Global Communities for Sustainability 2009

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What is GCS?

GCS is a project run by the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) Australia with the support of the Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. The GCS is an exciting international project under the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD) to encourage and support the teaching of Education for Sustainability in our secondary schools. The Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, the Department of Education, Science and Training, Australia India Council, the Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW and the Australian Association of Environmental Education have supported this project along with CEE India and the Indian government during its pilot phase in New South Wales where a total of 26 schools from India and Australia (including the North Sydney Boys Environment Team) addressed sustainability issues in their local areas in partnership with their communities and councils.

Each school community will set up a team called the Sustainable Development Initiative (SDi).The SDi will comprise a teacher, student representatives and a member of the local council. The idea is for the Australian and the Indian SDis to identify sustainability issues in their own communities and to investigate how these issues might be addressed within the local community. All SDis will present reports on their sustainability efforts at the end of the year. The objective of the project is to gain an understanding of the local and global context of sustainability issues and the differences and similarities in cross-country approaches to addressing these issues. The project seeks to facilitate not only the inspiration of sharing sustainability ideas, actions and experiences, but also to improve understanding of such key principles as collaboration, community building, community sharing, communication, ownership of problems and solutions and the need to adapt action to diverse socio-cultural contexts.

The 2009 North Sydney Boys GCS Project will revolve around EnviroDocs. EnviroDocs is a cross-curricular, multi-disciplinary project that will develop a series of microdocumentaries about environmental themes.The documentaries will be developed by students in the North Sydney Local Government Area. Themes will be determined by students; facilitated by academics and representatives from government and non-government organisations.

Note: Discussion for GCS goes HERE

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A MESSAGE FROM INDIA

Dear all,

This mail is a gentle reminder about the GCS forum in the website: www.ceeaustralia.org

The GCS discussion forum is hosted in the website, with four links namely:
1. Greening: A way to combat Global Warming
2. Clomate Change
3. Sustainability
4. Talk about ypur project

Schools can post their views for discussion about their project, sustainability themes and any other relevant and related topics.This forum hosted on the website is a chance for the Indian and Australian Schools to interact with each other.

The Forum can be easily accesed by the link:
http://www.ceeaustralia.org/publishcee/clientside/GCS/ViewerForum.aspx

Thanking You,

Samantha
GCS Co-ordinator
KSD (Knowledge for Sustainable Development)
CEE (Centre for Environment Education) - Ahmedabad.
India

CEE India Director Kartikeya Sarabhai and CEE Australia Director Prithi Nambier will be visiting NSBHS on August 28th (Friday) at around 11 am.

Volunteers for presentation.

  • Hubert Wan
  • Daniel Chen
  • James Tian
  • David Xu
  • Ike Bai
  • Alexander Peng
  • Kenny Ng
  • Stephen Wu
  • Nathan Isaacson
  • Raymond Shi

Outcomes of this visit - as summarised by Ms McCrossin 29/08/09

a) GCS team members to add their emails to the list at the base of this page - will then be emailedto Prithi. She wants to email you directly. This will facilitate your work on this project.

b) Rotary wants to work with us. This is a wonderful connection to our local community and we need to work out how we can best work with them. Members can expect to go to at least one of their meetings to talk about our work; and then discuss options. CEE has undertaken to send a working doc for discussion. CEE will also email Mccrossin the email addresses of the Rotarians who visted the school on 28/08/09.

c) NSBHS has undertaken to devlop a wiki for the GCS project. This will enable Australian and Indian schools to network more freely. I need volunteers for this project.

CEE Australia

http://www.ceeaustralia.org/publishcee/clientside/ceeaus/homepage.aspx

CEE India

http://www.ceeindia.org/cee/index.html

GCS Site

http://www.ceeaustralia.org/publishcee/clientside/GCS/aboutgcs.aspx

Task 1 - Complete the GCS survey [FINISHED]

Team members need to complete the survey on the GCS website. Syd Smith from GCS has sent a reminder. Please type your name below when you have completed the survey.

EDIT: THE GCS SURVEY IS OVER. IT FINISHED ON 14TH OF AUGUST, 2009

Task 1 - Completed

  • Andrew Lin
  • Yuchen Liu
  • Vincent Pan
  • James Tian
  • Alexander Peng
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