(Manual) Our voices, our planet by Laura Chocontá https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw Learning for Democracy and Sustainability en-us 2021-09-23 14:15:06 UTC 2025-12-23 11:47:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f30d.png Why are we dealing with this topic? lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763806971 - “Explain” sustainability (keywords: planetary boundaries, pillars model, Pachamama / Buen
Vivir / Rights of Mother Earth, Agenda 2030, SDGs, participation as an important factor for
sustainability); Do we consider humans separate from nature or as part of it?
- “Explain” democracy (keywords: rule of majority, negotiation)
- How do democracy and sustainability influence each other?
- Can it make sense to undermine fundamental rights for the sake of sustainability?
- Briefly mention that there are different forms of participation from easy or small ones to big
ones etc.
- Mention that sustainability is already included in some constitutions
- Broader concept of education: informing oneself, informing others, it is important to know how to get involved, asking for different perspectives]]> 2021-09-23 18:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763806971 Why are we dealing in this topic? lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763814176 - Populist movements, evangelical movements, or others that use supposed nature conservation to establish "right-wing" communities
- Front line defenders; “Show” how activists or local communities empower and resist
- One principle of democracy is freedom of expression>> possibility to promote sustainability
- How is civil society "hindered" by bureaucratic means (difficulty in getting donations, non-profit status withdrawn, accounts closed, etc.) and serious threats (murder, etc.); briefly
introduce the keyword “Shrinking space”
- Positive example of how the space is used that the society has (grassroots movements, processes of change)
- Take up advocacy work and policy dialogue in the framework of the examples of participation
- Lobbying, lobbying associations weaken civil society
- Take up corruption as a topic in this module?]]> 2021-09-23 18:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763814176 Why are we dealing with this topic? lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763819924 - Who needs to sit at the table? (means: Who needs to be part of decision-making processes?)
Who do we need for which things? Who has access difficulties? What positive examples already exist?
1. Who is missing in formal contexts? (e.g. parliaments etc.)
2. Who is missing in the movements?
- Intergenerational dialogue (When it comes to decisions concerning the future, youth must be at the table)
- What are the basic requirements for participation? Why do some people not participate? How can we get them on board? (Keyword "empowerment", but empowerment can also be
a cross-cutting topic in the manual) Who do we not perceive and why? "Who is not visible, is not there".
- Name 3-4 examples of “groups” who have difficulties participating and give also positive examples and mention, that we can’t mention all marginalized people/groups (possibilities: young people – Fridays for future, Indigenous people and/or indigenous women, refugees,
women, LGBTQ, socially or educationally disadvantaged people); participation of rural society]]> 2021-09-23 18:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763819924 Why are we dealing with this topic? lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763831709 - Resource equity, access to resources, exploitation of resources
- How can people be involved?
- How can democratic processes contribute to the protection of resources?
- To what extent does climate change / unsustainable governance endanger democracy?
- What are common goods? What should be common goods? Should there be a price?
- Commons, Allmende
- Maybe an example of the inclusion of sustainability in the constitution (e.g. Ecuador); critical
questioning: only inclusion in the law is not necessarily enough (see Yasuní)
- Awareness building to point out what is happening and what possibilities there are to act
against it, what rights one has
- Extractivism
- Climate crisis
- Climate resilience
- Energy transition]]> 2021-09-23 18:40:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763831709 Why are we dealing with this topic? lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763834030 - What forms of economy are needed?
- More democratic forms of economy: e.g. cooperatives, share economy (sharing, exchanging, repairing)
- Economy for the common good
- Community supported agriculture
- Ethical investment
- Degrowth
- maybe Fair Trade, Supply Chain Management
- Land grabbing
- Multinational companies benefiting from gaps (in laws) in other countries
- Postcolonialism, colonial continuities]]> 2021-09-23 18:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763834030 Why are we dealing with this topic? lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763838178 - What role do media and information technologies play? (opinion-forming etc.); digital self-determination, Who has access to which data? Fake news, defamation (and Hate Crime and Hate Speech)
- How can digital formats promote or influence democracy and sustainability?; Formats of digital democracy, e.g. democratization process via social media, petition, a digital tool to support communities
- Restriction of the internet, freedom of the press, equalization of the press
- Resources in digitalization (many resources needed >> not sustainable)
- Monopolisation; some big players (e.g. Google) and a few of them with their own guidelines]]> 2021-09-23 18:43:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763838178 Why are we dealing with this topic? lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763840427 - How do I want to live?
- Designing your own living space/surrounding/community/city
- Vision workshop
- Handprint]]> 2021-09-23 18:44:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763840427 Democracy in the digital age: Robin Sontheimer at TEDxDelftRobin lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763858694 Democracy in the digital age: Robin Sontheimer at TEDxDelft
Sontheimer is a 'strategic designer' studying at TU Delft, currently writing his Master’s Thesis on new ways of political participation. His favorite question is 'why...?' and he believes that if nowadays everything is possible, the opposite is too. In the video, he shares his views on how digital tools can provide alternative participation mechanisms for democratic decision-making. 
]]> 2021-09-23 18:53:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763858694 Facebook’s role in Brexit – and the threat to democracy. lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763867908 The threat of democracy in the use of private date to manipulate individual (and, therefore, mases) decision-making]]> 2021-09-23 18:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763867908 Fake news is about to get much worse. Here's a solution | Aviv Ovadya | TEDxMileHigh. lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763872863 Fake news as a challenge for democracy and sustainability]]> 2021-09-23 19:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763872863 1,5 Grad lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763873906 very good podcast, unfortunately only in German, from Louisa Neubauer, one of the Voices of Fridays for Future, on Democracy, climate change, youth participation]]> 2021-09-23 19:01:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763873906 Article: Democracy and sustainability: A lesson learned from modern nature conservation lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763879493 Citation: 
Clausen, Laura Tolnov & Hansen, Hans Peter & Tind, Espen. (2010). Democracy and sustainability: A lesson learned from modern nature conservation. 229-247.]]> 2021-09-23 19:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763879493 Universal declaration of the rights of rivers lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763880969 2021-09-23 19:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763880969 UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763933260 2021-09-23 19:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763933260 Article in “The Guardian”: Historic-German-ruling-says-climate-goals-not-tough-enough lchocontav https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763934151 Germany’s supreme constitutional court has ruled that the government’s climate protection measures are insufficient to protect future generations, after a complaint brought by young people, supported by environmentalist groups.

]]> 2021-09-23 19:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1763934151 FuturZwei gabrielejanecki_vnb https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1780753629 Journal with a lot of good articles on Democracy and Sustainability. Unfortunately only in German]]> 2021-09-30 08:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1780753629 Global Ideas, Deutsche Welle gabrielejanecki_vnb https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1780765535 Here are a lot of interesting articles, videos, teaching materials etc. on sustainability and democracy in general, but also good examples of action for the other modules.

The website is available in German, Englisch and Spanish]]> 2021-09-30 08:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1780765535 Living Planet: Environment stories from around the globe, Deutsche Welle gabrielejanecki_vnb https://padlet.com/lchocontav/v838ldv41zcgx6zw/wish/1780774025 Every Thursday, a new episode of the prize-winning, half-hour radio program and podcast brings you environment stories from around the world, digging deeper into topics that touch our lives every day.


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