Tag Archives: Education
Crash Course in Ecocide Law
I’ve compiled a playlist on YouTube, featuring several videos that will help you learn more about our proposals to incorporate Ecocide into existing law – particularly the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court. I’ve also included a couple of videos showing ecocides that could potentially be tried using ecocide law, but are currently rather […]
Schwarz’s values in sustainability education
I have been using Schwarz’s model of the universal human values, because it has very specific implications for political campaigning – targeting messages to the nature of the audeience. However, if we wish to change the world, political campaigning is not enough – we need to apply the knowledge to education. I am not going […]
Out to Lunch
I remember eating out with my son when he was a toddler about 10 years ago. Most places only had chicken nuggets, hamburgers and (perhaps) tin pasta. I was never happy about these choices, and, consequently, we rarely went out for a meal. One day I saw the Soil Association’s call for volunteer mystery shoppers […]
EDUCATION
Instead of digging deeper in the academic theories of why the world is the way it is, and instead of trying to theorize what is wrong with the economic system, I decided to approach the problem hands-on. Looking backwards from the future, EDUCATION shapes the future more than anything else. Education not only teaches us […]
BUILDING THE PUBLIC’S CAPACITY TO ENGAGE WITH THE GREEN ECONOMY: HOW COMPUTER GAMES CAN HELP
Author: Maria Peytcheva Carver Executive Summary for M.Sc. thesis IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy 2011 – 2012 (Should have published this then, I know) Supervised by Dr William Sheate Objectives: This project set out to conceptually develop an effective educational tool – a computer game – that introduces key […]
“Going meta”
Videogames are sometimes considered a waste of time, but in his book Persuasive Games, Ian Bogost makes a strong case suggesting games cultivate higher order logic and systems thinking. He argues that the procedural rhetoric employed in various games, allows not only programmers, but also all players to develop proceduarl litercy, the ability to read […]
How do people begin to feel empowered?
In another post, I showed how everyone blames everyone else for not acting. This is strange, because in fact, lots of people out there DO something to help the planet. To make this more pervasive, it makes sense for us to study the personal journey from an attitude of buying the cheapest and making consumer […]
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