If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea —Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Introducing Power of One School kits

Earthchild Insitute Executive Director, Donna Goodman

will be facilitating a two-day workshop at the

UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development
in Bonn, Germany, 31 March–2 April 2009, entitled

Strenghtening the educational response to climate change internationally
This workshop is organized by: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and CarboSchools

This workshop intends to strategize and plan for action to address the key question for climate change education, which is the same one as for ESD at large: In a society still broadly dominated by a non-sustainable culture, how can schools contribute to promoting safe, healthy and sustainable lifestyles?

Check back with to this page later in April 2009 to learn more about the outcome from this workshop and the role that the Earthchild Institute will play moving forward.

Donna will also be moderating a special event, on April 1st, entitled:

The United Nations and ESD: Walking the talk

This special event is organized by the United Nations Interagency Committee on the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development