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Green Women: Leadership in Action.

Teaching for a Better Future. The seventh and final session of our online conference on 6 June will be: Green Women – Weaving Leadership for Environmental Education with Purpose.

Stephany Carrasco Sardon will present the experience of a digital magazine dedicated to making visible socio-environmental projects led by women in Latin America. Through inspiring stories, conscious digital design and collaborative methodologies, a community that promotes environmental education from the territory and action has been woven. This presentation will show how to strengthen women’s leadership networks, communicate with purpose and use accessible tools to educate and transform. An invitation to rethink environmental education as a living, regenerative and deeply human process.

Stephany is an environmental engineer with a master’s degree in Renewable Energy (IMF – Madrid) and UX/UI designer with a focus on digital sustainability. Founder of Green Women, an organisation and magazine dedicated to environmental conservation and women’s empowerment in Latin America. She has spoken at international conferences in countries such as Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina. She has diplomas in sustainability, environmental education and wildlife monitoring (Universidad de Antioquia and Politécnica de Colombia), as well as training in the rights of nature with Earth Law Center and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México.

Join us at Teaching for a Better Future on 6 June 2025.

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Climate education Community action

Admitting Failure

photo of Rupert Read

– And moving forward

Our upcoming online conference on 6 June is titled Teaching for a Better Future. The title was chosen with care and intention. During the event, we’ll be showcasing practical, inspiring examples of how language educators around the world are engaging students with nature and climate issues – helping them imagine, and perhaps shape, a better future.

But what does better really mean?

It’s a relative term. While most of us want to believe in a brighter future, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the mounting evidence that the road ahead looks deeply challenging. This isn’t a call to give up. And we absolutely need to continue bearing down on the production of greenhouse gases. Rather, it might be time to shift our perspective. Perhaps the goal now is not to create an objectively better future, but to make the future less bad than it could otherwise be.

This shift brings tough questions – about hope, resilience, and motivation – particularly for educators tasked with preparing students for the world ahead.

In this light, we recommend reading a thought-provoking piece by Rupert Read of the Climate Majority Project. In it, he argues:

“The true power of the climate movement is now to admit our own powerlessness.”

It’s a stark but important point. By letting go of false optimism, we free ourselves from the exhausting effort of maintaining denial about the reality of our predicament. That emotional energy, Read suggests, can be redirected – toward more meaningful action, deeper connection, and more honest engagement with our students and communities.

You can read the full article here: The true power of the climate movement is now to admit our own powerlessness

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Community action

Less Machine, More Garden

The urban garden at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales | Flickr

A terrific article from the ever interesting Open Democracy website on resisting ‘machine mind’ in creating a better future.

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Community action

Climbing out of Covid-19

Many of the responses to Covid-19 are also good for the planet: see here. Let’s take advantage of this crisis to *not* return to business as usual. Here are some ideas:

      • Instal protected cycleways across Britain,
      • Create safe Mini-Holland neighbourhoods
      • Mass installation of solar-panels
      • Insulate all UK homes
      • Plant vast new biodiversity rich forests
      • Restore our precious peat-bogs
      • Build fleets of electric buses and emergency vehicles
      • Electrify our railways
      • Convert heavy industry to renewable hydrogen
      • Build great new offshore windfarms
      • Fund the switch to soil protecting organic agriculture
      • Re-create community orchards and allotments

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