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But some begin to carve a course into the hillside, capturing other rivulets that work together to erode deeper and deeper channels, ultimately changing the topography of the hillslope. Science doesn’t advance as a unidirectional monolith, like a glacier carving a valley. Rather, it’s more like thousands of tiny rivulets wending their way through the leaf litter and grasses at the top of a hillside. MORE
I''m back at George Brown College, teaching my 12-week long writing course on how to write science fiction. The course starts April and runs until June-end. Called “Creating Science Fiction”, the course runs Wednesday nights from 6:15 to 9:15 starting September 17 through to December 3 and costs $278. Meant for both beginning writers and those already published, the 12-week course is run like a workshop with student input and feedback on student’s WIPs. MORE
Stephen Brooks is a permaculture expert and festival organizer for the wild and wonderful Envision Festival, along with upcoming permaculture design courses in Costa Rica at the lovely Punta Mona educational center. The post Permaculture Design Courses in Costa Rica at Punta Mona appeared first on Green Living Ideas. Green Lifestyle community Costa Rica Envision Festival herbal medicine permaculture permaculture design course MORE
Check out some of the excellent university courses offered free and on-line. This self-described ‘social entrepreneurship company” partners with top universities to offer free online courses, giving anyone anywhere access to world-class education. Web-based technology enables preeminent professors to teach tens of thousands of students via video lectures, pdf course books you can drop onto your e-reader , links to articles and supplemental video. (The MORE
KidWind Provides A Hands-On Renewable Energy Course (via Clean Technica ). What better way to encourage more renewable acceptance than having kids learn about it at an early age? This great program works with kids across the United States in 2014, including some international events. MORE
I used VEconLab's demand experiment in my sophomore level introduction to environmental and resource economics course this week: This exercise introduces the notion of demand as a function with "steps" that represent maximum willingness to pay, i.e. the marginal value of consumption. I used it to illustrate demand curves (the course has no prequisite) and consumer surplus. MORE
From the inbox: All that knowledge you imparted to us is being used in the real world.I appreciate it MORE
By Deb Nardone, Beyond Natural Gas Campaign Director. Today President Obama took several important steps down the trail towards addressing climate disruption. But when it comes to natural gas, the president is taking the wrong path. The president was exactly right when he said no single step can reverse the impacts of climate change. The scale of the challenge, and the duty to our children and grandchildren, will require multiple steps, all at the same time, to urgently address the problem. MORE
That’s where this course comes in. The Science of Happiness” is a free , eight-week online course that explores the roots of a happy and meaningful life. Created by UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, the course zeroes in on a fundamental finding from positive psychology: that happiness is inextricably linked to having strong social ties and contributing to something bigger than yourself—the greater good. MORE
How this accidental discovery evolved into the first keg party, of course, is still unknown. My favorite archeologists have determined that: We needed beer. Luckily, from time to time, our ancestors, like other animals, would run across fermented fruit or grain and sample it. But evolve it did, perhaps as early as 10,000 years ago. Maybe they got the idea after watching Animal House? Current theory has it that grain was first domesticated for food. MORE
Next month in September from the 20 to 22 hydroponics supply store American Hydroponics ( click here for details ) is offering a two-day course to show how it’s done. Testimonial on the American Hydroponics course here: Click here to view the embedded video. The course, which costs $995 and limited to 20 people, will give people the experience to start a small hydroponics farm in the city –– whether you live in Jeddah or with Jedis. MORE
Lightning usually strikes a sharp point usually the nose or a wingtip, courses through the exterior and exits through another sharp point like the tail without harming the plane. Even as the search for debris of Air France Flight 447 intensifies, the deeper quest for answers continues. What caused an experienced pilot and a top line jet to crash into the Atlantic? The most probable answer so far seems to be that it flew into the path of a natural phenomenon. MORE
Blog powered by TypePad Member since 05/2005 « The only thing I ask is that you please not treat me like a celebrity | Main | Benefits and costs of EPAs mercury rule » March 16, 2011 Freakonomics » Taking a Course From Gary Becker Steven D. Levitt: Up until now, the only way to take a course taught by Gary Becker was to be a student at the University of Chicago. MORE
If only Congress would mandate more frequent and longer vacations we could increase the number of jobs (sarc): According to the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA), which publishes the peer-reviewed “Shore & Beach,” the travel and tourism industry accounts for 10 percent of the U.S. job market, “more than all U.S. manufacturers combined.”. While officials including U.S. MORE
