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Welcome to 'Cosmos Templates'
 We should... "use the power of photography to overcome our numbness, our lethargy; to use the qualities of the visual
image to move us and reawaken our understanding of the urgency of the issues that confront us". Kofi Annan. This site promotes the study of multi-subject organised syllabuses for learning about how to function as an involved citizen in a world dominated by issues linking ecology and culture. These environmental cross-subject, multifaith issues involve defining the integrity of nature at the levels of minds, lives and habits.
COSMOS germinated in the 1990s when a group of Welsh teachers began to move towards a more locally based and neighbourhood focused education. This idea, under the project title 'Biodiversity Action on Industrial Sites' (BAIS) was funded by the EC LIFE Environment Programme on the premise that traditional subject based teaching is an impediment to making and operating community action plans for sustainability. This led to the creation of the subject of cultural ecology for balancing our use of natural resources with environmental management to maintain them for future generations. The idea was to explore the wider ecological base of communities in an industrialised landscape. This area of landscape ecology was described as a Special Area of Environmental Conservation (SEAS).
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