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Lisa BennettCenter for Ecoliteracy"Who is really responsible for the oil spill in the Gulf," a group of New Orleans students ask during a mock trial they recently staged, "BP or everyone who uses oil?" Perhaps, a student named Jordan suggests by way of an answer, oil companies are a lot like gun manufacturers. If someone is shot and killed, do you blame the person who made the gun or the one who used it? Responsibility for the spi... -
Sidney StevensFreelance JournalistKids’ laughter and footsteps echo down the hallways as they make their way into classrooms for the start of the school day. In many ways, it’s a scene being played out in schools across America — except for one key difference. This is Seven Generations Charter School, a kindergarten-through-4th-grade elementary school in Emmaus, Pa., that opened in 2009 — one of many green charter schools popping... -
Elizabeth AdesanyaUrban Assembly Institute of Math & Science for Young WomenHello everyone, my name is Elizabeth Adesanya and I am in the ninth grade. I live in New York City where my classmates and I are trying to teach people in our community about caring for our environment. There is always a way that we can help make our world a better place for us all. There are thousands of ways that everyone can help keep our world clean. For example, one of the easiest ways is to... -
Jessica CulverhouseNational Environmental Education FoundationYampah Mountain High School is not your typical “green school.” The average student at this alternative high school in Glenwood Springs, Colo. has not been successful in a traditional high school, for a variety of reasons. Many are teen parents. Others have emotional disabilities or special education needs, read below grade-level, or are otherwise considered “at-risk.” But that hasn’t deterred te... -
Michael K. StoneCenter for Ecoliteracy"Green" is the color of the day. Not only on Earth Day. I Googled "Green Products" and got ... 150 million hits ... "Green Jobs" (153 million) ... "Green Politics" (94 million) ... "Green Living" (84 million). You get the idea. We're awash in green, not to mention awash in greenwash. The word is so ubiquitous, as Michael Pollan once wrote about "sustainability," that "the whole concept is in dange...
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Stacy Sinclair, EdDEdExcellence Consulting, Inc.This time of year I just can’t help it. I think about commencements speeches and road trips. I think about the impatient child in the back seat asking, “are we there yet?” and the exasperated parent thinking up one more game to keep this child occupied along a tireless highway. The latest buzz has been about including environmental education in federal policy. Hmmm, does this sound groun...
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Stacy Sinclair, EdDEdExcellence Consulting, Inc.Think of education funding as a series of stepping stones laid into the soil to keep your feet from getting muddy or wet. The natural setting abounds and while walking along the path you hear the gentle sounds of nature. Ok, so maybe the stepping stones are suspended in the air like that scene from Indiana Jones when he takes the first step across the chasm that looks like he’s walking o...
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For more than twenty years, adults have come to see the effects of our abandoned city-making sk...
School is literally making people sick. Fifty-five million of our children go to school e...
In the 500 years since Columbus’s Big Misunderstanding in the “West Indies”, our educ...