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ELT Footprint & the Global Climate Strike
Join ELT Footprint in our support for the Global Climate Strike!
As thousands of people around the world plan to join forces to raise awareness of the climate crisis in a week of climate action, starting with the international school strike on September 20 and culminating in the global climate strike on September 27, we’d like to invite ELT Footprint community members to join in from wherever you are in the world, taking whichever non-violent action you believe can have the most impact.
Guest Post: The Accidental Andean Land Project – Part 2
This is the second part in a two-part blog post by Katy Cory-Wright about a regeneration project she and her husband have undertaken in Ecuador. In part 1, Katy describes how the project came about. In Part 2, she shares a fascinating insider’s view on the practicalities of land regeneration.
Guest Post: The Accidental Andean Land Project – Part 1
We’re very happy to welcome Kate Cory-Wright to the blog. Kate is a teacher, trainer and materials writer based in Ecuador. She is a founding member of our Facebook group . In the first of a series of two blog posts, she explains how she set up the Accidental Andean Land Project. (You can read part 2 here.)
Greening ELT : FECEI
In the third post in our Greening ELT series, we would like to thank Scott Markham, president of the Spanish organisation, FECEI (Federación Española de Centros de Enseñanza de Idiomas, Spanish Federation of Language Schools) for sharing an update on the organisation’s most recent initiatives.
Greening ELT : JALT
In the second post in our Greening ELT series, we would like to thank Brent Simmonds, Jennie Roloff Rothman and Mark Brierley from the Japan Association for Language Teaching for sharing a report outlining the history of the JALT Environmental Committee.
Greening ELT : TESOL-SPAIN
We’re very pleased to be able to share this article by Rebecca Place, media officer for TESOL-SPAIN (Spain’s national teachers’ association), where she shares details of some of the initiatives the association have been developing over the last few years. This is the first post in a series, Greening ELT, where we’ll be sharing information about how various organisations and associations are taking action to be more sustainable.
Guest post: Teacher Training & its ELT Footprint
We’re really pleased to be able to welcome Nicola Meldrum to our ELT Footprint blog. Nicola is based in Barcelona and is a freelance teacher trainer and materials writer. She is one of our founding members on the Facebook group and has been active in our on-going projects. In this post she talks about the Charter for a Greener Classroom and its use on training courses.
Presenting the Conference Survival Kit
In a conversation about a week ago, we were talking about conferences and footprints and environmental impact. It’s a topic that crops up again and again in the ELT Footprint group and in conversations that are going on around the edges of the group. In this particular conversation, the idea of a “conference survival kit” was suggested. This would be a kind of zero waste kit, enabling conference-goers to reject one-use plastic and paper and reduce their footprint as much as possible in terms of generating waste (which in turn of course means generating less carbon both in the production of the one-use items we’re rejecting and in the subsequent waste-management processes).
