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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? How can we organize this vast material to alleviate a sense of overwhelm on the part of participants who are exposed to so much information? Building with cob.
The Green Changemakers - Saturday, July 3, 2010
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Is Population a Problem?
Trucks and freight trains run day and night, laden with fuel, fish, and food. Jonathan Foley is the director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of the Minnesota, where he is also a professor and McKnight Presidential Chair of Global Ecology and Sustainability. Or is overconsumption the real planetary threat? Earths.
The Green Changemakers - Thursday, June 10, 2010
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Places of Change wins silver for 500 homeless and disadvantaged gardeners at Chelsea
The Garden is the largest ever in the history of the event. The “Places of Change garden” part of an ambitious collaboration between national regeneration agency the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), Communities and Local Government (CLG), the Eden Project, the national membership charity Homeless Link, and the London Employer Accord.
Green (Living) Review - Saturday, May 29, 2010
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  • Training manuals and education resources on sustainability
    Training Manuals “Thinking Critically about Environmental Impacts throughout History” is a workshop developed for history and social studies teachers who want to incorporate the scientific and social aspects of using renewable resources into classroom teaching. Both complete sections and individual handouts are available for download.
    The Green Changemakers - Sunday, February 17, 2008
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  • HM Queen Elizabeth takes train
    We all know how HRH Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, runs an organic farming estate in the Dutchy of Cornwall and especially how he is for the environment and forests. Whether this is due to the recession hitting the Royal household's purse too or simply because she is going “green” we do not know.
    Green (Living) Review - Saturday, December 19, 2009
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  • Organic agriculture - one of the most promising options to meet global challenges
    Secretary-General of United Nations Trade Organisation Extols Organics The Secretary-General of UNCTAD (UN Conference on Trade & Development), Supachai Panitchpakdi, stated recently that organic agriculture was one of the most promising options to solve the world’s current farming problems.
    The Green Changemakers - Monday, October 20, 2008
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  • Human Diversity Makes Sustainable Organizations
    would like to talk about what human diversity means and about the features of communities and organizations that consider human diversity. Severity of Society without Diversity - Bitter Lessons Learned from Disaster Two years ago, I established an organization called the Institute for Human Diversity Japan. Please leave sometime soon."
    The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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  • Book report "Mining and the environment"
    Recently I have read a book concerning Corporate Social Responsibility which is named as “Mining and the environment”. This, in turn, requires that firms develop new technological and managerial capabilities, technological alliances with equipment suppliers, and collaboration with R&D organizations.
    The Green Changemakers - Friday, November 30, 2007
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  • Greening the Desert
    Food Forests , Fungi , Land , Rehabilitation , Salination , Soil Biology , Swales , Trees — by Craig Mackintosh This is just one example of how permaculture can transform the environment, and, in so doing, dramatically change lives. Tags: Food Organic_farming Permaculture Below is a behind the scenes look at Greening the Desert.
    The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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  • How to make a city green -- without tearing it down
    All these podcars use wheels, which means they need tracks, so cities like Boston might be better served by magnetic levitation technology, similar to that used in high-speed trains. Well-planned small hubs could link these services, much the way urban train stations connect buses, subways, and taxi stands. The answer: retrofitting.
    The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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  • How to Change the World
    We combine participant observation, the primary method of investigation for cultural anthropologists, with service-learning to engage the students in the community while working with tribes, governments, community organizations, cooperatives, and farms to improve sustainability. Tags: Environment Nature Education
    The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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  • Green Hearts and Nature Play
    "The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things." -- Plato Green Hearts is a nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to restoring and strengthening the bonds between children and nature. Tags: Environment Project Nature Education Green Hearts' mission is to help bring it back.
    The Green Changemakers - Thursday, July 23, 2009
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  • A Just Foreign Policy Resource Guide
    Resource Guide on A Just Foreign Policy lists organizations working to abolish nuclear weapons. The following organizations provide guidance and information. Iraq War Veterans Organization provides information and links on education, employment, and counseling resources for returning veterans. is director of this organization.
    The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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