Friends of the Earth Germany

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The Association for the Environment and Nature Protection of Germany (BUND) is the German branch of Friends of the Earth. Founded in 1975 as a federation of pre-existing regional groups, BUND has its origins in the nature conservation movement. Today it is one of the most powerful environmental organisations in Germany. The 375,000 BUND members and supporters (active in about 2,200 local and regional groups) are working on all of today’s major environmental issues and so BUND is a well-recognised lobbyist with a high environmental profressional expertise and large media profile.

The BUND Working Group on Environmental Education supports the BUND agencies at state and national level, providing advice to volunteers in different functions and represents the Association in various specialist committees. A stakeholders’ network is run via an Environmental Education map and through national meetings of the Working Group. Education for Sustainable Development has become a focus of our work today: how can you teach environmental issues adequately to all age groups? Participation, global thinking and acting, linked knowledge and participation skills are the cornerstones of this issue. Interdisciplinary and action-oriented procedures as well as innovative concepts are needed to initiate just and ecological development. For this reason the national Working Group took for example part in the development of a climate musical for children.

Contact:
Association for the Environment and Nature Protection of
Germany, Friends of the Earth Germany
Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V. (BUND)
BUND-Bundesgeschäftsstelle
Am Köllnischen Park 1
10179 Berlin, Germany

Person to contact: Birgit Eschenlohr
birgit.eschenlohr@bund.net

phone + 49 7351-12204

http://www.bund.net/ak-umweltbildung
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