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"The value of sport as a mechanism to achieve development and peace has gained significant international recognition over the past several years. Sport activities are being used to address conflict resolution and ethnic reconciliation, educate children and youth about HIV/AIDS, and mobilize audiences in support of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)," says UNDP Assistant Administrator Mr. Bruce Jenks, Chair of SDP IWG.
| What is Sport for Development? Sport for Development evolved out of the growing evidence that strengthening the right of children to play enhances their healthy development and builds stronger communities. Sport* is now recognized by many as an effective tool in the pursuit of development and peace including international experts in the fields of development, education, health, sport, economic and conflict resolution. 1. Well designed sport and play programs put children on a positive path to healthy development. Regular physical activity and play are essential for physical, mental, psychological and social development. 2. Sport and play improve health and well being, extend life expectancy and reduce the likelihood of several non-communicable diseases including heart disease. 3. Sport and play also serve as tools to teach important values and life skills including self confidence, teamwork, communication, inclusion, discipline, respect and fair play. Sport also has psychological benefits such as reducing depression and improving concentration. 4. Sport has a positive impact on child education. Physical education typically improves a child’s ability to learn, increases concentration, attendance and overall achievement. Children learn better when they are having fun and being active. 5. Inclusion of women and girls. The skills and values learned through sport and play are especially important for girls, given that they have fewer opportunities than boys for social interaction outside the home. Through sport, girls are given the chance to be leaders, improve their self-confidence and self-esteem, acquire new interpersonal links and access new opportunities. 6. Sport is a catalyst for the economic development of communities and nations. Training of coaches and physical education teachers leads directly to jobs; sport events can have significant economic impact; and sport manufacturing can be a low resource economic activity. 7. The
popularity and convening power of sport provides us with a powerful
tool for reaching people and communicating important messages including
messages of health and peace. Sport brings people
together and has the potential to cross boundaries and
open new dialogue. Many of the core values of sport parallel those
necessary for peace, such as respect, justice and honesty. |
www.righttoplay.com/site/PageServer?pagename=sport4dev_overview
Why is play so important? Can play really be a path to peace — a long-term solution to the intractable patterns of violence?
In a pure state of play, defenses crumble and people are no longer conscious of the self. When we laugh, fear melts away. The atmosphere of play enables people to connect directly, unfettered by prevailing prejudices.
Attitudes change and people connect as they open their hearts to new friendships once considered impossible. Rather than looking backward to clashes and heartache, people look forward in a spirit of collaboration and conciliation. Former enemies come together to create a place to live in peace side-by-side.
Human beings remember emotion-laden events far better than neutral experiences, which is one reason why moments of joy or despair can leave profound, ineradicable impressions.
The buoyant emotional charge of play, according to some neuroscientists, can spark chemical processes that help the formation of strong memories. Positive encounters of any kind will encourage the growth of new pathways in the brain's networks.
And positive encouters with people considered different — people whom children might normally be taught to fear, taunt, or hate — will lead to long-term, positive hard-wiring of the brain’s limbic system, the seat of the emotions.
Play and highly-charged, energetic positive interactions will form the foundation for a new mindset.
Play for Peace is not a top-down organization. We encourage growth of local organizations to make our global efforts more vital.
Play for Peace is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Global operations are governed by a board of Directors comprised of leaders in business administration, education, philanthropy, organization development and medical research. Behind the stories of community transformation is a solid global organization with dynamic structure and responsible stewardship.
Hub Organizations with appropriate credentials are authorized to begin laying the groundwork necessary to establish a Play for Peace Region.
Play for Peace has several firmly established Regions around the world, with others currently in development. Each Hub Organization employs Lead Representatives and other local Representatives to assist communities in implementing the Play for Peace Process. These Hub Organizations, Lead Representatives and Representatives facilitate the linkage between their communities and the global organization.
Hub Organizations, Lead Representatives and Representatives then identify and procure Partner Organizations within their communities.
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(Toronto:
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www.foodshare.net - Organic Food Delivery + Community Learning Events
www.evergreen.ca - home grounds, learning grounds, common grounds
Grow your own gas.
