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"Green School in Bali, Indonesia is giving its students a relevant, holistic and green education in one of the most amazing environments on the planet."
This website could be useful for learning how to live green as a family. With information on holistic and homeopathic medicine, organic gardening, and much more, this would be a great resource to share with the parents of students.
"The Centre is involved with a number of green chemistry activities in the areas of research, industrial collaboration, the development of educational and promotional materials and networking both with academia and industry."
"Environmental policy matters more to students so what should universities be doing to improve their green credentials? Join our panel on Friday 24 June"
Bradford campus regenerated safer, healhier and more socially inclusive with innovative projects urban pond to support urban drainage and biodiversity, well being festival and orchard in a car park.
Green-Schools is an international environmental education programme and award scheme that promotes and acknowledges long-term, whole-school action for the environment.
"After 3 years of living at between 1/5 and 1/10th of the energy the average family uses, there are some generalities I can offer to people. But they aren't the ones you'll see in most of the "10 tips to go green" articles." Sharon Astyk's 10 tips!
The Green League 2008 demonstrates that some universities are developing exciting and pioneering sustainability strategies. People & Planet asked some of these institutions to write case studies outlining the kind of activities that are taking place on campus. Feeling in need of some inspiration? Want to show your Vice Chancellor what your university should be doing? Then have a look at these universities - you certainly won't be short of ideas!
Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation promoting sustainable development through environmental education. \nFEE is an international umbrella organisation with one national member organisation per country. FEE has member organisations in 58 countries worldwide. Eco-schools, Blue Flag,Young Reporters, Learning about Forests, Green Key Awards
"A new report by a United Kingdom industry taskforce predicts steep oil price rises and gasoline supply shortages by 2014-2015, which will put the global economy at similar risk to the 2007-2008 rapid rise in oil prices that helped trigger the Great Recession."
Going Greener, Green League, - Universities have a key role to play in the UK's transition to a low-carbon future, yet our universities' responses to climate change haven't been quick or effective enough yet. The carbon emissions and energy consumption of university estates are responsible for around 11% of the UK's public sector emissions. There's a long transition ahead to make our learning institutions fit for the future. "