User:Plunk502/Institute for Earth Education

The Institute for Earth Education was set up in 1974 by Steve Van Matre and others to promote Earth Education. It is a not-for profit organisation with branches in several countries including Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The organisation was set up since they believe that The environmental education movement has been led astray: Along with the criticism of mainstream environmental education they developed an alternative in the form of concept paths and activities. Some of these have been developed into full educational programmes including:
 * trivialized by the mainstream education
 * diluted by those with other agendas
 * co-opted by the very agencies and industries that have contributed so much to the problems
 * Earthkeepers (for 10-11 year olds)
 * Sunship Earth/Earthkeepers II (for 10-11 year olds)
 * Sunship III (for 13-14 year olds)
 * Muir Trek (for adults)