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You're invited to share in aFirst for Canada - A ProvincialEnvironmental Literacy PlanGreening the Way Ontario Learns: A Public Strategic Plan for Environmental and Sustainability Education
We're offering a plan for all Ontarians from all walks of life to work together to create a healthy, sustainable future through education. Greening the Way Ontario Learns: A Public Strategic Plan for Environmental and Sustainability Education is is a means to ensure that we and our children enjoy an environmentally healthy province into the future. The plan is available in Full (127 pages) and Summary (24 pages) versions, downloadable from this website (see below). The Full version of the document is also available in hard copy, with a $20 donation to Environmental Education Ontario. The EEON plan is a dynamic, interactive and lasting document designed to help all interested members of the public join us in advancing environmental learning in the many contexts of our lives. Whether you are an educator, a student, a business person, a New Canadian, a Native Canadian; from government, labour, an NGO or a youth group, or any of the 17 represented sectors, you are invited and encouraged to adopt strategies relevant to your own educational context. Our goal is to make Environmental and Sustainability Education (E&SE) a core part of the Ontario educational experience. We are working to improve the quality, scope and status of environmental literacy in the lives of all Ontarians. Ontarians Plan for Environmental Literacy In 2002 and 2003, at weekend workshops or through the completion of written workbooks, over 500 Ontarians from across the province and across all chosen public sectors, contributed their ideas to a vision of an ecologically literate province. The result, Greening the Way Ontario Learns, is truly a first for Canada. EEON’s “public strategic plan” - so called because of its unique planning process by and for Ontarians - offers outcomes, needs and strategies for improved ecological literacy across 17 core societal sectors which, in the plan, are called Audiences. On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, EEON proudly launched Greening the Way Ontario Learns to the Government of Ontario and the public, at a press conference at the Queen's Park Media Gallery. In the spirit of the holiday season, the plan was presented as a gift for the healthy future of Ontario. Three photographs of the presentation are available. Download or Order an EEON Plan EEON is pleased to make the both the Summary and Full Versions of Greening the Way Ontario Learns: A Public Strategic Plan for Environmental and Sustainability Education available to all interested members of the public. The Full Version is available in PDF and html versions. The Summary Version is available as a PDF only. You may also order a printed hard copy of the Full version using our online form. Unfortunately, we no longer have free copies available. A full copy of Greening the Way Ontario Learns can be ordered on line (please click on "Order a Plan" in the menu above), and will be mailed to you on receipt of a cheque for $20 plus $5 for postage, or a total of $25. Please click on "Contact Us" for EEON's mailing address.
What's Next?Greening Learning Across Sectors Whatever EEON Audience you belong to, you are invited to download or order a plan, and select a strategy or strategies that will advance environmental learning in your sector. Then involve your colleagues, constituents, congregation, staff, business associates, students, group or organization, community, family or friends to make "green" learning an integral part of their everyday lives.
Making Environmental Literacy Grow EEON wishes to "map" the growth of the environmental literacy community by tracking the distribution of the plan and the adoption of its strategies. EEON will be developing a reporting matrix which will allow our strategic partners to make contact, to share ideas and resources and to work toward common goals.
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Environmental Education Ontario (EEON), a coalition of educators and citizens from across Ontario's wide diversity of public sectors, is proud to have facilitated the collaborative creation of Canada's first province-wide plan for environmental literacy. Last Modified February 2007