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Air crash: environmentalism cries its victims

11 March 2019/in Press/by weec

A great tragedy has hit the world of environmentalism. The Ethiopian Airlines aircraft crashed yesterday after take-off near Addis Ababa, caused the death of 157 people who were on board, including passengers and crew members.

Among the victims there are also many delegates who were directed to the Fourth Assembly of the United Nations on Environment in Nairobi.

The WEEC Permanent Secretariat gathers around the relatives of the victims. Mario Salomone, WEEC General Secretary recalls that everyone’s commitment is important for the future of the planet. «The pain for the loss of so many people actively involved in the protection of the environment – he said – must make us continue their meritorious work and must remind us that their life had a common and highly meritorious goal».

The assembly opens today (Monday, 11th) in silence to remember the victims of the plane crash. The goal of the forum is to understand how to save the planet from climate change and resource over-exploitation, and in this context until 15 March, heads of state and environment ministers, with NGOs, activists and multinational administrators will meet to discuss and make commitments, with a view to a global environmental pact.

The people on board had 32 different nationalities: 8 Italians, 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians, 9 Ethiopians, 8 Chinese, 8 Americans, 7 French, 7 British, 6 Egyptian, 5 Dutch, 4 people with UN passports, 4 Indians, then citizens of Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Morocco, Spain, Israel, Belgium, Indonesia, Uganda, Yemen, Sudan, Serbia, Togo, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Norway, Ireland.
The many peoples fraternized by a tragic destiny are a symbol of the unity of humanity beyond borders, languages and cultures.

Fridays for future. Alongside young people all over the world

5 March 2019/in Press/by weec

From the young Swedish student Greta Thunberg, the successful example of how the message on the urgency of change can reach hearts and consciences. She deserves all our applause and support. From his courageous gesture a movement is born that mobilizes groups of young people all over the world. The events of “Fridays for future” and the global strike of March 15th are a sign of hope that must leave its mark. This is why the WEEC Secretariat invites all the people involved in the defense of the environment and all the members of the largest international network of environmental educators to join, to be in the front line and to give maximum support to the campaign for the respect for commitments against global warming. «Greta» said among other things the WEEC Secretary General Mario Salomone «spoke also to the great people of the Earth, COP24 and the WEF of Davos. They heard her, but it is not said that they listened to her. It is up to all of us to help extinguish the burning house fire. Women and men of every generation side by side».

A côté des jeunes du monde entier. L’éducation à l’environnement au premier rang de la bataille pour le climat

Le réseau d’éducation à l’environnement WEEC adhère à Fridays for Future en fournissant ses canaux d’information et ses bureaux. Greta Thunberg, jeune étudiante suédoise, montre comment le message sur l’urgence du changement peut atteindre les cœurs et les consciences. Journée de mobilisation du 15 mars contre la catastrophe climatique. Le Secrétaire général WEEC, Mario Salomone, lance un appel à l’adhésion.

Greta Thunberg mérite tous nos applaudissements et notre soutien. De son geste courageux est né un mouvement qui a mobilisé des groupes de jeunes du monde entier. Les événements de vendredi ” pour l’avenir ” et la grève mondiale du 15 mars sont un signe d’espoir qui doit laisser sa marque. C’est la raison pour laquelle le secrétariat du réseau environnemental du WEEC invite toutes les personnes impliquées dans la défense de l’environnement et tous les membres du plus grand réseau international d’éducateurs à l’environnement à se joindre à nous, à être en première ligne et à apporter un soutien maximal à la campagne pour la protection de l’environnement. respect des engagements contre le réchauffement climatique. « Greta – a notamment déclaré le secrétaire général du WEEC, Mario Salomone – s’est également entretenu avec les plus grands peuples de la Terre, la COP24 et le WEF de Davos. Ils l’ont entendu, mais on ne dit pas qu’ils l’ont écouté. Nous devons tous aider à éteindre l’incendie de la maison en feu. Les femmes et les hommes de chaque génération côte à côte ».

Junto a los jóvenes de todo el mundo. Educación ambiental en primera fila en la lucha por el clima

La red de educación ambiental WEEC participa en Fridays for Future poniendo a disposición sus canales de información y oficinas. Empezando por la joven estudiante sueca Greta Thunberg, el exitoso ejemplo de cómo el mensaje sobre la urgencia del cambio puede llegar a los corazones y las conciencias. El 15 de marzo día de movilización contra la catástrofe climática. Desde el Secretariado General WEEC Mario Salomone un llamado a unirse.

