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Environmental education

19 August 2011 - Regional Activities - Europe
The CONFINT process continues in Europe, towards Rio, and beyond!

14 October 2010 - Regional Activities - Europe
International seminar on Human Responsibility

Regional Activities - Europe -
Calling for collaboration: creating educational material by Yolanda ZIAKA, 8 March 2010

If you are interested in this project, welcome to our team! The Charter team for southern Europe, in collaboration with the International Network for Environmental Education Polis, based in Greece, is currently working on a project to create educational material. The educational material is created with children participating at every stage of its development. The project includes the (...)

Regional Activities - Latin America -
Sustainable development and climate change education , 10 February 2010

Teaching guide This teaching guide was created in the framework of the Children and Youth International Conference « Let’s Take Care of the Planet » project, launched by the Ministries of Education and Environment of Brazil and is supported by the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress. In France and in Europe, it is coordinated by the Monde Pluriel organization, in partnership with (...)

Regional Activities - Southern Pacific -
A visit to Vanuatu by Betsan MARTIN, 30 January 2010

Vanuatu 29 Nov – 6 Dec 2009 A visit to Vanuatu was hosted by a Ni Vanuatu women known to us though her studies at a university in new Zealand. We found that women are bearing large burdens of extended family responsibilities – and that in urban areas there are added pressures of financial responsibility upon women who have jobs. Highlights of the visit included a village ‘Mountains to reef” (...)

Regional Activities - Latin America -
Youth Charter of Responsibilities on Environment, IIIrd National Conference, Brasilia , 25 January 2010

We are young students from different regions of Brazil, and part of the III National Children and Youth Conference for the Environment. Little warriors of peace with the same intention and desire: taking care of Brazil and mobilizing the Brazilian population around global environmental change. We recognize the national environmental outlook and we commit to fight for and defend the (...)

Regional Activities - Europe -
International Conference of Children and Adolescents in Brazil – progress in Greece by Yolanda ZIAKA, 11 January 2010

The International Conference of Children and Adolescents, to be held in Brazil from 1 to 10 June 2010, is a major event to mobilize youth for the environment worldwide. The coordinating team for the preparation of the Greek participation in the Conference has established a blog (in Greek) to coordinate the participation of schools. There is the announcement of the Conference, feature (...)

Regional Activities - North America -
Unitarian Universalist Congregation considers “Our Responsibility for Water” by Nina GREGG, 1 December 2009

The congregation invited Nina to return in August to present a guest sermon as part of the annual Water Service. For the Water Service congregants bring water from their travels or places that have been significant to them. During the service all the water samples are poured into a common vessel to symbolize coming together again and that many are one. The Foothills congregation wanted to (...)

Regional Activities - Latin America -
Young Citizens Get Involved in the Future of Europe , 9 November 2009

An international process on climate-change impacts and youth commitments The Brazilian Ministry of Education, in partnership with UNESCO and the UNEP – United Nations Environment Program, invites all the UN countries to participate in an International Conference of children and youth for the environment to involve the youth from all continents in a process of awareness raising, reflection (...)

Regional Activities - Asia -
The Philippine process to the CONFINT , 1 August 2009

Last July 14, 2009, the Philippines launched the local campaign for the “Let’s Take Care of the Planet” International Conference to be held in Brazil on 2010. The Philippine National Organizing Committee of the said international conference, which includes the Charter of Human Responsibilities, Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), UNESCO (...)

Regional Activities - North America -
Global Citizen’s Climate Change and Water Film Festival to Visit Nine US Campuses by Nina GREGG, 4 May 2009

The Climate Change and Water Film Festival, a project of the Charter of Human Responsibilities and Global Citizens for Sustainable Development, will visit nine university and college campuses in the US in spring 2009. The film festival aims to increase awareness and action regarding local and global issues around water. The Charter of Human Responsibilities, an international project (...)

Regional Activities - Latin America -
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - Climate Change , 29 April 2009

What is Climate Change? What Can You Do? UNEP and Climate Change

Regional Activities - Latin America -
Climate Challenge: Earth’s future is in your hands , 29 April 2009

An online game (requires flash plugin) where "you are president of the European Nations. You must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office". The educational goal is "to give an understanding of some of the causes of climate change, particularly those related to carbon dioxide emissions, to give players an awareness of some of the policy options (...)

