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YAC Sustainable Development Online Course
"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Welcome to the Youth Action for Change
Sustainable Development Online Course wiki! This course was done in May and June 2007 and facilitated by Mabel from Peru and Kjell from Germany. The 30 participants came from very diverse backgrounds. You can have a look at who they are on the list of participants. This wiki is the main learning space, because it points you to all the resources. We also have a Nicenet course room for forum discussions and a group blog "Green Changemakers" to keep in touch after the course.
Course Topics
- Introduction to Sustainable Development (week one)
- Ecology (week two)
- Water and Energy (week three)
- Climate change (week four)
- Economy (week five)
- Organization (week six)
- Lifestyles (week seven)
- Future (week eight)
- Bonus Week on Systems Thinking
Practical Projects
Each participant of this course completed a small practical project after the last week of the course. Some have introduced their projects to us on the Projects page. Others have used our Green Changemakers blog to talk about their projects and share the results.
Chats
Our Chatroom Please have a look at the minutes of the chats. If you were not there you can use them to know what has been discussed.
- First chat: Course Method, May 1st; Unai was so kind to make a summary of what has been discussed, among other things the Course Method and Topics for the Course (Course plan).
- Second chat, May 6th
- Third chat, May 13th (no minutes available because of technical problems)
- Fourth Chat: Ecology, Water & Energy, May 20th; One result: we created a new page on Agriculture and are waiting for your questions or contributions!
- Fifth Chat: Sustainable Energy, May 27th with Long Seng To from the University of New South Wales in Australia.
- Sixth Chat: Solutions for Climate Change, June 1st; One result: Daisy is volunteering to create a bonus week for our course on Systemic Thinking.
- Seventh Chat: Organization, June 17th with Dominic Stucker of the Earth Charter Youth Initiative on Organizing ourselves to reach sustainable societies.
- Eighth Chat: Sustainable Future, July 1st
