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Report on the 4th World Environmental Education Congress, Durban 2007
Barrie Cooper attended the 4th World EE Congress in Durban last year and filed this report at the time. Barrie is a tutor on the EfS programme and is International Education Manager and the RSPB.
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This is only a snapshot perspective of the Congress. There was a very full programme of presentations and workshops. Many of these were running in parallel; on some occasions there were twelve sessions running at the same time. This was frustrating because there were times when I would have liked to have attended three or four parallel sessions. Continue…
Indicator is an initiative of the EfS programme at London South Bank University. The EfS programme has some 12 years experience in debating and delivering EfS across the global regions.
This online journal provides a forum for programme students, alumni and others to publish material that does not fit within the usual formal, 'stuffy' criteria that academic publications generally require. It is freely accessible and downloadable content will be archived to build a valuable resource over time.
Indicator is hosted on servers using 100% of their electricity from certified green renewable energy sources.
The word 'indicator' has a number of different meanings. Indeed, it has a particular use in the fields of environment and sustainability to refer to biophysical or statistical measures that can be used to gauge the health of a system or a progression to achieving a certain goal. However, the particular meaning that we would like to evoke with this e-journal is that of
a person or thing that signals an intended change of direction Whether you believe achieving the goals of sustainability are going to require a change to the core of our being, a paradigm shift, a change in our worldview or the way we look at our place in relation to the world we live in, or more directly, just a change in the way we do things without any fundamental shift in our thinking; or some of all of the above – this e-journal is a medium for signalling the change.
- Hampton Court Palace, April 2009
- Some food for sustainability thought …
- We are a threat to all life on earth
- A tale of ancient sunlight energy with a dark end yet to come
- Outer and inner worlds and human sustainability
- Economy, ecosystem and human sustainability
- Sustainability lessons from the ‘uncivilised’?
- ‘Happiness buildings’ with a green topping
- Tropical forests – Planet’s heart as well as lungs
- “I think I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree” and other favourites
- Let’s build a sustainable London!