We just added an additional quantitative course to our majors. When students start complaining I'll point them here: The knock that liberal-arts graduates can have a tough time landing a first job is borne out by the data. Yet a new analysis of help-wanted postings for entry-level jobs suggests that those graduates can improve their job prospects markedly by acquiring a small level of proficiency in one of eight specific skill sets, such as social media or data analysis. MORE
The professor is a past-president of the Southern Economics Association (here is his vita ): Students regularly drop out of massive open online courses before they come to term. McKenzie, an emeritus professor of enterprise and society at the university’s business school, sent a note to his students announcing that he would no longer be teaching the course, which was about to enter its fifth week. Mr. McKenzie’s microeconomics course, however, will continue—just without him. MORE
I introduced Green Prophet readers to environmental e-learning and Laurie updated us with details on Mitx, Coursera and Udacity environmentalism courses in Februrary 2013. A new term has just begun with a wide selection courses related to environmentalism. So this is a good time for a refresher on how Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) work. I will also provide a list of upcoming courses in green energy, sustainability and other aspects of environmentalism. MORE
Excerpt from: How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change. MORE
Early Antiviral Response in the Nose May Determine the Course of COVID-19Over the past 18 months, researchers have learned much about COVID-19 and its viral cause, SARS-CoV-2. MORE
Retraction Watch : From time to time, we find online college syllabi among those sites referring us traffic, and some professors have told us that they use Retraction Watch in their classes. We’re pleased and humbled by that. In a new paper published in the Journal of College Science Teaching , three professors at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia, discuss why retractions are good case studies for teaching ethics and examining the scientific process in class. MORE
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This fall I will be teaching a course on how to write science fiction at George Brown College in Toronto. The 12 week course that starts on Wednesday September 18th (6:15 to 9:15 pm) through to December 4th 2013 will focus on writing science fiction toward publication. If you or anyone you know in the Toronto area with or without a WIP is looking to learn the essential tools of writing science fiction, then this is an ideal course for you. MORE
The National Trust has announced two new heritage gardening courses, representing the charity's most significant development in horticultural training for 20 years. Co-funded by the National Gardens Scheme, the new courses will offer budding gardeners the opportunity to study for qualifications in heritage gardening and replace the Trust's Careership training scheme launched in 1991*. The new courses start in September 2012 and there are 10 places available on each. MORE
You can now study permaculture online completely FREE with world-class instructors including Larry Korn through our new Online Permaculture Design Course. You can immediately begin viewing the complete 72+hour course lectures free at [link] There is no catch -- permaculture is rapidly changing the world, and we''re doing our part to dramatically accelerate that change by making this incredible wisdom available completely free. MORE
California’s first farm-to-table new home community just opened. Called “ The Cannery ,” it’s a residential project designed and put together by The New Home Company. Designed with a seven acre urban farm near the center of downtown Davis, this 100 acre project is considered to be the very first agrihood built on what used to be industrial land. MORE
Because jobs are the only benefit of environmental policy (sarcasm): Leading Senate Democrats unveiled their vision Tuesday for a comprehensive energy policy overhaul that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through new technology. The legislative proposal, put together by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), MORE
Find out more by taking our free e- course on Sustainable Finance [link]. You have two homes: Earth and your body. Your daily food choices affect both of them! Learn how to lead a climate-friendly and sustainable lifestyle. Watch the video preview below and enroll today [link] Investments we make today will affect our world tomorrow! What are the opportunities, challenges, and enabling conditions for countries to benefit from growing sustainable investment opportunities? MORE
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
When you picture a housing development in the suburbs, you might imagine golf courses, swimming pools, rows of identical houses. "Golf courses cost millions to build and maintain, and we''re kind of overbuilt on golf courses already," he says. But now, there''s a new model springing up across the country that taps into the local food movement: Farms — complete with livestock, vegetables and fruit trees — are serving as the latest suburban amenity. MORE
Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Tunisia and Turkey were among the representatives at the SafeMed course on the environmental risk of ballast water last month. The course was offered in Malta and is designed to emphasize the effective implementation of the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM Convention). SafeMed’s course is a step in the right direction. MORE
To register for this course, go to [link] This press release is presented for your information only. MORE
Aviation is plotting a sustainable course Joel Makower Mon, 03/22/2021 – 00:05 This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. body, set a course for airlines to offset emissions of international flights above a 2019-20 baseline. And, of course, there’s the option of not flying at all, or at least not as much. Read more: Aviation is plotting a sustainable course. MORE
