Ecological Governance - New Steps for Global Citizens provides students and educators with a full exploration of their rights and duties as global citizens through the development and delivery of global environmental education activities that ignite their interest, and create connections between our actions as Canadians and their impacts on the global community. Through the analysis of cases from around the world and the Atlantic Canada, the project provides a window into national and international environmental issues and the diverse realities of the Global South. The documented experience of Canadian organizations working to promote both ecological and social justice in a development context is used to acknowledge the interdependent relationship between individuals, societies and environment-locally, nationally and globally- and the implications for a sustainable future.

The Ecological Governance - New Steps for Global Citizens project centers on addressing the curriculum needs of the New Brunswick school system by providing inventive global environmental education at the elementary, middle, and high school levels as well as trainings for educators and pre-service teachers. The project includes printed units to cover curricula outcomes, interactive classroom workshops, drama and role-playing activities, take-home assignments, interactive web-units, and multi-class events such as the ‘Environmental World Court’- Justice Council for the Environment-.

Key themes addressed in the context of Ecological Governance - New Steps for Global Citizens are: environmental justice (centered on biodiversity and resource use) and climate justice (with a spotlight on climate change and the effects of climate disruption).Students and educators link global issues with local realities, using examples of both causes and solutions to environmental injustices around the world. Lessons will draw on examples of Canadian organizations’ working to promote both ecological and social justice in a development context, with a specific focus on Falls Brook Centre’s own overseas projects.

Resources produced with the support of the Government of Canada through the Global Classroom Initiative, a program of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), that supports the development of school-based global education resources and activities.