Sustainable development as part of our family lifestyle

Here is how we try to put principles of sustainable development into everyday practice. Perhaps in the pictures below you can find interesting ideas for ESD.

Every morning we get up, then wash our face and brush our teeth, have breakfast, have our morning coffee or tea, turn on TV or computer, take a bus to work (school, university)... This way we all are actively using all sorts of resources, leaving our “environmental footprint”. Sustainable development depends on everyone of us, and it all starts in the family. Most official international documents about education for sustainable development talk about the importance of family ESD (education for sustainable development).

Every member in a family leaves her or his “environmental footprint”. All of them make a larger “family footprint”. We want to make the “footprints” of our families shrink as much as possible. Since we're professionally involved in the matter, we decided to implement at least some ESD ideas in our everyday lives. And the most important thing is to do it together with children and grandchildren. Of course, each family has its own approach to the problem. And that depends not only on one's aims, but also on one's resources and abilities.