education

Today's cutting edge colleges and universities have gone way beyond simple recycling to starting organic gardens and farms, installing green roofs and solar panels, treating wastes with "living machines" and offsetting all emissions.

A new publication from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) documents the continued growth in campus sustainability efforts across the US and Canada.  AASHE Digest 2007 offers a comprehensive review of campus sustainability efforts from 2007. The 230-page report includes over 800 stories about higher education institutions leading the way to a sustainable future.

Can you think of 50 different ways to go green in your classroom starting this fall?This little cheat sheet will help you and your students make a pact to make more eco-conscious choices and take real steps to saving our planet.

The Run for One Planet is a carbon neutral year-long run around the North America to inspire Environmental Action. Their goal is to run 1 marathon each per day, to inspire 1 million actions for Earth and to raise 1 million dollars for their foundation.

Working with award-winning filmmakers (Sea Studios Foundation) and animation studio (LAIKA/house) the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School produced a 10-minute film that reconnects its audience to the importance of the marine environment for all life on Earth, including human life.

FreshBrain provides students with opportunities to become environmentally conscious. Online projects, activities, and contests using open-source software and with trained advisors. Any high school students, parents, or educators should check it out. The best part is that it is 501(c)(3) non-profit and totally free!

Here are over 50 ways to make your school a more earth-friendly campus. Recruit helpers and get creative to make the job fun.

Experts of all stripes are predicting that green innovations are the last best hope for us to solve our environmental crises. In order to make the innovations a reality, we will have to train our business leaders to think sustainably and act strategically, and business schools are rising to this challenge.

Can we educate our children about environmental science without the politics that often accompanies such discussions? Do environmental efforts have to be political or even politically motivated?

New network launches for the "greener lifestyle" and those wanting to learn about it.

How do kids perceive our environmental crises? How can we teach & inspire the next wave of global citizens who care for the planet and have an intuitive relationship to it?

Head of an energy-industry executive recruitment and human resources firm, Chris Swan is interviewed about a coming workforce crisis in the energy industry.

We all need to support teh use of Open Source thin-client solutions in an educational context. Its worth stating, again, what is really the blindingly obvious - thin-client work stations use one twentieth of the power of a typical PC (10-20 watts versus 200-400 watts), require no maintenance or technical per-machine support.

Slideshows, video, short facts and more. What is global warming and how does it effect wildlife?

Its worth stating, again, what is really the blindingly obvious - thin-client work stations use one-twentieth of the power of a typical PC (10-20 watts versus 200-400 watts), require no maintenance or technical per-machine support and Open Source software is free of licence costs.