Sustainability education: why it hasn't worked || Mai Shalaby

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Mai Shalaby is an educator and sustainability professional with more than ten years of work experience in both fields. She has worked in Egypt, India, Kenya, and now the UAE on education programmes with people of almost all ages, from kindergarten to adults and everything in between. The programs she worked on span various fields such as environmental conservation, cultural exchange and diplomacy, business management and consulting, agriculture and food security, and natural resource management. She is passionate about education and the environment and sees their confluence as key to a sustainable future.

Article behind this Podcast: https://thirtytonetzero.com/index.php/op-eds/item/352-sustainability-in-education.

Podcast resources.

• Kenya project: https://lpct.or.ke/
  • Rising urbanization: https://www.migrationdataportal.org/themes/urbanization-and-migration
  • FT article on modular education: https://www.ft.com/content/96e8099a-0154-4f31-beb1-d66ffa9837d6
  • Education creates virtuous cycles: https://www.economist.com/international/2022/06/01/climate-change-is-harder-on-less-educated-people.
  • WEF video on the three countries with climate education: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/world-economic-forum_these-countries-have-put-the-climate-crisis-activity-6989646624725549057-uoFw/?trk=public_profile_like_view&originalSubdomain=ng
  • BS Index in FT “Forget ESG, Bring on the BS Index”: https://www.ft.com/content/9a6dfa08-1efc-4e70-8e4c-056edd663078?accessToken=zwAAAYEFmo5kkdOabfoIHvxOcNOOTAVu3WYweA.MEUCIQDcouu8xc7lNtXjrnEm4G_CtkLemg9dK4-g7lip3mHyCAIgQtANcciiGtDwSQyPbj5gDy8iK9LPzhXOPYAm9sO850c&sharetype=gift?token=98946ab8-a47a-4a23-a620-90e8c07ecc85.

Get in touch with Mai.

• Current company: https://www.falconandassociates.ae/en/
• Current project: https://dubaibusinessassociates.ae/
• Past projects: https://www.biosaline.org/projects/expo-live-project-phase-ii-desert-farm-fork-value-chain-development-innovative-halophyte; https://www.emiratessoilmuseum.org/
• LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mai-shalaby-5a691a1a/
• Emails: [e-mail] ; [e-mail]

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