III. WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINE AS A PLATFORM IN EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

                                                                                                                                                                                Sustainable development has become the El Dorado of modern times, a vaguely charted dream of everlasting wealth pursued by the rich with too little concern for the poor. Exploration resumes at the Rio+20 Conference in June when world leaders will be reminded that their parochial troubles have no lasting remedy unless planet earth provides for all the human family. In the words of UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon: Sustainable development is the imperative of the twenty-first century.