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"Esta extensa cita que dejó escrita Carl Sagan y que posiblemente nos haya hecho sentir y pensar sobre nuestra vida, nuestra sociedad y nuestro planeta, es la antesala a un tercer paso, también importante, para una plena toma de conciencia de nuestro lugar en el mundo, experimentarlo. Einstein decía que la única fuente de conocimiento era la experiencia y una de las propuestas de este artículo es llevar a la experiencia personal esas sensaciones y pensamientos que nos ha transmitido Sagan con su reflexivo párrafo. La segunda propuesta es llevar esa experiencia a un nivel colectivo y para ello propongo desarrollarla como una posible actividad educativa y familiar a conveniencia del facilitador. A mi parecer, esta actividad encajaría perfectamente en la semana de la ciencia que se suele celebrar en diferentes localidades y países alrededor del 11 de noviembre, día mundial de la ciencia para la paz y el desarrollo. Un viaje de mil kilómetros comienza con un paso Hace unos días, coincidiendo con la semana de la ciencia, asistí a diversas actividades y en concreto una de ellas "Como descubrir a los mamíferos de nuestro entorno" ha sido el detonante de este artículo. Esta actividad familiar se desarrolló en el paisaje protegido de Elía y consistía en un pequeño paseo para descubrir huellas, rastros y señales de diferentes mamíferos como el jabalí, el gato montés, el zorro etc. Durante el pequeño paseo me vinieron a la memoria dos actividades parecidas y también realizadas en familia que experimenté cuando vivía en el Reino Unido. Una era sobre una caminata con un experto en forrajeo, búsqueda de plantas y recursos comestibles en la naturaleza. Durante ese paseo nos enseñó distintas plantas, su uso comestible o su posible uso medicinal. A lo largo del camino se probaron varias plantas y finalizó, para disfrute de los niños, en un claro del bosque con un pequeño fuego para cocinar un rebozado de dientes de león. La otra actividad ll

Sometimes, information is hard to understand just because it's presented in a manner that just doesn't quite appeal to the way we like to learn best. While it isn't always possible to take every class or complete every project in a way that fits into your individual style, there are ways that you can help to ensure that you're making the most of the material at hand. Here are a few tips to help you start improving your learning experience by helping make it work a little better with your needs, whether you're a visual, auditory or kinesthetic lea

"To revert the current ecological overshoot and build a sustainable society, we have to collectively engage in changing our economic model. "Sufficiency: moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency" suggests introducing hard limitations to unsustainable trends-in particular to overconsumption-and putting emphasis on distributional justice. Seven chapters written by sustainability and economics experts plus a foreword by Janez Potočnik (Co-chair of the International Resource Panel and former European Commissioner for the Environment) shed light on different angles of sufficiency and formulate concrete recommendations to EU policy makers. The booklet ends with a discussion of several eco-social policies that can start the transition towards an "economics of enough". Many new ideas for an economic paradigm shift have been developed and discussed at the academic and grassroots levels in recent years. The aim of this booklet is to build on a rich body of knowledge and bring these ideas to the attention of engaged citizens and policy makers in order to advance the debate on how to implement sufficiency."

"The Kaua Moho was the last species of it's entire genus and it was the last genus in it's family. This male was not just the last of his kind, he was the last being on his entire branch of the evolutionary tree, there was nothing left on the planet that was even close to being like him. That kind of loneliness is unimaginable. No other avian family has had every single species within it go completely extinct in modern times. Different species of Moho lived on each island of Hawaii and their evolutionary cousins the kioea birds lived alongside them, but starting in 1800 (about the time Europeans started arriving to the islands in significant numbers and also about the time the native human population of Hawaii also got decimated by diseases) one by one they died out due to the introduction of foreign avian diseases and parasites, habitat loss, and hunting for their plumage. 2 hurricanes within 10 years of each other finished them off. They are all gone and that song or any song like it will never be heard again save for in recordings. The hurricanes dealt the final blow, but 95% of it was humanity's fault. This has become common in Hawaii due to having so many species that only exist there. A LOT of those species are gone now because the arrival of Europeans brought disease, invasive species, and people straight up killed them or destroyed their habitats. It is a similar situation on every isolated island or area in the world as humans have expanded and explored every nook and cranny on the planet, no matter how hard it is to get to or how little business we have there we feel the need to interfere in even the most delicate and tiny ecosystem. Even the large, continent sized ecosystems are suffering. It doesn't matter if there are millions or even billions of an animal or plant, we will find some way to kill them all. It is only in the last few decades that serious steps have finally been taken to preserve the few areas on this world that we have not destroyed, but