When it comes to protecting the environment, talk is cheap. Redlands University Professor Monty Hempel says a sense of urgency is needed before people are willing to act to protect the health of the ...

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The following is adapted from Ecoliterate: How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and Ecological Intelligence. Ecoliterate shows how educators can extend the principles of social and ...

“Knowledge is not enough” is the slogan of the WorldWatch Institute’s State of the World 2014 campaign, raising the question of whether current environmental education is enough to promote action. The ...

'Ecoliteracy' is urgent and necessary if we are going to build resilient and sustainable human communities. Sustainability, then, is not an individual property but a property of an entire web of ...

We saw an unusually cool July this year. There were altogether five days when the high temperature exceeded 35 degrees Celsius, compared with 25 in July last year. But such is human forgetfulness that ...

Forget pizza and chicken nuggets. The San Francisco Unified School District and the Center for Ecoliteracy's California Food for California Kids are partnering once again this school year to serve ...

At Concordia’s Speculative Life Biolab, Vanessa Mardirossian, PhD 21, stimulates the growth of colour-producing bacteria by feeding them food waste to produce rich and vivid pigments. Long before I ...

No plastic and straw, please. The drink seller looked stunned. The same thing happened when I refused a plastic bag at a neighborhood mini-market. “Is it okay?” the cashier asked. “Sure,” I replied.