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What’s Cheaper than Solar, Slashes Carbon Emissions, and Creates Jobs in Kentucky?
by Erin L. McCoyposted Feb 04, 2013 - Having an energy-efficient home saves the owners money, but they often procrastinate on improvements. When energy companies in Kansas and Kentucky figured out a way to sweeten the deal, the results brought good news for homeowners, contractors, and for the planet.
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Backyard Permaculture: A 12-Step Program
by Doug Pibelposted Feb 04, 2013 - Author Peter Bane grew more than 150 species on less than 2,000 square feet. Here are 12 tips to get you there.
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Radical Investing: 4 Ways to Live on a Tight Budget
by Shannon Hayesposted Feb 02, 2013 - "We have a lovely home, we eat well, we have lots of fun, we’re warm, and we don’t worry about how we’ll keep the lights on." Shannon Hayes on how she has managed to live a fulfilled and happy life without going broke.
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Shooting Stars and Living Spirit
by Roberto Vargasposted Feb 01, 2013
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4 Lessons for Growing a Family Farm Across Generations
by Shannon Hayesposted Feb 01, 2013 - Breaking our families into nuclear units has an ecological and emotional cost. Could the multigenerational farm remind us where to turn for a viable future?
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Curriculum & Resources: World Savvy
posted Feb 01, 2013
- World Savvy prepares the next generation to learn, work, and thrive as responsible and engaged global citizens. It provides curriculum and other classroom-ready resources, professional development, and an educator network to boost student global competency.
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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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