You're invited to share in a
First for Canada - A Provincial
Environmental Literacy Plan
Greening the Way Ontario Learns: A Public Strategic Plan for Environmental and Sustainability Education
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.
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.
- Adopt Strategies: Adopt and implement Strategies from Greening the Way Ontario Learns - or devise your own additional green learning strategies, and let us know about them.
- The EEON Challenge : Let us know which strategies you have adopted.
- Suggest Links: Share resource websites (your own or your favourites) with
EEON and its audiences. Please send suggestions for out "Links" section to info@eeon.org. And indicate, if applicable, which of EEON's 17 audiences your suggested link would most interest.
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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