Going Global
Reinventing human behavior leading toward climate protection is a global problem. From local politics and community activism to transnational advocacy networks and international research programs, how we create and share knowledge is also changing. Knowledge enables individuals to act in the moment causing small changes that collectively make for global impact. Knowledge also enables groups, organizations, and nation-states to shape and influence policy affecting the human condition. Never before has knowledge developed as fast, changed more quickly, been shared by more people and been more central to the dynamics of decision making affecting the global climate change. Connectivism and networked learning are essential to this goal.
In parallel with the program to install the first work in San José, the team will share the concept globally. Tools will be developed to help other communities build their own versions of the Climate Clock and to interconnect them forming an international data resource for use by individuals, schools, universities and NGO’s to permanently reduce our collective carbon footprint. How we learn, how we modify behavior, how we collaborate will require both a response to local communities and their conditions and involvement in shaping the roles and responsibilities of transnational advocacy networks. From Brazil to India and China to Silicon Valley, the Climate Clock represents an international system of information exchange and knowledge building.
The Climate Clock initiative embraces the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, for which UNESCO is the lead agency: “to integrate the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning. This educational effort will encourage changes in behavior that will create a more sustainable future in terms of environmental integrity, economic viability, and a just society for present and future generations”.
To accomplish this goal the Climate Clock leadership team will retain control over the concept. This is to ensure that all climate clocks meet the same objectives for durability and their function as instruments of change ensure that information measurement and analysis processes can be integrated into a shared global data resource. Additionally, the Climate Clock leadership will work with international cultural organizations and research institutions to coordinate Climate Clock projects specific to their communities and cities.