Touching down in New York on a balmy late autumn day on the 7^th Nov 2018, we arrived at Columbia University’s legendary Teachers’ College, Horace Mann main building for the pre-conference event, specifically on Transformative Learning Cities.

Contemporary characterization of global sustainability has demonstrated that Indigenous worldviews approximate important attributes of sustainable development. In this context, Indigenous epistemology is a crucial component in the selection of the criteria for sustainable development and the formulation of corresponding goals for sustainability in a global economy.