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EDUCATION & TRAINING
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ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Amigos de la Naturaleza – in Mexico, students at Monterrey University have organised themselves into this dynamic and active organisation that aims at forming community leaders committed to nature conservation and sustainability. The organisation wants to fulfil a double goal of learning-service: educating on sustainability issues and providing a service for a community or environmental institution through the participation of students in community projects.
[amigos.mty.itesm.mx/pro/proyectos.htm] YXC
Center for Ecoliteracy (CEL) - designing human communities that are compatible with nature's processes requires basic ecological knowledge, which is one of the key components of ecological literacy. Founded in 1995 by Fritjof Capra, Peter Buckley, and Zenobia Barlow, CEL is a public foundation that supports a grant-making program for educational organisations and school communities, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. [www.ecoliteracy.org]
Centre for Environment Education - environmental education in India? Glance at this website. Here you’ll find several training programs and schools local and international activities to foster young people’s environmental awareness. [www.ceeindia.org]
Communities by Choice - is a US national network of communities, organisations and individuals committed to learning and practicing sustainable development. They define sustainable development as the process of making choices that consider the long-term economy, ecology and equity of all communities. [www.communitiesbychoice.org]
Eden Project –dedicated to promote ‘the responsible management of the vital relationship between plants, people and resources leading to a sustainable future for all’, on this website you can find information on the wonderful park located in Cornwall, UK. Presented in an engaging and humorous way, educational activities, events, workshops, and more else… to spend a day in paradise! [www.edenproject.com] YXC
Educar Forestando - (Educating through production and planting of trees) is a NGO based in Argentina. It develops environmental education training programs mainly aimed at kindergarten and primary school teachers, although secondary schools, institutions for people with disabilities and NGOs participate in the program as well. [www.fundacionacude.org/educfor.htm] YXC
Enviroschools Foundation - is a charitable trust that provides support and strategic direction for a nation-wide environmental education program in New Zealand. Community partnerships are at the heart of the Enviroschools approach. Students develop skills, understanding, knowledge and confidence through planning, designing and creating a sustainable school. [www.enviroschools.org.nz]
Green.com - promotes the practice of environmental education and communication (EE&C) worldwide and conducts projects in USAID countries. Green.com's approach is to integrate several social disciplines that deal with how humans act towards their environment to foster environmentally sustainable behaviours and practices. [www.greencom.org]
Outreach worldwide - a project of Television Trust for the Environment, is to help improve the health and the environment of the poor, especially youth, in the developing world. This is accomplished by providing relevant learning materials to educators and communicators in developing countries. [www.outreachworldwide.org]
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) - campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through grassroots organising, education and non-violent direct action. RAN works with environmental and human rights groups in 60 countries. [www.ran.org]
Rainforest Live - educational resource regarding tropical rainforests with links to projects, research and expeditions; and includes colouring pages, games, competitions, chat rooms and teaching ideas. [www.rainforestlive.org.uk]
Rustle the Leaf - is an online outreach that uses syndication-quality, weekly comic strips and other creative tools to communicate essential environmental themes and truths. Their goals are to encourage environmentalists, to facilitate the sharing of environmental views “in an engaging, non-confrontational manner, and to introduce and reinforce environmental education with people ages 6 to 106.” [www.rustletheleaf.com]
Second Nature – since 1993, it has been dedicated to accelerating a process of transformation in higher education. They assist colleges and universities in their quest to integrate sustainability as a core component of all education and practice in order to make human society healthy, fair, economically secure and ecologically thriving for all current and future humans and other species. [www.secondnature.org]
Terralingua (TL) - is a non-profit, international organisation founded in 1996 by a group of professionals working in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, biodiversity conservation, and human rights who shared a fundamental belief: that the challenge of protecting, maintaining, and restoring the diversity of life on earth is the challenge of supporting and promoting diversity in nature and culture. [www.terralingua.org] YXC
The Biodiversity Project - is a US initiative that works to make people aware of the importance of biodiversity and to build their commitment to saving it. It aims to engage and empower people to act by making the connection between biodiversity and people's daily lives and basic values. [www.biodiverse.org]
Tools of Change - this website, founded on the principles of community-based social marketing, offers specific tools, case studies, and a planning guide for helping people take actions and adopt habits that promote health and/or are more environmentally-friendly. In English and in French. [www.toolsofchange.com]
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