Wanderlusting No. 3: Lego Power
Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffWanderlusting on the Sustainability Trail Postcard No. 3: Lego Power I don’t think you can overstate the power of myth. You can have statistics out the wazoo and an airtight logical argument in favor of bringing the age ...
Stop The Pollution, Pick A Solution
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments Offby Robin Urban Smith Ever heard an anti-idling rap? Or Seen the "Funky Pollution Dance?" Tune in to this video to see what Livable Streets Education students are up to at MS 51 in Park Slope, ...
How To Be A Green School
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffBy Zac Goldsmith Teachers and students want to do good things for the environment, but sometimes they can't see the wood for the trees. Zac Goldsmith sets out five things all schools can do. It's a worrying fact ...
Environmental Volunteers: Filling the Gaps in Science Education
Friday, July 10th, 2009 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffNominated by the TerraPass team There is a lack of science education in public schools. Due to inadequate training, 80 percent of San Francisco Bay Area teachers devote less than 60 minutes per week to science. Teachers ...
Environmental Volunteers: Filling the Gaps in Science Education
Friday, July 10th, 2009 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffNominated by the TerraPass team There is a lack of science education in public schools. Due to inadequate training, 80 percent of San Francisco Bay Area teachers devote less than 60 minutes per week to science. Teachers ...
Introducing Livable Streets Education
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffThe newest member of the Livable Streets Initiative, Livable Streets Education (LSE), partners with schools, cultural institutions and community-based organizations working for improved urban livability, greener transportation, and safer streets. This spring, LSE is in ...
Introducing Livable Streets Education
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffThe newest member of the Livable Streets Initiative, Livable Streets Education (LSE), partners with schools, cultural institutions and community-based organizations working for improved urban livability, greener transportation, and safer streets. This spring, LSE is in ...
Project H Design Builds Playground for Learning
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments Off[Image: The finished "math playground" in Uganda, by Project H Design].Project H Design recently completed the installation of a "math playground," or Learning Landscape, at the Kutamba School for orphans of AIDS in rural Uganda.Part outdoor ...
India’s $20 Laptop
Monday, February 2nd, 2009 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffA New Delhi-backed project has released news of a breakthrough in accessible personal computing: the $20 laptop. According to an article from yesterday's Financial Times: India’s “Sakshat” laptop is intended to boost distance learning to help ...
Unigo.com: Open Discussion on Higher Education
Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffBy Sharon Hoyer The first important decision of many young adults' lives – where to apply to college -- was once made largely in the dark. Up until recently, widely accessible sources of information on colleges came ...
Unigo.com: Open Discussion on Higher Education
Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffBy Sharon Hoyer The first important decision of many young adults' lives – where to apply to college -- was once made largely in the dark. Up until recently, widely accessible sources of information on colleges came ...
Providing a Completely Sustainable Campus, Inside and Out
Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffWhile some campuses are focusing on physical changes that will bring sustainability to their grounds, buildings and cafeterias other schools are looking into more holistic approaches that bring the theories of sustainability into each course. We ...
Providing a Completely Sustainable Campus, Inside and Out
Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffWhile some campuses are focusing on physical changes that will bring sustainability to their grounds, buildings and cafeterias other schools are looking into more holistic approaches that bring the theories of sustainability into each course. We ...
The College Sustainability Report Card
Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffEarlier this month, the Sustainable Endowments Institute released a new interactive report card that indicated the sustainability trends at 300 leading schools including Columbia, Harvard and Stanford. The report card is the only independent evaluation of ...
The College Sustainability Report Card
Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffEarlier this month, the Sustainable Endowments Institute released a new interactive report card that indicated the sustainability trends at 300 leading schools including Columbia, Harvard and Stanford. The report card is the only independent evaluation of ...
Sustainability Education for All Ages
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffOne thing we've found is that universities aren't the only education systems interested in integrating sustainability into the classroom. Elementary schools are working to bring these messages to the K-12 crowd, too. One example, recently ...
Sustainability Education for All Ages
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffOne thing we've found is that universities aren't the only education systems interested in integrating sustainability into the classroom. Elementary schools are working to bring these messages to the K-12 crowd, too. One example, recently ...
Colleges offer free bikes for everyone
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffAs long as you don’t bring your car to campus. College campuses that want to rein in student driving have hit on a novel solution: give all incoming students free bikes if they agree to leave their ...
Should They be Generation E?
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffA few months ago, New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin suggested that we label the next generation with the letter E, for energy and environment. I can’t keep track of what young people are being ...
Colleges Fight to Prove Their Commitment to Sustainability
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 Posted in Education, Green News | Comments OffThis week we are talking about Majors Making a Difference, focusing much of our content on how universities around the globe are integrating sustainability into their campuses and their curricula. In a special series on education ...