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With sad­ness we in­form you that Ja­nu­ary 18, 2024 a great Ca­re­ta­ker, For­mer Pre­si­dent of CEI, Dan Hoy­nac­ki, pas­sed away. This mes­sa­ge plun­ged us all into deep sad­ness. We share the pain after Dan pas­sed away with His fa­mi­ly. We have lost an expert, a per­son with enor­mo­us know­led­ge and expe­rien­ce in envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion, a man extre­me­ly frien­dly to pe­ople. Dan will re­ma­in in our cor­dial me­mo­ry.

On Octo­ber 13, 2023, eli­gi­ble mem­bers and ad­vi­sors of the cur­rent CEI ma­na­ge­ment team elec­ted a new In­ter­na­tio­nal Board of Di­rec­tors con­si­sting of: Pre­si­dent: Anne Marie Begg, Sco­tlan­dVi­ce Pre­si­dent: Stien J. Ma­ta­ku­pan, In­do­ne­sia­Se­cre­ta­ry: Nur­ten Selda Mer­sin­lioğlu, Türkiy­eTre­asu­rer: Ju­lien Beu­ken, The Na­ther­lands Mrs. Anne Marie Begg is the most expe­rien­ced ca­re­ta­ker, wi­de­ly known and liked by ca­re­ta­kers aro­und the world. Ms Pre­si­dent has or­ga­ni­zed CEI an­nu­al con­fe­ren­ces in Sco­tland three times, in Aber­de­en, 1994 and 2009, and in Ar­dlui, Loch Lo­mond, 2013.

The re­cru­it­ment of can­di­da­tes for CE­I2023 alum­ni has begun. The terms and ap­pli­ca­tion form can be found here .

We pro­vi­de in­for­ma­tion about the pro­ject speed da­ting event and te­acher in­for­ma­tion ses­sion. The ses­sion aims to en­han­ce col­la­bo­ra­tion and part­ner­ships be­twe­en scho­ols to work to­ge­ther on their CEI 2022 pro­jects. This is also a chan­ce for te­achers to ask any qu­estions to the or­ga­ni­sing com­mit­tee. The event takes place at 08.00 Costa Rica/ (GMT -6) on Fe­bru­ary 19th on Zoom. De­ta­ils in New­slet­te­r2.

The final ver­sion of Glo­bal Forum for Envi­ron­men­tal Edu­ca­tion vo­lu­me 32 is now pu­bli­shed and ready to be do­wn­lo­aded from the CEI we­bsi­te. To do­wn­lo­ad go to Glo­bal Forum tab.

Even if you are not re­gi­ste­red, if you are over 18, you are we­lco­me to ob­se­rve ses­sions of the con­fe­ren­ce. You can fol­low via the alum­ni so­cial media (alum­ni­cei.org) and via our YouTu­be chan­nel: https://​youtube.​com/​channel/​UCWfFn_​YXh​1LYP​W2me​aMrH​4QSo​me ses­sions will be li­ve­stre­amed and all the talks are sche­du­led to go live about half an hour after they hap­pen "live" at the con­fe­ren­ce.

