Engaging Students in Climate Action Through Microcredentials, with Mark Blakemore of Big Pond Education

In this episode, co-host Amy Marcus speaks with Mark Blakemore of Big Pond Education about the value of carbon literacy, climate education and microcredentials on international programs.

Resources:

• Big Pond Education: https://www.bigpondeducation.org/ 

• Big Zero Microcredential: https://www.big-zero.org/  

• The Forum on Education Abroad’s Advancing the SDGS award: https://www.forumea.org/award-for-advancing-the-sdgs-through-education-abroad.html

• EUASA’s Climate Conscious Study Abroad: An Operational Guide (co-authored by today’s guest, Mark Blakemore): https://studyabroadclimate.guide/

• Hillary Clinton on “The Weaponization of Loneliness”: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/hillary-clinton-essay-loneliness-epidemic/674921/ 

  Zeroverse: https://zeroverse.org/index.html