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45 Useful Earth Day 2020 Tips 

45 Useful Earth Day 2020 Tips  | Rainforest CLASSROOM | Scoop.it
Earth Day is once a year, but these lifestyle changes could be beneficial for the other 364 days. Here's how to be more eco-friendly and change your habits at home.
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Great ideas that are easy for your students and their families to implement!

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Animal + plant superpowers inspire winning teams

Animal + plant superpowers inspire winning teams | Rainforest CLASSROOM | Scoop.it
Game-changing ideas begin by seeing the possibilities for a sustainable world reflected in the living systems that surround us. That’s what we celebrate each year in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge - a competition that asks innovators to create radically sustainable human designs inspired by the natural world.
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Young Brazilians Are Creating Radio Jingles to Promote Sustainable Amazon Development · Global Voices

Young Brazilians Are Creating Radio Jingles to Promote Sustainable Amazon Development · Global Voices | Rainforest CLASSROOM | Scoop.it
Youth in the Brazilian Amazon community Cabelo Seco are taking the lead through a radio project, supported by Rising Voices, to promote sustainability through traditional, digital, and innovative means.
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Welcome to NEXT.cc

Welcome to NEXT.cc | Rainforest CLASSROOM | Scoop.it

NEXT.cc is an eco web that develops ethical imagination and environmental stewardship. NEXT.cc introduces what design is, what design does, and why design is important. It offers activities across nine scales – nano, pattern, object, space, architecture, neighborhood, urban, region, and world. 

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This is an amazing site and resource for educators who want to connect local to global, form and function to design, STEM to the environment, and more!  

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Education and Sustainability

Education and Sustainability | Rainforest CLASSROOM | Scoop.it
I remember when I was in grade school, the common questions among friends and classmate is: what would you like to be when you grow up? Or, what course will you be taking up in college? And you wou...
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Act Now for Environmental Education – A renewed global pledge for strengthening education and learning for a more sustainable world

Act Now for Environmental Education – A renewed global pledge for strengthening education and learning for a more sustainable world | Rainforest CLASSROOM | Scoop.it
The Global Environmental Education Partnership (website) has created a pledge for reinvigorating Environmental Education world-wide in light of urgent sustainability challenges. In the pledge the global environmental education community is asked to work toward three visionary goals: 1 Every nation...
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WATCH:  Amazon Rainforest - A Case for Sustainable Development

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's most unique and important ecosystems. Yet the health of the rainforest and the people who live there i
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Biomimicry : What Can Leaf-Cutter Ants Teach Us About Farming?

Biomimicry : What Can Leaf-Cutter Ants Teach Us About Farming? | Rainforest CLASSROOM | Scoop.it
Why not farm like a prairie? Perennial polyculture is productive, resilient, self-fertilizing, self-weeding, and it improves the soil.
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Biomimicry is an excellent way to bring STEM into your life science and bio classes.  Here is a great resource to get you inspired! 

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Sustainability & Education

Sustainability & Education | Rainforest CLASSROOM | Scoop.it

Resources for teaching about sustainability

http://www.scoop.it/t/sustainability-education


Via Roxana Marachi, PhD
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Great curated collection of sustainability education resources

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