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We're ra­pi­dly ap­pro­aching the con­fe­ren­ce and there's quite some jobs to be done! So make sure to keep chec­king our sub­mis­sion gu­ide­li­nes page: https://​www.​alumnicei.​org/​submission-​guidelines   1. UPDA­TED DE­LE­GA­TION NAMES AND DI­STRI­BU­TIONS A re­min­der that if you did not fill in names when re­gi­ste­ring, or if names or de­ta­ils of de­le­ga­tes have chan­ged to ple­ase send us an email. If your scho­ol also has mul­ti­ple pro­ject gro­ups, ple­ase also send an ove­rview of this to us if you have not al­re­ady done so.    2.  THE TIME AVA­ILA­BI­LI­TY FORM IS CLO­SING Re­mem­ber that you must fill in a time ava­ila­bi­li­ty form for your de­le­ga­tion. Ob­se­rvers/in­di­vi­du­als must also fill this form in! You can fill out the form here: https://​forms.​gle/​BDJ​QzQv​oKxt​sgpm​x9  If you have mul­ti­ple pro­ject gro­ups, ple­ase fill in this form for each pro­ject group! Ob­se­rvers and in­di­vi­du­als sho­uld in­di­ca­te which ses­sions they want to ob­se­rve or take part in!  We made a video to help you fill in the form which you can find in the form it­self!    The form will close to­mor­row, and if you have not fil­led out the form, we will as­sign your ti­me­slots and if you don't at­tend those ti­me­slots you will not re­ce­ive a con­fe­ren­ce cer­ti­fi­ca­te - this ap­plies for pro­ject pre­sen­ta­tions, so make sure you fill it out!! No swit­ching will be po­ssi­ble due to the high num­bers of par­ti­ci­pants! 3. CEI 2021 ART CON­TEST & PO­STER CON­TEST For CEI 2021 there will be an art con­test where we in­vi­te stu­dents to share their vi­sion for a su­sta­ina­ble com­mu­ni­ty in the fu­tu­re. All in­for­ma­tion can be found here: https://​www.​alumnicei.​org/​cei-​2021-​art-​competition  There will also be a prize for the best pro­ject po­ster at CEI 2021:  https://​www.​alumnicei.​org/​project-​posters. Only po­sters that are being pre­sen­ted in the Vir­tu­al Po­ster Exhi­bi­tion are eli­gi­ble to win the po­ster com­pe­ti­tion. Ho­we­ver all po­sters will be di­splay­ed on the we­bsi­te prior to the con­fe­ren­ce4. SUB­MIT­TING PO­STERS AND GLO­BAL FORUM SUM­MA­RIES A re­min­der that pro­ject po­sters and glo­bal forum sum­ma­ries are due on June 14th. All in­for­ma­tion, in­c­lu­ding tem­pla­tes and sub­mis­sion forms can be found here: https://​www.​alumnicei.​org/​submission-​guidelines, If you have any qu­estions about any of the above, ple­ase con­tact us at alum­ni­ce­i0000@​gmail.​com. If you did not re­ce­ive pre­vio­us new­slet­ters but would like to, ple­ase also send us an email. All in­for­ma­tion con­cer­ning the pro­gram­me, ti­ming, re­qu­ired sub­mis­sions and more can be found on our we­bsi­te: https://​www.​alumnicei.​org/​cei-​2021 5. YOUNG RE­POR­TERS UPDA­TE Our Young Re­por­ters have been hard at work wri­ting ar­tic­les for the Alum­ni blog. These ar­tic­les are re­le­vant to te­achers and stu­dents, so make sure to sub­scri­be to our we­bsi­te to get email no­ti­fi­ca­tions about them and check the ar­tic­les out over the co­ming weeks https://​www.​alumnicei.​org/​blog    

The hosts of CEI 2021 con­fe­ren­ce, An­drew Cox and Laura Kelly, are we­lco­ming to par­ti­ci­pa­tion high scho­ol stu­dents and te­achers, who are a pas­sio­na­te of the envi­ron­ment. Re­gi­stra­tion for par­ti­ci­pants is open now.​Please watch the pro­mo­tio­nal video for more de­ta­ils.

The 35th Ca­re­ta­kers of the Envi­ron­ment In­ter­na­tio­nal Con­fe­ren­ce will be a fully vir­tu­al con­fe­ren­ce ho­sted by Ire­land from July 5th - July 9th 2021. The theme for the con­fe­ren­ce is: Su­sta­ina­ble com­mu­ni­ties: wor­king to­ge­ther lo­cal­ly and glo­bal­ly for a su­sta­ina­ble fu­tu­re. The or­ga­ni­sing com­mit­tee is exci­ted to we­lco­me you vir­tu­al­ly to Ire­land! The in­te­rac­ti­ve vir­tu­al con­fe­ren­ce pro­gram­me in­c­lu­des pro­jects, work­shops, cul­tu­ral per­for­man­ces and more! This con­fe­ren­ce is jo­in­tly run by CEI Ire­land and the CEI alum­ni. The con­fe­ren­ce hosts are An­drew Cox (for­mer CEI Pre­si­dent/Cha­ir­man of CEI Ire­land) and Laura Kelly (Se­nior Alum­ni Se­cre­ta­ry/CEI Ire­land Se­cre­ta­ry). Promo video CEI 2021 More in­for­ma­tion on tab An­nu­al con­fe­ren­ce and here.

