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We are almost halfway the Decade for Education for Sustainable Development. The UNESCO Bangkok ESD Unit can give you an update on where we are:
We are pleased to share with you recent progress, developments and upcoming
events for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) in the Asia
and Pacific Region from the ESD unit at UNESCO Bangkok. This fourth and final
update of 2008 is a further step toward building collaboration among all partners in
education and moving ESD forward in the region in 2008 and beyond. We are
moving closer to the MidDecade World Conference on ESD in Bonn; an event which
has already generated a lot excitement and preparation and will, in many ways, help
determine the direction of the latter half of the DESD.
More info: mail to esd@unescobkk.org
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UNESCO Bangkok is organizing a very important event on higher education in Macao on 24-26 Sept 2008. The event is the Asia-Pacific Sub-Regional Preparatory Conference for the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education. The 2009 WCHE will be held in July 2009 in Paris and the sub-regional preparatory conference in Macao is to collect inputs from governments, intergovernmental organizations, non-government organizations, higher education networks and other partners for the global conference in Paris.
We are inviting you to participate in the Macao conference and please visit the website for more information. The important deadlines are as follows:
· Submission of abstracts 23 June 2008
· Announcement of accepted papers 1 July 2008
· Submission of full papers 1 September 2008
· Registration of participants 15 September 2008
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First it was a bamboo ipod case, followed by a bamboo keyboard, then came along the bamboo mouse and bamboo computer monitors.
Growing between three to 16 inches a day, bamboo is sustainable and renewable. It is the strongest and fastest growing plant on earth and doesn’t need any pesticides. To top it all, it is naturally anti bacterial, making it the perfect fabric for clothes or furniture or houses… anything!
Bamboo seems to be the eco-friendly, sustainable, renewable, durable alternative fabric for a holistic lifestyle… Bamboo is hot!
Sustainable advertising goes even further: wear bamboo, plant bamboo. At John Hardy they have chosen to offset the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their advertising through the planting of bamboo.
It seems that the long-lived, rapidly growing woody perennial grass is capturing the attention of environmentalists and sustainability advocates around the globe.
POD, Printing On Demand, is becoming increasingly popular. The best know international self-publishing sites are blurb and lulu. The sites spread the joy for books since you can read them, make them, share them and sell them.
On a belgian POD site I found an interesting ESD book, check it out on writehistory.
All this to say, no need to wait for a publishing house finally wants to publish your ESD book. Do it yourself.
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Saturday November 24h 2007 is Buy Nothing Day, It’s a day where you challenge yourself, your family and friends to switch off from shopping and tune into life.
The rules are simple, for 24 hours you will detox from consumerism and live without shopping. Anyone can take part provided they spend a day without spending!
Learn more on http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/
On the socalled Web 2.0 you can find a lot of free and simple tools that can help you teaching ESD topics. There are numerous things you can do with those tools.
For example: A groupwork on ESD for you students while documenting it with an online photo album of Flickr or Picasa. Maybe you can organise contractwork and ask your students to hold an e-portfolio on a blog or a joomla site. If this is too complicated, you start practising what you preach and open a favourites list for your students- this can guide them while undertaking internet research on ESD! As educators you can also subscribe to some newsletters of collegues like George Siemens, he will keep you abreast of the latest trends in education. Of course you can also visit the web2.0 website!
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We probably have all been watching or reading news on the protests that are currently taking place in Burma. However, these days it is hard to find independent media that write their stories somewhat objectively. There is just too much media involvement in politics.
The news site that I often consult is indymedia, a collective of independent media organisations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymdia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate and passionate tellings of truth. Check it out on http://www.indymedia.org/
It is available in different languages too.
Bart Cornille
Something that I also want to bring back to your attention is the MIT Open Course Ware site.
There you can find a lot of free online learning materials. For example on Womens’ and Gender Studies:
It is an interdisciplinary undergraduate program, providing an academic framework and broadbased community for scholary inquiry focusing on women, gender and sexuality.
Check it out on http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Women-s-Studies/index.htm
There is a lot of material out there!