A Christmas gift of a gardening course with some of the world’s best gardeners is just a click away as MyGardenSchool launches a unique online gift certificate A Christmas gift of a gardening course with some of the world’s best gardeners is just a click away MyGardenSchool, the world’s first online gardening school, has today launched gift certificates for each of its 23 online gardening courses, just in time for Christmas. MORE
Key design drivers Before we get into the details and content of our COVID-19 Community Resilience & Permaculture Course, we want to share some of our values, beliefs and design drivers for this course. Thank you for becoming active and being part of this course! MORE
We are making the 72-hour permaculture design course available online completely without charge (this is normally $2000+ course!) Read more @ [link] Permaculture is literally changing the world, and we're doing our part to dramatically accelerate that change by making this incredible wisdom available completely free -- but we need your support, and we've got some amazing perks (including the full course on DVD!) MORE
I'm back at George Brown College, teaching my 12-week long writing course on how to write science fiction. The 12-week course starts SEPTEMBER 22 (TUESDAY) and runs until DECEMBER 8th. Called “Creating Science Fiction”, the course runs TUESDAY nights from 6:15 to 9:15 starting September 22nd through to December 8th and costs $285. You can register for the course here: [link] georgebrown.ca/owa_prod/ MORE
Separated from the main land by a narrow channel and protected from the vast Indian Ocean by a series of long coral reefs, the Lamu archipelago along Kenya’s northern coast boasts an impressive diversity of ecosystems and marine life. Here, Lamu’s traditional fishing boats, known as dhow, dot the seascape with their characteristic tall triangular sails. MORE
Since they overdid it last night: People who want to start the year off on the right foot might consider taking a New Year’s Day hike. Every North Carolina state park and recreation area will offer a “First Day Hike,” part of a growing tradition among state parks nationwide. There are more than 40 scheduled hikes statewide, via www.newsobserver.com. My big New Year's week hike is scheduled for Friday MORE
Three of Professor Wilen's students (including current and former editors of MRE) introduce the paper like this: Throughout his career, James E. Jim) Wilen has had a remarkable influence on the development of resource and fisheries economics through his path-breaking research contributions, influence on fisheries policy, and outstanding legacy as a mentor. MORE
Source: [link] [link] Modules Module 1 ~ Getting Curious: Beginning to Question When Isidore Isaac Rabi, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics was asked why he became a scientist, he replied, “My mother made me a scientist without ever knowing it. MORE
As the ball lands on a perfect patch of green grass many might just wonder whether golf courses are ideal offspring’s from the marriage of nature and entertainment. Wannabe enthusiasts take up the sport for the relaxation amidst verdant greens but many don’t realize how potentially damaging a golf course can be. A golf course is not confined to a stadium or an arena. A typical modern day 18-hole golf course covers nearly 150 acres of maintained land. MORE
We speak to the Lebanese eco-campaigner Wael Hmaidan about corporate funding of green organisations in the Middle East and finding solutions. In a previous post, I posed some questions about green groups in the Middle East receiving funding from not-so-green corporations. Is it a good thing if they are working together to protect nature? Or are green organizations in the Middle East simply being duped by corporations who want to look green? MORE
We got some decent snow today so App State cancelled classes with the encouragement to "winterize" missed courses: Due to increasingly inclement weather, all classes on March 14 are cancelled. Students should check their email and monitor ASULearn and their course web pages for alternative assignments or meeting methods. Faculty are encouraged to utilize course winterization methods. MORE
Out of the 25 universities surveyed – 10 in United States, 10 in Europe and five in Israel, only the clinical medicine program at Bar-Ilan University in Israel required a course related to environmental health. Only four other university programs out of 25 offered such courses at all, and they deemed such courses optional electives. Air pollution is one of many environmental factors that impact public health. MORE
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Source: [link] [link] Modules Module 1 ~ Getting Curious: Beginning to Question When Isidore Isaac Rabi, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics was asked why he became a scientist, he replied, “My mother made me a scientist without ever knowing it.
Environmental Economics
JULY 14, 2016
We just added an additional quantitative course to our majors. When students start complaining I'll point them here: The knock that liberal-arts graduates can have a tough time landing a first job is borne out by the data. Yet a new analysis of help-wanted postings for entry-level jobs suggests that those graduates can improve their job prospects markedly by acquiring a small level of proficiency in one of eight specific skill sets, such as social media or data analysis.
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Environmental News Network
JULY 26, 2021
Early Antiviral Response in the Nose May Determine the Course of COVID-19Over the past 18 months, researchers have learned much about COVID-19 and its viral cause, SARS-CoV-2.
