Sustainability

Sustainability is not just about the environment. It's also about fair economies and social justice.

Curriculum & Resources: The Food Project

posted Apr 15, 2013

Resources from The Food Project, based in the Boston area, focus on sustainable agriculture and youth leadership. TFP graciously shares many of its manuals, activities, and curriculum for free (downloadable).

How Does Nature Do That?

by Margo Farnsworth

posted 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.

Net Zero’s Net Worth: How Renewable Energy Is Rescuing Schools from Budget Cuts

by Erin L. McCoy

posted Nov 05, 2012

Educators across the country are finding millions of dollars in savings through cheap and simple forms of renewable energy.

What Climate-Driven Hurricane Sandy Teaches about Cooperation

by Sarah van Gelder

posted Nov 01, 2012

It’s 3 a.m. and the wind’s howling. Do you know your neighbors?

YES! Recommends: Nourish

posted Oct 15, 2012

Nourish is an education initiative that celebrates food and community. Its food curriculum and lesson plans, short films and discussion guides, and powerful action ideas will help young people and their families, schools, and communities think about the food they eat and what they can do to make healthy choices for themselves and planet Earth.

Bioneers Conference 2012

posted Sep 17, 2012

For its 23rd annual conference, Bioneers offers educators programming on ecological literacy and youth leadership, plus a discount to attend. The conference is from October 19-21 in San Rafael, CA.

Visual Learning: To Dye For

posted Dec 21, 2011

With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it's interesting (or not). In this case, it's all about where we get our clothes.

YES! Recommends: Creative Change Educational Solutions

posted Nov 23, 2011

Creative Change's comprehensive approach to curriculum transformation places food systems, renewable energy, urban revitalization, and other sustainability issues at the center of education innovation and reform.

Visual Learning: We Are the 99%

posted Nov 23, 2011

With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it's interesting (or not). In this case, it's all about animals as food.

Visual Learning: Boom!

posted Oct 25, 2011

With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it's interesting (or not). In this case, it's all about oil spill cleanup.

Curriculum & Resources: The Innocence Project and Prison Food

posted Sep 22, 2011

Use the Innocence Project’s interactive resources to understand the causes of wrongful convictions and exonerations, and see how your school's cafeteria food measures up to prison food with this tell-it-like-it is infographic.

YES! Recommends: Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots

posted Apr 01, 2011

Roots & Shoots animal community service-learning curriculum offers lessons plans, sample campaigns, and resources for K-12 teachers. Access free, downloadable classrooms tools including lessons on hope, endangered species, and multiple intelligences.

Visual Learning: Out of the Blue

posted Apr 01, 2011

With this YES! lesson plan, you and your students can luxuriate—and pause—to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not).

Who Participated in No Impact Week? Meet the Students!

posted Feb 06, 2011

Meet six students who started the New Year tracking their trash, taking record-breaking showers, battling the bus system, and learning that green is the color for all seasons.

Visual Learning: Sacred Water

posted Dec 22, 2010

With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not). In this case it's all about water.