The YES course is a pioneering concept in education for sustainable development for university students all around the world. Each two week course brings together a multicultural and multidisciplinary group of 40 participants to discuss the challenges of sustainable development in a unique setting. The large diversity of cultures, languages and disciplines and the opportunity [...]
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YOUTH ENCOUNTER ON SUSTAINABILITY (YES) AUSTRALIA 2009 Applications Now Open! Extended Deadline: 28th September 2008 ETHsustainability, the Center for Sustainability at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and the International WaterCenter in Australia are pleased to announce the opening of the applications for the 2009 Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) in Australia.
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by Omer Sharif Ibeny Hai (YES July 2004), Department of Computer Science, Dhaka City College, Dhaka, Bangladesh Being a student from a developing country like Bangladesh, “sustainability†is rarely a topic of discussion, especially if you are in a field other than Environmental and Conservation Science. Sometimes one might think briefly about the serious pollution [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 12, 2004
by David RodrÃguez An interesting kind of literature has come to me lately. Some authors of systemic thinking analyze the relationship between the actions we take (as persons, as a group, as society) and the preconceived ideas that we have about the issues regarding those actions. In other words, it is how our ideas are [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 13, 2004
by Javier Arias I. What is it, where does it come from and how can we bottle it and give it away? Coming from a developing Latin American country, I cringe a little at the word “leader”. Where I come from, this usually translates into military dictarorships, political idols and a complete lack of civic [...]
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