The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein

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This story has managed to go outside of Canada,  at least with ABC news picking it up....

Boy Bagged For Taking Eco-Unfriendly Ziploc to School
 

I've been inspired - if that is the word, maybe driven over the edge would be more accurate - to radical, subversive prophetic action by Geez magazine, Bruce Sanguine and a number of thoughts and impulses that have been tumbling around within me for a long time.

I'm going to sell my car.

Traditional education is moribund, and our province will soon be overflowing with schools not of literacy, but of ecology—if the word can be correctly applied to what is really arrant dogmatism. As scientific discoveries are continually distorted, misapplied, and aggrandized, and fear of Climate Change grows, not only teachers, but also the B.C. government espouses “Social Responsibility” to an ever greater degree. On paper, it sounds great.

From Conscious Choice: Life on Google Earth

This is a great article about how one woman motivated not just her own community, but is helping a host of activist groups, to change they way people see their world.  Apparently a moving picture is worth a thousand words...

From the article...