Ca­re­ta­kers re­mem­ber Fátima - a few me­mo­ries

The CEI Pre Con­fe­ren­ce on­li­ne will take place on Au­gust 8. We­lco­me spe­ech by Ms. Jo Ku­ma­la Devi, Di­rec­tor of Envi­ron­men­tal Part­ner­ship Mi­ni­stry of the Envi­ron­ment and Fo­re­stry, In­do­ne­sia. Two ses­sions are plan­ned: Seven Green Prin­ci­pal by Ms. Tri Puji Hin­dar­sih and Green Scho­ol by Karen War­lin in the first ses­sion, and Su­sta­ina­ble Co­sme­tics by Nadia Young and Tech­no­lo­gy for Em­po­we­ring Pe­ople by Dandy in the se­cond ses­sion. Due to CO­VID-19 pan­de­mic  the host CEI Con­fe­ren­ce 2020 and CEI Board de­ci­ded or­ga­ni­ze VIR­TU­AL CON­FE­REN­CE on Sep­tem­ber 27th to Octo­ber 3rd, 2020.​Registra­tion and more on ce­i2020.org.

We re­gret to in­form you that last night a great Ca­re­ta­ker, Vi­ce-Pre­si­dent of CEI, Fátima Matos Al­me­ida, pas­sed away. This mes­sa­ge plun­ged us all into deep sad­ness. We share the pain after Fátima pas­sed away with Her fa­mi­ly. Fátima will re­ma­in in our me­mo­ry, as a ra­dia­ting me­mo­ir.Fátima was the spi­rit of Ca­re­ta­kers. Her in­tel­li­gen­ce, frien­dli­ness and be­au­ty af­fec­ted all of us de­eply for so many years. Her com­mit­ment to youth and the envi­ron­ment was unmat­ched and in­spi­ring; tho­usands of young pe­ople from all over the world were to­uched by her pre­sen­ce. As a co-fo­un­der of ASPEA, the Por­tu­gu­ese Envi­ron­men­tal Edu­ca­tion NGO, she be­ca­me a key fi­gu­re in the Por­tu­gu­ese EE mo­ve­ment.  Prof. Arjen Wals­For­mer Pre­si­dent of CEI  

Fátima Matos Al­me­ida, co-fo­un­der and for­mer Pre­si­dent of ASPEA, was awar­ded the Ca­re­er Award from the Por­tu­gu­ese Con­fe­de­ra­tion of Envi­ron­men­tal De­fen­se As­so­cia­tions (CPADA) and de­li­ve­red by the Mi­ni­ster for the Envi­ron­ment, Dr. João Pedro Matos Fer­nan­des.The Ce­re­mo­ny took place at the he­adqu­ar­ters of the Na­tio­nal Li­ste­ning Body, in Lis­bon, du­ring the Na­tio­nal Me­eting of NGOs (ENADA 2019), on 29 No­vem­ber. ASPEA was re­pre­sen­ted by the Vi­ce-Pre­si­dent, David Ramos Silva, and the pro­ject ma­na­ger, Laura Gon­za­lez.Fátima was as Pre­si­dent of ASPEA for more than 20 years, ha­ving been one of the main dri­vers in the ma­te­ria­li­za­tion of the Pe­da­go­gi­cal Jo­ur­neys of Envi­ron­men­tal Edu­ca­tion, which are 25 years old, and the Jo­ur­neys of Art'Am­bien­te, with 10 years old. She was also a mem­ber of the CPADA board and co­or­di­na­tor of se­ve­ral na­tio­nal and in­ter­na­tio­nal pro­jects in envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion at ASPEA.​Congra­tu­la­tions! re­prin­ted from aspea.​org

As part of the ce­le­bra­tion of the World Envi­ron­ment Day, CEI India is or­ga­ni­zing on Fri­day, June 5, 2020, a we­bi­nar on: How will we treat our Mo­ther Na­tu­re post CO­VID-19 Lock down?More in­for­ma­tion on the CEI India we­bsi­te.Re­port from the event We­bi­nar po­ster.

