Global Action Plan International

It was a momentous occasion: 65 outstanding ESD practitioners and researchers from 32 countries, gathered in Sweden to ask ourselves: what have we learnt about a pedagogy for sustainable development? Participant Shankar Munafir from India captured some of the action. 

The occasion: the 'Pedagogy for Sustainable Development' Pattern Laboratory held at Visby, Sweden and hosted by SWEDESD and Global Action Plan International. 

David Gershon, the author of Social Change 2.0, is one of the founders of Global Action Plan. This book contains - among many other goodies – a 'potted history' of GAP. 

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GAP International experts
are popular contributors to national and international fora. Topics of papers, lectures and mini-workshops are in the areas of sustainable consumption, sustainable behaviour change at work and in the community, empowerment as a public policy instrument, education for sustainable development.

For instance, speakers and papers have been contributed to events hosted by EU directorates, OECD, UNDP, UNEP, UNECE, the Dutch Ministry of VROM, the Swedish EPA, the US national advisory council for sustainable development, and several regional authorities.

We are all hypnotized, said Willis Harman. Hypnotized into believing we are less than we are, into staring at what is – or may be – impossible.

Empowerment is about adventure, about exploring the largely unknown continent of the possible, both for us and for others. The adventure, this exploration, is as real and tangible as any journey of Magellan or Colum-bus. It takes us into deep space – inner space – and, just like the other form of space travel, brings a new perspective on ourselves and our world; our real world, the neighbourhood and community in which we live.

What is empowerment? – attitude and worldview....