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Green Gift Guide for Back to School College Students
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 no small task. This
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Finally. Graduate Sustainable Design Showcase Goes National
The Society for Responsible Design, founded in 1989, may be one of the oldest professional associations committed to the pursuit of environmentally and socially aware design. Now, after eight years of dedicated volunteer hard yards showcasing
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Green Gift Guide For Back to School Tots and Teens (Slideshow)
Bright new ideas for eco-friendly supplies have made back-to-school shopping much more fun.
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Green Gift Guide For Back to School Tots and Teens
Bright new ideas for eco-friendly supplies have made back-to-school shopping much more fun. The nine items here will send the K-12 set back to school in sustainable style, with the likes of biodegradable pencils and pens, sneakers with car-tire soles, b
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Let's Play Ethica, the Ethical Monopoly Game
Unlike Monopoly, where the goal is to buy more and more houses, hotels and entire streets, in Ethica, the best family and best bank wins. The best are those groups who obtain the most points in 3 sectors: the financial, social and environmental one.
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Green Failure: What's Wrong With Environmental Education?
Environmental education is something too often overlooked in school curriculum. Michelle Nijhuis of Yale e360 interviews Charles Saylan, co-founder and executive director of the California-based Ocean Conservation Society, about his new book which
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How Educations Leads to Lower Fertility and Increased Prosperity
As the world continues to add close to 80 million people each year, high population growth is
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Converted Diesel Truck To Be Greenhouse on Wheels for School Kids
An old 18-foot truck is about to become a valuable resource for school children learning about sustainable gardening, thanks to two entrepreneurs from New York who are converting it into a mobile greenhouse. The truck will
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New York School Kids Build Their Own Greenhouse, Grow Their Own Veggies
You know it's dedication when a teacher decides to teach his kids aquaponics in environmental science class, have them bring the vegetables they grow to the school cafeteria, and then spend time looking for funding to expand that
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Callous New Law to Close Award-Winning Urban Farming High School For Pregnant Teens
If there's ever a story that hit me hard, it was this one. I wrote about Catherine Ferguson Academy last year. It was the subject of the groundbreaking documentary Grown in Detroit. The school is one of only a few left in the country for
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Student-Organized Farmers Markets in Schools (Video)
From Sacramento High School students creating their own CSA to an after-school program based on an urban farm, we've seen plenty of ways that the local food movement is integrating with educational opportunities for
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Do Lectures Launch Snazzy New HTML 5 Site + Stellar Speaker Line Up for 2011
It's a double dose of exciting news from the Do Lectures camp today. In true double-barreled doing style they are launching their new super snazzy HTML 5 website to the world this afternoon, plus the speaker line up for Do 2011. The new site is
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Obama Drops In on Kids' Science Fair at the American Museum of Natural History
President Obama took another step in encouraging kids concentrating in science subjects earlier this week, only this time it was a surprise. At the New York City Science and Engineering Fair at the Museum of Natural History on Tuesday,
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Say it with Butterflies - Green Start-Up Grows Monarch Butterflies for Events, Therapy & Conservation
Here is an interesting buisness idea; grow butterflies to let fly at special ocasions and at the same time help the enviornment as well as people with special needs. The project is called Mariposeando (Spanish for something
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Fruit Tree Tour Draws Massive Crowds for Sustainability (Video)
Image credit: Fruit Tree Tour Common Vision's Fruit Tree Tour has made the pages of TreeHugger a few times before, and not without good reason. After all, a program that introduces school kids across California to sustainable agriculture, renewable
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Green Schools Project Promotes Renewables & Sustainable Agriculture (Video)
The retail and banking giant Cooperative Group's ethical business push has been making headlines in green business. From Fair Trade to renewables to sustainable agriculture, the organization is building on its
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Beer as a Metaphor for Sustainability
As an occasional homebrewer myself, I have been known to muse on what brewing beer can teach us about living green, but beer advocate and American University's Director of Sustainability Chris O'Brien is streets ahead of me. Back in 2007, Siel got
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Green Your School Has a Bright Future: Still Time to Register!
The Green Your School Challenge is taking entries until April 1, but 188 schools have already submitted plans, and 1,200 have signed up as mobile subscribers, and the pool of ideas is already filled with great potential—but they can always use
