Sustainable Footprint

about this project

The project SUSTAINABLE FOOTPRINT was inspired by the idea of the “Ecological footprint” of Wackernagel and Rees (1996). It was designed to deepen and broaden the idea of the ‘ecological footprint’ and make it into a good tool for students’ exchanges, especially between the richer en the poorer countries in the world.
After a pilot project on the ‘footprint’ idea during a school exchange e-linQ started developing the ‘footprint’ as an international, interactive digital project.
Workshops in Indonesia also helped developing a model that applies to schools both in the rich western counties and in schools in developing countries. Currently colleagues in Indonesia are working on assignments adapted to their school system, like the latest workshop in Bandung, organised by David Sutasaryo on Earth Day 2003. We hope to be able to add material from other parts of the world too. There are already contacts in Peru.

e-linQ is a young NGO, working on educational material, mostly around ICT, Internationalization and Environmental Education, with close contacts to schools, to teachers' education and to international educational institutions (like European Virtual School and UNESCO).

The development of this project was supported by the NCDO (the Netherlands’ Organization for Sustainable Development, the Ministry of Education, and the Provinces of Brabant and Limburg.

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Sustainable Footprint
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