Regional Activities - Latin America -
TAke AIM at Climate Change , 28 April 2009

A music video sponsored by NSF and NASA, portraying climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic and encouraging AIM (Adaptation, Innovation, Mitigation).

Regional Activities - Latin America -
The Other CO2 Problem , 28 April 2009

Animated film about the issue of ocean acidification, produced by Ridgeway School (Plymouth, UK) and Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Funded by the European Project on OCean Acidification (EPOCA).

Regional Activities - Latin America -
What we know What we do not know And how we try to better understand global change , 28 April 2009

(44 pages booklet) - An introduction to research questions, challenges and methods for CarboSchools projects (http://www.carboschools.org).

Regional Activities - Europe -
Public presentation of the children book “the treasures of the earth” by Yolanda ZIAKA, 20 March 2009

The book « the treasures of the earth » is a fairy tale on our common responsibility for environment, written by Yolanda Ziaka. The children of a Greek school and those participating in a Municipal Artistic Center have worked on the tale and created paintings to illustrate it. The tale has been edited in Greece – in Greek and in French – by the South European Team of the Charter. Between March (...)

Regional Activities - Europe -
Handicapped Children Manufacturing Bags by Tsisso CHIPASHVILI, 8 December 2008

My friend Margret Wegmann, representing a small German organization of volunteers that helps handicapped children in Georgia, and myself had the idea of helping handicapped children to be integrated into society through a responsible, fun, educational, ecological, and money-making activity. The organization was thus able to finance the renovation of the Saint Michael school (for handicapped (...)

Regional Activities - Latin America -
Detailed Presentation of the process , 4 December 2008

20-pages presentation: Introduction - Historical Context - What is the Children and Youth International Conference for the Environment? - Objectives of the International Conference – Principles - Organizational Structure – Steps - Calendar of Events - Expected Results

Regional Activities - Latin America -
Youth Conference on Environment - General Presentation , 7 November 2008

[9 pages presentation, to download below in pdf format ,as well as a 2-page summary] The Government of Brazil, through the Ministries of Environment and Education, invite the nations of the world to participate in a large scale process of international cooperation: the Children and Youth International Conference for the Environment – Let’s Take Care of the Planet, in Brasilia, 2010. (...)

Regional Activities - Asia -
Global Classroom Initiative partners with the Center for Positive Futures by Pinky CASTELO CUPINO, 2 September 2008

A partner organization of the Charter of Human Responsibilities Philippine Facilitation Team, the Center for Positive Futures, is a partner in the Global Classroom Initiative (GCI) project initiated by Monde Pluriel, a France-based non-governmental organization. Monde Pluriel hopes to raise awareness among different sectors of society on global citizenship. The GCI aims to promote (...)

Regional Activities - Europe -
“Making the villages nicer” with the youth by Tsisso CHIPASHVILI, 14 May 2008

Last April 19, 2008 in Kaspi (Georgia) the team of the Georgian facilitation has completed the project "let’s make our village cleaner and more beautiful" with the NGO "Community of the Thezami women”. Tsisso Chipashvili presented the Charter and facilitated the workshop "Children and responsibility" in front of 80 schoolchildren and teachers. Then the three groups of schoolchildren planted (...)

Regional Activities - Asia -
Asian Environmental Film Festival Makes Waves by Marilou CERILLA, 14 December 2007

The Charter of Human Responsibilities (CHR) – Philippine Team and its Indian-based counterpart, CHR-India represented by Sudha Reddy, together with the World Youth Water Alliance represented by Anugraha John, launched a joint undertaking which focused on environmental awareness raising among students in selected schools in Metro Manila and the sub-urban areas. The week-long Film Festival (...)

