Zoe Weil is the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education (IHE), where she created the first graduate programs in comprehensive Humane Education. These programs link animal protection, human rights and environmental sustainability and are offered online through an affiliation with Antioch University. IHE also offers an online Solutionary Micro-credential Program for teachers, a free Solutionary Guidebook for educators, How To Be A Solutionary guidebook for students and changemakers, and award-winning resources. Zoe is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences and has given six TEDx talks including her acclaimed The World Becomes What You Teach and Extending our Circle of Compassion. She is the author of seven books including The World Becomes What We Teach and Nautilus silver medal winner Most Good, Least Harm. Zoe was named one of Maine Magazine’s 50 independent leaders transforming their communities and the state and is the recipient of the Unity College Women in Environmental Leadership award. She was also a subject of the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series. She holds masters’ degrees from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania and an honorary doctorate from Valparaiso University.
Show Notes
We offer the vegan community a pathway for integrating all of the issues of social justice and environmentalism, with their passion for veganism and animal rights. And what we're offering the education community is the opportunity to bring these important ethical issues into their classroom in ways that don't have to be polarized, that don't have to be controversial, but can actually be oriented toward how we solve these underlying problems that we face in the world.
Our goal is to educate people to be solutionary. That is people who can address unjust and unsustainable and inhumane systems and devise and implement solutions that are good for everybody, meaning all people, animals, and the environment.
💡 We need the tools and identified solutions so we can drive change in the world.
00:43🌞 The course that changed Zoe’s life: she discovered a way to change the world through humane education.
02:28🤩 Reasons behind Zoe’s founding of the Institute for Humane Education (IHE).
06:40😇 Bringing vegan issues into the mainstream: the first graduate programs about animal rights, social justice, and environmental protection.
08:17🎓 In addition to graduate programs, IHE offers free resources, short courses, and solutionary guidebooks.
13:08🌟 The education system is the root system underlying all other societal systems: transforming systems as the Solutionaries.
16:17😎 What is the main principle behind becoming the Solutionary.
20:15🏫 San Mateo County, California embraced the Solutionary approach for all their schools.
21:24🌎 Sometimes we don’t know how our future can look: connect with Zoe.
24:22🌺 Do things differently, become a Humane Educator or a Solutionary: free webinars on structural racism.
25:26🤗 Keeping motivation going: comprehensive humane education brought Zoe many amazing people who are working on improving the world for everybody.
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