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In this article we look at the Green Flag Eco-school approach in a time perspective. We make a distinction between internal and external time perspectives with the first focusing on the process inside the school and the second on changes in the surrounding world challenging but also opening for new ways forward for the educational approach. Based on a study of four experienced Green Flag schools in Denmark we identify problems with maintaining a dynamic process after the first years of establishment. We also identify problems with the involvement of the whole school and relate this problem of disintegration to the external time perspective where the environmental management approach has been challenged by request for more integrative approaches. In the final section we discuss whether it is possible to open for a more integrative approach to sustainability without losing the strong identity and concrete action orientation which have made the Green Flag approach successful. In line with the concept of responsible living we propose to do so by focusing on practices and products in the lived life as concrete points of departures for exemplary learning on how ecological, economic and socio-cultural issues always are inter-related.
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Lysgaard, J.G., Larsen, N., Læssøe, J. (2015). Green Flag Eco-Schools and the Challenge of Moving Forward. In: Thoresen, V., Doyle, D., Klein, J., Didham, R. (eds) Responsible Living. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15305-6_10
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