   The 50th Earth Day will take place on April 22 and I hope that many Ca­re­ta­kers stu­dents and te­achers will ce­le­bra­te by plan­ting a seed. CEI has had a “Seeds of Bio­di­ver­si­ty” pro­ject for many years. This could be a de­li­ght­ful pro­ject that can be done while con­fi­ned at home.             There are 2 kinds of seeds you can plant:    1. A seed from a green plant – from a fruit, ve­ge­ta­ble, tree or shrub.​Put it in a small pot with soil, water it, and re­cord when its roots and le­aves ap­pe­ar, and how tall it grows. You will be ama­zed at how fast na­tu­re can chan­ge.     2. A seed of know­led­ge – about cli­ma­te chan­ge, loss of coral reefs, pol­lu­tion, re­cyc­ling, loss of spe­cies or other is­su­es. Express your idea in a poem, pa­in­ting, skit, dance, or other art.A seed is a sym­bol of re­ge­ne­ra­tion, so­me­thing to ce­le­bra­te on Earth Day.​After that, I hope Ca­re­ta­kers will share what hap­pe­ned to our seeds du­ring be­au­ti­ful days when we take a walk, or when we talk on vir­tu­al me­etings on Zoom or at the CEI con­fe­ren­ce in July. Isa­bel Abram­sCEI Co-fo­un­der and Di­rec­tor/Com­mu­ni­ca­tions  

Due to the he­alth risk, tra­vel and ga­the­rings of pe­ople re­stric­tions in most co­un­tries of the world, cau­sed by the Co­ro­na­vi­rus CO­VID-19 pan­de­mic, the or­ga­ni­zers of the CEI 2020 con­fe­ren­ce in In­do­ne­sia and the CEI Board have de­ci­ded to can­cel the con­fe­ren­ce in 2020.​Indonesia has re­scin­ded its in­vi­ta­tion for any Ca­re­ta­kers de­le­ga­tions to ar­ri­ve in Ja­kar­ta this July.​Further pro­vi­sions re­gar­ding 34th CEI con­fe­ren­ce will be pu­bli­shed as soon as the glo­bal epi­de­mic si­tu­ation al­lows for re­spon­si­ble plan­ning. Con­fe­ren­ce Host and CEI Board

The we­bsi­te of con­fe­ren­ce CEI 2020 is pu­bli­shed now.  https://​cei2020.​org

Ta­king into ac­co­unt the cur­rent state of in­for­ma­tion about the CEI 2020 con­fe­ren­ce and re­spon­ding to mem­bers' sug­ge­stions, the CEI Board de­ci­ded to post­po­ne the de­adli­ne for sub­mit­ting ap­pli­ca­tion to be an alum­ni.Ac­cor­ding to the Board's de­ci­sion, a new de­adli­ne for sub­mit­ting ap­pli­ca­tions to be an alum­ni is in force: No­vem­ber 30, 2019.​Details and on­li­ne form in About CEI/Alum­ni tab.

The re­cru­it­ment of alum­ni to CEI con­fe­ren­ce in In­do­ne­sia is open now. A link to ap­pli­ca­tion form is po­sted in Alum­ni sub­pa­ge.

The re­port pu­bli­shed July 2019 “Cli­ma­te cri­sis: The unsu­sta­ina­ble use of on­li­ne video – A prac­ti­cal case study for di­gi­tal so­brie­ty” was led by Ma­xi­me Efo­ui-Hess, an en­gi­ne­er spe­cia­li­zed in cli­ma­te and com­pu­ter mo­de­ling, who gra­du­ated from ISAE-SU­PAÉRO, Uni­ver­sité Paul Sa­ba­tier and the French Me­te­oro­lo­gy Uni­ver­si­ty. The envi­ron­men­tal im­pact of di­gi­tal tech­no­lo­gy is now re­co­gni­zed as unsu­sta­ina­ble, but con­ti­nu­es to grow. The ener­gy con­sump­tion of di­gi­tal tech­no­lo­gies is in­cre­asing by 9% a year, and al­re­ady re­pre­sents 4% of glo­bal gre­en­ho­use gas emis­sions. The use of di­gi­tal tech­no­lo­gy ac­co­unts for 55% of its ener­gy con­sump­tion, com­pa­red to 45% for the pro­duc­tion of equ­ip­ment. This was de­mon­stra­ted by our re­port “Lean ICT – To­wards di­gi­tal so­brie­ty” pu­bli­shed in 2018. Get­ting this im­pact under con­trol im­plies re­qu­ires a trans­i­tion from di­gi­tal in­tem­pe­ran­ce to di­gi­tal so­brie­ty. This means prio­ri­ti­zing the al­lo­ca­tion of re­so­ur­ces as a func­tion of uses, in order to con­form to the pla­net’s phy­si­cal bo­un­da­ries, while pre­se­rving­the most va­lu­able so­cie­tal con­tri­bu­tions of di­gi­tal tech­no­lo­gies. 4 main types of con­tents ge­ne­ra­te 60% of glo­bal data tra­fic. We live in a world where only one form of di­gi­tal use, on­li­ne video, ge­ne­ra­tes 60% of of world data flows and thus over 300 mil­lion tons of CO2 per year. This use is far from being “de­ma­te­ria­li­zed”. On the con­tra­ry, it re­pre­sents 20% of the gre­en­ho­use gas emis­sions of all di­gi­tal de­vi­ces (use and pro­duc­tion in­c­lu­ded), and 1% of glo­bal emis­sions, i.e. as much as Spain. The rest of the uses of di­gi­tal tech­no­lo­gies com­pri­se 20% of other types of video, and 20% of non-vi­deo uses – the lat­ter co­ve­ring all the non-vi­deo po­ssi­bi­li­ties ope­ned by di­gi­tal tech­no­lo­gies. On­li­ne video, which is the sub­ject of this re­port, is the­re­fo­re a par­ti­cu­lar­ly si­gni­fi­cant prac­ti­cal case for the im­ple­men­ta­tion of di­gi­tal so­brie­ty. In this 60% of glo­bal data flows ge­ne­ra­ted by on­li­ne video, there are 4 main types of con­tent, none of which is ne­gli­gi­ble. So­ur­ce: https://​the​shif​tpro​ject.​org/​en/​article/​uns​usta​inab​le-​use-​online-​video/ Full re­port: The Shift Pro­ject 2019

