ESD Meeting "Energy, Renewable Resources & Local Society"
Wednesday, November 04 2009 @ 03:45 AM PST

26 October 2009, Athens

MEdIES Greek Pedagogical Group organised a meeting for the 2009-10 thematic year of the UNDESD dedicated to “Energy – Renewable Resources & Local Society”, on Monday, 26 October 2009 (09.00 – 14.30), at MIO-ECSDE premises. The goal of the meeting was to offer the opportunity to participants to be informed about and discuss various ways of elaborating energy issues in the framework of ESD projects. The meeting addressed the Officials of Environmental Education (EE) and staff of the Environmental Education Centres mainly of the Attika region (45 participants).

2nd Working meeting of the Network of the Mediterranean Universities for SD focusing on ESD
Tuesday, November 03 2009 @ 04:40 AM PST

Athens, 21-22 October 2009

The 2nd Working Meeting of the Network of the Mediterranean Universities for Sustainable Development (SD) focusing on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) took place in Athens (Esperia Hotel & MIO-ECSDE Premises), on 21 and 22 October 2009 with success. The Universities-Members of the Network have signed (their Rector Authorities) the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Athens (UoA) that has the Academic Secretariat of the Network, while MIO-ECSDE has undertaken the Administrative Secretariat. The meeting was organized by the UoA and MIO-ECSDE, took place under the auspices of the Vice Rector of UoA and was attended by 25 participants representing the Universities Members of the Network.

The volvo / unep Adventure launched for 2011
Friday, October 16 2009 @ 06:25 AM PDT

The winners of the Volvo Adventure, the world wide search undertaken with UNEP to find the most innovative, imaginative and practical projects devised by young people to solve environmental problems, has been announced. This year the first prize has gone to the HUNAB team from the Yucatan coast of Mexico for their imaginative solution to local water problems. Using only 900 litres of water, each young person has taken responsibility for a small aquaculture pond, providing a sustainable harvest and a nursery for repopulating the local waterways once they have been cleaned. This ingenious project has allowed the children to earn extra money to support their ongoing schooling and helped to spread the aquaculture ponds to other young people and improve their environment.

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Friday, October 16 2009 @ 04:48 AM PDT

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(article credits: youth X change e-bulletin EB V2 N12)

Mediterranean Symposium, 23-24 October 2009, Athens
Wednesday, October 07 2009 @ 04:39 AM PDT

Perspectives for
Water, Solid Waste & Energy management
in view of the Copenhagen Conference (COP 15)
23-24 October 2009, Athens, Greece

It is well known that 2009 is a crucial year in the international effort to address climate change, culminating in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen, 7-18 December. In 2007, Parties agreed to shape an ambitious and effective international response to climate change, to be agreed at Copenhagen.
Meanwhile, the Symposium will take place one month before the Euro-Mediterranean Meeting of Ministers for the Environment where progress made will be assessed and decisions for the immediate next steps to effectively address their common goal to tackle the top sources of Mediterranean pollution by the year 2020 through the Horizon 2020 initiative will be taken. The Horizon 2020 initiative aims to reduce the most significant pollution sources of the Mediterranean focussing on urban waste water, municipal waste and industrial emissions responsible for up to 80% of pollution in the Mediterranean Sea.