Environmental Economics
MARCH 16, 2011
Blog powered by TypePad Member since 05/2005 « The only thing I ask is that you please not treat me like a celebrity | Main | Benefits and costs of EPAs mercury rule » March 16, 2011 Freakonomics » Taking a Course From Gary Becker Steven D. Levitt: Up until now, the only way to take a course taught by Gary Becker was to be a student at the University of Chicago.
Environmental Economics
MARCH 14, 2018
We got some decent snow today so App State cancelled classes with the encouragement to "winterize" missed courses: Due to increasingly inclement weather, all classes on March 14 are cancelled. Students should check their email and monitor ASULearn and their course web pages for alternative assignments or meeting methods. Faculty are encouraged to utilize course winterization methods.
The Alien Next Door
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
I'm back at George Brown College, teaching my 12-week long writing course on how to write science fiction. The 12-week course starts SEPTEMBER 22 (TUESDAY) and runs until DECEMBER 8th. Called “Creating Science Fiction”, the course runs TUESDAY nights from 6:15 to 9:15 starting September 22nd through to December 8th and costs $285. You can register for the course here: [link] georgebrown.ca/owa_prod/
The Alien Next Door
MARCH 28, 2015
I''m back at George Brown College, teaching my 12-week long writing course on how to write science fiction. The course starts April and runs until June-end. Called “Creating Science Fiction”, the course runs Wednesday nights from 6:15 to 9:15 starting September 17 through to December 3 and costs $278. Meant for both beginning writers and those already published, the 12-week course is run like a workshop with student input and feedback on student’s WIPs.
Environmental Economics
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
Because jobs are the only benefit of environmental policy (sarcasm): Leading Senate Democrats unveiled their vision Tuesday for a comprehensive energy policy overhaul that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through new technology. The legislative proposal, put together by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.),
Green Living Ideas
OCTOBER 4, 2017
Stephen Brooks is a permaculture expert and festival organizer for the wild and wonderful Envision Festival, along with upcoming permaculture design courses in Costa Rica at the lovely Punta Mona educational center. The post Permaculture Design Courses in Costa Rica at Punta Mona appeared first on Green Living Ideas. Green Lifestyle community Costa Rica Envision Festival herbal medicine permaculture permaculture design course
The Green Changemakers
APRIL 11, 2020
Key design drivers Before we get into the details and content of our COVID-19 Community Resilience & Permaculture Course, we want to share some of our values, beliefs and design drivers for this course. Thank you for becoming active and being part of this course!
Environmental Economics
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
Retraction Watch : From time to time, we find online college syllabi among those sites referring us traffic, and some professors have told us that they use Retraction Watch in their classes. We’re pleased and humbled by that. In a new paper published in the Journal of College Science Teaching , three professors at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia, discuss why retractions are good case studies for teaching ethics and examining the scientific process in class.
Cool Green Science
JUNE 30, 2017
But some begin to carve a course into the hillside, capturing other rivulets that work together to erode deeper and deeper channels, ultimately changing the topography of the hillslope. Science doesn’t advance as a unidirectional monolith, like a glacier carving a valley. Rather, it’s more like thousands of tiny rivulets wending their way through the leaf litter and grasses at the top of a hillside.
Green Prophet
JANUARY 12, 2014
I introduced Green Prophet readers to environmental e-learning and Laurie updated us with details on Mitx, Coursera and Udacity environmentalism courses in Februrary 2013. A new term has just begun with a wide selection courses related to environmentalism. So this is a good time for a refresher on how Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) work. I will also provide a list of upcoming courses in green energy, sustainability and other aspects of environmentalism.
Environmental Economics
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
I used VEconLab's demand experiment in my sophomore level introduction to environmental and resource economics course this week: This exercise introduces the notion of demand as a function with "steps" that represent maximum willingness to pay, i.e. the marginal value of consumption. I used it to illustrate demand curves (the course has no prequisite) and consumer surplus.
Environmental Economics
APRIL 5, 2013
How this accidental discovery evolved into the first keg party, of course, is still unknown. My favorite archeologists have determined that: We needed beer. Luckily, from time to time, our ancestors, like other animals, would run across fermented fruit or grain and sample it. But evolve it did, perhaps as early as 10,000 years ago. Maybe they got the idea after watching Animal House? Current theory has it that grain was first domesticated for food.
