Deschooling

This Way Out The Self Education Foundation –Excerpted from This Way Out Disclaimer: This article was not written to encourage every student to drop out. It is a personal choice that takes a great deal of thought. This article merely provides information and a resource to represent another option for …

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Do It Green! Minnesota Resource Center

Ami Voeltz Do It Green! Minnesota As the green living movement is growing in Minnesota, so is the need to obtain resources, information, expert advice and to have a space to network and connect with community members. Do It Green! Minnesota will open Minnesota’s first sustainable living and green community …

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Eco History: The Life Cycle of Recycle

Emily Plucinak Carver County Historical Society Reduce, reuse, recycle. We have known the old adage since grade-school, seen the triangular-shaped symbol on the bottom of plastic containers, and have even crushed soda cans and brought them to our local supermarket’s parking lot. A century ago, however, waste not, want not …

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Environmental Education in the City

Erin Hendel In the heart of the sprawling Twin Cities metro area, there exist many well-hidden green spaces where you can join other area residents on a full moon canoeing excursion, feed wildlife, help biologists with animal field studies, take a class on Giant Cecropia Moths, or learn about gardening …

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Green Educational Materials

Ami Voeltz The Twin Cities Green Guide Here are some resources for teachers or presenters that are looking for materials on environmentalism or sustainability. Consider enhancing your curriculum on these important issues. Organizations that have materials or offer presenters: Eco-Education 210 E. 10th St., Suite 375 St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 …

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Healthy Schools Projects

Linda Countryman Minnesota Pollution Control Agency – Prevention & Assistance Division Three Minnesota schools reduce pollution and save energy and money. Houston Public Schools in southeastern Minnesota, Pine Point Elementary on the White Earth Reservation, and Hutchinson High School took part in a recently finished pilot project to develop a …

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Minneapolis Residents Tackle Climate Change

Beth Bennett Center for Energy and Environment In 2007, the city of Minneapolis became the first city in the country to fund small grants for its residents to prevent climate change. The grants garnered tremendous success; Minneapolis residents pledged to prevent over 8.2 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions annually …

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Take the Next Step: Higher Education

Do It Green! Minnesota With resource conservation, sustainability and green living on many people’s radar, it is no surprise that colleges are offering degrees and classes in these areas. Here is just a local sampling. Whether you are fresh out of high school looking to learn how to create a …

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The Info on Minneapolis Infoshops

Amanda Luker Arise! Resource Center and Bookstore As Barnes and Noble, Borders, Amazon.com and the like swell rapidly in size and domination of the book world, independent booksellers and infoshops grow in importance to the health of our community. In the past few years, mega-chains like as those listed above …

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Who Is Teaching Your Child?

By John Borowski Environmental and marine science teacher/author   Do parents in Minnesota want their children learning about climate change from the American Petroleum Institute (a powerful coalition of oil, gas and energy interests who favor increased fossil fuel use) or getting information about complex forest issues from Project Learning …

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