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Harnessing the power of the movement of water is called hydropower or hydroelectric power (HEP). It’s the single largest contributor of renewable energy in the world, dwarfing the much more talked-about solar and wind. Of course, the other advantage is
I was shocked enough by this headline that I really had to share it: Coconut oil production threatens five times more species than palm oil – new findings The Conversation And here we thought palm oil was the ‘bad guy’,
We’ve known for some time now how the Mercator Projection distorts land masses and the sizes of countries further from the Equator. You’ve probably all seen the humorous portrayal on West Wing. I even wrote a post featuring the Google
Cities have become epicenters for confronting climate change, harnessing renewable energy, and mitigating pollution. The city plans striving for sustainability are many. Easy solutions are few. New York, London, Copenhagen, and most of the other large cities in the developed
If you have a clear sky tonight and tomorrow night, get out of the city and look up, look way up, to the north and you might just be treated to the Aurora Borealis – the Northern Lights. Forecasts of
As teachers, we are always looking for two things: how to start the year off and how to connect the everyday to our subject. Here’s an activity I have my students complete at the beginning of the year. It’s a
Despite what teachers, textbooks, authors, environmentalists and media commentators have been saying for decades, the fact is, most of the oxygen produced on Earth by photosynthesis is NOT from rainforests but from phytoplankton in the oceans. How many of you
You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis — Read on www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-recycling-myth-what-really-happens-your-rubbish
Here are two ways that most classroom globes are “lying” to us and this has nothing to do with flat-Earth arguments. It’s actual science. — Read on www.forbes.com/
When you are teaching development this coming school year, please, please, please, use this video: How Africa can use its traditional knowledge to make progress It’s a TED Talk given by Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu during TEDGlobal in Arusha, Tanzania in September
There are no passengers on
Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
– Marshall McLuhan
