As a dedicated bike commuter, I also support cycling education at my workplace for both staff and students. A group of parents got a City of Seattle Department of Transportation Grant to support Safe Routes to School. One of the parents designs regular graphics for us to promote the program.
This one is just FANTASTIC!
http://greenlevine.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/6812690749_47d0649c20_z.jpg
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A long awaited pilot for the Teaching Channel that features our solar roller:
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Join me as I present a workshop called:
Science, Stuff, and Sustainability: Engaging Students in Examining Systems, Resources, and Consumption
At the National Science Teacher’s Association Regional Conference in Seattle, Washington on December 8, 2011
from 5- 6 pm at the Washington State Convention Center, 617
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David Orr was my professor at Oberlin College. Now, he’s my colleague, and still my professor, as I continue to learn from him. Grist Magazine alerted me to a new article about him and the Oberlin Project, a green arts revitilzation project for the college town.
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Kermit is one of my favorite characters. Frogs are one of my favorite animals. I love their amphibious lifestyle of living at the edge. I also love Andrew Bird, the signer songwriter. So imagine the love of Bird, remaking Frog’s finest: It’s not Easy Being Green.
And check out the entire Muppet’s Green Album here.
“When green is all there is to be / it makes you wonder / why wonder / I’m green and besides it’s all I want to be.”
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A good new film about storm water pollution has been produced and launched this summer. Follows three teens who lose a key down a storm drain. As they search for the key they learn about stormwater pollution in Puget Sound and they discover they can do something about it. The film was produced for Seattle Public Utilities by Ijo Arts and directed by Bogdan Darev.
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Maryland becomes the first state to approve Environmental Education graduation requirements.
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E. O. Wilson calls it “biophilia,” Albert Schweitzer called it “reverence,” Rachel Carson called it “a sense of wonder.” But by any name it is the sense of belonging in nature and particularly in one’s place.–David Orr
True.
Thank you David, and these others, for their contributions to my sense of place.
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Recently I was invited by my colleague and friend, Alan Durning to join him at breakfast with Richard Louv, hosted by the Dean of the UW school of Public Health. Louv’s new book, The Nature Principle, has implications for health and sustainability of all. With a view of the Cascade Mountain range those gathered talked about the power of purposeful place, regional iconography, bioregionalism, and the ethos of our nearby nature and mountain culture here in the Pacific Northwest.
As the only K-12 educator, I was the foot solider among these merry men and women, executive directors of the region’s leading environmental education and conservation focused organizations–the zoo, the Cascade Land Conservancy, The North Cascades Institute, Olympic Park Institute, Islandwood, Sightline Institute, Sierra Club, The Children and Nature Network.
If you are an educator, or parent, or community stakeholder, I encourage you to explore nearby nature with young people and peers. I encourage you to pay attention. Saul Weisberg, Executive Director, North Cascades Institute wrote an article several years ago about doing just that. Enjoy Paying Attention: Being a Naturalist and Searching for Patterns.
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Today I heard from folks at the The Institute for Humane Education (IHE) letting me know they like the work I’m doing to inspire and empower students. They have linked to the Clean Water Challenge project on their blog.
Their president and co-founder, Zoe Weil’s, gives a talk called “The World Becomes What You Teach” in which she urges schools to develop the next generation of solutionaries.
Sustainability education aims to raise a generation of solutinaries. How are you taking part?
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