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How Does Nature Do That?
by Margo Farnsworthposted Feb 01, 2013 - Former park ranger-turned-professor Margo Farnsworth believes that biomimicry is one of the most important new tools for sustainability. It gets her students outside and unleashes their scientific and entrepreneurial minds.
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YES! Recommends: Biomimicry 3.8 Institute
posted Feb 01, 2013
- The Biomimicry 3.8 Institute promotes biomimicry as a sustainability design tool. It shares an abundance of resources, seminars, and trainings with scientists, engineers, architects, business-people, and teachers who desire to use nature's models as inspiration for creating man-made products and sustainable technologies.
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Neighborhood Chalkboard Reveals Secrets and Dreams
posted Feb 01, 2013 - TEDTalk by Candy Chang on connecting communities through art, sharing, and usable public spaces.
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Visual Learning: In a Bind
posted Feb 01, 2013
- This Visual Learning activity will get your students thinking about what it would be like to live a nomadic lifestyle, and to be forced to live and work in an unfamiliar place.
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Curriculum & Resources: The Debate on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
posted Feb 01, 2013
- What are genetically modified organisms (GMOs)? Why do we need them? Do your students think they're good or bad? Study these three infographics to get three different points of view on GMOs, and to boost your students' critical thinking.
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Film Review: Ken Burns’ Dust Bowl
by Valerie Schloredtposted Feb 01, 2013 - The new documentary will bring you inside one of the worst manmade disasters of all time in powerful detail.
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Quote: Occupy Oakland
posted Feb 01, 2013 - A quote from Occupy Oakland, from How Cooperatives Are Driving the New Economy, the Spring 2013 issue of YES! Magazine. Download it here.
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Language and Metaphors for a New Cosmology
by Tim Foxposted Feb 01, 2013
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How to Get Your Books Back in Perfect Shape
posted Feb 01, 2013 - DIY bookbinding can put your pages back in order (and it's cheaper than buying a new book).
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People We Love: Sarah Bergmann
by Fabien Tepperposted Feb 01, 2013 - Creating a pollination pathway for urban bees.
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The Page That Counts: Spring 2013
posted Feb 01, 2013 - Miles flown by a bar-tailed godwit in the longest nonstop bird migration ever recorded: 7,200. Miles flown in the world’s longest nonstop, non-refueled helicopter flight: 2,213.
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What’s Stephen Colbert’s Solution to Climate Change?
by YES! Online Staffposted Jan 31, 2013 - Video: Stephen Colbert gets a lot of laughs out of climate change—at the expense of pundits who seem to have decided that solving the problem is just too much work.
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Care about Your Food? Then Care about Your Farmworkers Too
by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zernposted Jan 30, 2013 - It’s organic. It’s local. But did the workers who picked it have health insurance?
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You Are Where You Live
by Susan Griffinposted Jan 30, 2013 - How the sky, rain, geography, and cultures of our place shape us.
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Sex in the Wild (a First-Hand Account)
by Eva Haywardposted Jan 30, 2013 - What I learned about love from a hermaphrodite, a cannibal, and a dizzyingly diverse array of sea creatures.
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