Gearing up for another School year for all, our environment deserves a stronger focus in both action and curriculum:

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Education should begin with what all life begins with: Energy. 

(“Energy” includes everything from the enthusiasm of students and teachers to the focus of their studies.)  

With the rise and set of the sun, it must be the foundational subject on which all others are built since there can be no humans without plants and photosynthesis and there can be no learning without enthusiasm. 

This makes it clear that oil is the product of ancient non-renewable sunlight and taking it from deep in the ground, burning and dumping the result in the atmosphere is a transformation of global ecological magnitude (- even if oil were in infinite supply, we would still have the problem of the ability of the atmosphere to accommodate the entropy that results from burning it). 

Once we all know this as the primordial organizing principle on which we depend, the natural curiosity and creativity of people/students (from the youngest ages) will be encouraged and inspired to develop renewable sustainable means of energizing our lives and societies.
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Its all a matter of energy, in everything we do.

Learning needs to start with this subject on which to chew.

And when we learn the truth about our current thirst for joules,

We will quickly realize the entropic extent to which we’re fools.

Humans are all-dependent on plants and photosynthesis,

Without these there can be no Australopithecus.

Since the bicycle is the most efficient universal traveler,

Teach them what goes in our tanks is the ultimate sustainer or unraveller. 

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So many things in our world are downwrong out of whack.

Just look at what some corporations think is a wholesome, healthy snack.

And then there’s the unappreciators who love to hate the teachers.

Cultivating such acrimony makes its hard to learn about creatures.

So one thing we could start with is a sincere and full apology,

And move on to learn about our vital earth ecology.

Crying out for recognition are the conditions of our very possibility.
Magnificence becoming blurry as pollution obscures our creativity.
We learn most when life on earth inspires our curiosity and wonder.
This is how education will lead renewability away from blunder.   
When we resolve to learn about the real costs of our conditions,
Education will inspire greater nobler human missions.
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Crying out for recognition are the conditions of our very possibility.

Magnificence becoming blurry as pollution obscures our creativity.

We learn most when life on earth inspires our curiosity and wonder.

This is how education will lead renewability away from blunder.  

When we resolve to learn about the real costs of our conditions,

Education will inspire greater nobler human missions.

 

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Don’t hold your breath, but the greenest thing a school can do is… turn blue. 

Skip the drastic plastic ‘cause water fountains are clean and true.

The real meaning of recycle lies way outside the mobius loops.

It has to do with pedals, frame and rider and two big spinning hoops.

If our education system is to flourish and we are not to shirk.

The least consumptive practices are the ones with which to work.

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