Climate & Environment Focused Book Recommendations – Middle School Level
Some places to find our suggestions – CareerOneStop, managed by the U.S. Department of Labor, allows you to find your nearest local, free public library by entering your (or your school’s) zip code. IndieBound has a bookstore finder tool that helps Read More
Climate & Environment Focused Book Recommendations – Elementary School Level
Some places to find our suggestions – CareerOneStop, managed by the U.S. Department of Labor, allows you to find your nearest local, free public library by entering your (or your school’s) zip code. IndieBound has a bookstore finder tool that helps Read More
Student Art & Design
Ask students to create a drawing that could be used on a reusable grocery bag and promote awareness of global warming & climate change. These bags are being sold as a fundraiser to support environmental projects in the schools. We Read More
New resources
‘The Green New Deal and Our Schools’. Rethinking Schools, Summer 2019. ‘Solar Power Comes to Math Class‘. Rethinking Schools, Summer 2019. Books Bill McKibben. Falter: Is the Human Game Beginning to Play Itself Out? Macmillan (2019). David Wallace-Wells. The Uninhabitable Earth – Read More
Your kids can’t wait for bureaucrats to approve a new curriculum!
The best way to empower your students is to start now, weaving critical topics such as the climate crisis and social justice issues into the existing curriculum. This site has a number of ideas for teachers in just about every Read More
The Power of Positive Stories
Teachers: don’t forget to include positive stories, poetry, and art as part of your classroom! The recent article, ‘Environmental Storytelling‘ tells us that, instead of discouragement, ‘stories with positive role models and which focus on the positive outcomes of solutions Read More
School GHG Calculator update!
We have made a few improvements to the free School GHG Calculator, including updating to newer emission factors released this year and providing more options for heating fuel. As before, it comes with complete instructions. Doing a GHG inventory at Read More
NOAA reports: 40 straight months of high temperatures
April 2018 was the 400th consecutive month of global temperatures above the 20th century average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Thursday. This three-decade streak is not some fluke, NOAA scientists remarked. “It’s mainly due to anthropogenic (human-caused) warming,” NOAA Read More
New resources
A few new resources you might find useful: Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution, by Peter Kalmus. New Society Publishers, 2017. Arctic Report Card 2017. NOAA [National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration]. Short Video [3:36] on YouTube Read More