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Prayer for mean and greedy people to be turned nice or kept out of power
Dear GOD: The animals, plants, air, water, children, babies, and old people and disabled need YOUR help. Please help. We thank you for that help as we
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Cradle-to-Cradle
Cradle-to-cradle is a revolutionary yet completely natural way of ensuring that our "industrial" processes add to life rather than depleting the Earth.
Environmental Solutions as Focus for Grades 6/7 to 10 (12-16 Years Olds)
Intermediate students can learn the state of their planet by exploring sustainability and environmental solutions.
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Student Environmental Award
Schools offer academic achievement awards, leadership awards and sports awards for students. Why not a student environmental award?
Green Language Arts and English
Integrating green language arts and English studies with environmental education and education for sustainability comes quite naturally with ecological awareness.
Postsecondary Sustainability Education
Postsecondary sustainability education can start in every lecture theatre and lab, with every professor and instructor.
Green Schools are Vegetarian Schools
Green schools are vegetarian schools. Meat at school is no longer cool because it contributes to global warming and climate change.
Environmental Health as Backdrop to the Green Curriculum Model
Environmental health and ecosystem health serve as the backdrop of the green curriculum model because everything we do as educators should contribute to the health of our students.
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Mutual Blessing
May the energy emanating from every step I take re-sanctify the Earth. May the energy emanating from every breath I take re-sanctify the Earth. May
Yogic Prayer to the Earth
I breathe in energy of life I breathe out love of the Earth I breathe in inspiration I breathe out love of Earth's creatures I breathe in the winds of
The Earth's Prayer
(to the intonations of
the Lord's Prayer)
Our Gaia, whose art is nature - abode of our life, Your time has come, your battle won for people's planet-consciousness. Teach us each day, how to be
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(to the intonations of
the Lord's Prayer)"
School Gardens
School gardens are a great way to use the schoolyard as a classroom, reconnect students with the natural world, and teach them valuable food production skills that integrate with several subjects.
Sustainable Family Development - Helping Families Go Green
So many environmental efforts are aimed at individuals, but isn't the family a primary unit of change in our society? Sustainable family development helps families develop "green" competencies.
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Great Naturalists
Studying great naturalists will help students see the rest of Nature through the eyes of people, past and present, with a passion for it.
Prayer for All the World
Compassionate and loving god, you created the world for us all to share, a world of beauty and plenty. Create in us a desire to live simply so that
PRAYER GUARANI - BRAZIL
Prayer Tupi Guarani - Leonardo Nunes (Davhana) The voice of Your spirit, Oh Tupã, can be heard in all four corners of the Earth. Driven by the force of
Arts for the Earth
Arts for the Earth hold the power to transform. Where do music, theatre, dance and the visual arts intersect with environmental education? How can they contribute to a future that sustains life?
Hymn to Goddess Earth (from Atharva Veda), continued
Atharva Veda, Kanda XII, Sukta 1, Mantras 1-63 translated from the Sanskrit by Maurice Bloomfield (1897), in Sacred Books of the East, Volume 42 Continued
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Hymn to Goddess Earth, from Atharva Veda
Atharva Veda, Kanda XII, Sukta 1, Mantras 1-63 translated from the Sanskrit by Maurice Bloomfield (1897), in Sacred Books of the East, Volume 42 This
Green School Theme
Choosing a Green School theme for the whole school is one step toward transformative education for sustainability.
Sustainable Development as Focus for Grades 11 and 12
The only alternative to sustainable development is UNsustainable development, so senior students must graduate knowing the principles and processes of sustainable development.
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The Three Hats Strategy
The Three Hats Strategy is a roundtable facilitation technique to ensure the most harmony during a sustainable development multi-stakeholder meeting.
Nature Bonding for Primary Grades
Nature bonding experiences are vital for preschool and primary-aged children if they are to grow up to be people who take care of the Earth.
Prayer of Blessings for the Earth Walk
May the Great Spirit bless you May the Great Spirit guide you May the Great Spirit be with you As you walk through your wa
Daily words of the Buddha
May all creatures, all living things, all beings one and all, experience good fortune only. May they not fall into harm. Angutta Nikay II
Wildcrafting as Nature Study
Wildcrafting is learning how to identify and eat edible wilds. It's not only fun, it might also become a necessity as fossil-fuelled agriculture breaks down.
Growing Up WILD
We developed this for early childhood educators and believe you could use it in your workshops. Please see www.pwgrowingupwild.or
Integration as an Ecological Teaching Tool
Integration of sustainability learning into the rest of the curriculum is an ecological teaching tool that counters the dangers of reductionism.
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Greening Chemistry
Greening chemistry, by studying ways to reduce or eliminate toxic chemical substances, is an excellent way to integrate chemistry with sustainability education.
Greening ESL (English as a Second Language)
Greening ESL (English as a Second Language) happens when we integrate environmental and sustainability issues, ideas and activities into ESL lessons.
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Greening the Holidays at School
Greening the holidays at school is vital. The festive season is the perfect time to teach life cycle analysis and sustainable development, as antidotes to consumerism and waste.
Furnishing the Optimal Learning Environment
Furnishing the optimal learning environment means putting students and their learning first when choosing classroom furniture, set up and decor.
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Greening Geography — Connecting Students to Their World
Greening geography means helping students connect to their world through a transformative sustainability lens.
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Greening School Hiring
One way to ensure that new school staff are environmentally friendly is through greening school hiring practices, such as posing relevant questions in the first interview.
Environmental Education in French
Climate change (les changements climatiques) is an important and timely topic for integrating environmental education in French as a Second Language classes.
Greening the Curriculum
Greening the curriculum (using this green school curriculum model) creates graduates who are ready to tackle 21st century challenges such as climate change.
Greening School Behaviour and Attitudes = Greening Our Ethic
Greening school behaviour means applying an environmental / sustainability ethic to all decisions we make within our school community.
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Prayers for the Earth
Prayers for the Earth is a collection of graces and prayers from different cultures and religions around the world, as well as prayers to heal the oil spill.
Nature-Friendly Language and Metaphors
As teachers, we can examine the language choices we make and use more Nature-friendly language and metaphors.
circles of light
with all my heart from my heart i see clear waters healthy creatures beloved brothers and sisters breathing together with the earth we are all one beating
Prayer for Japan
O God of the sea and of the mountains, we acknowledge the effects of our deeds, particularly of hurting earth through the mining activities of people,
Child Honouring
Child Honouring is a philosophy and way of life that puts care and concern for our children at the centre of all our decisions and everything we do personally and as a society.
Nature Deficit - Children Need Nature
Nature deficit disorder is rampant. Children need Nature, like they need sleep and healthy food.
Climate Change Primer
This climate change primer gives teachers what they need to know about global climate change, and offers resources for teaching it.
School Greening
School greening means transforming your students' education, making sustainability the focus of curriculum and professional development, facilities and operations, and organizational behaviour.
Spirit of the West
Oh Spirit of the west In the colorful sunsets that autumn brings May I see myself as the spirit that I am In the passing seasons of mother nature May
For You, Dear Mother
From the ignored and forgotten simple plants in the yard most consider weeds, you bring food and medicine. On this dear little plot of land I will not
Health and Physical Education for the Earth
Health and Physical Education for the Earth provides examples of ways to integrate a sustainability ethic and an understanding of our connection with Nature into health and P.E. curriculum.
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