Renowned experts say Science Centres can inspire a better understanding of Global Warming and Sustainability Issues
CNW Group Press Release – 19 June 2008
TORONTO, CANADA: Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Inuit leader, Nobel Prize Nominee, advocate/activist on Arctic climate change, and Dr. Mohamed Hassan, executive director of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, described the dramatic effects of climate change in their respective regions at the 5th Science Centre World Congress, taking place this week at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. In their combined keynote speech, Planet Earth: Living on It, Changing It and Sustaining It, Ms. Watt-Cloutier and Dr. Hassan spoke about the need for more science centres to address sustainability and climate change within local contexts. “We need science centres in the North that present traditional knowledge in equal partnership with Western science,” said Ms. Watt-Cloutier. “Science centres need to be defined by the community’s priorities.” Read the press release… Visit the 5SCWC site…