Over 180 de­le­ga­tes from 14 co­un­tries meet in Istan­bul at the an­nu­al CEI con­fe­ren­ce en­ti­tled: Su­sta­ina­ble Li­ving in a Big City. They will pre­sent their pro­jects by 6 July, take part in de­ba­tes and work­shops re­la­ted to envi­ron­men­tal is­su­es in the big city.

Thro­ugh De­cem­ber 2 to 14, 2018, the COP 24 was held at the In­ter­na­tio­nal Con­fe­ren­ce Cen­ter in Ka­to­wi­ce. Over 20,000 de­le­ga­tes from 196 co­un­tries took part in it.​Negotia­tors in Po­land have fi­nal­ly se­cu­red agre­ement on a range of me­asu­res that will make the Paris cli­ma­te pact ope­ra­tio­nal in 2020.​Last-mi­nu­te rows over car­bon mar­kets thre­ate­ned to de­ra­il the two-we­ek sum­mit - and de­lay­ed it by a day.​Delegates be­lie­ve the new rules will en­su­re that co­un­tries keep their pro­mi­ses to cut car­bon. De­le­ga­tes to the UN cli­ma­te con­fe­ren­ce in Ka­to­wi­ce, Po­land have re­ached agre­ement on how to im­ple­ment the 2015 Paris Cli­ma­te Ac­cord, which comes into force in 2020. Ac­cep­tan­ce of the so-cal­led Ka­to­wi­ce ru­le­bo­ok means that we have the first in­ter­na­tio­nal agre­ement that ob­li­ges all par­ties to per­form spe­ci­fic ac­tions. The do­cu­ment co­unts se­ve­ral hun­dred pages and there is no doubt that it is hi­sto­ri­cal. Tur­key and Bra­zil did not want to agree to sign it for the lon­gest time. Bra­zil had been pu­shing for a we­aker set of rules on car­bon mar­kets, de­spi­te strong op­po­si­tion from many other co­un­tries. De­ve­lo­ping co­un­tries be­lie­ved that co­un­tries that have al­re­ady de­ve­lo­ped sho­uld pay for trans­for­ming eco­no­mies. India at the last ple­na­ry ses­sion said they did not agree to all the re­cords but did not want to block the deal. In the end, a com­mon po­si­tion was wor­ked out.​The Ka­to­wi­ce agre­ement aims to de­li­ver the Paris goals of li­mi­ting glo­bal tem­pe­ra­tu­re rises to well below 2C. UN do­cu­ments  

We are exci­ted to an­no­un­ce the 33rd an­nu­al CEI Con­fe­ren­ce will be ho­sted by the TED Istan­bul Col­le­ge Fo­un­da­tion Pri­va­te High Scho­ol and the Tur­key Branch of CEI in Istan­bul, Tur­key, June 30 thro­ugh July 6, 2019. As soon as con­fe­ren­ce hosts have a we­bsi­te, we will post that link, as well as other per­ti­nent in­for­ma­tion. At the same time, we would like to in­form you that an on­li­ne ap­pli­ca­tion form has been ope­ned for qu­ali­fied for "Alum­ni" of this and optio­nal­ly sub­se­qu­ent CEI con­fe­ren­ces. The form is ava­ila­ble here.

