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"With the right eco-education, we can hope they will hit the ground running. A lot of schools and educational institutions are doing their bit by including the environment as part of the curriculum. Words like 'carbon footprint' and global warming' comes to them as easily as the name of any present-day rock star. That's cool. But who said that ecological or environmental education needs to be bookish or donnish? Thanks to online games, it can be brought out from textbooks into the fun world. Online environmental games games that teach kids about animals and conservation make the task interactive."

Green world from NZ

"We wanted to create a world so children could have a place of their own, a place that allows them to explore and grow without constant pressure to buy stuff," says MiniMonos founder Melissa Clark- Reynolds, an entrepreneur, climate change activist, and mother. "We also wanted them to have a place that embodies core values, such as sustainability and generosity, without turning those values into a boring lecture."

From the Story of Stuff people, the story of bottles water.!

# Ed Stafford is walking the length of the Amazon river in South America from the source to the sea. He has been walking for: 784 days He started on 2nd April 2008 and is expecting to finish in August 2010. No-one has ever done what he is attempting....

Interesting site with lots on a wide range of eco based learning.

A doco worth seeing, but a bit scary i think!

Great way for students to be involved in and live with a WWO