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"Record-breaking solo yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur is in Davos to promote a new approach towards a sustainable economy. She wants products to be made that they are easy to disassemble in order to re-cycle the parts inside. She claims that the approach, called a circular economy, could mean savings of $630bn for Europe alone. "

Global Citizens is a year long project designed to promote an awareness of issues and concerns around the world through global citizenship. Each month there will be a challenge theme for classes to work on. Classes are invited to participate every month or on the months they are able to.

We are in the midst of World Water Week. The 2008 theme is "Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World with Special Focus on Sanitation." World Water Week is a international conference focused on collaboration and the promotion of work that advances environmental and humanitarian development. The United Nations proclaimed 2008 the International Year of Sanitation. With a focus on the Millennium Development Goals, the theme for World Water Week was chosen to draw attention to sanitation needs and the effect of poor sanitation worldwide. Goal seven - the goal of ensuring environmental sustainability- poses an enormous challenge, as do the sub goals, or target indicators. World Water Week highlights a target set by the MDG's that calls for the reduction, by half, of the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.

Here is Stephen Sterlings presentation at the regional workshop Care and Well being: personal, social and global approaches to ESDD/GC in ITE Held at LSBU on 2nd March 2011, promoted and supported by ESCalate. Lots of useful ideas, references and analysis here.

An initiative of the International Telecommunication Union and supported by the UN: connect all primary, secondary and post-secondary schools to ICT by 2015.

This seems to be more about the actual connectivity than the education, but still something to keep an eye on.

"Announced in 1994, GLOBE began operations on Earth Day 1995. Today, the international GLOBE network has grown to include representatives from 111 participating countries coordinating GLOBE activities that are integrated into their local and regional communities." "The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. GLOBE's vision promotes and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system working in close partnership with NASA, NOAA and NSF Earth System Science Projects (ESSP's) in study and research about the dynamics of Earth's environment."

One of the foremost sites for global collaboration in the Science field, for any group of students in K-12 using real scientific data.