Climate Change
The Saskatchewan prairie region has been identified as one of the most vulnerable ecosystems to climate change. Due to its already naturally dry climate, this area is vulnerable to small changes and extreme weather conditions associated with climate change. For instance, prolonged droughts or sudden floods are likely to have a devastating effect. Heavy cultivation and fragmentation of land by human activities throughout large parts of Saskatchewan increase the impact of extreme conditions due to erosion prone cultivated fields and heavy water use for irrigation.
While the region is highly vulnerable to climate change it is, at the same time, a significant contributor for a number of reasons. The largest increase in contributions of greenhouse gas emissions has occurred from industrial development in Saskatchewan. New forms of development that do not have these impacts or minimize these impacts need to be explored. At the same time, transportation in Saskatchewan makes use of substantial fossil fuels. The great distances between cities and towns in Saskatchewan and the lack of frequent passenger trains both between and within communities makes personal transportation a further source of CO2 emission and air pollution. Highly mechanized, intensive agriculture focused on exports from the region also contributes substantial transportation emissions. As a landlocked province lacking waterways for shipping, transportation costs and fossil fuel use have historically been high. Since everyone in the region contribute to CO2 emission in a diversity of ways, each one of us can do his or her share in reducing it. We therefore believe that education on climate change is an important issue in the Saskatchewan RCE.
Community Education Workshop, Regina, September 25, 2010
BEYOND THE BUZZWORDS: PUTTING COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INTO ACTION
Saturday, Sept. 25
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
St. Mary’s Anglican Church
3337 15th Ave., Regina
A community-organized workshop and strategy session. Free of charge.
Childcare provided. Continental breakfast and lunch included.
Facilitated by Dr. Rick Hesch, Aboriginal Education and Anti-Racism in
Education Consultant
With presentations by:
- Maureen Johns, Executive Director, First Nations, Métis & Community
Education Branch
- Delphine Melchert, Executive Director, Saskatchewan Community Schools
Association
- Michael Tymchak, Director, The Saskatchewan Instructional Development
and Research Unit at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina
- Kim Weiss, Director, Prairie Sky School
Saskatchewan has a policy that encourages all schools to function as
community schools. But what does this mean? How can we put community
voices at the forefront of school planning? What is community-based
education? Have community schools lived up to their original intent? If
not, why not? How can we ensure our schools genuinely respond to
community needs and aspirations?
Details and online registration at http://www.realrenewal.org
All welcome. Education faculty and students encouraged to attend.
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"5 Years of Regional Centres of Expertise on ESD" Publication Available Online
Dear RCE Members,
The United Nations University in May of this year released its publication "5 Years of Regional Centres of Expertise on ESD". This publication documents the first 5 years of RCE activity, including activities by continent. A map of the 75 RCEs existing at the time of publication is also included. I am pleased to announce that this publication is now available online at:
http://www.ias.unu.edu/resource_centre/5%20years%20of%20RCEs.pdf
The document has many photos including those from RCE Saskatchewan. Thank you to those who contributed. RCE Saskatchewan is also mentioned at various points. You can also get a good overview of the other RCEs in our network. Feel free to share this link with others in your organization and in our ESD community. The global RCE community has much to celebrate and this book is indicative of that work.--Roger
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Photos from 5th International RCE Conference Posted
Photos from the 5th International RCE Conference in Curitiba, Brazil, from May 18 to 20, 2010, have now been posted in the image galleries. You can go to the "Resources" tab and then "image galleries" or you use the following link:
http://www.saskrce.ca/category/image-galleries/5th-int-rce-conference-cu...
Thank you to Lyle Benko for providing these photos for posting.--Roger
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RCE Cebu (Phillipines): Request for Assistance regarding Tree Infestation
Dear RCE Colleagues,
Please be forwarded the following e-mail from Ms. Cherry Piquero-ballescas of RCE-Cebu. According to her e-mail, a large part of the Philippines is now suffering a serious infestation of trees by eutectona machacralis and gravis moth.
