Which foods use the most energy, farm to fork? In this quiz, test your knowledge. Our food system is a giant machine that turns energy from the sun and fossil fuels into caloric energy – 30% of our fossil fuels go into making food (Source). Resource Creator(s) Inside Energy’s mission, in collaboration with its partner stations, […]
Food impacts more than your health. It impacts the environment, animals and people. What you eat, where it comes from, and how it was produced contributes to your FoodPrint — think of it like a carbon footprint, but for food. So what’s your FoodPrint? Take this 3-minute quiz to find out (Source). Resource Creator(s) Foodprint […]
Launched in 2007, by Bon Appétit Management Company, the Low Carbon Diet set specific targets to reduce our carbon emissions over five years. In 2015, they moved from a diet aimed at quick reduction goals to a long-term, sustained way of living: the Low Carbon Lifestyle. They’ve developed five easy tips to help people think […]
This true story, set in a remote village in the mountains of central Guatemala, helps explain one Maya family’s understanding of living in harmony with nature. Margarito’s forest was inspired by Don Margarito and his lifelong commitment to the ecology of his community. After a young Esteban complains of having to carry a seedling tree […]
For Valentina, living on the Galápagos islands means spending her days outside, observing the natural world around her. She greets sea lions splashing on the shore, scampers over lava rocks with Sally-lightfoot crabs, and swims with manta rays. She is a Galápagos girl, and there is no other place she’d rather be! But this wondrous […]
Climate Lit is a hub for building young people’s climate literacy with literature, film, and stories in other media. The website offers a literature database, curricula, and a climate glossary all of which are focusing on increasing students’ climate literacy. Organization: Climate Lit Climate Lit was founded in 2021 as a cooperative of educators, scholars, […]
The Think Earth Environmental Education Foundation provides virtual field trips so students can explore the ocean in their own classroom. Each virtual field trip contains the following: They also provide free K-8 curriculum for those who make a free account. Think Earth instructional units teach students: Think Earth helps develop students’ understanding of how their […]
EcoRise Freemium lessons are stand-alone lessons from each of our five curriculum suites, including Sustainable Intelligence, Design Studio, Business of Social Good, Green Building Lessons for a Sustainable Future, and Biomimicry and Science. Each lesson includes a detailed lesson plan as well as additional resources such as student worksheets, presentations, and assessment checklists and rubrics.We […]
Water – Corporate Accountability’s campaign for water provides students with examples of how to advocate for their water along with any relevant news articles concerning events that affect our water. There is also a video “Who controls the way we drink?” which showcases how cities around the United States have come up with innovative ways […]
This three-part graphic novel series follows the AstroNuts on their various missions to save the inhabitants of Earth in a sustainability-centered storyline. AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet Humans have gone too far, wrecking planet Earth. We might need to find a new planet. But who could possibly help us do that? The AstroNuts! Lucky […]