Environmental Education
If civilization is to have any chance of reversing our destructive environmental trajectory, no task is more crucial than educating the next generation. Environmental education is key to equipping students with leadership skills and ecoliteracy, so they can understand how nature functions, honor the interdependence of all living systems, and become empowered to reshape the human enterprise toward sustainability.
World-renowned primatologist Professor Frans de Waal explores the nature of sex and gender among our cousins the apes, and how gender diversity is a common and pervasive potential on nature’s masculine-feminine continuum. In the quest to overcome human gender inequality, he suggests that our focus needs to be on the inequality.
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Ten Strands works to bring environmental literacy to all of California’s K–12 students.
The Youth Design Challenge is a project-based learning experience that asks students to design bio-inspired ideas that can provide solutions to the climate crisis.