If you have expertise in this particular field, please kindly give any suggestions/advice to her at cballescas@yahoo.com . Thank you very much for your attention in this matter!
Warm regards,
Sachiko Yasuda
UNU-IAS
From: Cherry PIQUERO-Ballescas [mailto:cballescas@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 3:33 PM
To: Sachiko Yasuda
Cc: ian manticajon
Subject: SOS... call for urgent help please...
Hi Sachiko,
Through UNU, may we kindly request for help from our global RCE partners regarding advice/ solutions for the present infestation of trees in many portions of the Philippines by EUCTECTONA MACHACRALIS or the GRAVIS moth?
A multisectoral meeting has been scheduled for this Thursday afternoon to discuss possible solutions to this present problem plaguing a major mountain barangay in cebu city and other areas of the Philippines. The Euctectona machacralis are attacking the teak trees in the mountain community here.
We look forward to your immediate assistance as well as those from our Global RCE partners about this serious problem now affecting our communities and residents.
Thank you sincerely,
cherry piquero-ballescas
RCE-Cebu
Follow-up to this request was sent by Lyle Benko by e-mail:
Good morning colleagues:
With our recent discussions on RESEARCH and international connections, I thought you might be interested in this message and the link to the article "Glocal Responses to Cebu City's teak infestation" dated August 14, 2008.
You may note that RCE Saskatchewan in referenced briefly in the 5th paragraph.
I thought this might be of interest as to the follow-up of the international connections with the RCE global network and research opportunities.
All the best as we prepare for the "RCE Saskatchewan Tour of Sustainability October 12 to 15, 2010"
>>>Lyle
___________________________
Lyle A. Benko
Co-coordinator
U.N.U. RCE Saskatchewan
Phone: (306)-949-7992
FAX: (306)-585-4880
E-Mail: lyle.benko@sasktel.net
Website: www.saskrce.ca
___________________________
From: Cherry PIQUERO-Ballescas [mailto:cballescas@yahoo.com]
Sent: August-13-10 7:57 PM
To: 'Roger Petry'; 'Lyle Benko'; 'Lyle Benko'; Karen''Tanino
Subject: THANK YOU!!!
Hi Lyle and Karen,
Please check out the emailed website below...
thank you for your prompt advice!
cherry
RCE-Cebu
"Glocal" responses to Cebu City's teak infestation
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Invitation to contribute to the World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day
Dear All,
Forwarded please find the e-mail below from Prof. Walter Leal of RCE Hamburg regarding the World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day. If you are interested in contributing to the event, please contact him for further information.
Warm regards,
Sachiko
The Global RCE Service Centre
**********************forwarded e-mail***********************
Dear RCE Colleagues,
The World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day will be held on the 3rd December 2010, being co-organised by RCE Hamburg. It will be the largest initiative on sustainability education ever organised, and participants from over 50 countries will take advantage of this unique event
I would like to invite interested RCEs to contribute towards the event, by preparing a power point presentation on one of the topics of the conference, which can be seen: http://world-sustainability-day.net/en.html
Accepted presentations will, subject to a review, be put on-line during the event and will showcase your work to a wide audience. Expressions of interest to contribute to the event, initially outlining the title of the envisaged input and the author(s) of the work to be submitted, should be sent to us at: beids@beids.de. You will then get a feed-back and a template which you can use for your presentation.
Finally, the authors who want to, may submit a paper about the topic, which may be published in the book "World Trends on Education for Sustainable Development" which will be published in 2011 as part of the award-winning book series "Environmental Education, Communication and Sustainability" .
Established in 1996 and with over 30 ground-breaking volumes published to date, this is the world´s longest running book series on the topic. Please indicate if you want to contribute to it, so that we can send you the template for papers.
Rgds,
Walter Leal
P.S. Let other people know about it!
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Prof. Walter Leal (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DL, DLitt) Senior Professor & Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences"
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
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