Regenerative Education and the 2030 Event Horizon

Next academic year’s incoming high school class will be the first to graduate on the other side of 2030. This matters because the year carries an unusual symbolic weight, perhaps greater than any other date in lived memory, even 2000.

2030.

It is, in one sense, an arbitrary marker, a new decade in the Common Era. Yet it has become a fixed point around which many national and institutional programs have organized their expectations, benchmarks, and warnings: SDGs, World Bank Human Capital Framework, Paris Climate Accords.

Inspiring sustainable change through art and education.

Originally from New Plymouth, Taranaki, alumna Sarah McCarrison’s path has taken her across continents, from the Australian Outback to the classrooms of China and Singapore, and back home again to teach at Green School New Zealand. For her, education has been a journey of creativity, connection, and purpose.

Green School New Zealand’s Kina building opened in late 2022 by founders Michael and Rachel Perret and celebrated by an excited student body, community and visitors.