Regional Activities - Asia -
Forever Young, Forever Green , 7 December 2007

The fourth International Conference on Environmental Education organized by UNESCO, UNEP and other partners in collaboration with Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad, India was held in Ahmedabad between November 24 and 28, 2007. There were around 30 working group sessions varying from Non Formal Spaces of Learning, Education towards sustainability concerns of Natural Resources in (...)

Regional Activities - Latin America -
International children conference for the environment - Brasil 2010 , 7 December 2007

The Brazilian Government, through the Ministries of the Environment and Education, considers carry through the International Children’s Conference for the Environment “Let’s take care of the Planet”, in 2010, involving a wide process of international cooperation.

Regional Activities - Latin America -
Cronograma - Expected results , 3 December 2007

Cronograma 2007 - Establishment of Agreements for International Cooperation between Brazil, the participating countries and the partners Formation, in each country, of a Coordination Group composed by three instances, or a tripod : Government (Ministries of Education, the Environment and others, as Culture, Science and Technology…), University and Civil Society (NGOs and Youth Movements). (...)

Regional Activities - Latin America -
Objectives - Some Principles , 3 December 2007

Objectives To contribute for confrontation of serious planetary social and environmental problems through educational means and the promotion of community participation. To enable that the largest possible amounts of young people, teachers and school communities concern themselves at the local level with planetary commitments, by assuming responsibilities for building sustainable societies, (...)

Regional Activities - Latin America -
What is the Children’s Conference on the Environment? - The Brazilian Experience , 29 November 2007

What is the Children’s Conference on the Environment? It is an educational campaign that brings about the political dimension of the environment to schools and other instances children and youth organizations. It mobilizes and engages children in science research and their communities in the debate about contemporary challenges on social and environmental issues. The Conference is a process (...)

Regional Activities - Asia -
Film festival on Environment - from the Philippines to the Asian Region , 27 October 2007

Asian Film Festival on the Environment Philippines, 9th - 16th October, 2007 The Charter of Human Responsibilities Facilitation Teams of the Philippines and India have organised, jointly with the World Youth Water Alliance (WYWA, an organisation inspired by the CHR) the "Asian Film Festival on the Environment" between 9th October - 16th October 2007, along with local partners like Buklod (...)

Regional Activities - Europe -
Ecological Footprints: How to Reduce our Impact on Earth? by Yolanda ZIAKA, 22 October 2007

Publication: Act Responsible (Issue N°1) The series of booklets « Act Responsible » aims at presenting innovative and concrete tools and ideas, for a day-to-day responsible action. The first issue of the series is dedicated to the notion of "Ecological footprint" and seeks to analyze how we can reduce our footprint on (...)

Regional Activities - North America -
Environmental Education and Responsibility by Nina GREGG, 22 June 2007

The Charter of Human Responsibilities has been used effectively in several countries (among them Brazil, India, Greece and New Zealand) to promote reflection and action on environmental protection, conservation and sustainability. We are preparing to work with several schools and environmental education centers to introduce the Charter and the concept of responsibility as tools for (...)

Regional Activities - Asia -
Wizkids 2006: the process, from the workshop to the Children’s Charter Writing , 20 April 2007

The national final workshop of Wizkids Team 2006 was held on November 10th, followed by the Grand Finale, after a weeklong interdisciplinary program. Here is a description of the workshop process. It was a thrilling and a mutually learning experience.

Regional Activities - Latin America -
Second National Children and Youth Conference for the Environment - Process and Outcome , 29 July 2006

This document gives an account of the unique and successful experience of the Second National Children and Youth Conference for the Environment held by the Ministries of Education and Environment. We present here a detailed methodological account, the outcomes and evaluation of this process, which mobilised more than 4 million people across the whole of Brazil. The results are organised (...)

Regional Activities - Latin America -
Charter of Responsibilities “LET’S TAKE CARE OF BRAZIL” , 15 June 2006

You can download the document here!

Regional Activities - Latin America -
Letter to the President of Brazil and the Ministers of Environment and Education by Edith SIZOO, 12 June 2006

Following the Conference, Edith Sizoo, Coordinator of the International Charter Team, wrote to Mr Lula, Mrs Silva and Mr Haddad.

