Jaimie P. Cloud

President

Jaimie P. Cloud

Jaimie P. Cloud is the founder and president of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education in New York City.  The Cloud Institute is dedicated to the vital role of education in creating awareness, fostering commitment, and guiding actions toward a healthy, secure and sustainable future for ourselves and for future generations.  We monitor the evolving thinking and skills of the most important champions of sustainability, and transform them into educational materials and a pedagogical system that inspire young people to think about the world, their relationship to it, and their ability to influence it in an entirely new way. 

Ms. Cloud has written several book chapters and articles, teaches extensively, and writes and facilitates the collaborative development of numerous instructional units and programs that are designed to teach core courses across the disciplines through the lens of sustainability.  Examples include, Ecological Economics for Life; Introduction to Sustainability; Changing Consumption Patterns; Core Content and Habits of Mind of Education for Sustainability, and From Global Hunger to Sustainable Food Systems. The Institute has recently co-published and launched two secondary school courses: a one year business and entrepreneurship education course entitled, Business and Entrepreneurship Education for the 21st Century (BEE 21) and a one semester Participation in Government course entitled, Inventing the Future: Leadership and Participation for the 21st Century (“IF”).

Ms. Cloud serves as Chair of Communities for Learning, Inc. and co-chair of The Harbor Education Task Force of The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance.  She is a member of the Advisory Committee of The Buckminster Fuller Institute,  the International Advisory Committee for the Tbilisi+30 Conference, the Planning Committee for Education for Sustainability of the North American Association for Environmental Education,(NAAEE), Greenopolis and the Sustainability Education Planning Committee for the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).  Ms. Cloud also serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Education for Sustainable Development.

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