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EDUCATION & TRAINING
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YXC link to youthxchange content
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DIRECTORIES & PORTALS
Actionbioscience.org - promotes bioscience literacy by providing scientific articles on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, human genome, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers, and bioscience education. In English and Spanish. [www.actionbioscience.org]
Cap-Net.org - provides human resources development for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) through education and training, reports, training material and case studies. On this page you may find training materials classified by water resources management subject areas. [www.cap-net.org]
DEPweb Explore Sustainable Development – is the World Bank's web site of classroom-ready sustainable development materials. Here you'll find online books and learning modules brimming with activities, information, data tables, case studies, and colourful maps, charts, and photos that will help you explore the often complex yet intriguing social, economic, and environmental issues of sustainable development. [www.worldbank.org/depweb]
Environmental education (EE) – the US Environment Protection Agency’s portal aimed to increase public awareness and knowledge of environmental issues and challenges. Through EE, people gain an understanding of how their individual actions affect the environment, acquire skills that they can use to weigh various sides of issues, and become better equipped to make informed decisions…[www.epa.gov/enviroed]
GreenFacts – an independent, multi-stakeholder non-profit organisation based in Brussels. Its mission is to provide non-specialists with unbiased scientific information on environment and health matters through the net. GreenFacts.org studies are presented as questions and answers in a Three-Level Structure, easy to navigate, which advances each subject in progressive detail and complexity, allowing the reader to establish which level of information best suits his or her needs. The first level offers a range of questions and short answers covering the main concerns on the subject, like fluoride, ecosystem-change, tobacco, baron, arsenic, climate change and global warming…[ www.greenfacts.org]
Sustainability Web Ring - a service of the Sustainable Development Communications Network (SDCN). This Internet tool allows users to navigate easily between websites that deal with the principles, policies, and best practices for sustainable development. By following the links through the Web ring, you will find information from around the world on how to deal with such crucial issues as climate change, cleaner production, waste, poverty, consumerism, natural resource management, and governance. [sdgateway.net/webring/default.htm]
UNESCO Education - this is the ‘education’ portal of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). For all those interested in formal and informal educational trends world wide, international strategies to tackle illiteracy, the role of distance education... this site is a real gold mine! [portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15200&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html]
United Nations Cyber School Bus - this portal offers informative and interactive educational materials to a global audience. Are you interested in learning how a website is produced? Or do you know already and would like to support this great educational project? The UN Cyberschoolbus has successfully incorporated volunteers in almost all aspects of its production. Contact the team to find out more! [cyberschoolbus.un.org]
Wilderness.net - is an Internet-based tool giving you access to general information about wilderness, stewardship and educational resources, scientific information, agency policies, relevant legislation, communication tools to connect you with others in the wilderness community and more. [www.wilderness.net]
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