Posted under "Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Understanding"

Walking the Talk Newsletter #34, January 2010: United Nations RCE Designation!

wttcoordinator — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:37:32 -0800

Greetings and Happy New Year! Walking the Talk is kicking off 2010 with an exciting announcement. The group has just been formally designated the new United Nations Regional Centre for Expertise for Education on Sustainable Development (RCE) for the British Columbia/North Cascades region. Dr. David Zandvliet of SFU spearheaded this designation on behalf of Walking the Talk, and he received the official certificate of designation from the United Nations University on January 10, 2010.

Hopes and Tensions at the start of the Copenhagen Conference

wttcoordinator — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:46:16 -0800

T’Sou-ke Smart Energy Group

wttcoordinator — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:42:20 -0700

The T’Sou-ke Smart Energy Group (T’SEG) has been created with the purpose of educating the T’Sou-ke community about the importance of low impact sustainable energy, through the use of culture, traditional values and historical means of communication.

Catalyzing Collaboration Report on Culturally Inclusive Sustainability Education

Josina — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:55:56 -0700

This report was commissioned by the BC Working Group on Sustainability Education. It is intended to initiate a dialogue about the involvement of linguistically and culturally diverse communities in sustainability education and how community organizations can collaborate to achieve this.

BC Working Group - May 2008 meeting notes

Bonnie — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:38:31 -0700

Attached are the notes of the BC Working Group on Sustainability Education May 2008 meeting.

eCards - research, write, design and send!

jstroman — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:11:47 -0700

Educational Materials for Teachers - Green Street

Josina — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:30:50 -0800

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11 Solutions to Halting the Environmental Crisis

Josina — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:05:49 -0800

An inspiring link with an international perspective to the solutions to our environmental crisis. This link contains 11 solutions already being put into practice by innovative communities around the world.

Community Futures Aboriginal Engagement Toolkit

Maureen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:00:56 -0700

The Community Futures Toolkit was developed with the objective of supporting relationship and partnership development between Community Futures, which supports local and regional economic development, and Aboriginal Peoples in BC.

United Nations University Education for Sustainable Development Programme

Bonnie — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:47:41 -0700

The Environment and Sustainable Development (ESD) Programme of United Nations University focuses on the interactions between human activities and the natural environment and their implications for sustainable human development.

UNESCO - Education

Bonnie — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:39:45 -0700

Reports and information from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation on their education initiatives around the world.

Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit

Bonnie — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:32:13 -0700

The Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit is an easy-to-use manual for individuals and organizations from both the education and community sectors. This resource addresses the potentially powerful alliance of school systems and communities working together to reach local sustainability goals. Together they can reorient existing curriculums to create locally relevant and culturally appropriate education.

Check Your Head

Joanna Lemay — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:41:49 -0800

Check Your Head (CYH) is a youth driven organization located in Vancouver. CYH educates young people on global issues, by looking at the connection between global events and issues and local realities. Check Your Head provides education, resources, training and support for youth, who then facilitate workshops, organize events and coordinate projects promoting education and action around issues of social and environmental justice.

Ecology in Italy

Bonnie — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:17:52 -0800

HUMN 305 Environmental Ethics

cgigliotti — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:57:43 -0700

The primary goal of this course is to prepare students to understand and to critically evaluate various ethical perspectives on human beings' interactions with nature and these perspectives' applications to environmental issues.

FORED BC Society

Cheryl Ziola — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:33:13 -0700

The FORED BC Society website offers complimentary, downloadable resources for learning about sustainability, best practices templates, an environmental poll and its award-winning magazine Landscapes.

Teaching and Learning For a Sustainable Future: A multi-media teacher education programme

jlmoore — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:31:10 -0700

Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is a multimedia teacher education programme published by UNESCO. It contains 100 hours (divided into 25 modules) of professional development for use in p

UN Millennium Development Goals

jlmoore — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:39:53 -0700

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the world's time-bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions-income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion-while promoting gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability.