- Just TEACHERS
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Thinking TREES
- The SDGs 2016-2030
- What EDUCATION?
- Y-TOP International Summer School in Killarney
- I work with schools!
- Development for whom or 'conquest' education?
- Take a 'virtual' tour of the rainforest
- Wood Of Life & the SDGs- this is a hands-on travelling exhibition. It makes local and global links on the importance of wood and forests in our lives.
- Hands-on Education
- Slide SHARE
- Ending Poverty Starts with a TREE - "now yer suckin' carbon"
- Workshops & Training
- Development for whom or 'conquest' education?
- Testimonials
- LOCAL and GLOBAL Views
- What? No CSPE?
- Just Forests Club?
- ECO-Stories for Kids
- Just FURNITURE
- Just CONSUMERS
- World Environment Day 2020
- European Tree of the Year 2017 Contest
- Life in Syntropy
- Our Common Home
- World Record Tree Hug 2016
- Tree Huggers 2015 Contest
- European Year of Development 2015
- HUG-A-TREE 2014
- Mother Earth Day 2014
- International Day of Forests 2015
- World Wildlife Day 2014
- January 2014: Is consumption consuming us?
- Water of Life
- Generation AWAKE - WATER
- The problem with palm oil?
- You are KING
- Buying wood products
- Ebony & Ivory
- Forest Certification
- Behind the Brands
- The multi-million dollar question: Is forest certification working
- Just POWER!
- Rethinking Capitalism
- Please sign this Petition: STOP Landgrabbing in Liberia
- On My AGENDA
- Storytelling for Sustainability
- World Environment Day 2020
- Just POLICY
- 2015: Int Year of Soils
- Government Barometer 2014
- Public submissions
- Just plant a Tree
- Forests and Biofuels
- Lest We Forget
- Beyond 2015
- Our FORESTS - Our FUTURE
- Stop Climate Chaos-Climate Bill 2013
- AGENDA 21
- What You Can Do
- Current Advocacy
- Ombudsperson for Future Generations
- ANGLO-Not Our DEBT
- Stop Burning TREES
- Nature ALERT!
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- White Paper on Irish Aid
- DEBT and Natural Resources
- Fair Trade and Timber
- The Story of REDD: A real solution to deforestation?
- INFF and JF join forces in education
- Environment & Sustainability
- Ombudsperson for Future Generations
- Past Advocacy
- Eurobarometer 2012 on the EU Timber Regulation (EU TR)
- 2015: Int Year of Soils
- Just MUSIC
- Public Procurement MATTERS
You are KING
Globalisation has made consumers powerful actors in our world economy.
Never accept the unacceptable-business must be a force for good
Local and Global: It's tough everywhere at the moment- locally and globally. I know it. You know it. We feel it more every day as so many struggle in our own locality.
We should think locally – and that's more important than ever in the current economic situation Ireland finds itself. But we have to think and act globally too. Holding on to our committments in distant lands is what will sustain our communities and all communities in the future. That means fighting for our global life support system – the lungs of our planet, the world's forests – to ensure that while we address local needs, we're also working for a healthy future for the planet. Remember that our economic prosperity is intimately linked to the natural world because the earth provides the services and resources for our survival.
The role of education for sustainable lifestyles in a world of 7 billion... Globalisation has made consumers powerful actors in our world economy. Our daily choices as consumers affect the lives of workers in distant places and the way people live. Sustainable consumption means buying goods and services that do not harm the environment, society, and the economy. Although it is predominantly an issue for high-income and emerging economies, consumption is an excellent entry point for teaching about sustainable development. Consumer education is practical, touching the daily lives of people near and far away. Local consumer action can have a global, social, economic, and environmental impact, both today and tomorrow.
Education therefore has an important role to play for consumers, in terms of learning to know about the products we buy; encourage curiosity about how and where goods are produced as well as what the working conditions are in the country of origin? How far are goods shipped to reach the supermarket shelves? What is the environmental footprint of the production and transport of certain products? By using knowledge about the impact of our economic choices in order to change our behaviour and consumption habits. However, knowledge is not enough. ESD is a transformative learning process and aims to change the way people interact with the world.
The wood consumer:
Wood impacts so many aspects of our lives which we often fail to recognize. Our programme of education awareness and policy development has been conceived against a backdrop of some 21 years of Just Forests activities, including 20 years of the ‘Wood of Life’ exhibition and programme and the demonstrated interest and engagement of schools, teachers, students, the general public, and in more recent times, professional bodies and politicians in the issues and the exhibition.
The programme also ensures that our development education initiatives raise public awareness and understanding amongst our target groups of the underlying causes of global poverty and inequality and Ireland’s role in tackling these issues.
Everyone in the world depends on nature and ecosystem services to provide the conditions for a decent, healthy, and secure life. Just Forests use the state of the world’s forests as a tool to establish links between 'development' and poverty.
Tuesday, 16. October 2012
FSC moves forward to develop an Online Claims Platform
The ‘development’ rationale of our programme pivots around a number of key issues and challenges:
wood and poverty, wood and energy, wood and livelihoods/construction, wood and health, wood and education, wood and biodiversity, wood and music, wood and sport, wood and sustainability, wood and climate-change, wood and conflict/war, wood and waste, wood and religion and wood and economic development.
The programme seeks to specifically address and explore these issues in the context of both education and industry in Ireland.
The Just Forests programme is designed to engage with the expressed needs of the ‘target groups’ involved, the expressed objectives of development organisations such as Irish Aid, Concern, Trocaire and other international NGOs (such as the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005 – 2014) and the ongoing needs of both industry and education on the links between timber usage and sustainable development within the broader framework of 'development' itself.
Where are the FSC certified forests?
Visit Generation Awake
- World Environment Day 2020
- European Tree of the Year 2017 Contest
- Life in Syntropy
- Our Common Home
- World Record Tree Hug 2016
- Tree Huggers 2015 Contest
- European Year of Development 2015
- HUG-A-TREE 2014
- Mother Earth Day 2014
- International Day of Forests 2015
- World Wildlife Day 2014
- January 2014: Is consumption consuming us?
- Water of Life
- Generation AWAKE - WATER
- The problem with palm oil?
- You are KING
- Buying wood products
- Ebony & Ivory
- Forest Certification
- Behind the Brands
- The multi-million dollar question: Is forest certification working
- Just POWER!
- Rethinking Capitalism
- Please sign this Petition: STOP Landgrabbing in Liberia
- On My AGENDA
- Storytelling for Sustainability
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