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The Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES)

Saturday, March 20, 2010

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 [...]

YES Australia | Applications Extended

Sunday, August 24, 2008

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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.

YES: The Experience of a Lifetime

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

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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, â€œsustainabilityâ€ 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 [...]

The Power of Thought: How Assumptions Can Influence Our Goal of Sustainability

Monday, July 12, 2004

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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 [...]

The Origin of Leadership

Saturday, March 13, 2004

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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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The Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES)

YES Australia | Applications Extended

YES: The Experience of a Lifetime

The Power of Thought: How Assumptions Can Influence Our Goal of Sustainability

The Origin of Leadership

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