The educational movement that relates social and environmental aspects to collaborate in the formation of a global, ecologically responsible and socially just citizenship, has been called Environmental Education.
The new international scenarios erase Environmental Education from the hegemonic discourse as a reference, and seek and create alternatives that are sometimes of dubious progress. The discourse of sustainability as weak as it is malleable fails to dethrone the already mature educational movement.
Environmental Education exists because there are groups that resist. Groups of teachers in schools, teachers and students in universities, politicians and politicians in local and national administrations, social organizations in municipalities, international organizations in debates... and many people in everyday life who demonstrate the need for an education committed to people and the environment, away from developmental models that undermine the possibilities for fair and equitable human development.
In this issue of ENVIRONMENTALLY sustainable we offer reflections, challenges and proposals to promote public policies of Environmental Education, committed practices and transformations from the local with a global perspective. Planet Earth deserves it, so do people.