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 Bonn events: Watch your handprint & mindprint - also in times of crisis summits
picture 5 Apr 2009 @ 04:19
Outcomes from the Bonn Unesco-DESD, the UN FCCC and the economic Crisises summits in London overshadowing what it means for and beyond "you" and "me".
This week the City of Bonn of in a state of emergency and axiety, the UN city experienced "hands-on" how the different focus and priorities of all these different sectors and agendas, an experience you can make if you are lucky on a daily basis in New York, Geneva, Paris.
In the press rooms in Bonn you learned that the climate conference is leaving out education and the educators were blamed to ignore climate or economy (just an example).
This is the old story of the blind men and the elephant: all are right and in the wrong when being to attached to their focus and having to picture of the "situation", even avoiding certain words as this would distract and destabilize our sweet isolation. An example: it was impossible to get the word Crisis into UN documents, manifestos and declarations, as "crisis" like in "Climate Crisis" or "Economic Crisis" was excluded from the official vocabulary and so out of sight - but also out of mind and reality?

At Unesco's "Education for Sustainable Development" decade half-time gathering it was great to be with "cultured" people and see with educators how to possibly bridge natural, cultural, lingual diversities and search for ways to broaden public awareness and learners understanding of the environment and how action can help to safe and restore a heavily impacted nature by the human "footprint" [more]  More >