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Ryu - who has written 46 posts on World Student Community for Sustainable Development.
Ryu is the Webmaster for the WSC-SD. He is currently studying his Bachelors in System Engineering and lives in Tokyo, Japan.
REGISTRATION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ENERGY SUMMIT IN CALGARY,
The member of International Student Energy Summit gave the reminder of ISES. Thank you so much! Here is the detail of ISES. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The International Student Energy Summit is a global forum that is set to take place in Calgary, Alberta. ISES targets a delegate base of 500 international post secondary students motivated to learn about current issues and emerging trends [...]
Continue reading...Participant Media
Friday, December 26, 2008
Through enjoyable movie, Participant has been rasing issues such as fast food, enviornmental problem, sexual harrasment, political discrimination.” An Inconvenient Truth”"Fast Food Nation”"Syriana”"North Country” are the films made by Participants. Its website started the blog “takepart” that deal with “Education”"Environment”"”Global Health”"Human Right”"Peace”"Culture”"Ethics”. (website here) As you post and raise issue you face, “takepart” becomes real. “Participant believes that a [...]
Continue reading...Messengers of Peace
Thursday, December 25, 2008
On Novebmer 17th, Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron (South Africa/U.S.A.) has been designated as a Messenger of Peace with a special focus on eliminating violence against women. Messengers of Peace are carefully selected by United Nations in the field of Art, music , sports who have agreed to help focus on the work of United Nations. [...]
Continue reading...The LifeShift Program
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Climate change is arguably the biggest global issue facing humans. However, climate change is linked to a range of different other issues: lost of biodiversity, starvation, immigration, poverty… Technology and science will be needed to help our societies adapt to climate change. Nevertheless we need to tackle it and can only do it by changing [...]
Continue reading...Wildlife Photographer
Monday, December 15, 2008
The annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition finds the very best wildlife images taken by the world’s top Wildlife Photographer of the Year is owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is a proud partner of WildPhotos 2008 www.wildphotos.org.uk professional and amateur photographers. Since WSC-SD has many artists, it is great [...]
Continue reading...FOOD DECLARATION
Friday, December 5, 2008
Food is essential to our life. In developed country, they concern food security and safety. In developing country, they concern food shortage. We still have a lot more to do for sustainable food system. FoodDeclaration.org managed to suggest the declareation for future food system made by Slow food USA, Peoples Grocery, and Environmental defence center. It [...]
Continue reading...International Student Energy Summit (ISES)
Saturday, November 29, 2008
From Crystal Li, WSC-SD have recieved the e-mail. We appriciate its opportunity for ISES to shrare the specific talk which concern Sustainability. I paste the e-mail we have gotten below.Thank you Crystal Li! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My name is Crystal Li, and I am writing to you on behalf of the International Student Energy Summit (ISES), an international energy conference for students. Given [...]
Continue reading...Buy Nothing Day
Friday, November 28, 2008
Tomorrow, November 29th, is “Buy Nothing Day”. This canpaign is started in Canada, 1992. Just on this day, we buy nothing except what we really need to live. In capitalism, people are divided to 2 part. One is producer and the other is consumer. As consumer, we are everyday consuming a goods. It is fun to feel how [...]
Continue reading...Green Renter
Sunday, November 23, 2008
When you think of sustainable living life, house is main key. You want to live in “Green House” which is build with much care for sustainability. Green house is like “carbon-offset”, “great efficiency in using energy”, “not emitting or using any toxic chemical”. Where do we find “Green House”? Have you ever seen the ads [...]
Continue reading...Sustainable Fashion
Sunday, November 16, 2008
What is your clothes made of? Cotton is major fabric for most of clothes. Cotton is loved for so long time with its soft and smooth texture. In summer cotton absorbs moisture and breathe it out, it is great characteristic which other fabric doesn’t have better than cotton. It is not widely known that cotton farmers are [...]
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JAPAN YOUTH ENCOUNTER ON SUSTAINABILITY (YES) 2009
Hosei University Tama Campus and Mount Fuji Seminar House, Japan, 25 March - 9 April 2009
Applications Now Open! Deadline: 30 December 2008
ETHsustainability, the Center for Sustainability at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and Hosei University in Japan are pleased to announce the opening of the application process for the “Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) Japan 2009”.
This two week YES course aims to sensitize participants to the complex issues of sustainable development in a global context, while exploring issues pertinent to Japan and the region, though course work, field trips, workshops, group work, discussions and practical learning experiences, combined with unique social and cultural activities. The unique program builds on 9 years of experience successfully running the Youth Encounter on Sustainability YES program in Switzerland, Costa Rica, Austria, Slovakia, Australia and Kenya. The YES course is a once in a lifetime opportunity for personal and professional development, an outcome reiterated time and time again by alumni from the course. This alumni group is represented by a strong network of 900 individuals from 91 different countries around the world who have gone on to be actively engaged in sustainability initiatives at local and international levels.
A total of 36 places are available for this course, with 24 places reserved for international applicants, and 12 places reserved for Japanese applicants. All participants must have a good working command of English, be between the age of 20 and 30 years, be currently enrolled at a university (either in the final stages of their undergraduate study, or at any level of graduate study). The entire course will be held in English and applications are welcomed from diverse disciplines and nationalities.
More information on the course is available from this website.
Location: Hosei University Tama Campus and Mount Fuji Seminar House, Japan.
Dates: 25 March - 9 April 2009
All applications must be submitted online.
The link to the online application form is available at: http://www.sustainability.ethz.ch/en/activities/japan.cfm
Deadline for applications are:
30 December 2008 (International Applicants)
14 January 2009 (Japanese Applicants)
Monday, December 29, 2008
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