Bill Scott
28 January 2012

World day of environmental education – all over again

Posted in: Comment, News and Updates

Rather belatedly, I discover that Thursday – 26th January – was the World Day of Environmental Education.  I'm grateful to Learn from Nature, for pointing this out.  It seems that this has its origin in 1972 with the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on Human Environment held in Stockholm, if Blue Channel 24 is to be believed.

I'm asking myself how I can have gone on missing this, 35+ years into my personal EE journey.  No matter, as I'd not have been celebrating had I known about it.  All these Days of seem pretty useless to me when every day should be for environmental learning – shouldn't it?

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