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newish site with The Field sister site for online community. Some interesting reading lists, bibliographies, links, and a few resources. Early days yet. Tree huggers...

"Creating communities that are compatible with nature's processes for sustaining life requires basic ecological knowledge. "

Osier gets started

Earthkeepers One Tribe Trading Company is an organization with a focus on environmental integrity, deep ecology, community relations, tribal values, and global peace.

Celebrating innovation and leadership. The Climate Week Awards celebrate the UK's most innovative, effective, and ambitious organisations, communities and individuals and their outstanding efforts to combat climate change.

Putting a price on a tree changes people's attitudes and if developers think in financial terms, then a community asset must be valued in the same currency, he says.

"In Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. While allowing for some degree of student "voice and choice," rigorous projects are carefully planned, managed, and assessed to help students learn key academic content, practice 21st Century Skills (such as collaboration, communication & critical thinking), and create high-quality, authentic products & presentations."

"Almost since life began on earth, mycelia have performed important ecological roles: nourishing ecosystems, repairing them, and sometimes even helping create them. The fungi's exquisitely fine filaments absorb nutrients from the soil and then trade them with the roots of plants for some of the energy that the plants produce through photosynthesis. No plant community could exist without mycelia."

"By providing film and advocacy training to partners in the global south EJF protects the natural environment and the people and wildlife that depend upon it by empowering local communities to investigate, expose and peacefully resolve abuses. EJF campaigns internationally on the issues our grassroots partners work locally to solve including cotton production, pirate fishing, shrimp farming, pesticides, wildlife and climate refugees. "

"Mission:Explore has been created by The Geography Collective in partnership with The Workshop. The Geography Collective is a group of Geography explorers, activists, teachers, artists and Guerrillas. We've come together to encourage (young) people to see the world our ways. The Workshop is a creative consultancy of over 50 people based in Sheffield. We develop learning, design, marketing and communication products in all media. This website and the app has been made possible with the kind support of GeoVation."

Action Research and Community Development resource.

"Join the largest online community of youth interested in global issues and creating positive chnage." looks interesting, any of you using this?

In El Alto, Saturnina and Felipa learned to knit and weave. Job after job, both received low pay, late pay or no pay at all. At one point, Saturnina's boss was paying her $4 per clothing article which he would then sell in Germany for $70. Saturnina and Felipa grew tired of seeing themselves and other rural migrants exploited. So in 2000 they founded a women's collective called the Integral Association of Kullakas (IAK). 'Kullakas' means 'sisters' in the Aymara language. They used this word to symbolize their interdependence with the Aymara and with the world. Says Saturnina: 'We decided that we needed to help each other.' Nine years later, the collective - of which Saturnina is President - continues to teach handicraft and farming skills. Saturnina's living room is where women come to be trained. The room displays colourful scarves, hats and dolls made by hand, often entirely out of the fleece of the alpaca - similar to the llama - which is warmer and softer than sheep's wool. Fifty per cent of the price of each product goes to the woman who made it, while the rest goes to communal living costs or to buy new materials. The Kullakas are constantly on the lookout for markets so that they can pay women as quickly as possible.

Huge collection of songs from around the world. Many mp3s and videos. Extensive collection of English nursery rhymes

worth considering in Transition movement. civic pride sense of belonging, friendship, values. Siena's attitudes to charity and compoassion very long lived.

overview of Jared Diamonds important book.

"The two loops model has been a fundamental piece of The Berkana Institute's theory of change. As one system culminates and starts to collapse, isolated alternatives slowly begin to arise and give way to the new."

"For many years, I've been interested in seeing the world differently. I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed."

" Post links that include ideas, examples, and projects related to connecting educators and classrooms with a strong emphasis on promoting global awareness, fostering global competency, and inspiring action towards solving real-world problems."