NEWS

Stay up to date with the latest news, events, and developments from The Ecoliteracy Hub. Here, you’ll also find inspiring stories about ecoliteracy initiatives and progress from around the world. Explore our outreach and dissemination activities as we work to promote sustainable thinking and learning.

Self-sufficiency — Rediscovering Freedom, Meaning, and Connection Through Doing

In the new Green Minds episode, Esther Vallado explores self-sufficiency with Max from El Mandala. Through lived experience and permaculture practice, they discuss how meeting basic needs can build resilience, confidence, and more sustainable ways of living.

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Green Minds podcast explores futures literacy with Anita Silva

In this Green Minds episode, Esther Vallado explores futures literacy with Anita Silva, examining how imagination, uncertainty, and agency help learners move beyond fear and take meaningful action for long-term ecological and social well-being.

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A Journey Into Slowness, Senses and Belonging

In our latest podcast episode, forest therapy guide Dagna Gmitrowitz explores what promoting nature really means—remembering that we are part of it. Through simple practices and inclusive projects, she shows how small moments of connection can restore balance, awareness, and care for life.

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Green Minds podcast explores Supporting Fairness with Henrique Gonçalves

In this episode of Green Minds, host Esther Vallado dives into Supporting Fairness — an eco-competence essential for equitable and inclusive sustainability.

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New Green Minds podcast episode: Individual Initiative as an Eco-Competence

In this episode of Green Minds, Kriszta Vásárhelyi talks with social artist Gábor Tóth about individual initiative as a key eco-competence, exploring how inner questions, dissatisfaction and community action can spark meaningful social and ecological change.

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Rethinking Growth: A Conversation with Logan Strenchock

The new Green Minds episode features Logan Strenchock, a leading voice in Hungary’s degrowth movement. Drawing on community food systems and lived experience, he explains why moving beyond endless growth can lead to greater wellbeing, connection, and fairer futures.

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Exploratory Thinking – Reawaken Our Innate Curiosity

Meet Dr. Zsóka Vásárhelyi, evolutionary biologist, in a thoughtful episode on exploratory thinking. She shares how childlike curiosity, slowing down, and citizen science—like the Mosquito Monitor project—help us understand ecological change and imagine better futures.

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“Green Minds” podcast explores holistic awareness with Sebastian Burch

In the first episode of “Green Minds”, host Esther Vallado is joined by educator and holistic sciences graduate Sebastian Burch for a deep, inspiring conversation on Holistic Awareness. Together they explore how true sustainability goes beyond tools and data to include intuition, embodied knowing, emotions and meaning. Through personal stories from shepherding and education, Sebastian shows what becomes possible when we see ourselves as part of the living world. A thoughtful and hopeful episode about learning with head, hands, and heart — and why this matters for regenerative futures.

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Launching “Green Minds: Journeys Towards Ecoliteracy” – A New Podcast Series from the Ecoliteracy Hub

Green Minds: Journeys Towards Ecoliteracy is a new podcast by the Ecoliteracy Hub exploring ecoliteracy as a lived practice. Through conversations with educators, practitioners, and change-makers, Season 1 dives into 8 key competences shaping just and sustainable futures.

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Strengthening Eco-Competences Through Hands-On Learning

Discover our practical collection of eco-competence–based learning activities,from quick energizers to longer, 45+ minute sessions. Easy to search and enriched with educator tips, these tools support teachers and trainers in designing inspiring, ecoliteracy-focused learning processes.

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Growing a Europe-Wide Community of Eco-Trainers

Meet the vision behind our Pool of Eco-Trainers, a Europe-wide community with diverse experiences in ecological education. Through long-term trainings and collaboration, we’re building a network of professionals dedicated to strengthening eco-competences and sustainability learning.

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Building a sustainable future with young people

Education plays a key role in sustainability – not only in shaping awareness but in driving real transformation.  The article highlights how reconnecting with nature and ourselves can become part of education and help young people build a life-sustaining society.

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Ecoliteracy – Fundamental Competences for the Present and the Future

We believe that education is the key to an ecologically conscious and thriving future. In this article, you can read about what ecoliteracy actually means and why we find it crucial to talk about.

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Cultivating Ecoliteracy across Europe: our journey

Ten years of collaboration, learning, and designing The Ecoliteracy Hub to promote ecoliteracy across Europe.

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