Environmental Education & Communication
Program Description
Green Cross enlightens and motivates people to act in accord with the
guiding sense of the evolving Earth Charter. Green Cross integrates environmental
principles into traditional classroom education programs via the International
Conference on Environmental Education, organized annually in Russia, and
by way of the Earth Charter International Youth Contest. Public leaders
who do outstanding things for the environment are recognized annually
in Los Angeles at the Green Cross Millennium Award Ceremony. In addition,
the Earth Dialogues are organized to raise public awareness and encourage
concrete initiatives to promote ethics and sustainable development activities.
Most Green Cross national organizations publish local magazines and newsletters.
Green Cross International recently produced a 26-minute movie - "Kuwait,
War and The Environment." Environmental education and communication
is a cross-cutting element of everything we do: we regularly organize
workshops, seminars, and hearings and publish information on the Internet
about the five core international programs.
Environmental Education Concept, by Sergej
Baranovski
International Conferences on Environmental Education in Russia
Youth Contest
Earth Dialogues
The Earth Dialogues is a public forum initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev,
President of Green Cross International, and Maurice Strong, Chairman of
the Earth Council, which aims to provoke global mobilisation to further
the achievements of three objectives essential to the future of humanity:
averting the ecological disasters which threaten to hurt our planet; fighting
the plague of poverty; and acting to ensure truly sustainable development.
The first Earth Dialogues took place in Lyon, France on 21-23 February
2002 entitled: Globalisation and Sustainable Development: Is Ethics the
Missing Link? Representatives of civil society, government, international
organisations, finance, business, religion, media and academia, along
with members of the public, convened in Lyon for three days to exchange
their views on how to reinvigorate the ethics debate within the sustainable
development and globalisation agendas. Participants were challenged to
identify new ways for humanity to overcome the economic social and environmental
impasse in which it currently finds itself trapped.
Future Earth Dialogues are currently being planned. Several regional Earth
Dialogues will be held during 2002-2004 and the international Earth Dialogues
will return to Lyon in 2004.
Check the Earth Dialogues website
for details or contact Jeanette Tantillo at Green Cross International
with any questions:
(41 22) 789.16.62.
On-line newsletters within the network
Links & Resources
Education World
http://www.education-world.com/
Database of 110,000+ sites and search engine for source material for teachers.
Very good starting point
Environmental Education Resource Library (EE-LINK)
http://www.nceet.snre.umich.edu/
The central clearinghouse on EE K-12 teaching materials maintained by
the National Consortium for Environmental Education and Training.
ERIC Clearinghouse for Science Math and Environmental Education
http://www.ericsp.org
Another source of curriculum materials, as well as a conference calendar,
and list of Internet Resources.
North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)
http://www.nceet.snre.umich.edu/naaee.html
The professional association of Environmental Educators. Newsletter, conference
information and more.
Second Nature
http://www.2nature.org
This nonprofit organization promores the education of university faculty
in the principles of sustainable development need something on green campuses
and more university sites.
Explore the Globe Program
http://www.globe.gov/
Educational TV Unit of European Broadcasting Union
http://www.edutv.org/
OneWorldEducation
http://www.oneworld.org/education/index.html
Think Quest
http://www.advanced.org/thinkquest/
Thinkquest is an annual competition that challenges Students, ages 12
to 19, to use the Internet as a collaborative, interactive teaching and
learning tool.
World Links for Development
http://www.worldbank.org/worldlinks/english/html/resources.html
Sponsored by the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, the
World Links for Development (WorLD) program links students and teachers
in secondary schools in developing countries with students and teachers
in industrialized countries for collaborative research, teaching and learning
programs via the Internet. Over a four-year period (1997-2000), the WorLD
Program aims to link 1,200 secondary schools in 40 developing countries
with partner schools in Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan and the United
States.
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