Teacher Gram: Sustainable Agriculture Guides for Secondary Schools
Imagine for a moment that your city, town or community was completly covered by a giant glass dome, forming a tightly closed system, an urban or rural terrarium. How big would the dome have to be for its resources to provide for all the needs of its inhabitants? How big to clothe and shelter them> What about waste removal and sources of energy? How big to account for the health of the environment? How about food production? Is your dome getting bigger?
Clearly, the land needed to produce just food for the inhabitants of a city far surpasses the size of the city itself. Cities draw tremendously on the resources of distant places for their survival. Global food production and distribution systems supply this need, and in the process link humany togher like never before.
"Teacher Gram: Sustainable Agriculture Guides for Secondary Schools" is a five part Sustainable Agriculture learning resource for Secondary Schools. The series includes a Teaching Guide with a list of recommended resources.