I just read an interesting article in the local paper about by a woman who spent a month eating locally only. Being part of an CSA farm, I dug what she had to say. Even more so having recently read "Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
So I've been raising my voice not just for a PUD, but that our energy be completely fossil fuel free. I could really get into that! Eating local may cost a bit more, but it's better if it's natural, and it saves on the shipping and refrigeration costs. Read more...
KFC Canada tries to do chickens right, China's air control, and new alternative autos: Shelby Supercars, Prius, Chevy Volt, and more. Read more...
Just in time for back to school season, Earth Day Network has come out with a list of suggestions for students, teachers, and parents to green their schools. Even as the trees start to change colors, these activities are sure to keep many communities green.
- Teachers can have students patrol to check that lights are off in vacant rooms, and make signs or stickers such as “Flip the switch when leaving!” as a reminder to turn off lights.
- Use Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL’s) or LED bulbs and have students compute energy savings.
- Keep air vents clear and up to date and work with custodians to fix drafty rooms; ensure that furnace filters are cleaned often.
- In winter, close classroom doors to trap heat in.
- Make sure computers are programmed to enter “sleep” mode when inactive, and avoid screen savers. Turn off computers when the day ends.
- Urge students or faculty to start a recycling program for the school
The increase in global carbon dioxide emissions is not just damaging the Earth’s climate, but also threatening the very fabric of our oceans. Today, The Nature Conservancy, along with a dozen of the world’s top marine scientists, introduced key findings and recommendations to tackle ocean acidification as part of the “Honolulu Declaration on Ocean Acidification and Reef Management” revealed at the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force meeting in Kona, Hawai‘i.
Two major strategies emerged as the backbone of the Declaration resulting from the workshop:
- Limit fossil fuel emissions - stabilization of atmospheric CO2 is the most logical step to address ocean acidification impacts
- Build the resilience of tropical marine ecosystems and communities to maximize their ability to resist and recover from climate change impacts, including ocean acidification.
Green School, Bali: An international school rooted in holistic education & environmental stewardship
Green School opens on 1 September 2008 for children in Preschool and Kindergarten through Year 8 with students and faculty from Bali and 16 countries around the world. Here in Bali, Indonesia, we are building a new school where Western and Indonesian students can learn together to become more curious and more passionate about their education and our planet.
Green School's beautiful eight-hectare, environmentally sustainable campus in Sibang Kaja is bisected by the Ayung River, on whose western bank are the School's classrooms, libraries, laboratories, and kitchens. Aquaculture ponds, organic vegetable gardens, edible mazes, and permacultural gardens are interspersed throughout the vast campus, which is built entirely of low-impact and environmentally conscious materials such as bamboo, alang-alang grass, and traditional Balinese mud walls. Read more...
Greetings to Ode readers worldwide! I am one of 34 students studying at the KaosPilots International Education in Aarhus, Denmark. As part of our fourth semester (last spring), my team and I lived and worked in Shanghai, China. Our mission was to explore the term "Social Innovation".
We heard from the experts, we investigated on a street level, we discussed, shared and eventually...we wrote! Read more...
We all know the sense of belonging and safety that comes from being a part of a community-how it nurtures our identity and fosters our aspirations. Few of us have experienced anything beyond a brief and partial separation from our community of friends, relatives, home and chosen paths-the elements that give meaning, purpose and direction to our lives. Read more...
Are you a high school student active in or interested in environmental issues? The Weather Channel is sponsoring the Forecast Earth Summit in Washington D.C., to educate the next generation about climate and environmental literacy.
Twenty high school students will win free trips to attend the Summit where they will participate in several activities such as creating public service announcements for The Weather Channel, building and launching a boat made from recycled materials, and meeting with environmental leaders and scientists. Read more...
"When all else is lost, the future still remains" - Christian Bovee
What have you lost? A house? A car? A loved one? Innocence? Hope? Faith? Happiness ... or maybe you have just lost interest altogether - in everything.
However painful or disheartening it may have been to suffer a loss, the good news is that "lost" is a past tense word. It's done. It's finished. Outside of playing it over and over again in your mind with dead-end, "what if" scenarios, you cannot experience the loss again. What you DO have is what is important, ad what you DO have is that most-important, unwritten, unpainted, blank piece of canvas that is your future. It remains, and it will be what you choose to make of it: that includes the next hour, the next day, the next week, or the next fifty years. Read more...
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