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Educational resources for Sustainability
Professional Development Topics and Descriptions Facing the Future provides inservice workshops, consulting, and webinars for teachers at the state, district, school, and department level. Workshops run from 1 hour to multi-day sessions and can be tailored to meet specific needs and interests. Email us for more information or pricing.
The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
Consumption in a Sustainable World Workshop, June 2-3, 1998, Kabelvaag, Norway International Institute for Environment and Development [ www.iied.org ]. May 2002, ICLEI-Canada. [link] Residents of Curitiba, Brazil, think they live in the best city in the world, and a lot of outsiders agree. million now. He provided 1.5 October 1992.
The Green Changemakers - Saturday, April 17, 2010
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Sustainable Urban Development
Image credit: Mia Lehrer + Associates, Civitas, Inc., Wenk Associates, Tetra Tech, Inc. Diverse public and private partnerships should be used to create livable communities that protect historic, cultural, and environmental resources. Marc A. As communities plan for growth and change, in-fill and redevelopment should utilize existing infrastructure.
The Green Changemakers - Sunday, March 28, 2010
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  • Engaging a More Intimate Economy
    The potlatch ceremony was viewed as wasteful and unproductive by the European colonizers and was outlawed in 1885 in the United States and Canada. She offers workshops, telecourses and financial coaching for individuals and couples and is dedicated to creating a resilient local economy and a complementary currency. What’s missing?
    The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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  • Goal of Bhutan, 'Gross National Happiness'
    The founder of the Sloth Club, an ecology and "Slow Life" NGO, he gives lectures and workshops on social and environmental issues. His books in English include The Other Japan (co-authored by David Suzuki and originally published in Canada and Australia as The Japan We Never Knew ) and Rowing the Eternal Sea. units. First, be local.
    The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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  • Soft Star Shoes
    of the shoes purchased in the USA and Canada are imported from Asia or South America - often made with unhealthy and/or polluting processes and unfair labor practices. In our workshop we use no dangerous chemicals or dyes in our manufacturing processes. My daughter loves the shoes she received from Soft Star Shoes. Over 99.9%
    Green Earth Journey - Thursday, June 25, 2009
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  • Sustainable Urban Development
    Image credit: Mia Lehrer + Associates, Civitas, Inc., Wenk Associates, Tetra Tech, Inc. Diverse public and private partnerships should be used to create livable communities that protect historic, cultural, and environmental resources. Marc A. As communities plan for growth and change, in-fill and redevelopment should utilize existing infrastructure.
    The Green Changemakers - Sunday, March 28, 2010
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  • Educational resources for Sustainability
    Professional Development Topics and Descriptions Facing the Future provides inservice workshops, consulting, and webinars for teachers at the state, district, school, and department level. Workshops run from 1 hour to multi-day sessions and can be tailored to meet specific needs and interests. Email us for more information or pricing.
    The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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  • What If We Built Our Cities Around Places?
    Several other towns in the region conducted their own workshops and experiments after watching the results. BOULEVARDS Montreal, Canada: Boulevard Saint Laurent Summertime brings frequent festivals to Montreal's main drag. PPS announces its new Great Cities Initiative, which applies the principles of Placemaking to entire cities.
    The Green Changemakers - Sunday, December 6, 2009
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  • e-Books on Green Productivity
    Lynn Johannson of Canada was commissioned by the APO to produce this pocket guide as a user friendly tool. These materials have so far been used in many of the APO's multi-country workshops and by the national productivity organizations (NPOs) in their in-country GP programs. Click here to download the whole book. Part I. Part I.
    The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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  • Local Currencies in the Twenty-First Century:
    Over the next decade, Hours programs spread in over 50 communities throughout the United States and Canada engaging citizens in the discussion of creating their own regional monetary systems. LETS (Local Economic Trading Systems) Michael Linton founded the first LETS program in the early 1980s on Vancouver Island in Canada. The E.
    The Green Changemakers - Friday, February 22, 2008
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  • Tools for campaigers - Action ideas
    Group functioning & communications NVC: Our guide to non-violent communication Jo and Liz took an NVC workshop at the European Social Forum and learnt a ton. Holding Meetings (word doc) Thanks to our friends at Otesha Canada, we've got a fantastic guide to facilitating meetings and making group decisions using a consensus model.
    The Green Changemakers - Sunday, May 24, 2009
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  • A Just Foreign Policy Resource Guide
    It offers support groups, workshops, and trainings around the country. The group provides trainings and workshops, news, perspectives, and information on a vast range of peacebuilding and dialogue projects and happenings. Its lesson plans cover a range of foreign policy and international issues, from analyzing U.S. What do we think?
    The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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