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To find your own way is to follow your bliss.
— Joseph Campbell

Compassionate Climate Action Blog (where I try to plant the seed of compassion in the hearts of everyone involved in the good fight to safeguard the future)

Climate Change Primer

School Greening

• Green School Theme
• Greening the Holidays at School
• Cradle-to-Cradle Life Cycle Analysis

Greening the Curriculum

• Green School Curriculum Map (The most important page on this website!)
• Nature Bonding for Primary Grades
• Ecological Principles as Focus for 9-11 Year Olds
• List of Eco-Heroes
• List of Nature's Gifts
• Environmental Solutions as Focus for Intermediate Grades
• Sustainable Development as Focus for Senior Grades
• Sustainability Slang
• Three Hats Facilitation Strategy

• Global Warming as Overarching Focus of Transformative Sustainability Curriculum
• Ecological Ethics as the Foundation for Transformative Sustainability Education
• Environmental and Ecosystem Health as Backdrop to Green Curriculum Model (includes information on an idle-free campaign for schools)

Greening School Facilities

• Safety, Comfort and Aesthetic Elements
• Developmentally Appropriate and Student-Centred Learning Features
• Flexible Classroom Design
• Furnishing the Optimal Learning Environment
• Integrated Instructional Technology
• Sensory Perceptions: Sound, Light and Colour
• Ecofriendly Features: Lighting, Ventilation and Climate
• Classrooms that Integrate and Connect (my favourite way to green a school)
• Good for Teachers and Their Teaching

Greening School Behaviour

• Vegetarian Schools
• School Gardens
• Green School Hiring

Reasons for Greening (need some courage boosters?)

• Teaching Students the State of Their Planet
• Teaching Outside the Curriculum Box Takes Courage
• Link to Transformative Environmental Education: Stepping Outside the Curriculum Box [pdf]
• We Must Mobilize to Fight Climate Change
• United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
• Nature Deficit - Children Need Nature As Much As They Need Sleep and Nutrition
• Environment as Integrating Context for Learning
• Cost Savings Can Flow from Sustainability Learning
• Leave a Legacy
• Employers Value Environmental Smarts

Integration as an Ecological Teaching Tool (this growing section is great for anyone who understands impacts of reductionism in education)

• Ecologicalizing Education
• Green Language Arts and English (including the Name Calling poem about animals)
• Greening ESL (English as a Second Language)
• Environmental Education in French
• Arts for the Earth
• Health and Physical Education for the Earth
• Greening Geography — Connecting Students to Their World
• Greening Chemistry

Transformative Education — Transformative Tools for Sustainability Education (the paper I presented at the 4th World Environmental Education Congress)

• Ecological Ethics
• Nature-Bonding Experiences in the Early Years
• Teaching Life as a Great Story
• Teaching the Evolution -> Ecology -> Biodiversity -> Ecosystem Services Continuum as an Integrated Whole
• Environmental Math and Ecological Economics
• Ecologically Inclusive Scientific Literacy
• Nature Friendly Language and Metaphors
• Environmental History
• Sustainable Development Learning in Action

Friends with Nature — Transformative Nature Study (another fun and evocative section)

• Make Friends with Nature
• Good Neighbours Come In All Species
• Great Naturalists (including a Great Naturalists Webquest for students)
• Wildcrafting as Nature Study
• Naturalist Intelligence
• Friday Fun with Nature

The Value of School Gardens

Vegetarian Schools

Sustainable Family Development

Gratitude — Saying Grace Together

• Prayers for the Earth

Child Honouring

Postsecondary Sustainability Education

Greening Homeschooling

Future Generations (join the r/evolution!)

Barriers to Environmental Learning and Action (the literature review from my master's thesis in environmental adult education)

• Cultural Barriers
• Psychosocial Barriers
• Learning Barriers
• Environmental Education Barriers
• References

Enticements to Environmental Learning and Action (again, from my literature review)

• Includes a guided visualization to connect us with the rest of Nature
• Cultural Enticements
• Psychosocial Enticements
• Learning Enticements
• Environmental Education Enticements
• References

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