{"id":7063,"date":"2017-09-26T04:28:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T04:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7063"},"modified":"2017-09-26T04:28:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T04:28:41","slug":"tbilisi-according-to-bill-stapp-perhaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/09\/26\/tbilisi-according-to-bill-stapp-perhaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Tbilisi according to Bill Stapp \u2013 up to a point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>actnowforee<\/em> website has a 4.5 minute voiced-overed video \/ animation presentation that covers a number of points made by Bill Stapp in a report on the Tbilisi conference. \u00a0You can see\/hear it <a href=\"http:\/\/actnowforee.org\/learn\">here<\/a> ,\u00a0and it's good to hear these contemporary comments.\u00a0 But there's no point watching it if you're looking for insight into environmental education as it is hardly mentioned \u2013 or if you're looking for a great animation. \u00a0However you will get a good feel for how hard they all worked (0600 to 0300), and what a great experience they had: <em>delightful time! \u00a0very friendly people! \u00a0lovely city! \u00a0magnificent bread! \u00a0excellent preparation!<\/em> ... . \u00a0This blandness is unlikely to be Stapp's fault as what we have is abstracted from his report which I know was critical in parts. \u00a0I've been looking for the original, but to no avail. \u00a0I'll keep trying.<\/p>\n<p>On the same page, there's a 5 minute film of some of the conference highlights. \u00a0As I may have noted before, this is much better if you turn the sound down very low. \u00a0In it, watch out for how often there are shots of\u00a0<em>Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow<\/em> the UNESCO <i>Director<\/i>\u00a0at the time. \u00a0This is his UNESCO<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/unesco\/about-us\/who-we-are\/director-general\/the-organization\/the-directors-general\/amadou-mahtar-mbow\/\">profile<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0For what is probably a more balanced view of Mr M'Bow's many talents and interests, see <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amadou-Mahtar_M%27Bow\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In watching both videos, I'd say it's important to bear in mind that in 1977 the Cold War was still raging.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The actnowforee website has a 4.5 minute voiced-overed video \/ animation presentation that covers a number of points made by Bill Stapp in a report on the Tbilisi conference. \u00a0You can see\/hear it here ,\u00a0and it's good to hear these...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}