education

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.

Colleen is a professional beach volleyball player who puts a mark on her thigh at 1 meter to start a conversation with kids about global warming. She tells them about very fun and positive things they can do - bike and walk, plant a garden and help their parents save energy.  She listens to them and gives them temporary tattoos at the one meter mark so they can remember.

Students at William & Mary College are "doing it in the dark" to save energy.  Student dorms, classrooms and campus buildings are pitted against one another to see who can save the most energy.

You are about to go on an amazing journey-one that will help you and the planet. It will be fun, challenging, and exciting. Over a five week period you will learn how to take action to use our Earth’s precious and limited natural resources with greater care.

One year ago, Al Gore testified before Congress on Global Warming, stating among other things that "America is the natural leader of the world, and our world faces a true planetary emergency."

Modtech announced that it now has the ability to offer the Iguana green classroom buildings via a district-approved cooperative purchase (”piggyback”) agreement. The Iguana is based on standards from the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) and is Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifiable without site consideration.

Food Studies programs are beginning to crop up in inner-city public schools.

In Utah public school science teachers are coming under fire, in some cases by the same folks who fought to keep evolution from the science curriculum, for showing Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, without presenting "both sides" of the "debate,"