We fuel our fleet of recycling trucks with cleaner-burning BIODIESEL!
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for a | What's an Economy for, Anyway? |
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We downshifted our lives to include only the things we love to do. www.yourmoneyoryourlife.org (The website is not great.) 
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Author Michael Shuman will be speaking on his book "The Small-Mart Revolution," which Inspiring Futures will have for sale at the event and the Forum. Enjoy Shuman's wit and entertaining speaking style as he tears apart economic development myths with thorough and precise analysis.
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The Annual Bioneers
Conference is a hub of practical solutions for restoring the Earth
— and people. It’s a thriving network of visionary
innovators who are working with nature to heal nature. The bioneers
draw from four billion years of evolutionary intelligence and apply
nature’s operating instructions in practical ways to serve
human ends harmlessly. We herald a dawning age of interdependence
founded in nature’s principles of diversity, kinship,
community, cooperation and reciprocity.
Next conference: ~late October, 2007
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 | Rocky Mountain Institute |
Natural
Capitalism describes a future in which business and
environmental interests increasingly overlap, and in which businesses
can better
satisfy their customers' needs, increase profits, and help solve
environmental
problems all at the same time.
Book
Excerpts and Downloadable Chapters
Take newdream.org's world video tour. Meet some people at the other end of the production line, as well as others affected by the consumption choices we make.
Find
out how you can
do your part to preserve the rights of local communities to live well
and protect resources vital to their health and livelihoods.
Filmmakers win competition at Resfest film festival. read more...
Globalization
See
how massive privatization and the creation of free trade zones
have massively impacted Nicaraguans.
www.greenlearning.ca/login/student/science24/index.php
Measure the efficiency of an energy system. ... If you spend a certain
number of joules of work on something, that thing will gain the same
number of joules of energy.
http://www.greenlearning.ca/login/student/science7/a4.php
Ecological Succession - Morning-Earth.org
Green Street - Environmental
Education - Curriculum Integration
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Craig read an article about a 12-year old boy who had been sold into slavery at age 4, escaped at 10, and at 12 was shot dead for speaking out against child slavery. He brought it to his grade 7 class.
People were amazed to see twelve-year-old children working for other children, speaking about human rights? We were an oddity. ... We realized that not only did children like Iqbal need to be freed from physical enslavement, but children like us needed to be freed from the misconception that we were not smart enough, old enough, or capable enough to contribute to social issues.
Vance spoke about Iqbal. Ashley told the story of a young girl named Easwaris who worked in a fireworks factory. Her job was loading the sulphur and charcoal into the fireworks tubes. There had been an explosion in which Easwaris's eight-year-old sister had been killed, and she herself now had scars lining her back and arms.
By the end of the presentation, the students were just as shocked as we had been when we first heard about child labour. We left them with a challenge to take their first action and write a letter. It could be to a company, asking them to ensure that their products were child-labour free, or to a world leader, challenging them to put more money into education and the protection of children.
video:
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www.freethechildren.com/images/video_bethechange.htm |
campaign: me to we - turning self-help on its head.
Learning Modules
www.citizens4change.org/global/peace/democracy_lesson.htm
www.citizens4change.org/global/peace/democracy_link.htm
First
Lady Laura Bush and partners Case and MCJ Foundations commit $16.4M to
Play
Pumps Alliance bringing clean drinking water to 10M in Sub-Saharan
Africa by
2010. Merry-go-round pumps will reduce water related illnesses.
The merry-go-round is not just a simple piece of playground equipment. It's a PlayPump water system. Lack of access to clean water is one of Africa's biggest health challenges. Through technology developed by an African entrepreneur, the children are pumping clean water for their village when they turn the merry-go-round.
www.ifat.org/aboutfairtrade.shtml
The FTO Mark is a quality
mark. It means standards are being
implemented
regarding working conditions, wages, child labour and the environment.
These
standards are verified by self-assessment, mutual reviews and external
verification. It demonstrates that an organization's trading activity
committed
to continual improvement.
