Video Update: The Case of the Hostel-turned-Club
Anna gives a quick update on the strangeness of our hostel, and what we did on the last day of Youth Blast
Author: aodell
Education for Sustainable Development and Shifting the Paradigms
by Anna Odell One of the issues when dealing with “sustainable development” is the lack of clarity around the term itself. We have spent an entire term working, studying, and understanding text such as the “The Future We Really Want” in depth and grasping the general issues that are relevant for Rio+20. But at times, I feel as though we need to take a step back and look at what we expect...
The (Lack of) Formal Youth Involvement in the Informal-Informals
By Anna Odell Even after spending a term studying sustainable development, the United Nations process, and the Rio+20 conference in depth, when people asked me what exactly I was doing in New York at the informal-informals, I responded with the truth: I had no idea. I could say that I was going to the United Nations negotiations and that I was going to be working with youth from across the world,...