Host Sam Hopkins (’61) Invites you to hear
Spencer Jourdain (’61), a Cum Laude Graduate in History,
Propose Strategies for the Future

Can We Get to a Sustainable Multicultural Future?

As a pioneer in sustainable development, in 1989 Spencer organized key funding and production components for the world’s first major worldwide television broadcast of the historic United Nations Brundtland (“Our Common Future”) Report, with messages from eight leading heads of state on the urgency of achieving sustainable global development.  From this project, he created a small multiculturally-led initiative for innovative education focusing on action-based sustainable development experiences.  He engaged educators at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to develop teaching and learning programs around “Education for a Sustainable World”.  Over seventeen “1420” action-based teaching and learning projects have been implemented in six states and four countries.  This pedagogy was selected for small group presentation at the 2004 conference in Sweden, launching the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-15).  A model for action-oriented, sustainable development-focused teaching and learning, it is increasingly considered, in both public and private school systems, as a crucial part of 21st century education to achieve a sustainable human future and to save our planet’s critical ecosystem. 

Education has an important role in getting us to a sustainable future, nurturing new and future-forming concepts and initiatives on sustainable economic, social, and educational futures to address the crucial STEMSS economic and social issues.  Education must prepare students to learn about and develop tipping point solutions.  It will be the task of many major new university professors and private sector experts to inspire students with their cutting edge knowledge and concepts. 

We hope this topic will fuel plenty of audience commentary and participation.  

Saturday, May 8^th, from 1 pm to 3 pm Eastern

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Thank you.  Hope to see you there.