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How to Add Zest to Your Sustainability Education Program
Could using permaculture principles in education help create an educational environment that is as full of productivity, beauty, and joy as a permaculture-inspired garden? Applied to an educational program, it tells us to teach the main ideas first, working our way later to covering details. Building with cob. Toss the ball.
The Green Changemakers - Saturday, July 3, 2010
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Can We Use Biomimicry To Design Cities? Janine Benyus Says Yes
Ecological Performance Standards Benyus and her team have been developing the concept of designing cities to an 'ecological performance standard', looking at the original topography of the locale and working out the metrics of how the natural environment should perform. Tags: Management Urban Education Eco-design
The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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Is Population a Problem?
Nine times out of ten, this person is white, older, of at least middle-class income, and well educated. While raising the living standards of the growing populations in developing countries is a certainly a desirable goal, it will likely worsen the planet’s ecosystems. Or is overconsumption the real planetary threat? It does not.
The Green Changemakers - Thursday, June 10, 2010
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  • Training manuals and education resources on sustainability
    Through the Ecological Footprint framework, educators learn how to help students understand cumulative environmental impacts. They offered their integration strategies, what standards they addressed, barriers to integration, student reactions, and success stories. The Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plans The U.S. top of page.
    The Green Changemakers - Sunday, February 17, 2008
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  • Environmental Education
    Environmental education projects are an ideal way to diversify your curriculum, try group teaching strategies, and bring the real world into the classroom in a strong academic context. What kinds of support are available in your school, district and community for supporting environmental educational activities? Critical Questions 1.
    The Green Changemakers - Thursday, May 28, 2009
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  • Water Education Resources
    Estuaries.gov Estuaries.gov helps educators bring the beauty and importance of estuaries into classrooms and educational programs. Fairfax Water Fairfax Water, Virginia's largest water utility, has an educational resources page for both students and educators. Tags: Water Education P.O.V.'s The idea behind P.O.V.'s
    The Green Changemakers - Friday, April 3, 2009
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  • Holistic Education - An Introduction
    [link] The highest function of education is to bring about an integrated individual who is capable of dealing with life as a whole. Krishnamurti Purpose of Holistic Education The purpose of holistic education is to prepare students to meet the challenges of living as well as academics. Why Holistic Education? Resilience.
    The Green Changemakers - Friday, June 19, 2009
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  • Environmental Education Curricula Library
    The curricula listed on this webpage have been selected in light of their adherence to state, national, or NAAEE educational standards and are thus suitable for classroom use. Tags: Environment Water Energy Recycling Education Forest Click on a topic below to view lesson plans.
    The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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  • The Whole Child Initiative
    The 21st century demands a highly skilled, educated work force and citizenry unlike any we have seen before. These demands require a new and better way of approaching education policy and practice—a whole child approach to learning, teaching, and community engagement. 21st Century Standards 2. Tags: Future Education
    The Green Changemakers - Thursday, August 13, 2009
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  • Education for Sustainability
    The Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainable living. The Center for Ecoliteracy recognizes that learning to think systemically is critical to education for sustainability. In practice, this shift can lead to seeking more comprehensive forms of assessment besides standardized testing. by Fritjof Capra.
    The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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  • Peace Education for Sustainable Development
    of Education, Gauhati University. ABSTRACT ‘The world could be transformed and peace would reign if the basis of Education is knowledge wielded by love and value for sustainable development’. Education is the single most important means for empowerment and sustained improvement in all well being. Higher education - Objectives.
    The Green Changemakers - Sunday, June 7, 2009
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  • Meditation, Social Change, and Education
    What the critics are asking for, among other things, is a type of education that teaches the student how “to live as a person.in The roots of this approach, which insists that education deal with the whole person, lie in ancient thought. Meditation, Social Change, and Undergraduate Education by Steven C. 270 A.D.), 124-30.
    The Green Changemakers - Friday, April 2, 2010
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  • What Is Cap & Trade: Understanding the Waxman-Markley Climate Bill
    According to the bill’s summary, companies will be required to adhere to increasingly tough standards on energy consumption. Tagged: cap and trade program, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions standards, climate bill, greenhouse gases, Obama Green Intiative, US energy policy, Waxman-Markley Climate and Energy Bill.
    Green Life Smart Life - Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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