WUN and the Ideas and Universities Project have received a request for help with a consultancy project on communities in the low-carbon era - I would be grateful if you could identifiy any collegues who might be able/willing to speak with Dan Cass.
“I am seeking your advice on a project I am doing for Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown, on the best current thinking about positive future visions for communities in the post/low-carbon era. My work is being overseen by Senator Christine Milne. The Greens are the ‘third party’ in Australia, with representation in the state and federal legislature in six of Australia’s eight states and territories.
The project is a short consultancy. It will include a scan of the literature and conversations with the people who are doing the most innovative or influential work on the future of communities, from theory through to implementation. I am keen to focus the study on education as a case-study for this transformation, since there is at least one tier of educational institution in almost every community already and education is such a core function in a healthy society.
What I am seeking from the WUN is a list of your top academics working on the future of education specifically or whose work in other fields (such as planning) looks at how educational institutions can contribute to the community in the carbon-constrained era.
I am based in Sydney and Melbourne but can travel anywhere in Australia for this work. I can teleconference with people in any time zone if that is required.
Kind regards,
Dan Cass
I would argue the educational foundations in American society are at the core of a declining society, rather than a healthy one. The potential, challenges, and obstacles that currently litter the public education landscape in America are discussed in the novel, The Twilight’s Last Gleaming On Public Education, a portion of which may be viewed online by contacting the publisher at http://www.Xlibris.com, clicking on their Bookstorel link, then Searching by title. It possesses many of the elements commonly found in just about every school system throughout the United States. Check it out for youself. Discuss it with your friends. See if you agree with the proposed solutions.