Kofi Annan, Secretary-General United Nations

1. “Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract -- sustainable development -- and turn it into a daily reality for all the world’s people.” Kofi Annan, Secretary-General United Nations

2. General Public Not Engaged Industry Governments GeneralPopulation Academics NGOs

3. The Power of SD Remains DormantLocked in Isolated Issues AIDSPrevention CleanAir ClimateChange SafeWater Sustainable Development RainforestPreservation SustainableConsumption Poverty Eradication Bio-diversity PopulationGrowth

4. Global Disjointed Approaches STEM Trade Barriers Tax policies Currency manipulation

6. Towards Global Sustainability?

7. Strong Global Warming Observed Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research Based on Folland et al (2000) and Jones and Moberg (2003)

11. Development at whose expense?

17. Bonn Declaration – A Call for Action Encourage and enhance scientific excellence, research and new knowledge development for ESD through the involvement of higher education institutions and research networks in ESD. Mobilize the core functions of universities: teaching, research and community engagement to strengthen global and local knowledge of ESD, and utilize the UNESCO ESD Chairs and UNESCO program networks in this process.

18. Why are HEI Addressing Sustainability? • To better take advantage of globalization • To help your institution compete • To attract funding • To create global citizens • To make life better for others • To infuse relevancy, meaning, etc., to better their ed. • To improve the life of all future generations

19. Northern Problem As Well • Hard to serve students suffer • Preferred learning style other than reading • Poverty related issues • Irrelevant curricula • Engaging the disenfranchised • Home/family related issues • Student/school conflict • Narrowing the curriculum for testing

21. Surface area Volume Percentage Square miles Cubic Miles of Total Salt water • The oceans 139,500,000 317,000,000 97.2% • Inland seas and 270,000 25,000 0.008% saline lakes Fresh water • Freshwater lakes 330,000 30,000 0.009% • All rivers (average level) — 300 0.0001% • Antarctic Icecap 6,000,000 6,300,000 1.90% • Arctic Icecap and glaciers 900,000 680,000 0.21% • Water in the atmosphere 197,000,000 3,100 0.001% • Ground water within half a mile from surface — 1,000,000 0.31% • Deep-lying ground water — 1,000,000 0.31% Total (rounded) — 326,000,000 100.00%

23. Understanding World’s Water

24. A Perfect Storm … of Opportunities Innovation Business Value Growth Productivity Brand Image Revenue $aving$ Competitive Advantage

25. Preparing for the World of Work • Linking to TVET • ESD for all • Right to work • Right to change the world of work • Forming an international network of exploration • First meeting in Thailand in summer of 2007

26. Policy Level • Educational System Integration To Integration of TVET into Education System ——Articulation, mobility, career guidance ——Qualification Framework ——Collaboration with relevant industries/stakeholders ——Decent Work – salary ——Selection and hiring process of TVET teachers ——International Cooperation (faculty exchange) ——Vocationalization of the General Education

27. The Sustainability “3-Legged Stool” Sustainability Sustainable Development (SD) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Corporate Responsibility (CR) Triple Bottom Line (TBL) 3Es / 3Ps Environment / Planet Eco-Efficiency Manufacturing efficiencies Operations efficiencies Product efficiencies Smart design Cradle-to-cradle, take-back Beyond compliance Restorative to nature • Equity / People • Ethical business • Internal employees • Human rights • Health & Safety • Empowerment • Respect, Caring • Local community • Rest of the world Economy / Profits Sustainable business Profits Taxes, R&D Jobs Expenditures Training Fair trade Core values

28. Humanities in decline • Weare in a majorcrisis of education. • Nationschangeeducations for economicpurposes, humanitiesarebeingcutback. (usefulskills for shorttermprofits) • Technology and engineering, applied science, emphasized. • Abilitiescrucial to democracy and morehumaneworldnotdeveloped. • Old developmentmodelemphasizes GDP growth. Butmere pursuit of growthdoesnotnecessarilyimproveotheraspects of quality of life. • Criticalthinking (philosophy), history, literature & arts is notveryimportant in the educationsystemsorientedtowardseconomicgrowth. • Singapore good example. • Martha C. Nussbaum

29. The Real Bottom Line!“We Need A World We Can Live In” At the global scale, there is only one bottom line: “Maintenance of the earth’s life support system for humans. If critical thresholds are crossed and the earth system shifts to another state much less amenable to human life, then everyday life as we know it –social systems, economics, politics – ceases to have meaning.” Uno Svedin – Swedish Research Council for the Environment, Agriculture Sciences and Spatial Planning

32. Re-discovering Commerce Social entrepreneurship The arts Service to others?

33. The Challenge for Education • Our greatest experiment-civilization itself-will succeed only if it can live on natures terms, not man’s. To do this we must adopt principles in which the short term is trumped by the long; in which caution prevails over ingenuity; in the which absurd myth of endless growth is replaced by respect for natural limits; in which progress is steered by precautionary wisdom.Ronald Wright-A Short History of Progress

34. UNU Regional Centre of ESD Expertise Outcomes • Improved academic outcomes • More knowledgeable/supportive citizenry • More sustainably oriented production and consumption • Perhaps a shift in behaviour as learning is relevant and in scale etc.