The Glo­bal Envi­ron­men­tal Edu­ca­tion Part­ner­ship has cre­ated a pled­ge for re­invi­go­ra­ting Envi­ron­men­tal Edu­ca­tion world-wi­de in light of urgent su­sta­ina­bi­li­ty chal­len­ges. In the pled­ge the glo­bal envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion com­mu­ni­ty is asked to work to­ward three vi­sio­na­ry goals. Hun­dreds of edu­ca­tors aro­und the world have vet­ted these ac­tions and hel­ped outli­ne key areas of focus for the field.​Details here.

On Sep­tem­ber 8, hun­dreds of tho­usands of pe­ople worl­dwi­de di­splay­ed the gro­wing strength and di­ver­si­ty of the cli­ma­te mo­ve­ment. From Syd­ney to San Fran­ci­sco, on 7 con­ti­nents, in 95 co­un­tries, with about 900 ac­tions, pe­ople de­man­ded real cli­ma­te ac­tion from their local le­aders.

Are you lo­oking for a ne­twork of edu­ca­tors to exchan­ge expe­rien­ce and ideas, the Cli­ma­te Edu­ca­tor Ne­twork CEN, is an one of po­ssi­bi­li­ties. CEN sup­ports and fa­ci­li­ta­tes ca­pa­ci­ty bu­il­ding and exchan­ge be­twe­en edu­ca­tors like te­achers, group le­aders or tra­iners aro­und the world in the fields of su­sta­ina­ble de­ve­lop­ment and cli­ma­te pro­tec­tion.This is one of the ac­ti­vi­ties of MYC­LI­MA­TE, the Swiss Non-Pro­fit Or­ga­ni­sa­tion, which wants to shape the fu­tu­re to­ge­ther with its part­ners thro­ugh con­sul­ta­tion, edu­ca­tion and cli­ma­te pro­tec­tion pro­jects. myc­li­ma­te pur­su­es this as a scien­ce-ba­sed and bu­si­ness-orien­ta­ted non-pro­fit or­ga­ni­sa­tion.For more in­for­ma­tion myc­li­ma­te.org.

We re­gret to in­form you that Edward Ra­datz, fo­un­der of CEI and the first among ca­re­ta­kers, pas­sed away. Will re­ma­in in our me­mo­ry. In Me­mo­riam Edward Ra­datz

Twen­ty-fi­ve years ago, the Union of Con­cer­ned Scien­ti­sts and more than 1700 in­de­pen­dent scien­ti­sts, in­c­lu­ding the ma­jo­ri­ty of li­ving Nobel lau­re­ates in the scien­ces, pen­ned the 1992 “World Scien­ti­sts’ War­ning to Hu­ma­ni­ty” (see sup­ple­men­tal file S1). These con­cer­ned pro­fes­sio­nals cal­led on hu­man­kind to cur­ta­il envi­ron­men-tal de­struc­tion and cau­tio­ned that “a great chan­ge in our ste­ward­ship of the Earth and the life on it is re­qu­ired, if vast human mi­se­ry is to be avo­ided.” In their ma­ni­fe­sto, they sho­wed that hu­mans were on a col­li­sion co­ur­se with the na­tu­ral world. They expres­sed con­cern about cur­rent, im­pen­ding, or po­ten­tial da­ma­ge on pla­net Earth in­vo­lving ozone de­ple­tion, fre­sh­wa-ter ava­ila­bi­li­ty, ma­ri­ne life de­ple­tion, ocean dead zones, fo­rest loss, bio­di­ver-si­ty de­struc­tion, cli­ma­te chan­ge, and con­ti­nu­ed human po­pu­la­tion growth. They proc­la­imed that fun­da­men­tal chan­ges were urgen­tly ne­eded to avoid the con­se­qu­en­ces our pre­sent co­ur­se would bring.  The full text of the ar­tic­le by Wil­liam Rip­ple and others.

