October 2017 – weecnetwork

GEEP, A global call for Action

30 October 2017/0 Comments/in News/by WEEC Network

The Global Environmental Education Partnership (GEEP) announces a global call for action for the field of environmental education (EE): Imagine a World. A global call for Action.
To achieve a positive, sustainable future – that’s the goal of the campain – we need to act now for environmental education, elevate our work as individuals and organizations, and increase our collective impact.
The GEEP is focused on building capacity for environmental education and sustainability around the world and using the power of education to help address global environmental and social problems. Its advisors are made up of researchers, policymakers, education practitioners, and others who represent government and non-governmental sectors from countries and regions around the world.
The GEEP believes that national and international professional networks are essential to ensuring the quality of education in, about, and for the environment in communities, nations, and regions.
This Call for Action is asking the international environmental education community to take stock of where we are as a field and think ahead to the future. It includes ten draft actions, crafted with input from GEEP leaders from around the world, and is designed to get input from educators working in this field about our key priorities for the next decade.
You can help shape the future agenda by explaing which actions are most important, what’s missing, etc? Visit ActNowForEE.org and cast your vote for your top three priorities. Your input will help create a global action plan for the next 10 years.

Watch the video and visit the site of the campain to help shape the future!

Sustainability master’s programs at RISD

17 October 2017/2 Comments/in News/by WEEC Network

The Rhode Island School of Design is launching two new Masters Programs in 2018 in the fields of Global Arts and Cultures and Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies. Emphasizing theoretical grounding, deep inquiry and self-directed research, these programs equip graduates to become hybrid thinkers who will bring critica

Students in RISD’s Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies MA program develop scholarly expertise in the rapidly evolving field of interdisciplinary environmental studies. Working closely with faculty experts in the environmental humanities and social sciences, they embark on self-directed pathways of research in focus areas such as Anthropocene studies, climate change cultures, green urbanisms and sustainable design futures.

The graduate program on Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies will combine political ecology and environmental social and political theory with engagements Anthropocene studies, eco-design, socio-technical transitions, climate change cultures and beyond. Hence it may be of interest to your undergraduate students who are looking for a more interdisciplinary environmental studies context for graduate work that can engage more fully with the politics of culture, art and design.

For information on each individual Masters program can be found here.

Animals at Risk from Climate Change Poster

13 October 2017/0 Comments/in News/by WEEC Network

How to explain the complex interaction between biological traits and environmental conditions? “Animals at Risk from Climate Change” is an educational poster for environmental and earth science educators made by The Global Education Project, a Canadian non-governmental organization with a 15-year history of publishing fact-packed educational wall posters and producing live events to educate about important issues.
The interaction of biological traits and environmental conditions that cause a species to be susceptible to climate change and the basics of the carbon cycle are made simple and understandable through illustrations, symbols and brief explanatory text–thoroughly documented to reliable sources.
“Animals at Risk from Climate Change” is an educational poster that presents a succinct overview of the fundamental impacts of greenhouse gases — the causes, effects and risks to all forms of life on the planet — . Based on studies from the IUCN Climate Change Specialist Group, the US EPA, NASA, NOAA and the IPCC, the poster features 25 animals that highlight the fundamental impacts of greenhouse gases on all forms of life on the planet.

By 25 animals selected for their vulnerability to climate change, the complex interaction of biological traits and environmental conditions that cause a species to be susceptible are made simple and understandable through illustrations, key graphics and brief explanatory text. Comprehensive and rigorously annotated to reliable sources, this resource is a valuable, timely and relevant educational aid.

To order or to view all of the elements on the poster, visit here

Support the campaign: the World Environmental Education Day

13 October 2017/3 Comments/in Press/by WEEC Network

The World Environmental Education Day is celebrated on 14 October.
40 years after the UN Conference in Tbilisi (Georgia).
From 14 to 26 October each year, schools, parks, environmental education centers, public institutions, associations, museums … aim to organise special events to highlight the importance of developing educational action to build transversal skills. To focus on the complexity of the challenges in a world where everything is ever more interconnected. To affect perception of the human relationship with the environment, to affect attitudes and therefore individual and collective behaviors. To make people awaring protagonists of a change towards more environmental friendly, more livable and more equitable societies.
On October 14, 1977, the United Nations Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education, organized by UNESCO and UNEP, opened in Tbilisi (Georgia’s capital), which ended on October 26 with a statement of great relevance, still today.
The Coordination of the World EE Day is taken care by the world-wide network of environmental educators who, each two years, give life to the main congress in that field (the WEEC, World Environmental Education Congress).

The celebrations of the fortieth anniversary of the 1977 Tbilisi Conference took place on 9 September in Vancouver at the WEEC World Congress.

Read the Appeal for a World Environmental Education Day_EN and support the campaign to exhort the UN, the leading institutions worldwide, all our colleagues, all citizens interested in a more sustainable and pleasant future to endorse and to spread our call to recognize and to celebrate every year, on October 14th, the World Environmental Education Day.

Support the campaign

Read the Appeal in Franch – 14 octobre journée mondiale de l’éducation à l’environnement_FR

Read the Appeal in Greek – Appeal for a World Environmental Education Day-GR

Read the Appeal in Spanish – Llamamiento para el día Mundial de la Educación Ambiental_ES

For information and affiliations: world-day@weecnetwork.org

GUPES Green Gown Awards

9 October 2017/0 Comments/in News/by WEEC Network

The Green Gown Awards are the most prestigious recognition of environmental and sustainability best practice within the further and higher education sectors. The Awards provide the sector with benchmarks for excellence and are respected by Government, funding councils, senior management, academics and students.
The Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability Green Gown Awards are supported by UN Environment and the Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability and are open to Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability members.
Membership to Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability is free of charge and you can join here. Each Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability region can apply for any of the below categories. There is not a limit on the number of application each institution can enter.

Important Dates
12 October 2017 – Application Deadline
13 November 2017 – Finalists announced
4 January 2018 – Case study and video deadline for Finalists
TBC – Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability Green Gown Awards Ceremony Winners announced

GEEP, A global call for Action

Sustainability master’s programs at RISD

Animals at Risk from Climate Change Poster

Support the campaign: the World Environmental Education Day

GUPES Green Gown Awards

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