Youth-LeadeR (YL) unites dozens of outstanding youth leaders, global experts and change-makers under one banner for bringing their replicable model solutions for positive change and sustainability to the young generation in schools around the globe. Their stories, role models, solutions, methods, media, action-kits, websites and services make excellent, authentic learning resources and learning environments. Further, YL offers educational methods, media and tools successfully applied by youth leaders, teachers and social entrepreneurs for spreading awareness, building community and enabling activity with cascading impact. Services like speakers, webcasts, year-round student club activity program & community enable a student-managed learning culture for cocreative citizenship, peace and sustainability.
Our THEME COLLECTIONS offer holistic, solution-oriented > facts and data > inspirational media > young changemaker role models > adult changemaker role models ... with world-leading model solutions ... replicable by youth and citizens > outstanding activities ... unique, inspirational, adaptable ... with tangible results ... with potential to make headlines and truly Being The Change we wish to see
YL THEME COLLECTION
WATER
Author: Eric Nicolas Schneider copyright: Youth-LeadeR 2014
OFFICIAL PROJECT of the UNITED NATIONS Decade of Education for Sustainable Development ESD 2005-2014. UNESCO www.youth-leader.org
This resource collection offers a holistic scope of information, learning environments, activities and guidelines for educating, inspiring and equipping children, youth and adults for co-creating safe and affordable water abundance in home regions.
ACTION PACKS for each these extraordinary changemakers provide - inspirational media - authentic learning environments - exciting learning experiences - media and methods used by successful changemakers - life-changing activities with real world impact
These changemakers provide learning opportunities from - local to global level - small solutions to policy and global law - local to global research - online study to wetlands immersion - artwork and speeches to campaigns - fundraisers to tangible projects at - your school - your home town - your nation - the UN - and abroad with - vivid, authentic media - massive success stories - insights to grave crisis that needs to - and can - be solved - world-leading projects to contribute to - real, life-changing impact around outstanding changemakers in the field - their story - their media - their website - even “live� encounters via webcast making these media - uplifting - memorable - empowering and equipping young people and adults - to follow up - with learning - with action
CONTENTS Action-Pack “Sustainable Water School” for nurturing water awareness and changemaking competence Teen-led action for securing clean, cheap, abundant water on local level for generations to come, in partnership with grand changemakers of our time. 1. ROBYN HAMLYN “Blue Communities”. 3-pronged resolution for keeping water public, banning bottled water and making water a human right focus: *change legislation* - establish free tap water fountains at school, decorate with artwork illustrating your research on regional water sources and ecosystem interdependence. Don’t forget life-sized magnificent animals! focus: *awareness + art, lifestyle adaptation* 2. AVALON THEISEN Exploring regional wetlands as exciting habitats - Social experiment: “Mystery Day Out” - frog mini-habitat creation - frog lessons for children - frog nomination, submission with photo + soundfile focus: *physical activities* 3. ASA. Amphibians Survival Alliance Discovering the world of amphibians, engaging in habitat conservation - amphibians exhibit - global froglog media exploration - document endangered species on expert platform - support species hot spots at home and abroad focus: *online and onsite research and awareness campaign*
4. JOHN D. LIU - EEMP. IUCN Large-scale ecosystem restoration - free online film collection - breakthroughs in healing the wounds of the Earth - water and ecosystem interdependence in regions across the planet - learning the laws of ecosystems - re-defining ecosystem economic value - research regional, national and global regions in need of restoration - contribute to the Whatifwechange docu film platform focus: *online study, regional reseach, digital media work. online contribution, awareness campaign* 5. GERRY MARTEN. Eco-Tipping Points Project (ETP) Success stories of sustainability based on one change in the web of problems - view short stories and films, share your discoveries - draft ETP Eco-Tipping Point graphics with potential positive cascading changes for regions in need of ecosystem-restoration (incl. John’s, Polly’s examples) focus: *online study, application of simple systems sciences on concrete examples of crisis* 6. MAUDE BARLOW. Council of Canadians Water crisis as a source of conflict or peace - study cases across the globe, Kosmos Journal - look at “loss of inner and outer peace” pertaining to causes led by Robyn, Avalon, John, Gerry, Polly 7. POLLY HIGGINS. Global End Ecocide Campaign Ending planetary ecosystem destruction by making ‘ecocide’ a crime against peace on global level at the UN’s International Criminal Court and nationally - study the legal definition of ‘ecocide’ - study examples of ‘ecocide’ around the globe - submit examples of ecocide in your nation - spread the campaign online and onsite - adapt the law to your school ground 8. SMALL MODEL SOLUTIONS around the globe 9. YOUTH-LED PROJECTS to join and support 10. RELATED story collections, e.g. Food Abundance
MORE Our website’s media section offers a lot of attractive resources on global issues, youth leadership, social entrepreneurship and the full spectrum of sustainability. Many of these media come in unprecedented formats, such as poster collections and cardgames, all interlinking with videos and action kits. The cardgame on young hero/ines is a stunner, and makes the spirit positive change present and accessible in the classroom, year-round. Posters, in particular, enable highly dynamic learning methods and learning environments for memorable long-term impact on learning, worldview, behaviour change and community-building. We are adapting authentic tools and methods from the leading changemaking environments of the world’s finest institutions cultivating vibrant interaction between “people with good ideas for the world” without any stress on conventional curricula, finance or teacher training - but with many benefits for learning culture, and student-centred, selforganized life skill development and healthy community.
On top of multi-faceted resources with favourite topics and activities for everyone, we offer - student-managed methods - a lot of different media - “live� services - student club support for year-round presence in classrooms, and changemaking activities by student clubs, tuned to UNITED NATIONS Days of the month, with benefits for the world and their peers. We warmly invite you to visit out website and explore novel tools and methods for a rich learning culture for youth leadership and sustainability, built on succesful models by multiaward winning youth leaders and education innovators. All our media are available for free download. The lush imagery conveys the genuine spirit of change that we all wish to cultivate.
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