Green Prophet
AUGUST 12, 2015
Next month in September from the 20 to 22 hydroponics supply store American Hydroponics ( click here for details ) is offering a two-day course to show how it’s done. Testimonial on the American Hydroponics course here: Click here to view the embedded video. The course, which costs $995 and limited to 20 people, will give people the experience to start a small hydroponics farm in the city –– whether you live in Jeddah or with Jedis.
Environmental Economics
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
The professor is a past-president of the Southern Economics Association (here is his vita ): Students regularly drop out of massive open online courses before they come to term. McKenzie, an emeritus professor of enterprise and society at the university’s business school, sent a note to his students announcing that he would no longer be teaching the course, which was about to enter its fifth week. Mr. McKenzie’s microeconomics course, however, will continue—just without him.
AGreenLiving
MARCH 22, 2021
Aviation is plotting a sustainable course Joel Makower Mon, 03/22/2021 – 00:05 This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. body, set a course for airlines to offset emissions of international flights above a 2019-20 baseline. And, of course, there’s the option of not flying at all, or at least not as much. Read more: Aviation is plotting a sustainable course.
The Green Changemakers
JUNE 6, 2019
Find out more by taking our free e- course on Sustainable Finance [link]. You have two homes: Earth and your body. Your daily food choices affect both of them! Learn how to lead a climate-friendly and sustainable lifestyle. Watch the video preview below and enroll today [link] Investments we make today will affect our world tomorrow! What are the opportunities, challenges, and enabling conditions for countries to benefit from growing sustainable investment opportunities?
Green (Living) Review
MARCH 14, 2012
To register for this course, go to [link] This press release is presented for your information only.
Green (Living) Review
MAY 8, 2012
The National Trust has announced two new heritage gardening courses, representing the charity's most significant development in horticultural training for 20 years. Co-funded by the National Gardens Scheme, the new courses will offer budding gardeners the opportunity to study for qualifications in heritage gardening and replace the Trust's Careership training scheme launched in 1991*. The new courses start in September 2012 and there are 10 places available on each.
Green (Living) Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
When you picture a housing development in the suburbs, you might imagine golf courses, swimming pools, rows of identical houses. "Golf courses cost millions to build and maintain, and we''re kind of overbuilt on golf courses already," he says. But now, there''s a new model springing up across the country that taps into the local food movement: Farms — complete with livestock, vegetables and fruit trees — are serving as the latest suburban amenity.
Environmental Economics
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
If only Congress would mandate more frequent and longer vacations we could increase the number of jobs (sarc): According to the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA), which publishes the peer-reviewed “Shore & Beach,” the travel and tourism industry accounts for 10 percent of the U.S. job market, “more than all U.S. manufacturers combined.”. While officials including U.S.
Environmental Economics
JANUARY 1, 2014
Since they overdid it last night: People who want to start the year off on the right foot might consider taking a New Year’s Day hike. Every North Carolina state park and recreation area will offer a “First Day Hike,” part of a growing tradition among state parks nationwide. There are more than 40 scheduled hikes statewide, via www.newsobserver.com. My big New Year's week hike is scheduled for Friday
Green (Living) Review
DECEMBER 10, 2011
A Christmas gift of a gardening course with some of the world’s best gardeners is just a click away as MyGardenSchool launches a unique online gift certificate A Christmas gift of a gardening course with some of the world’s best gardeners is just a click away MyGardenSchool, the world’s first online gardening school, has today launched gift certificates for each of its 23 online gardening courses, just in time for Christmas.
Sierra Club Compass
JUNE 25, 2013
By Deb Nardone, Beyond Natural Gas Campaign Director. Today President Obama took several important steps down the trail towards addressing climate disruption. But when it comes to natural gas, the president is taking the wrong path. The president was exactly right when he said no single step can reverse the impacts of climate change. The scale of the challenge, and the duty to our children and grandchildren, will require multiple steps, all at the same time, to urgently address the problem.
Green Prophet
JUNE 12, 2012
Out of the 25 universities surveyed – 10 in United States, 10 in Europe and five in Israel, only the clinical medicine program at Bar-Ilan University in Israel required a course related to environmental health. Only four other university programs out of 25 offered such courses at all, and they deemed such courses optional electives. Air pollution is one of many environmental factors that impact public health.
Nature Conservancy - Science
JUNE 15, 2016
Separated from the main land by a narrow channel and protected from the vast Indian Ocean by a series of long coral reefs, the Lamu archipelago along Kenya’s northern coast boasts an impressive diversity of ecosystems and marine life. Here, Lamu’s traditional fishing boats, known as dhow, dot the seascape with their characteristic tall triangular sails.
