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Community Indicatorshttp://communityindicators.blogspot.com/2008/08/call-for-proposals-ccn-conference.html [Community Indicators] Track 2: Education for Consumer Citizenship a)Education at schools and Universities b)General Consumer Education- Which approaches to consumer citizenship education are most effective?- What challenges and opportunities exist when teaching about long term global goals for sustainable consumption?- How can education lead to choosing sustainable lifestyles?- How can education stimulate creativity for inventing sustainable solutions?- What kind of research is necessary for the development of consumer citizenship education and education for sustainable consumption?- What is the relationship between consumer citizenship education and education for sustainable consumption?

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Hammersmith Academy Trusthttp://www.hammersmithacademy.org/2008/08/education-brief.html [Hammersmith Academy Trust] Education Brief: The educational expertise and commercial experience of the Mercers and Information Technologists will establish the Academy on a proven educational vision and strong business/ entrepreneurial principles. The synergy of the sponsors working together will establish a unique Academy that will further develop the innovative approaches to education pioneered by Thomas Telford School and its partner academies in Walsall and Sandwell, and draw on the work of both sponsors in supporting and sponsoring specialist education in London schools.

islamspedia.Com - Islamic Web Ontologieshttp://www.islamspedia.com/2008/08/kjersti-larsen.html [islamspedia.Com - Islamic Web Ontologies] Kjersti Larsen: 1993, ‘Gendered Spirits - Gendered Persons: A Case Study from Zanzibar Town’, Goldsmith College, University

Les Bonnerhttp://lesbonner.mycouncillor.org.uk/2008/08/16/its-about-time-that-we-gave-16-year-olds-the-right-to-vote/ [Les Bonner] IT’S ABOUT TIME THAT WE GAVE 16 YEAR OLDS THE RIGHT TO VOTE!: In the Liberal Democrat, Policy Paper (September, 2007) For the People, By the People she notes: “a reduction in the voting age to 16, to overlap with citizenship education in schools, will help to bridge the gap between teaching about citizenship and exercising its rights and obligations”.

Angela Hayden's Smartass Bloghttp://angelahayden.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/trouble-the-water-its-not-about-a-hurricane-its-about-america/ [Angela Hayden's Smartass Blog] Trouble the Water - Its not about a hurricane - Its about America: Sustainable and Equitable Development. ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation’s largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and .

The Phoenix Projecthttp://www.wakingthephoenix.org/2008/08/individual-statements.html [The Phoenix Project] Individual statements by participants:        While local communities will be the centres of most activity, global planetary identity (global citizenship) must be cultivated. Exchanges of experience and information and personal visits between communities will be encouraged to avoid any potential for misunderstanding and possible conflicts between communities/regions/states.

Global Ecology and Educationhttp://kflugge.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/social-ecology-education-and-demonstration-school/ [Global Ecology and Education] Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School: Through the Greenmapping Program SEEDS aims to strengthen local-global sustainability networks, to expand the demand for healthier, greener choices, to stimulate and celebrate ecological citizenship, and to help successful initiatives spread to more and more communities.  Through this program, students will be learning about the world through their own experiences, and will be making meaning of complex issues through creative means, something that Oakes and Lipton discuss at length.

Accountability Central[Accountability Central] Thunderbird Kicks Off $20000 Sustainable Innovation Competition: - August 20, 2008 - Thunderbird School of Global Management's third annual Global Sustainable Innovation Summit opens early registration today. The global competition draws the brightest graduate-level students from top universities around the world, and requires students to develop sustainable and innovative business solutions to real-world challenges presented by sponsoring companies.

Jurisdoctorstud's Webloghttp://jurisdoctorstud.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/mcgill-university-faculty-of-law-christian-milan/ [Jurisdoctorstud's Weblog] McGill University - Faculty of Law McGill University - Faculty of ...: On 18 Sep, 2007, McGill Law Graduate Diego Pereira shakes hands with Dean Nicholas Kasirer during a special Citizenship and Immigration Canada ceremony”,”Looking up on Chancellor Day .

TIM BLAIR BLOG: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON US http://timblair.spaces.live.com . us army vietnam veteran-retired broadcaster blog..http://timblair.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B71A619F97F176BD!122206.entry [TIM BLAIR BLOG: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON US http://timblair.spaces.live.com . us army vietnam veteran-retired broadcaster blog..] rfkmemorial.org: This report became the basis of the RFK Center, Cornell and University of Virginia's thematic hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the state of the right to education in the Americas. Since the hearing, the issue has gained attention in the human rights world, including at recent Latin American conferences on racism preparing for the Durban Review in 2009 where RFK Center staff shared its findings (see below).

ecogeos[ecogeos] Profitable corporate social responsibility”¦..possible?: Not just for profit: There are also organisations, such as the Personal Finance Education Group (Pfeg), which are working to educate the younger generations about SRI, integrating SRI issues into the compulsory citizenship .

Globalcitizen1stclass's Webloghttp://globalcitizen1stclass.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/the-united-nations-republican-framework-working-for-global-peace/ [Globalcitizen1stclass's Weblog] THE UNITED NATIONS REPUBLICAN FRAMEWORK: WORKING FOR GLOBAL PEACE: Killing of human beings for self and religious gratification is banned and carries deportation to another existence format throughout the galaxy. As such this kind of destructive force in the world should be banned and simply made illegal through the non-payment of lifestyle credits and no such individual shall gain Global Citizenship thus perhaps participation is equivalent to slavery from any alliance with such a religious order, creed or code.

Panama Premier Rentals - Bloghttp://www.panamapremierrentals.com/index.php/blog/a_growing_trend_of_leaving_america/ [Panama Premier Rentals - Blog] A Growing Trend of Leaving America: Talk to some of the successful American relocators around the world and the broad generalizations about them tend to hold up—though not so much as to overwhelm the huge variety of experience and achievement that distinguishes their lives. Michael Sheren, 45, who worked for Chemical Bank in New York in his early career, came to England in 1997 primarily to apply his background in leveraged buy-outs to the European market.

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5227d0740100aie2.html [醉花阴的博客] ideas for task 2 (上): Collections and exhibitions reflect the cultural and social diversity. Museums and galleries make an important contribution to education, scholarship, citizenship, social inclusion and tourism.

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