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We are a sustainability education consultancy dedicated to facilitating more effective ways of teaching and learning sustainability.​
"...the environmental crisis invovles a crisis of imagination,

the amelioration of which depends on finding better ways of

imagining nature and humanity's relationship with it".

Lawrence Buell, 'the environmental imagination', 1995.

we belive the importance of imagination is often overlooked
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educating   the   imagination


​is the most important thing we believe we can do.

We can increase the effectiveness of teaching and the clarity of learning by educating the imagination. 


Education is changing. As well as attaining knowledge, we need to appreciate the ability to imagine as an important way of learning and understanding. Whilst imagination is often neglected and misunderstood, is a powerful mode of thinking and indeed REQUIRED to really understand contexts and concepts. ​
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Our commitment is to advance the quality of Education for Sustainability
around the world. This website provides resources and opportunities
for educators, facilitators, and curriculum workers wanting to engage
​with or enhance sustainability education. 


Educating   the   Imagination​

The idea of educating the imagination offers new ways of thinking about sustainaiblity and the acheivement of understanding.

​The ability to imagine is not a specialised gift or talent but like a muscle, it can be developed. Our powerful and precious imaginations need to be noticed, educated and developed.




​imagination is not of the unreal

it is a pathway to understanding
the more real
​that is beyond our experience.
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Imagination is not dislocated from the world
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it is deeply related
​ with the earth.


​Imagination is not inconsequential


   it has material consequences
on the brain, body
​and environment.

The Environmental Imagination Map​
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The Environmental Imagination Map is a conceptual tool for organising what it is to understand sustainability. It is also a teaching and learning tool designed for classroom use in any topic. The Environmental Imagination Map is a simple diagram that can demystify the complexities of sustainability issues. The map is the only student-centered framework we have in Environmental Education.

The simple map is the basis of Environmental Imagination Education. 
As individual selves, we are all edged by the limits of our experience, of here and now. In the map, the axis of time and space move through us as 'here' and 'now'; so the self is in the centre. Anything outside the centre is beyond our immediate experience, and requires imagination to be understood.
Sustainability lives at these edges.
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Experiential knowledge has been the basis of truth and reality for centuries. However, the idea of Sustainability demands new ways of understanding the world and our relationship with it. The ability to IMAGINE that which we cannot experience directly; the past stories, the future consequences, the global and micro perspectives of our materiality and experience.