{"id":7084,"date":"2017-10-30T07:56:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T07:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7084"},"modified":"2017-10-30T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T07:56:57","slug":"geeping-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/10\/30\/geeping-along\/","title":{"rendered":"GEEPing along"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking at the NAEE website<\/a> on Friday, I was moved to look again at the GEEP<\/a> call to action. \u00a0You'll find it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the rationale:<\/p>\n

As environmental educators, we know that what we do informs, inspires, and\u00a0enlightens. \u00a0It builds human capacity, provokes questions, enhances skills and\u00a0shapes values and attitudes. \u00a0It galvanizes individuals, families and communities\u00a0to make informed decisions about the environment that lead to a sustainable\u00a0society. \u00a0Even more, it helps people connect deeply with each other, their\u00a0communities, and the natural world.<\/p>\n

Given the unprecedented challenges we face as a global society\u2014from climate\u00a0change and biodiversity loss to decreasing access to nature and a growing\u00a0gap between the rich and poor\u2014there has never been a more important\u00a0time to scale up our environmental education efforts. Global leaders must\u00a0make better use of education and capacity-building as strategies to improve\u00a0the environment, along with tools of governance, regulation, economic and\u00a0community incentives, and technology.<\/p>\n

The Global Environmental Education Partnership (GEEP) is focused on\u00a0building capacity for environmental education and sustainability around the\u00a0world and using the power of education to help address global environmental\u00a0and social problems. \u00a0Its advisors are made up of researchers, policymakers,\u00a0education practitioners, and others who represent government and nongovernmental\u00a0sectors from more than 20 countries and regions. \u00a0GEEP believes that national and international professional networks\u00a0are essential to ensuring the quality of education in, about, and for the\u00a0environment. \u00a0These networks need support from a wide range of stakeholders. \u00a0As a network of networks, GEEP brings together partners who are committed\u00a0to helping global citizens address environmental and social challenges by\u00a0developing and strengthening environmental education worldwide. \u00a0This Call for Action is asking the international environmental education\u00a0community to take stock of where we are as a field and think ahead to the\u00a0future. \u00a0It includes ten draft actions, crafted with input from GEEP leaders\u00a0from around the world, and is designed to get input from educators working in\u00a0this field about our key priorities for the next decade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And as NAEE noted, we can all go to\u00a0ActNowForEE.org<\/a> and make a contribution to the discussion and action. \u00a0I've done so using my University of Bath identity but I'm tempted to have another go just as myself.<\/p>\n

Personally, I think that GEEP is a good idea at this time as it is important to continue to stress the 'environmental' as it's this that, ultimately, keeps us all (and I mean all life) alive; of course, it's the economy and society that does this in the here and now, which is why environment, society and economy always have to be taken together. \u00a0In recent times, however, there has been a significant change to our circumstances. \u00a0Whilst social and environmental injustice has been with us (almost) forever, and while humans have always had a tendency to local environmental damage, it's only recently that we've been buggering up the biosphere on a global scale. \u00a0The actual and possible consequences of this need stating amid all the focus on genocide, discrimination, wealth and health disparity, exclusion, etc, as it will do us little good in the end if, once we've eliminated poverty, racism, misogyny, trans (and all the other) phobias, etc, we find there's no longer any possibility of clean water.<\/p>\n

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Looking at the NAEE website on Friday, I was moved to look again at the GEEP call to action. \u00a0You'll find it here. This is the rationale: As environmental educators, we know that what we do informs, inspires, and\u00a0enlightens. \u00a0It...<\/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-7084","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\/7084","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=7084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}