Tag: Education - Page 4
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Restoring Buffalo's Once Great Train Station Starts with an Outdoor Eco-Classroom
An ambitious restoration of Buffalo's abandoned Central Terminal has begun with the creation of an urban habitat classroom.
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Solar-Powered Projectors Bring Science Into Classrooms in Developing Countries
A new project from University of Southampton will bring solar-powered science to classrooms.
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Green School by James Cameron's Wife Suzy Amis Opens in California
Highlights include chairs made from Coca-cola bottles and a ban on plastic.
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Demographics Loom Large in State Failure
As the number of failing states grows, treating the causes of state failure is increasingly urgent.
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Green Game: Play "Lifeboat" and See What Floats
In the future, what ideas will stick and which will sink? Follow Caspian as he scouts out ways to address our most pressing issues for a sustainable future in this alternative reality
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Video Contest Offers Cash Prices for Ideas for Greener Cities (Video)
Contest offers students cash prizes for videos on how they can make cities better through science, math, technology and engineering.
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Urban Green in Wisconsin
Graphic Credit: Chambers Design, Photo Courtesy of Smart USA Wisconsin is not the first place I think of as a hotbed for green innovation. It's better known for cheeseheads, the Green Bay Packers and political unrest. But the Badger State is
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Students Explain Why They Care About the Environment (Video)
TreeHugger spoke with a few students at SxSW Eco to see why they cared about the environment and what they want adults to do about it.
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Do Lectures 2011 - The Importance of Independence
Over the past few weeks we've been sharing the amazing ideas and themes that emerged from the Do Lectures 2011. This year's inspiring talks are now being launched online in
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Universities Commit to Billion Dollar Energy Efficiency Challenge
The rapidly falling costs of solar and the rapid growth of clean energy are causing ripples of excitement in an otherwise depressed economy. But we should not forget that old adage that the cheapest energy is almost always the energy you don't use.
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Have Returning Students Seen a Real Change in School Lunches?
School nutrition changes, which are part of the newly enacted Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, bolster school nutrition programs by providing more meals to food insecure kids and by making those meals healthier and more nutrient dense. But has
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Do Lectures 2011 - The People's Take Over
Yesterday for our third post in the Do Lectures 2011 series we encouraged you to Start Where You Live. You never know quite how far you will travel. In the
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Do Lectures 2011 - Start Where You Live
So far in our Do Lectures 2011 series we've talked about the fact that Things Are Not Just The Way They Are, we always need to ask difficult questions and challenge the
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Do Lectures 2011 - What Can You Uniquely Do?
Yesterday I introduced the Do Lectures 2011 with a flash of party glitter from Steve Edge and the statement, Things are not just the way they are. This first emerging
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Do Lectures 2011 - 5 Lessons on How to Love Life & Improve the World Around You
There is a man dressed in a silver lamé suit jumping about with extraordinary energy in a wind blown field in West Wales. His name is Steve Edge and his motto in life is:
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The DoGooder Promotes Social Responsibility in the Midst of Deep Education Cuts
It's unfortunate that often times in the midst of economic turmoil we leave our green ideals behind. Environmental responsibility is falsely aligned with waste when in fact, the opposite is true. A new Web site, TheDoGooder.com
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Sierra Club Announces the Nation's "Coolest" Schools
School is a testing ground for the way we perform later in life. It can mold us into fine upstanding members of society, or not. While environmental responsibility isn't something we have to learn early in life, it certainly makes
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Green Gift Guide for Back to School College Students (Slideshow)
Whether you're sending your oldest child off to his first day as a freshman or helping your youngest prepare for the beginning of her senior year, making sure your kids have the green gear they need for a successful year at college is