The or­ga­ni­za­tion Glo­bal Envi­ron­men­tal Edu­ca­tion Part­ner­ship fo­cu­ses on using the po­ten­tial of envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion in so­lving pres­sing glo­bal pro­blems, both envi­ron­men­tal and so­cial.One of GEEP's scien­ti­fic ad­vi­sers, Pro­fes­sor Arjen Wals from Wa­ge­nin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty in the Ne­ther­lands, pu­bli­shes a qu­estion­na­ire on his blog, which is to be used to de­ter­mi­ne the di­rec­tion of GEEP's stra­te­gic ac­ti­vi­ties for the next 10 years. In this re­se­arch sho­uld not lack the opi­nions of envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tors and not only. We en­co­ura­ge you to par­ti­ci­pa­te in sha­ping the glo­bal GEEP ac­tion plan for envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion by fil­ling out the qu­estion­na­ire ava­ila­ble here.  

From yester­day, re­gi­stra­tion of par­ti­ci­pants of CEI 2018 con­fe­ren­ce is open.​More in­for­ma­tion you can find on this site or on the of­fi­cial CEI 2018 we­bsi­te.

To all ca­re­ta­kers, sym­pa­thi­zers and vi­si­tors of the site, we wish you a happy, suc­cess­ful New Year!

The CEI-Ho­sts 2018 have fi­ni­shed the ho­me­pa­ge for the 2018 CEI Con­fe­ren­ce in Au­stria!The page has the fol­lo­wing ad­dress:  https://​cei2018at.​wixsite.​com/​cei​2018​Face​book Link: https://​www.​facebook.​com/​groups/​192​3510​6012​2317​8/​Twitter ad­dress: https://​twitter.​com/​CEI_​AUS​TRIA​2018​Inst​agra​mm: https://​www.​instagram.​com/​cei2018at/​YouTube: https://​www.​youtube.​com/​channel/​UCy​2BLr​Z5S1​UohE​qOlK​vlZ2​w Data pro­vi­ded by Bernd Fiechtl  

CEI Po­land is or­ga­ni­zing Te­achers Tra­ining Co­ur­se for te­achers from Po­land and abro­ad, from 6th to 10th of No­vem­ber this year. This is one of the tasks under the ERA­SMUS+ pro­ject „Edu­CO­2ce­an - STS Edu­ca­tion mo­dels to trans­mit to so­cie­ty the chal­len­ge of glo­bal chan­ge in the ocean”, co­or­di­na­ted by the ASPEA (CEI Por­tu­gal), in col­la­bo­ra­tion with the Uni­ver­si­ty of Vigo Spain, Cien­cia Viva Por­tu­gal, Ma­ri­ne Al­lian­ce for Scien­ce and Tech­no­lo­gy for Sco­tland, CEI Po­land and scho­ols in Por­tu­gal, Spain and Po­land. The aim of the fi­ve-day co­ur­se is to pre­sent me­thods for cre­ating stu­dent ac­ti­vi­ty and pro­mo­ting good prac­ti­ces in envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion. Clas­ses will be con­duc­ted in En­glish and Po­lish lan­gu­age, 8 hours a day, by aca­de­mic staff of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Si­le­sia. The part­ner is the Scien­ti­fic In­for­ma­tion Cen­ter and the Aca­de­mic Li­bra­ry in Ka­to­wi­ce, and the event is co­ve­red by the Ho­no­ra­ry Pa­tro­na­ge of the Pre­si­dent of the City of Ka­to­wi­ce and the Dean of the Fa­cul­ty of Bio­lo­gy and Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion, Uni­ver­si­ty of Si­le­sia. This de­mon­stra­tes the great im­por­tan­ce of eco­lo­gi­cal edu­ca­tion for local au­tho­ri­ty. But envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion is also very im­por­tant in the world, for in­ter­na­tio­nal or­ga­ni­za­tions and uni­ver­si­ties. Very in­spi­ring and com­pel­ling to think in this re­gard are words from in­te­rview with Arjen Wals* Trans­gres­si­ve le­ar­ning in times of glo­bal sys­te­mic dys­func­tion, qu­oted below:Well we need no­thing less than a ra­di­cal re-orien­ta­tion of edu­ca­tion. The one sin­gle spe­cies that has been able to alter the Earth’s eco­sys­tems, cli­ma­tes, ocean le­vels, bio­di­ver­si­ty in de­tri­men­tal ways, must now find a way to do bet­ter. In­de­ed po­si­ti­vi­stic, re­duc­tio­nist, em­pi­ri­cal ana­ly­ti­cal scien­ce and a neo-li­be­ral eco­no­mic sys­tem that de­mands con­ti­nu­ous growth and in­no­va­tion has broad us loads of po­ssi­bi­li­ties and has made live for many very com­for­ta­ble – al­tho­ugh cer­ta­in­ly not for all, but we now are be­gin­ning to un­der­stand that the ‘si­de-ef­fects’ of this way of thin­king are ac­ce­le­ra­ting and li­mi­ting the fu­tu­res for hu­ma­ni­ty and the other spe­cies we are drag­ging into our mess. Note: for pe­ople from abro­ad, in­te­re­sted in par­ti­ci­pa­tion, there are still se­ve­ral pla­ces for free. Ac­com­mo­da­tion in Ka­to­wi­ce on your own cost. Info by con­tact box. De­ta­iled pro­gram of TTC. an­To­ni Sa­la­mon *) Arjen Wals is Pro­fes­sor of Trans­for­ma­ti­ve Le­ar­ning for So­cio-Eco­lo­gi­cal Su­sta­ina­bi­li­ty at Wa­ge­nin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty, also Fo­un­ding Board Mem­ber and Past Pre­si­dent of CEI.        

