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Education for Change is a quarterly newsletter of the Centre for Environment Education, India. EfC seeks to share views and experiences of education for sustainability
CEE as ENVIS Centre on Environmental Education
CEE, the ENVIS Centre on Environmental Education, caters to the information needs of environmental educators and other interested groups, through five means:
- Green Teacher the website for the ENVIS Centre on EE
- Query-Response Service to respond to information requests on any aspect of EE.
- Education for Change a quarterly newsletter to disseminate information on EE and ESD.
- EE Bank, a computerized database of concepts, activities, case studies and other resources
- CEE-Information Service Centre (CEE-ISC), a collection of books, periodicals and a variety of non-print materials (Some of the databases are available on the Green Teacher website)
CEE as ENVIS Node on EE for Biomedical Waste Management
CEE as the node on environmental education for biomedical waste management, caters to the information needs of stakeholders, through the following means:
- Linkages with information in the country and abroad for enhancing the information base on biomedical waste management.
- Supplying information on queries related to biomedical waste management, in the form of copies of published reports, documents, abstracts and research papers.
- Gradually building up an inventory of information and material
- Identifying data gaps and knowledge gaps in the subject area and taking suitable action to fill these gaps.
- www.bmwmindia.org, the website on biomedical waste management.
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 ENVIS (Environmental Information System) is a programme of the Government of India, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). It is a decentralized network of distributed subject-oriented Centres integrating national efforts in environmental information collection, collation, storage, retrieval and dissemination. It comprises a Focal Point at the Ministry of Environment and Forests, and ENVIS Centres set up in different organizations/ establishments in the country, dealing with specific subject matter areas pertaining to the environment. Besides ENVIS Centres, MoEF has also set up 91 ENVIS Nodes, under the World Bank assisted Environment Management Capacity Building Technical Assistance Project (EMCBTAP), in order to
Network identified organizations/institutions in the academic, private and NGO sectors and state government departments, who have environmental data and information. Disseminate information through databases on different environment-related subject areas and provide online query response.
For more information on ENVIS and its various Centres and Nodes visit http://envis.nic.in.
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