Families, Learning, and the Future

As parents we're always teaching our children something. Or at least trying. Sometimes the learning happens when we least expect it. That's because kids are always watching us. They take careful note of how we choose to live, and what we choose to value.

It is for those reasons that Earth Explore will be kicking off a whole new kind of Adventure program very soon...one that focuses on the family, and on learning together. Our new Global Family Adventures have a clear focus; to get all members of the family seeing, doing, touching, laughing and learning together in some pretty spectacular places. And experiencing the changing world in all of its beauty and complexity....together.

For years parents have been asking Earth Explore to offer family programs. And now we truly feel is the right time to move forward. With the global issues we now face, showing our children what we really value, and how important knowledge and experience can be, is vitally important.

Of course our programs will offer the same great balance of fun, learning, adventure and discovery as always. We will work with the finest field educators, in the most spectacular places, and learn about cutting edge subjects. But now we will also provide a way for families to experience all of this together.

Because we feel that a family that learns and plays together...makes the world a little bit better place to live.

Let's Invent

As the old saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. And right now, with the problems facing our country and the world, we've got a lot of inventing to do.

Truth is, necessity is a great motivator too. It gets us moving, gives us a boost to try an idea, and encourages us to find new ways of looking at old problems. And those are good things. Because it's clear that doing things the same way isn't working.

Let's take the way we look at our planet and energy. Drill, mine, extract and consume. Kind of easy, and also very of out of date. But our new necessity to find something better, not only to keep our cars going but our planet healthy, is the mother of a wealth of new ideas and increased support for aggressive action.

Would we have taken these steps without crisis? Probably not. The painful truth is that very often only an urgent (and scary) necessity can spur us to take real action.

The Earth Explore Foundation supports new ways of looking at the same old things. Our Adventures put student and teachers in places where they discover interrelationships between our living planet, and our living selves. Those connections, and finding new ways to confront old problems, will be the theme that dominates the coming 50 years. That's why it is so important that our teachers, and our young people find out about these things for themselves, and bring that knowledge, and some new approaches and new thinking back with them.

They will invent the future. And the world will be better for it.