The Lusophone Environmental Education Network (Redeluso) was founded in 2005, in Portugal, during the days of the Portuguese Environmental Education Association (ASPEA). In 2006, some of its members met for the first time in person in Joinville, Brazil, during the V Ibero-American Congress on Environmental Education. In this event, we decided to hold periodic congresses, which had the chronology:
2007 - Santiago de Compostela, Galicia
2013 - Cuiabá, MT, Brazil
2015 - Torreira, Murtosa, Portugal
2017 - Príncipe Island, São Tomé and Príncipe
At all events, we made efforts to have the presence of participants from the eight Portuguese-speaking countries: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor. In addition, we try to guarantee Portuguese-speaking locations, such as Galicia or Hong Kong.
The next event is planned to take place in Guinea Bissau, in the year 2019. Our hope was to bring together people with a similar idiomatic identity, capable of feeling, thinking and doing environmental education in our own languages, ways, habits and culture. We recognize that identity is not fixed, it is changing as our culture becomes more dynamic, and it is not confined to grammatical or orthographic rules, but to a mosaic of networks and threads in the fabric of new organizations and ethnographic rearrangements.
So is the proposal of the magazine AmbientalMente Sustentable (AMS), which has Araceli Serantes-Pazos and Carlos Vales-Vázquez as chief editors very talented in creating and maintaining the magazine. Adding many experiences and becoming a world reference in the field of environmental education, AMS opened its doors to receive the records of knowledge produced during the IV International Congress on Environmental Education of Portuguese-speaking countries and communities, which took place in 2017, on Príncipe Island, in São Tomé and Príncipe. Thus, this special issue counts on the ad hoc Committee of Consultants of the Federal University of Mato Grosso.