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The Bite Size Blogger Collective is revisiting the young people’s syllabus of hope produced by an international youth group immediatley  after the Rio 1992 environment summit. 

The Schools in Communities Agenda 21 Network (SCAN) was a spin off from this in Wales, where it was funded by Texaco, the Countryside Council for Wales and Dyfed County Council.

SCAN now exists as three Google Sites, ( nowSCAN ,  Rescue Mission Planet Wales and Skomer Island). 

SCAN also led to the schools phenology network managed by the National Museum in Cardiff, SCAN Spring Bulbs For Schools.

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