Updates on Response-Able: How to Live Well Over Time on Planet Earth
There is a great deal of good news that we are excited to share about Response-Able.
1.The book cover is out!
This milestone makes the project feel wonderfully real and we are loving its dynamism!
2. We are excited to share the official blurb
For young people and all those who love them, this is an uplifting and practical book of wisdom. Written with a game on mindset, Response-able is a must read for those who want to participate in the grand course correction toward a sustainable future.
Jaimie has been educating others for sustainability for over thirty years. Her work captures the thinking of a myriad of giants whose shoulders she explicitly stands on, as she weaves a compelling story of hope and regeneration. This is the new paradigm in the making.
She honors her mentors, teachers, and students by drawing from a rich and varied assembly of disciplines. From game theory to allegory, and from the new brain science to the physical laws and principles derived from nature, this book is a delight to read, and one to keep handy on the road ahead.
Refreshingly smart and useful, this book is the opposite of the doom and gloom books that admire all the problems. It begins with the importance of being driven by a vision of the future we want, and then proceeds to help us get from here to there. Jaimie asserts with compelling clarity and logic that the shift towards sustainability and regeneration begins with a change in thinking.
It is the counterforce to the maelstrom of old, outdated, retro ways of thinking that are driving unsustainability. If you want to find your compelling purpose, unleash your potential and thrive over time, read this book.
3. We are deeply proud of the early praise for Response-Able.
These reflections come from some of the most respected thinkers, practitioners, and changemakers in sustainability education, systems thinking, and curriculum design. Their words affirm the heart of this book: nurturing the capacity to live well over time.
Here is what they are saying:
This book is a kind of magic. Here’s what the world presents right now: complexity, systemic breakdown, hope-lessness, confusion - and that’s putting it mildly. But then along comes Jaimie Cloud’s inspirational book, casting a bright spell of possibility, of active hope, and clear determination to help young people make their future. It is a catalytic collection - of ideas, perspectives and tools - that can dispel inaction and generate thinking and practices that support life and wellbeing. As ‘everything we do and everything we don’t do makes a difference’ it’s critical we are response-able. This important book gives readers the ‘why, the ‘what’, and the ‘how’.
–Dr. Stephen Sterling, Author, Learning and Sustainability in Dangerous Times, and Sustainable Education: Revisioning Learning and Change, and Professor Emeritus Sustainable Earth Institute, University of Plymouth
A better future begins in our imagination and imagination begins in minds open to larger possibilities. Jaimie Cloud's life work is a master class in educating for imagination, equipping students to see what could be, not just what is and to join imagination to action. Response-able is essential reading for teachers at all levels to foster imagination for competent Earth citizenship. It is possible!
–Dr. David W. Orr, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Oberlin College.
“Response-able" is a timely and empowering guide for young people and those shaping their futures. Jaimie invites us to rethink how we live and learn on this planet, blending wisdom, science, and imagination to show that a sustainable future begins with how we choose to think and act today.
— Prof. Daniella Tilbury, Chair, Networks of Leaders and Institutions for Future Generations (NIFG) and sustainability education change maker.
4. The book will be printed soon.
Stay tuned. More updates coming.