Google Results - Best of
| Online
encyclopedia article about outdoor education which
usually refers to organized learning that takes place in the outdoors. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outdoor_education - 41k - |
Outdoor Ed - The Outdoor Education Professional's Resource
| The
OutdoorEd.com Web site is the premiere resource for outdoor and
experiential education with company and organization listings, job
listings, ... www.outdoored.com/ - 99k - 20 Oct 2006 - |
Outdoor Education Research & Evaluation Center
| Introductory
and academic resources about outdoor education
philosophy, theory, research & evaluation. www.wilderdom.com/research.html - 15k - |
AEOE | Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education
| AEOE
is dedicated to the education of children and to helping them increase
their awareness and understanding of their natural environment. www.aeoe.org/ - 42k - |
Outdoor
Education
National Outdoor Leadership School
www.nols.edu
Outdoor
Responsibility
Leave No Trace
www.LNT.org
Get
kids Hooked on Nature
hookedonnature.org/childrennature
Outdoor
Education Centre
Outdoor Learning in Algonquin Park
Year Round Curriculum-based Events
www.experientialeducation.ca
Is Earth merely a speck of dust lost without significance in the universe? Or, is our planet the product of intelligent design? Today, scientific evidence indicates that the many factors that make Earth suitable for complex life also provide the best conditions for astronomical discovery. The Privileged Planet explores this intriguing correlation and its implications on our understanding of the origin and purpose of the cosmos.
LEARN MORE · ORDER VIDEOS · LANGUAGES · TOP
Is life on Earth the product of purely undirected processes like time, chance and natural selection? Or, can the origin and diversity of living organisms be traced to an intelligent cause? Unlocking the Mystery of Life explores these timeless questions and presents compelling evidence to support an idea that could revolutionize scientific thought - the theory of intelligent design.
LEARN MORE · ORDER VIDEOS · LANGUAGES · TOP
In this era of multiple shopping channels and Amazon.com, consumer culture is in its prime. Now more than ever we are losing our sense of where and by whom our goods are produced. We can buy a hat from Banana Republic or a frozen potpie from the grocery store and never think about where it actually comes from.
| Craftivism: Is Crafting the New Activism?, Columbia Chronicle Online Edition, Summer 2006. |
| DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture by Amy Spencer. |
| "The Handmade Life," LA Times Magazine, 6 November 2005. |
| Third Wave Craftivism via The College Chronicle. |
| Super Crafty by PDX Supercrafty. More here too! |
| Wikipedia definition of Craftivism |
www.rehumanize.us
"Why
are we here? We are
here to root out all aspects of dehumanization that exist within us.
... We are
here to stop people, including ourselves, from dehumanizing any of
God's
children, no matter how much they dehumanize their own
souls." -- Tom Fox,
Christian Peacemaker
Teams, killed in Iraq, March 2006
Now Magazine's Best of Toronto
GREEN ROOFs
Time for a little dancing on the ceiling. Toronto's the very first municipality in North America to take on a comprehensive green roof plan. After discovering that blanketing just 8 per cent of our rooftops with greenery would save the city a cool $300 mil in energy costs and storm water overflows as well as a 2 degree drop in the steamy urban heat island effect, council signed on to the plan last February. A city pilot project is now subsidizing private roof greening.
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RESTORE
29 Bermondsey, 416-755-8023 ext 33; 1120 Caledonia, 416-783-0686, www.torontohabitat.on.ca
These
building-supply thrift shops take a bite out of landfill waste by
taking in old
windows, doors, lumber, even tools, as well new scratch 'n' dent
fixtures or mis-tinted
paint from manufacturers and retailers. You can feel extra special
about redoing
your kitchen with this stuff or donating your old drill to them,
knowing that
profits fund the construction of Habitat houses for those most in need.
www.otesha.ca
Looking for
an opportunity to live sustainably in a mobile
community, volunteer, explore Canada, gain leadership and
public speaking skills, and actually make a real difference
in the world ? all from the seat of your bicycle?
The Otesha Project is
a national youth-run charitable
organization, created in 2002. We use theatre to mobilize
young people to create local and global change through
their daily consumer choices.
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