Greening the Way Ontario Learns is a living document, a bold, broad-based public vision for maintaining a healthy, prosperous province into the future. Environmental Education Ontario’s chosen role in achieving this vision is to facilitate efforts which raise the scope and status of environmental and sustainability education in Ontario. This Plan is designed to invite – and bring together – all those interested in educating for a sustainable society. EEON will support this collaborative effort by working to improve communication, information flows, ideas exchanges and combined expressions of need. As a central, umbrella group, EEON will make E&SE supporters more aware of one another’s interests, efforts, resources and progress.

A Role for Everyone

The strategies contained in Greening the Way Ontario Learns range from activities which are local and accessible to individuals and small groups, to broad-based collaborative strategies well-suited to coalitions of effort. EEON seeks to help those involved in E&SE activities avoid duplication and maximize the effectiveness of their efforts. The Plan’s variety of strategies is designed to make roles in supporting E&SE availalable to anyone who wishes to work in this area.

The Challenge: Matching Strategies, Moving Ideas towards Fruition

The challenge in bringing the ideas in this Plan to fruition is in matching as many strategies as possible with individuals, groups, agencies, organizations, institutions, ministries and companies who wish to adopt them, and make them a part of their activities. Many of the strategies included in the Plan are mutually complementary, and strengthen one another’s objectives. The more participants become involved in carrying out these strategies, the more cohesive the diverse efforts in supporting E&SE will become.