Enabling sustainable food transitions in schools: a systemic approach

Towards Sustainable Food Systems: a Holistic, Interdisciplinary and Systemic Approach

One of the biggest challenges facing humanity is achieving sustainable food security in the face of population growth, resource scarcity, ecosystem degradation and climate change. Transitioning towards sustainable food systems (SFS) is a must for achieving sustainable development. This review paper highlights the need to adopt a holistic, multidimensional, interdisciplinary and systemic approac...

Building a Sustainable Approach to Mental Health Work in Schools

Sustainability is a major challenge to mental health work in schools, and many initiatives started by wellmeaning individuals and agencies fade quickly. This paper outlines some key actions that can be taken to ensure that mental health work is sustained, as well as introduced, in schools. These actions include demonstrating that mental health work meets educational goals such as learning and t...

Enabling Sustainable Smart Homes: An Intelligent Agent Approach

Smart homes can offer significant benefits to residents. Specifically, their combination with electric vehicles (EVs) can support environmental sustainability, as they can use part of their battery to cover household consumption needs. We present a Mobility Integrated Energy Management IS artifact that supports a smart home owner’s decisions with regard to using household appliances and chargin...

Editorial : Schools as enabling environments

Educating for a healthy, sustainable world: an argument for integrating health promoting schools and sustainable schools.

Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth and the British government's Stern Review of the economics of climate change have provided heightened awareness of how humans are over-stretching the Earth's life support systems. The health of human populations and the health of global ecosystems are inextricably linked and the need for fundamental changes in how we live is becoming impossible to ignore. W...