Environmental Education

Environmental education is essential to make the world fit for our grandchildren.

“Without ecology, there can be no justice in the 21st century – and no security.” (Sustainable Germany in a Globalised World, 2008)

Environmental education means:

  • learning to live well in within environmental limits.
  • regenerating the natural foundation of our existence so that everyone can have a dignified life.
  • applying human rights to resources. If we take these rights seriously, then no one has the right (regardless of all the rhetoric about freedom) to threaten the survival of others anywhere in the world, including future generations, through their excessive consumption of resources.
Modell starke Nachhaltigkeit

Since the Tbilisi Declaration in 1977 (Declaration, Final Report), environmental education (or Education for Sustainable Development, as it came to be called later) has been concerned with the question: What – and how – must people and communities learn in order to ensure we do not destroy the natural resources on which we depend, and ideally even revitalize them?

SILVIVA remains committed to the goal of making a sustainable world possible. The challenge is to develop forms of teaching and learning that bring us closer to this goal, making it visible, perceptible, and tangible.