Our TechGirls kicked off their adventure with three days in New York City, organized by Legacy International whose mission is to strengthen civil society and foster peace-building and conflict resolution worldwide.

WHITEHOUSE: @TechGirls: Brilliant, Fearless and Passionate

As an advocate for religious freedom in full and religious freedom for all, the new pope can help to strengthen civil society and its free institutions, which are both elementary schools of democracy and barriers against the encroachment of the Leviathan state.

WSJ: What to Look for in a New Pope

Other challenges include the absence of a consensus on what ESD means, confusion regarding the differences between environmental education and ESD, the need to adapt legislative and policy frameworks to integrate ESD, scarcity of appropriate ESD teaching tools and research, and the need to strengthen civil society involvement in governance at multiple levels (e.g. school, community, region and country).

UNESCO: Education