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Lopez Island School featured in new book on sustainability!


Lopez Island School is featured for its ground-breaking L.I.F.E. Garden program in the much anticipated book Smart By Nature: Schooling for Sustainability. Here's an brief passage from the book, which recognizes 20 programs nationwide in four areas of schooling for sustainability: food, the campus, community and teaching. Be sure to follow the link below to see the full excerpt by author Michael K. Stone of the Center for Ecoliteracy.

"There is a bold new movement underway in school systems across North America and around the world. Educators, parents, and students are remaking K–12 education to prepare students for the environmental challenges of the coming decades. They are discovering that guidance for living abundantly on a finite planet lies, literally, under their feet and all around them — in living soil, food webs and water cycles, energy from the sun, and everywhere that nature reveals her ways. Smart by Nature schooling draws on 3.8 billion years of natural research and development to find solutions to problems of sustainable living, make teaching and learning more meaningful, and create a more hopeful future from people and communities."

For more about the new book, please visit the Center for Ecoliteracy.