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"Sense of Place is a concept and a tool to engage with communities and individuals in different ways. "

Exciting ideas for using Google Earth. Probably lots here we know little about YET. Important to help develop a sense of place and know and get a feel for other places. The simple task "where were you born?", "your parents", "your grandparents" maps most of us as immigrants and foreigners.

Out-of-classroom learning makes a unique contribution to a child's education, and offers many varied benefits to them, not least developing a sense of place and wonder for the world around them.

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

"The Place network has been developed to create a platform to develop and promote place-based research and projects worldwide." articles, projects, blogs, bookmarks

powerpoint photopresentation Henry Liebling July 2009\nlive now, dare to be different, slow down, sense of place, ancient wisdom, indigenous cultures growing plants, food, diversitybeing kind, rubbish and consumerismchnage, the elements

Engaging Places is brought to you by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) in partnership with English Heritage.

"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."

""People have heart's ease when they're on their own country. If you force them off that country, if you take them away from their land, they feel the loss of heart's ease as a kind of vertigo, a disintegration of their whole life.""

"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."

"Sustainability Frontiers is an international alliance of sustainability and global educators seeking transformation of the human condition through repaired and restored earth connection." David Selby & co worth a look. Newly formed I think.

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...

"For twenty years, The Berkana Institute has worked in friendship and partnership with people around the world who are discovering that there is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about."

Stick with it amd find the sutainability in the punch lines at the end. Self organisation. I witnessed this in Zambia in the early 1970's, but never realised what was going on!

"The largest decrease in emissions from building stock will come from refurbishment." Summary from zerocarbonbritain2030

My dear friend Jean-Philippe's website dedicated to Galan the paradise in Bigorre. Started in 1998, he sadly died in 2004. A polymath seriously concerned with what it means to be a human being. Use Google translate.

Executive summary 4pp