This year we have con­fe­ren­ce num­ber 31 in a long row of suc­cess­ful con­fe­ren­ces where stu­dents and te­achers from many dif­fe­rent co­un­tries and cul­tu­res have met to learn, to study, to ne­twork and to enjoy both for­mal and in­for­mal edu­ca­tion all with the pur­po­se to en­co­ura­ge envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion and to en­co­ura­ge the youn­ger ge­ne­ra­tions to be aware of and to act on envi­ron­men­tal chal­len­ges. These are the words of Ms. Eli­sa­beth Brune, the Pre­si­dent of CEI, at the ope­ning of the 31st CEI Con­fe­ren­ce. Whole spe­ech on con­fe­ren­ce ope­ning you can find  on this site, in Glo­bal Forum vol. 28 nr 1...  

This is my po­li­te re­qu­est ad­dres­sed to the hosts of past con­fe­ren­ces (1987 - 2004) and par­ti­ci­pants: If you have ma­te­rial from these con­fe­ren­ces - re­ports, pro­grams, pho­tos, re­views, etc., share them with us and send to the ad­dress help(at)ca­re­ta­ker­s4all(dot)org. Your co­ope­ra­tion will en­rich the know­led­ge of CEI in the world. Thank you in ad­van­ce. web host

Dear Ca­re­ta­kers, Happy New Year. We hope that par­ti­ci­pa­ting in CE­I2017 con­fe­ren­ce is one of your New Year's re­so­lu­tions.    The theme of the Con­fe­ren­ce is Su­sta­ina­ble De­sign. Check the we­bsi­te http://​www.​cei2017.​org/ for in­for­ma­tion, par­ti­cu­lar­ly about Pro­ject Re­qu­ire­ments to help you with the pro­ject you are expec­ted to de­ve­lop in your scho­ol and com­mu­ni­ty and of co­ur­se, also check some fun­ding ideas to help you find the ne­ces­sa­ry fun­ding to at­tend the CE­I2017 con­fe­ren­ce in Salem, USA. The ap­pli­ca­tion for at­ten­dan­ce of the con­fe­ren­ce as an alum­ni is open until Ja­nu­ary 15th, sho­uld you fit the re­qu­ired con­di­tions. Take care  Fa­ti­ma Matos Al­me­ida ASPEA - As­so­cia­cao Por­tu­gu­esa de Edu­ca­cao Am­bien­tal­Ca­re­ta­kers of the Envi­ron­ment In­ter­na­tio­nal/Por­tu­gal Af­fi­lia­te of the Earth Char­ter www.​aspea.​org

Hello fel­low Ca­re­ta­kers and our gu­ests, We are exci­ted to we­lco­me you to our newly upda­ted we­bsi­te! Ple­ase take a few mo­ments to brow­se and be­co­me fa­mi­liar with its fe­atu­res. We shall con­ti­nue to di­gi­ti­ze over 30 years of Ca­re­ta­kers ac­com­pli­sh­ments, sto­ries and me­mo­ries in the co­ming mon­ths, and look for­ward to our next an­nu­al con­fe­ren­ce. Whe­ther you have al­re­ady been en­ga­ged in our in­cre­di­ble jo­ur­ney and ne­twork, or are con­si­de­ring your first Ca­re­ta­kers con­fe­ren­ce, ple­ase feel free to con­tact any of us, or sim­ply share your fe­ed­back. Best re­gards and take care, CEI Board of Di­rec­tors