3. 5 WAYS TO DEVELOP ECOLITERACY
1.Develop empathy to all forms of life.
2.Embrace sustainability as a community
practice.
3.Make the invisible visible.
4.Anticipate unintended consequences.
5.Understand how nature sustains life.
4. 1. DEVELOP EMPATHY TO ALL
FORMS OF LIFE.
• By recognizing the common needs we
share with all organisms, we can extend or
empathy to consider the quality of life of
other life forms, feel genuine concern
about their well-being and act on that
concern.
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6. •Empathy may also be
cultivated through direct
contact with other living
things.
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8. 2. EMBRACE SUSTAINABILITY AS A
COMMUNITY PRACTICE.
• By learning the wondrous ways that
plants, Animals and other living things are
interdependent, students are inspired to
consider the role of interconnectedness
within their communities and see the
value in strengthening those relationships
by thinking and acting cooperatively.
9. 3. MAKE THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE.
• If we strive to develop ways of living that
are more life-affirming, we must find ways
to make visible the things that seem
invisible by using web-based tools such as
google earth Good guide and fooducate
apps.
11. 4. ANTICIPATE UNINTENDED
CONSEQUENCES.
• Teachers can teach students strategies for anticipating
unintended consequences. This include precautionary
principle that when an activity threatens to have a
damaging impact on the environment or human health,
precautionary actions should be taken. Another strategy is
to shift from analyzing a problem by reducing it to its
isolated components; to adopting a system thinking
perspective that examines connections and relationships
among various components of the problem.
12. 5. UNDERSTAND HOW NATURE SUSTAINS
LIFE.
Ecoliterate people recognize that nature has
sustained life for long that resulted to turning to
nature when their teachers imbibe three crucial
tenets to ecoliterate living.
1. Ecoliterate people learn from nature that all living
organisms are complex and interconnected that
inhabit a particular place for survival.
13. • 2. Eco literate people tend to be more aware
that systems exist on various levels of scale
and ;
• 3. Eco literate people collectively practice a
way of life that fulfills the needs of the present
generation while simultaneously supporting
nature’s inherent ability to sustain life in the
future.