Eco Friendly Daily
JANUARY 14, 2014
Lightning usually strikes a sharp point usually the nose or a wingtip, courses through the exterior and exits through another sharp point like the tail without harming the plane. Even as the search for debris of Air France Flight 447 intensifies, the deeper quest for answers continues. What caused an experienced pilot and a top line jet to crash into the Atlantic? The most probable answer so far seems to be that it flew into the path of a natural phenomenon.
Environmental Economics
JUNE 21, 2018
Three of Professor Wilen's students (including current and former editors of MRE) introduce the paper like this: Throughout his career, James E. Jim) Wilen has had a remarkable influence on the development of resource and fisheries economics through his path-breaking research contributions, influence on fisheries policy, and outstanding legacy as a mentor.
Environmental Economics
MARCH 29, 2018
The Green Changemakers
MAY 20, 2013
You can now study permaculture online completely FREE with world-class instructors including Larry Korn through our new Online Permaculture Design Course. You can immediately begin viewing the complete 72+hour course lectures free at [link] There is no catch -- permaculture is rapidly changing the world, and we''re doing our part to dramatically accelerate that change by making this incredible wisdom available completely free.
Green (Living) Review
MAY 29, 2016
California’s first farm-to-table new home community just opened. Called “ The Cannery ,” it’s a residential project designed and put together by The New Home Company. Designed with a seven acre urban farm near the center of downtown Davis, this 100 acre project is considered to be the very first agrihood built on what used to be industrial land.
Environmental Economics
OCTOBER 21, 2011
From the inbox: All that knowledge you imparted to us is being used in the real world.I appreciate it
Green Prophet
JUNE 17, 2012
Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Tunisia and Turkey were among the representatives at the SafeMed course on the environmental risk of ballast water last month. The course was offered in Malta and is designed to emphasize the effective implementation of the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM Convention). SafeMed’s course is a step in the right direction.
Green Living Ideas
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
KidWind Provides A Hands-On Renewable Energy Course (via Clean Technica ). What better way to encourage more renewable acceptance than having kids learn about it at an early age? This great program works with kids across the United States in 2014, including some international events.
Eco Friendly Daily
SEPTEMBER 28, 2013
As the ball lands on a perfect patch of green grass many might just wonder whether golf courses are ideal offspring’s from the marriage of nature and entertainment. Wannabe enthusiasts take up the sport for the relaxation amidst verdant greens but many don’t realize how potentially damaging a golf course can be. A golf course is not confined to a stadium or an arena. A typical modern day 18-hole golf course covers nearly 150 acres of maintained land.
Green Prophet
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Check out some of the excellent university courses offered free and on-line. This self-described ‘social entrepreneurship company” partners with top universities to offer free online courses, giving anyone anywhere access to world-class education. Web-based technology enables preeminent professors to teach tens of thousands of students via video lectures, pdf course books you can drop onto your e-reader , links to articles and supplemental video. (The
The Green Changemakers
JANUARY 19, 2013
We are making the 72-hour permaculture design course available online completely without charge (this is normally $2000+ course!) Read more @ [link] Permaculture is literally changing the world, and we're doing our part to dramatically accelerate that change by making this incredible wisdom available completely free -- but we need your support, and we've got some amazing perks (including the full course on DVD!)
Green Prophet
JUNE 28, 2011
We speak to the Lebanese eco-campaigner Wael Hmaidan about corporate funding of green organisations in the Middle East and finding solutions. In a previous post, I posed some questions about green groups in the Middle East receiving funding from not-so-green corporations. Is it a good thing if they are working together to protect nature? Or are green organizations in the Middle East simply being duped by corporations who want to look green?
The Green Changemakers
APRIL 11, 2014
That’s where this course comes in. The Science of Happiness” is a free , eight-week online course that explores the roots of a happy and meaningful life. Created by UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, the course zeroes in on a fundamental finding from positive psychology: that happiness is inextricably linked to having strong social ties and contributing to something bigger than yourself—the greater good.
The Alien Next Door
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
This fall I will be teaching a course on how to write science fiction at George Brown College in Toronto. The 12 week course that starts on Wednesday September 18th (6:15 to 9:15 pm) through to December 4th 2013 will focus on writing science fiction toward publication. If you or anyone you know in the Toronto area with or without a WIP is looking to learn the essential tools of writing science fiction, then this is an ideal course for you.
AGreenLiving
JULY 20, 2020
Excerpt from: How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change.
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