Regional Activities - Latin America -
Let’s Take Care of Brazil: A Unique Educational and Social Achievement by Edith SIZOO, 7 June 2006

"Yound people are not so much concerned with their destiny but rather with hope." A Brazilian teacher Just imagine… Involving 12.000 schools and the communities around them, thus mobilizing within one year nearly 4 million people to reflect on fundamental questions related to the future of humanity and the survival of the planet, organizing conferences in several of the 27 states of the (...)

Regional Activities - Asia -
“What is Our Responsibility for a Clean Air in Bangalore?” , 16 January 2006

BANGALORE CYCLING MARATHON 22nd January, 2006 : “What is our responsibility for a Clean Air in Bangalore?”. Activity supported by Pipal Tree, and by Solar Generation - GREEN PEACE, aiming at school students with the theme “Cycling for a Clean Tomorrow”. For an awareness of the growing pollution levels in the city, the importance of clean air and healthy living among school students. (...)

Regional Activities - Europe -
The Ecological Footprint As a Tool for Awareness-raising on Individual and Collective Responsibility by Yolanda ZIAKA, 10 December 2005

The "ecological footprint" concept could be used to great advantage as an educational tool in the framework of communication and education actions around the concept of responsibility, with a view to becoming aware of our responsibility for the impact of our own lifestyle on the environment. It therefore carries significant potential for the development of a responsible attitude. Following (...)

Regional Activities - Latin America -
What’s New in the Brazilian Charter Lands by Isis de PALMA, 19 October 2005

In Brasilia, from September 3 to 11, 2005, was organized the Second Meeting of the Youth for Environment, involving youth from all the states of Brazil, to prepare the Second National Conference of the Children and the Youth for Environment. The work includes a reflection on the Charter of Human Responsibilities involving millions of people (57 000 (...)

Regional Activities - Asia -
Plan of activities by Divine ANCENO, Edralina de la CRUZ, 26 September 2005

Schedule from July to November 2005 July 2, 9 am organizational meeting (list review, letter-invitation, budget) July 9, 5 am to 5 pm meeting with young people and discussion of Charter curriculum planning meeting and training of tutors July 10, 3-5 pm meeting with the parents, discussion of Charter July 16, 9-11 am group dynamics, getting-to-know each other Leaf-printing with (...)

Regional Activities - Asia -
Background and objectives by Divine ANCENO, 13 September 2005

Objectives The general objective is to develop the community involvement of young people by educating themselves and younger children in responsibility and other positive values. Specific Objectives To create opportunities for teenagers to complement the education of grades 1 and 2 students from underprivileged communities in U.P. Village. To develop the love for learning of twenty (...)

Regional Activities - Asia -
Mid-project report : Learnings by Divine ANCENO, Edralina de la CRUZ, 26 August 2005

Children, Youth, and a teacher express what they have been learning during the program.

Regional Activities - Asia -
Girl Children’s Day by Noli ALCANTARA ABINALES, Pinky CASTELO CUPINO, 29 June 2005

The Charter Facilitation Team in the Philippines co-sponsored the holding of a Girl Children’s Day, together with the Buklod Tao Foundation, the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging(CFCA), and the Center for Positive Futures. March is Women’s Month. This project involved organizing a Girl Children’s Day Celebration last March 5, 2005. One hundred girl children ages 11 to 14 participated (...)

Regional Activities - Asia -
Practicing Community and Environmental Responsibility in Schools by Nenet ESCARTIN, 26 April 2005

This project was conducted by high school students of the Center for Positive Futures (CPF) as part of their Social Studies class. The activity centered on partnering with a class in a public elementary school around the general notion of environmental responsibility, involving four classes of students in CPF and four elementary school classes in four different public elementary schools. Two (...)

Regional Activities - Asia -
A Library of Human Responsibilities by Pinky CASTELO CUPINO, 7 January 2005

The Library of Human Responsibilities was set up as a community library within the school library of the Center for Positive Futures in Barangay Banaba, San Mateo, Rizal. Featuring in the library are books, documentaries and films which promote environmental and social responsibility. The Library shall sponsor a series of activities to encourage developing responsibilities of community (...)

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