Programs
Helping people achieve sustainable societies is the mission of EFI. Sustainable Societies is also the name of our education program.
The program is based on the premise that in order to become more equitable, healthy societies we need to understand the problems confronting us, summon the will to face them and develop the capacity to overcome them. Each version of Sustainable Societies identifies and examines the social, economic and environmental challenges present in a region, explores ways they can be addressed and develops students’ capacities to create solutions for them. Wherever Sustainable Societies is used, the goal is the same, to create issue literate, motivated individuals who know how to work together to improve the social, economic and environmental health of their communities.
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Developed in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Sustainable Societies in Africa: Modules on Education for Sustainable Development explores the broad range of most critical social, economic, and environmental challenges in Africa and develops students’ abilities to design and introduce strategies to address the problems in their local communities.
Sustainable Societies Great Plains
Being developed in partnership with the University of Nebraska, Sustainable Societies Great Plains examines the critical sustainability issues and opportunities of the Great Plains -- a region of North America bounded by the Rocky Mountains on the west and as far east as the Missouri River on the east, stretching from Texas into the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.