Tag: Education - Page 6
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Organic Fertilizer and How to Make It
Permaculture Magazine has been stepping up its game when it comes to online content of late. Last week a lot of people got worked up about their post of The Moneyless Man's take on
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UK Education Consultant Compares Architects To Oxen
Yesterday we heard how Sarah Wigglesworth Attacks UK Government's Attitude To Design; it just gets worse. Now Simon Lucas, head of education and children's services at cost consultant EC Harris, says:
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A Mini Worm Composter Kit from Outer Space (Video)
By now it is pretty common knowledge that I am obsessed with compost. Whether reflecting on compost as animal husbandry or learning how worm compost suppresses plant diseases, composting is a window in a miraculous and poorly
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High School Students Produce a Hip Hop Anthem Connecting Green and Social Issues (Video)
Last February, a group of high school students from the Twin Cities won the top prize in the Dream Reborn Contest, calling for music honoring the legacy and call to service of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Calling themselves the
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The Shift is About To Hit the Fan: Two New Documentaries To Save the World
Two new documentary movies are due for broader release this month in the United States. Two movies that want to save the world, but, if their trailers are anything go by, their proffered solutions are
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Fast Food Advertising is On the Rise -- With a Focus on Minority Youth -- While Kids Continue to Grow Fatter. What's Wrong With This Picture?
It's definitely not news that America's children have an obesity problem and that it's largely due to fast food and junk/snack foods—nor is it a surprise that fast food restaurants use aggressive and
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Green Your School: Take the DoSomething.Org Challenge
The Green Your School Challenge is back! There are many ways to reduce energy consumption or make a building or process more sustainable, so the Green Your School Challenge is aiming to get students and teachers thinking creatively about what they can
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TEEB Little Things by Lawrence Chen (Video)
This morning on the Spanish blog Resseny I came across this simple yet beautiful video called "Little Things" by Lawrence Chen. I like the way it gets the message across gracefully, using little resources to make the movie. It is poetic and makes you
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Why We Need Humane Education In Our Schools
Zoe Weil is the founder of Institute of Humane Education, and she recently gave a TED talk on the importance of redesigning how we educate people. We wanted to find out more about how a humane education
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First Bottled Water Free University for Australia
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra announced on Friday 21 January that its campus will discontinue the sale of bottled water by World Water Day (22 March 201). The initiative started by students, assisted by
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Green Tax Shift & Other Environmental Issues Cartoon-Style by Stuart McMillen
Here is someone who gets the message across, in a funny and beautiful way. Australian Stuart McMillen takes topics around environmental sustainability and turns them into catchy cartoons.
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The Library With No Books. Town Borrows All 16,000
Mohandas 'Mahatma' Gandhi was a famous proponent of nonviolent civil disobedience, seeing it as "a weapon of the strong." That's not to suggest that he advocated inaction. On the contrary, he said,
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Celebrity Climate Campaigns Only Go So Far. Your Nagging Girlfriend Matters More.
While I welcome celebrities fighting Heathrow's expansion, or chefs stepping up to challenge unsustainable fishing, I must admit I have always been more than a little skeptical about
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The Do Lectures' Bold Designer Posters Deliver Motivating Resolutions for the New Year
It's that time of year when, after days of lounging and eating and eating and lounging, we are struggling to get up from our oh so comfy sofas and get moving. 2011 is almost upon us - say goodbye to 2010, it's time to get
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St. Paul School District Goes Completely Sweet-Free
Not even the teachers are exempt from St. Paul's new "sweet-free" zoning. In fact, even the school principal is having to learn that rewards for a job well done can no longer include a candy bar because all the public schools in the St.
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Why (and How) Should we Pick up Dog Waste?
It's a nice day, you're walking along and all of a sudden--squish. You don't even have to look because you know you've really
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Solar Cinema Takes Rural Kenya by Storm (Video)
I already knew that solar is a life saver in Africa, and that it can be a great way to boost school performance too. But it hadn't occurred to me that it is also a fantastic way to bring the joys of a good Jackie Chan movie to
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Is Birth Control the Cheapest Answer to Climate Change?
From overpopulation as the elephant in the room, to the idea that less sex and more TV might be the answer to India's growing birth rate, overpopulation isn't exactly a taboo subject here
