SGI Quarterly

Issue 68 | April 2012

Sustainability: Learning for Empowerment

  • Sustainability & climate change

At the time of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, this issue of the SGI Quarterly featured experts in environmental education such as Kartikeya Sarabhai, founder of the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) in India, examined the role of the Earth Charter and introduced pioneering African youth climate action advocates.

In this Issue

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Sustainability: Learning for Empowerment | Introduction

The United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 was a watershed moment, signifying the beginning… Read more
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Learning to Open Our Minds | Interview with Kartikeya Sarabhai

Kartikeya Sarabhai is the founder and director of the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) in Ahmedabad, India. CEE has 40 offices across India,… Read more
Sustainability & climate change
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Sizzle, Salience and Social Proof | Ed Gillespie

Ed Gillespie is co-founder of Futerra Sustainability Communications, which has offices in London, Stockholm and New York. See www.futerra.co.uk Read more
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The Flowering of Ordinary Possibilities: Humanistic Education and Sustainability Today | Connie Lasher

Connie Lasher is a theologian and educator whose work explores the question of religious humanism and ecological identity. She is the founder and… Read more
Sustainability & climate change
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Environmental Education Toward a Well-Prepared World | Interview with Pam Puntenney

Pam Puntenney is an environmental educator, consultant and author, founder and executive director of the Environmental & Human Systems Management… Read more
Sustainability & climate change
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Bringing the Earth Charter to Life | Cardiela Amézcua Luna

Cardiela Amézcua Luna is a teacher, choreographer and dancer who works as an environmental educator using culture to build sustainable communities in… Read more
Sustainability & climate change
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A Growing Relationship | Interview with Arthur Potts Dawson

Growing up in both London and the Dorset countryside, Arthur Potts Dawson has always had a natural understanding of the intrinsic relationship… Read more
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Protecting Our Future | Interviews with Elie Chansa and Rolland Lusioli

At the end of 2011, some 180 youth from countries in central and southern Africa traveled together from Nairobi, Kenya, to the United Nations COP17… Read more
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Youth Power and the Climate Crisis | By Ellen Sandell

Ellen Sandell is national director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (aycc.org.au). She describes the work of the Coalition and how it has… Read more
Sustainability & climate change
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Learn, Reflect, Empower: SGI and Education for Sustainable Development | Nobuyuki Asai

Nobuyuki Asai is a program coordinator in the SGI Office of Peace Affairs in Tokyo with responsibility for sustainability issues. He participated in… Read more
Sustainability & climate change
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