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Education for Sustainability Education for sustainability is learning to build a sustainable world. It is a new kind of education that enables us to explain the whys and to do the whats and hows of sustainability. It aims to raise consciousness about social and environmental justice, to change mindsets and motivate activism. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development of 1992 (the Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, regards this kind of education as critical in promoting sustainable development and improving the capacity of people to address environment and development issues. PRRM Chairperson Emeritus Helena Z Benitez has said: "PRRM is right to focus on education for sustainability. One big reason why the world is what we find it today is because we have yet to learn our way out of our unsustainable condition." Education is at the heart of rural reconstruction. As conceived and lived by its founder Dr Y C James Yen, rural reconstruction has been, from the beginning, a mass education movement. PRRM continues this tradition. PRRM's education philosophy and practice–the what, why, where and how of learning–is embodied in its RR Credo. If education helped us read and write the past, then it should enable us to read and write a better future. The CBIS is the education arm of PRRM. It is tasked to integrate the lessons from field experience with the theory and practice of rural reconstruction and sustainable development. The CBIS offers a basic course on sustainability (BCS) which frames a range of specific courses covering the following themes: • Sustainable Local Economy The CBIS counts on a faculty drawn from different units of PRRM as well as its partner people's organizations, NGOs and training insitutions. The CBIS links the different community learning centers of PRRM located in different parts of the Philippines.
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