Greta Thunberg merece todo nuestro aplauso y apoyo. De su gesto valeroso nació un movimiento que movilizó a grupos de jóvenes de todo el mundo. Los eventos del viernes “para el futuro” y la huelga global del 15 de marzo son un signo de esperanza que deba dejar su huella. Por este motivo, el Secretariado de la Red mundial de educación ambiental WEEC invita a todas las personas involucradas en la defensa del medio ambiente y a todos los miembros de la red internacional más grande de educadores ambientales a unirse, estar en la primera línea y dar el máximo apoyo a la campaña para el respeto por los compromisos contra el calentamiento global. «Greta» dijo el Secretario General de WEEC, Mario Salomone, «habló también a las grandes personas de la Tierra, la COP24 y el WEF de Davos. La escucharon, pero no se sabe si la entendieron. Depende de todos nosotros ayudar a extinguir el incendio de la casa. Mujeres y hombres de todas las generaciones lado a lado».

Madrid, Reinventing the horizon: science and art in the face of climate change

13 April 2018/0 Comments/in News/by weec

Reinventing the horizon, that’s the title of the international symposium organised in Madrid, April 18-19 by the Fundacion Ramon Areces .

A symposium to connect together science and art in a new interpretation of climate change. In the scenario of environmental destruction and uncertainty, it is essential to reinvent a horizon of hope. Humanity is now entering a new unwanted geological period – the Anthropocene – which is characterized by the fact that human beings are changing the vital cycle of the planet, altering its natural variability. Our species has become a force capable of changing some ecological processes, in an escalation of the primacy of cultural evolution over biological evolution.

Reinventing the horizon supposes co-evolving with nature and cooperating in terms of equity with the rest of the human species. But also recognizing ourselves as beings who dream, who imagine a sustainable future, capable of devising and carrying out the great revolution of change towards sustainability. We need ways of life in which the future is seen as a space of good living for all human species and respect for the rest of the world both living and no living. We need a hope that is not simply empty optimism but a commitment to the enormous creative capacity of the human being. A capacity that, as President Kennedy once said, is able to face every challenge.

The responsibility of scientists and artists is to generate new models of life in line with the Sustainable Development Goals promulgated by the United Nations. Thera are numerous and simultaneous drivers of global change: global warming, transformations in land uses, overexploitation of resources …, which has brought with it the destruction of ecosystems and the loss of biodiversity.

It becomes fundamental to seek solutions and creative proposals that allow us to glimpse new ways of organizing personal and collective life, respectful of the ecological integrity, the well-being of humanity as a whole and the dignity of every human being as unique and unrepeatable.

Among these problems, we have focused on human-induced climate change by its status as an epitome that synthesizes and expresses the irreversibility of some of these environmental phenomena of anthropocentric origin. We have already started non-return processes, such as global warming, the melting of the Arctic, the rise in sea level … Processes that demand decisive action by the governments of the world to tackle the causes that generate them, mitigating its consequences and creating mechanisms of adaptation to the new historical circumstances that, in the present and in the immediate future, humanity must face.

What kind of knowledge is needed to face the enormous challenges we face? How to interpret the complex reality of a challenge that is new in the history of humanity? What role does Science play? And the Art, what clues can it give us?

With this philosophy, the Symposium wants to create a transdisciplinary space in which scientific analysis and artistic considerations converge will be able to articulate information, dialogue, imagination and creativity that are needed for the change, from the confidence in the innovative capacity of the human being. According to the words of the frontrunners, the future is on the way. Our responsibility is enormous. We are the first generation that is aware of this problem and perhaps the last one with capacity and time to solve it.

Mario Salomone, Secretary General of the WEEC Network, speaks on Thursday, 19. the title of his speech is Imagination and creativity in the Anthropocene: the role of education and art

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Campus, casa, cidade: laboratories of change

7 March 2018/0 Comments/in News/by weec

The University of Coruña and Alcoa foundation organise the Educating for Sustainability Course, under the title Campus, casa, cidade: laboratorios do cambio.

This project has the objective to advance a community and university formation, share basic concepts of environmental and social sustainability and develop a capacity to act on priority issues.
The program includes lectures, theoretical-practical training sessions, field work and monitored and autonomous field works. It combines individual and group work, in the use of apartment, at the campus or at the campus as places of study and experimentation.
With a calendar distributed from March to June, you can choose the topic, place and time of your participation.

Contamination, waste, climate change, resources, health … activities include the calculation of the ecological footprint, the water footprint, noise maps and water consumption, audits of water and energy consumption in the home, and all through the Use of ICTs as tools for participatory georeferencing and networking

Read the program here

Mario Salomone, Secretery General of the WEEC (World Environmental Education Congress) will be present with a conference on March 13th, h 17:00, Faculty of Educational Science, with a speech focus on the education for sustainability.

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Air crash: environmentalism cries its victims

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