Sustainable Education

"ESD is often a contested term, with various different definitions, the Centre uses the term ESD to mean education that aims to give students the knowledge and skills to live and work sustainably." A good example of a subject centre engaged in sustainability teaching & learning issues.

newish site with The Field sister site for online community. Some interesting reading lists, bibliographies, links, and a few resources. Early days yet. Tree huggers...

"How do you save the planet? Chop down a tree and put it in a microwave. That's not a joke. It's the proposition of at least two dozen companies developing "biochar" technology that they say will suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and help curb global warming."

"Join scientists, engineers, policymakers, policy analysts, producers, and users to discuss these critical developments."

"This experiment has been launched in collaboration with The Virtual Revolution - the BBC Two series celebrating 20 years of the web." How do you use the Web?

look at the distribution of tags across the concepts

"covers legal, academic, and regulatory developments pertaining to the valuation of environmental amenities and disamenities, such as clean air, trees, parks, congestion, and noise. "

"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."

""How can I embed sustainable development into to what I teach when I don't really understand what it means?""

"SEEd (Sustainability and Environmental Education) is a registered UK charity with the primary objective of enabling more of the education sector to engage with Education for Sustainable Development and environmental education. "

Google directory is another way of looking for relevant websites and refining search terms.

Interesting example of Open Educational Resources. US Notice the format of Duscussion, activities, worksheets, resources and glossary.

"The Teaching Race and Ethnicity website is intended for all interested scholars, researchers, teachers and others who want to engage with key issues of race, ethnicity, diversity, multiculture and racism. The aim is to provide critical resources and suggestions for teaching, learning and assessment."

"The resource is a collection of quotes and ideas from real practitioners. The range of focuses includes: Cross-phase computer clubs; Getting more out of school trips; Enabling pupil voice through ICT; Creative multimedia artwork; Ideas for assessment; Improving parent/carer communication; multimedia plenary sessions. Each 'vignette' includes Description and Impact." DOWNLOAD BOOKLET IN 2 PARTS

"This area contains a range of articles, case studies and vignettes to exemplify how ICT is being used in the field. " Good source of ideas on how to use web2.0 technology.

An excellent source of video material in general. 9 videos in this category.

We hope this website will be of particular interest to teachers, teacher trainers, lecturers in Further and Higher Education, community educators/enablers, as well as decision-makers working in government and professional institutions.

"After long battles, three farmers in France have won legal claims that their cases of cancer and Parkinson's disease were caused by working with pesticides. Now they want to help others fight similar cases"

The population crash. Across Europe, we are having fewer babies. In many places, such as the deserted town of Hoyerswerda in east Germany, the falling birth rate is already taking its toll. Not a cheerful piece.

"Could methane-digesting bacteria and an Arctic cap of fresh water prevent a climate catastrophe?" Some good news and some not so good.