Education for Sustainable Futures
Description
Raise awareness and create opportunities through ongoing formal and informal education on how to live in a way that sustains environmental, social and economic processes and ensures a just distribution of resources.
Sub themes
- Reconciling development and conservation
Economic development & employment
Impacts of population growth
Land status, land use, inheritance laws
Food supply, health and nutrition
Water distribution & sanitation
Waste management, especially toxic waste and recycling
Consumption of non-renewable resources
Renewable energy production and use
- Climate change
Rising ocean levels
Acid rain, ocean acidity levels
Desertification
- Biodiversity
Maintain biodiversity
Protect endangered species and habitats
- Sustain cultural & social diversity
Balancing social harmony and individual needs and rights
Preventing discrimination
Possible NFA Actions:
- Organise a training session on the effective use of media to publicise sustainability issues and what needs to be done about them;
- Campaign for women’s right to access clean water and food;
- Advocate for renewable energy production and use;
- Encourage higher education studies in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and network with other NGOs and community groups to support existing projects and programmes;
- Identify a local natural feature or species of animal or plant that is threatened by development, climate change etc and create public awareness of the issue, devise and act on a strategy to preserve it;
- Organise workshops on land status, land use and existing inheritance laws or local practises to identify any ways in which these discriminate against women and suggest steps to be taken
- Try to extend the cultural diversity of your NFA membership or form links with organisations representing women from other backgrounds, such as immigrant or refugee women;
- As a contribution to reducing the impact of excessive population growth, lobby for services to avert unwanted teenage pregnancies and to allow families, especially women, to exercise their judgement on sustainable family numbers.
Resolutions Passed at Conference 2010:
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