A Learning Experience
What would you expect to learn from a field trip to one of our country’s top recycling centers?
Probably how efficiently everything is sorted and how everything is being recycled and saved from the landfill. What I learned from visiting the Santa Monica Recycling Center...
Nov
14
Industries fueled the Industrial Revolution. Image: ShutterStock
The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their environment. The Industrial Revolution dramatically changed every aspect of human life and lifestyles. The impact on the...
Sep
18
Trees provide heat relief in crowded parking lots. Credit: Pics4Learning
Everyone knows that trees clean the air. But do you know how they do it? Dave Nowak, a researcher with the USDA Forest Service in the Northeast has studied the effect of trees on air quality extensively. Trees clean the air...
Sep
13
Bahrain's beaches are at risk from the environmental impact of rapid growth. Photo courtesy of Bahrain Tourism Board.
A series of talks among scientists, business and economic leaders, politicians, academics, human rights activists, NGOs and others in the Kingdom of Bahrain has resulted in an...
Aug
23
New York City's famed Times Square, pedestrianized.
With the average American driver spending nearly an hour a day behind the wheel, and up to 25 percent of income on transportation, the appeal of living and working in a walkable city is on the rise.
Which U.S. cities are the most walkable?...
Jul
20
Helsinki, one of the two major metropolitan areas studied in Finland.
A recent study published at Environmental Research Letters challenges the commonly held belief that high-density urban areas produce fewer carbon emissions per capita than less dense rural areas.
Analyzing the carbon footprint of...
Jun
29
Architect Carolyn Steel explaines that we live in a world shaped by food. This illuminating talk explores the daily miracle of feeding a city, and reveals how ancient food routes shaped the modern world.
Apr
08
The Children & Nature Network has declared the whole month of April 2011 as “Let’s G.O. (Get Outside)” Month.
Please consider joining this movement with the children in your life, or your inner child.
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