a larger map
Sustainability literacy resources:
- Find recommendations for high quality sustainability literacy resources on the Education Issues web pages.
- Story of Stuff movie
Want to get involved with sustainability literacy efforts?
Contact: literacy@sustainablecolorado.org.
