Let Us Help You in Sustainable Development Education & Awareness

Five E's Unlimited has developed significant expertise in designing and implementing a number of different components related to environmental and sustainability education programs. WE CAN HELP YOU IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS.

• Incorporate environmental and sustainability literacy subject matter into traditional education programs.
• Reach across institutional boundaries and teaching disciplines in tailoring environmental education and communication approaches to the specific context of a group's self-defined goals, or the specific circumstances of an environmental issue.
• Develop new curricula at the high school or university level that integrate the economic, ecologic, and social well-being issues of sustainability.
• Conduct faculty development programs in environmental and sustainability literacy education.
• Design life-long learning public awareness programs to assist people in gaining a better understanding for what sustainable lifestyles are all about.
• Support your use of environmental education and communication strategies, methods, and tools to strengthen community or organization efforts at reaching their environmental objectives.
• Increase the legitimacy of your environmental policies and programs.

Specific work experiences in different aspects of Sustainability Education have included the following.

• Designed and implemented a distance-learning course in sustainable development that was delivered to high schools in 2003 and 2004.
• Joint collaboration with several other committed professionals on a project focused upon developing public communication strategies that would promote specific public behavior changes (1) necessary to achieve an environmentally sustainable world and (2) simple for consumers to understand and implement.
• Assisted the National Council for Science and the Environment in the planning of their 3rd Annual Conference entitled “Education for a Sustainable and Secure Future.” Also co-designed and co-facilitated a breakout session during the conference that involved 40 Conference participants working on the specific task of defining a “Strategy for a National Public Communications Campaign on Sustainable Development.”
• Assisted the environmental education project, Beyond Creation, with the organization's initial planning and formal non profit structure development. Designed and published the organization's web site and helped develop the EARTH CHILD Project, a mobile playhouse laboratory that demonstrates different aspects of green building design and the ultimate conservation strategies that evolve in watershed protection from consumers utilizing the recommended green building strategies and energy/water conservation strategies in their own households.
• Developed a curriculum for Old Dominion University's Department of Sociology entitled "Science, Sustainable Development, and Global Society" to expand the focus of this university's sociology department in environmental studies.
• Provided client guidance in promoting citizen environmental science -- integrating the "public-way-of-knowing" (citizens) with the "expert-way-of-knowing" (scientists) -- to enhance sound, sustainable environmental manager decision-making capabilities.
• Published a bi-weekly, on-line (Internet) newsletter entitled "Sustainability Review", subscribed to by more than 3,200 persons from 92 different countries around the world.
• Designed a multi-cultural, ecological literacy education program (university minor) entitled "Ecology Across the Curriculum" for Xavier University of Louisiana, an Historically Black College & University.
• Worked with Northampton County High School (Virginia) on developing a pilot program that links studies of historic culture with an awareness and understanding for the importance of a region's environmental quality by integrating environmental/cultural education into the mainstream teaching of high school courses in a multi-culture setting. Process puts student's learning experiences into a context that is aligned with their life experiences.
• Published a paper in the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (1(2):191-202; June, 2000) entitled "Interdisciplinary Education in Sustainability: Links in Secondary & Higher Education - The Northampton Legacy Program." Paper can be read on-line at http://www.emerald-library.com.
• Designed training programs for communicating sustainable business development strategies.
• Conducted formal and informal training retreats in adaptive, multi-discipline watershed management for governments, the private sector, NGOs, and communities, stimulating local stakeholder involvement in community-based environmental protection activities.
• Authored "Living a Sustainable Lifestyle for Our Children's Children," a book published by iUniverse in 2001. This book presents ideas and concepts about environment and economy in a way that decodes, de-mystifies, and puts into layman's terms elements society must consider in trying to achieve sustainable development.

Contact Dr. Warren Flint (rwflint@eeeee.net) or submit a Response Form for obtaining help in sustainability education and awareness. Check out the links in the left panel above for further discussion on our approaches to sustainability education and public awareness.