Sustainability Topics

Climate Change

• Convincing Climate Change Skeptics: the Climate Reality Project
• NASA Global Climate Change Educator Resources
• The Wild Center (NY)

Water

• CELF Life Straw Educator Guide
• Serious Water Play An Educator’s guide to Water, Grades 3-5
• Serious Water Play An Educator’s guide to Water, Grades 6-9
• Serious Water Play An Educator’s guide to Water, Grades 9-12

Environmental Education

• Excellence in Environmental Education Self Assessment Tool
• Interview with Richard Louv: Watch author of Last Child in the Woods, as he connects children’s experiences in nature, climate change and our changing society. 

Environmental Health

• School Environmental Health Resources
• Healthy Schools Network

Living Systems

• Bibliography of Living Systems Thinking
• How Systems Thinking Helps Students

Sustainable Economics

• Interview with Herman Daly and Kate Rayworth by Andrew Revkin, Founding Director, Initiative on Communication & Sustainability, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

• Jeffrey Sachs: The Path to Sustainable Development, Columbia University lecture.

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New Rochelle High School, NY