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ECOSURFI, a Brazilian surfers NGO for the protection of environment
A network of youths from the coast of São Paulo - Brazil, facilitates Ecosurfi, an NGO that works on Environmental Education, inspired by the sports activity of surfing and all its relationship with environment. They have created a blog to build the Charter of Responsibilities of the Surfers. (...) |
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This document presents the "Street dialogues", their history and methodology to put them in practice, on the basis of the experience of 23 dialogues that were organized during the WSF in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2005, within the 11 Thematic terrains: 22 Street Dialogues (2 in each thematic terrain) and 1 online virtual Dialogue between Porto Alegre and Paris, France (coordinated by Marina Urquidi).
In the contemporary world the precariousness in the communication among the people (...) |
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Felipe and I arrived to a weird little street island located in the middle of a crowded avenue. The weather was hot and windy, and we had trouble trying to attach the banner with a wire to a pole, so it soon flew away. A few sleepy young people from different countries were laying down on the grass, too tired and lazy to even listen to us. The microphone had a stand that could not move, so we started calling and convincing them to come and sing with a circle dance that João das Neves had (...) |
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A methodology based on meetings and publications |
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The first edition made in April was first made for the Seminar on Governance and it was necessary to start listening people about the video language, about the principles and how to transform the video into a better instrument to work with the Charter.
This video is in Portuguese.
You can download below the script of the video translated into English (the video with English subtitles will soon be (...) |
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This document gives an account of the unique and successful experience of the Second National Children and Youth Conference for the Environment held by the Ministries of Education and Environment.
We present here a detailed methodological account, the outcomes and evaluation of this process, which mobilised more than 4 million people across the whole of Brazil.
The results are organised (...) |
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You can download the document here! |
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Following the Conference, Edith Sizoo, Coordinator of the International Charter Team, wrote to Mr Lula, Mrs Silva and Mr Haddad. |
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"Yound people are not so much concerned with their destiny
but rather with hope."
A Brazilian teacher
Just imagine…
Involving 12.000 schools and the communities around them, thus mobilizing within one year nearly 4 million people to reflect on fundamental questions related to the future of humanity and the survival of the planet, organizing conferences in several of the 27 states of the (...) |
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