This presentation is part of the 2015 RCE Conference of the Americas, 9-12 August 2015, Grand Rapids, USA

1. Lessons for the sustainability of the
University for the Community.
Prof. Salvador García Ruvalcaba
RCE Western Jalisco, México
CENTRO REGIONAL DE EXPERIENCIAS EN
EDUCACIÓN PARA EL DESARROLLO
SUSTENTABLE DEL OCCIDENTE DE JALISCO
CUCSUR

2. Questions for reflection?

3. The current educational system responds to the
solution of environmental problems of our
community, city or country?
Yes ( ) No ( ) Is not enough ( )
I do not know ( )
Do most politicians listen and attend the social and
environmental needs of the people in our comunity,
city our country?

4. The Objectives of Environmental Education are:
the generation of knowledge; citizen awareness;
change of attitudes; change of behavior; and social
participation in resolving environmental problems.
But in the history of the environmental education
has there been enough done to cover all those
objectives in our local, national reality?

5. Is education responsability only of the
institutions and the goverment?
Yes ( ) No ( ) I do not know ( )

6. Do you have some responsibility in educating
yourself, your family and community?
Yes ( ) No ( ) I do not know ( )

7. Most members of your community respect
nature?
Yes ( ) No ( )
With your hand in your heart answer me.
Do you respect nature, and work doing actions to
improve the environment?

8. Metodology of the three crystals
Crystal 1. Use the mirror to look back or the
past.
Crystal 2. Use the magnifying glass to Identify
which of these problems are exacerbated today
Crystal 3. Telescope: how does the future look?
If we do not change our behavior what will our
comunity, our city see happening in the next
years.

9. Crystal 1. Use the mirror to look back
or the past.

11. Setting 1
Setting 2
How can our future be?

12. Let me know your level of hope.
Is possible to improve the quality of
life and the environment in your
community with your effort to
inspire hundreds, thousands of
people
Yes ( ) No ( ) I do not know ( )

13. If you don´t have confidence in that this can
happen in a big region. Let me share this
history.

14. We need people to deeply practice universal
values: love, respect, solidarity, justice,
peace, generosity, and much more..
What is required to build a sustainable society?

15. How ensure that children, young,
adults understand and live practical
actions for sustainability?

16. 2015
Escaling of Environmental Education Program
for participation in the Solid Waste Management in our RCE

17. Ongoing campaign of collecting electronic waste

18. We working two days at week offering several workshops to
attending child unprotected and in critical condition

19. Every sundays our university opens its doors to provide training
in organic agriculture and developing various educational and
recreational activities supported by the network SUMATE

20. We develop environmental interpretation activities for
children and youth in the garden of friendship, within
this we build an interpretive trail we call life seeds.

21. Art festivals and Environmental Culture
University for the Community.

22. Education and communication for sustainability
through radio programs Agenda 21 and Echoes of
Nature.

23. New project of Radio and TV Join the
network SUMATE

24. We start the formation of nodes SUMATE Global Network in schools, universities, citizens organizations in
Mexico and Colombia.

25. We start exchanges and collaboration agreements with UDCA topics:
Management scientific of Fires forest (master degree) and Health and
environment with Universidad Areandina. In 2016 we are interested in
develop the International Seminar in Health and Enviroment in RCE WJ.

26. Every Sunday with the support of renowned painters,
we developed workshops for youth and some parents
their works are offered for sale.

27. All this, was possible, because we never lost our goal,
hard work, passion, love, respect and other universal
values that were part of this. We continue to promote
individual and collective educational processes aimed to
transform the relationship with nature. In order to build
sustainable societies in ecological, economic and social
terms through learning and teaching about colaborative
participation.