This Handbook has been created to help K-12 teachers understand sustainability concpets and incorporate them into their classroom. Here you will find curricula materials as well as links to other web-sites in this area.

NCSE's Education for Sustainability (EFS) website serves as a meeting point for online discussions and educational resources related to education for a sustainable and secrue future.

The Sustainability Education Center (SEC) was created in 1995 in response to the growing need for educational materials and professional development focused on sustainability.

The purpose of the online Toolkit/Resource Center is to provide high quality and regionally relevant resources and tools to individuals around the world who are striving to make education for sustainability a central focus of higher education in the areas of curriculum, research, institutional mission and planning, physical operations and infrastructure, student life and outreach to local, regional and global communities. This is taking place within the context of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).

This is a link to an event on the Earth Charter that will take place in 2004 in Mexico. Since the publication of "Our Common Future," in 1987, and Agenda 21 in 1992, sustainable development has been discussed in many contexts. In response, leading educators have developed and signed educational declarations and charters to guide their educational policies and procedures. One of the most comprehensive and far-reaching of these documents is the "Earth Charter." It is being used as a guide by educators, worldwide. Additionally, in December 2002, under the leadership from Japan and more than 40 other nations, UNESCO designated the decade 2005 - 2015 as the "Decade of Education for Sustainable Development."